Nowadays, tourism involves much more than just walking around a city, downtown and visiting a couple of museums. Holiday plans have become more sophisticated and adapted to all kinds of visitors. Active tourism in Barcelona centers around the city, the sea and the mountain and includes running tours, climbing, watersports and many others as we will see in this article. Running tours are very popular thanks in part to their …Read More
Google Local Guides (in Barcelona)
Great news! This month Jaume has been joined the Google Local Guides program. This mean that we participate in the Google community of local guides around the globe getting know all the best places to eat, shop, and play in Barcelona area. Local Guides is a global program and is offered everywhere Google Maps is available. More information: https://www.google.com/local/guides/ Community: https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/eWjaPFNLPtq
Mass participation sports events in Barcelona
More than 100 sports events in Barcelona with a total annual participation of around 245,000 people. Key events: Sant Antoni Fun Run Half Marathon Barcelona Marathon Barcelona-Sitges Vintage Rally El Corte Inglés Fun Run Firefighters’ Race Barnatresc Urban Walks Programme Walk against Hunger Inter-college Race Festival on Wheels La Mercè Fun Run Swim across the Port Barcelona Sports and Nature “Neda Marcelona i Nedem plegats” L’Etape Barcelona-Andorra (bike race stage) …Read More
Sport, Barcelona and Well-being
In order to promote a healthy lifestyle among Barcelona’s citizens, the Barcelona Sports Institute and the city’s sport agents provide a range of facilities, amenities, sporting events and activities that make up the SPORT, CITY AND WELL-BEING dimension. FACILITIES AND AMENITIES IN THE CITY Barcelona has: 250 public and private sports facilities. 1 sports centre less than a ten-minute walk from anywhere in the city. 117 municipal sports facilities, of …Read More
Barcelona is sport: a city on the move
Who says that urban tourism only consists of walking around and discovering the architecture, art, food and people? True enough, there are few cities like Barcelona that have such a wide range of sporting activities on offer, free or for a fee, municipal or private, regulated or not, and open to everyone. The people of Barcelona like doing sport, of course, but visitors to the city can also enjoy and …Read More