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Torre de Collserola

June 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

torre_de_collserolaBarcelona has great places where to get superb views, one of these places is definitely the Torre de Collserola.

The tower designed by Norman Foster, located in the mountains of Collserola, and constructed for the 1992 Olympic Games has a viewpoint on the tenth floor, at 115 meters above its location, on the hill of La Vilana, and 560 meters above the sea.

From this viewpoint, open to the public, it is possible to reach, in days under normal weather conditions, a 360 ° views and 70 km distance. For what it is possible to have a panoramic view of the entire city of Barcelona.

To reach the tenth platform, the tower has an elevator with spectacular views along the way and a rise time of only a minute and a half.

Torre-de-Collserola-2The GoCar user that decides to do one of the routes that takes to the Tibidabo, can make a walk to the Torre de Collserola. Along the way can enjoy some excellent views and the Collserola Park, a natural park of 8,295 hectares that acts as green space for the urban areas that surround it, and do not miss the chance of to visit two of the architectural elements that cut the sky above the city and shape the skyline Barcelona. The expiatory church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Collserola Tower than with its 288 meters high is the tallest building in the city.

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View from Hotel

June 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

vistahotel2View from Hotel is an initiative of the Guild Hotelier of Barcelona City for everyone to enjoy the magnificent views of the city from the highest areas of their buildings.

From 1 to 8 of June, in the Week of the Terraces of the Hotels in Barcelona, everybody has the opportunity to escape of the asphalt and go up to the top of more than 51 hotels spread across Barcelona.

A few days in which the hotels give a great welcome to the good weather, inviting anyone who wants to get in and enjoy the terraces, lounges, bars and cocktail bars that there are in the attics of these buildings.

Some are small others are big, with chairs or sofas, with more or less vegetation, but all with their individual glamour, good taste and in where everyone is welcome.VistaHotel

These days is a great opportunity to everyone, after seeing the most important places of the city with GoCar, to stay on the top of a hotel, let down the noise and stress of the streets, savoring the cuisine and cocktails, listening live music, attending fashion shows and all kinds of workshops. A variety of activities for everyone, all with fabulous sight, that without these initiatives would not be possible or only accessible to hotel guests.

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F.C.Barcelona, Barcelona and Barça.

May 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment

FC Barcelona is one of most well-known and followed club around the world. The football team is followed by millions of people and their professional sections compete around Europe making the word Barcelona being read or heard a lot of times every day. This interest makes the club as one of the most representative icons of Barcelona. Its installations are one of the favorite places to be visited by tourists. To this tourists GoCar offers The FC Barcelona Special tour, where is posible to make a Barcelona route and visiting the F.C Barcelona installations.

It’s no a secret that sport is one of the best ways to publicize a city, to have a club in a competition, national or international, make at least that the name of such city to be heard or read by fans of such competition, but sometimes the names of the clubs can cause mistakes. Very classic example is the case of Spain’s football team named Osasuna. It is very common that people that hears that name for first time thinks that the name of the city where the football team plays as local is Osasuna rather than Pamplona.

Something very similar happens with Barcelona, a lot of media around the world provide information, daily or almost daily, about F.C.Barcelona. On such information the names F.C.Barcelona, Barcelona or Barça are used interchangeably and this sometimes can cause some confusion to audience, they can think that it is always possible to replace the word Barcelona by Barça and that is not always correct because the word Barça should be used only when referring to the club, not to the city. The expressions such as “I am now living in Barça” or “I am going to Barça” are completely wrong and is worse to write Barca, using the letter c instead of the letter ç. The locals use the word Barna or Bcn, like the international airport code, when referring to the city.

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Cementeries of Barcelona

May 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment

From May 25 to June 2 is the European Cemeteries Week, which intends to present these places to visitors as part of the history and culture of the cities.

If you do some Go Car routes is possible that you pass near one of the two monumental cemeteries that Barcelona has, the cemeteries of Poblenou and Montjuïc. So you should not miss the chance to visit them. Visiting hours without a guide is from 8 am to 6 pm, every day. It is also possible to attend a guided tour organized by Cementeris de Barcelona, but you should know at least Catalan or Spanish.

“The Route of the Cemeteries” is an activity to show the public the two monumental cemeteries of the city, to show the audience the historic and artistic aspects of these areas.

The route through the cemetery of Poblenou, the oldest of Barcelona, is a walk through 29 graves with the intention of to give the information about the history of the city since 1775, when the cemetery was blessed, until the Universal Exhibition of 1888, through various pantheons and historical figures that are buried there.

Catalan 10:30 on the first Sunday of the month and 12:30 on the third Sunday of the month.Spanish 12:30 on the first Sunday of the month and 10:30 on the third Sunday of the month.

The route through the cemetery of Montjuïc is focused among the years 1883 and 1936, actually there are three routes, one is the Artistic Route, in which there is a special emphasis on the artistic value of the tombs, mausoleums and sculptures made by architects and sculptors of the time, the other is the Historic Route with emphasis on Barcelona historical personalities in a time of great political, social and cultural significance. The third route is the combination of the two previous routes, combining graves of artistic interest with graves of historical interest.
Second and fourth Sunday of the month. Catalan at 11:00 and Spanish at 11:15.

Both routes, Poblenou and Montjuïc , can be made using QR code, allowing to make the tour following the information that is given in different pantheons in four languages, Catalan, Spanish, English and French.

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The Night of Museums

May 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Museo PicassoPicasso Museum, F. C. Barcelona Museum and La Casa Milà, popularly known as La Pedrera, are just a few examples of the museums that can be visited free of charge on May 18 at the Night of Museums, activity promoted by the Council of Europe which takes place in 40 countries in 40 countries.

This year also coincides with the International Museum Day, a day designed to educate the citizens about the importance of these centers in the transformation of society, taking part more than thirty thousand centers worldwide with the idea of conscience the citizens about the important role of museums in the transformation of society.

In Barcelona and its metropolitan area, more than 60 museums will open doors for free, from 7 pm to 1 am, with activities ranging from exhibitions and guided tours to concerts and dances, plus numerous workshops and activities for the whole family.

Many of these museums are or are close to Go Car routes can offer. That’s why it would be a good idea, while you wait for the night to enter free into the museum, to make a tour with the talking cars that will teach you for sure about places of Barcelona with their respective history. Meanwhile you can make a list of the museums that you will want to visit.

This night is not the only chance to visit most of the museums in Barcelona for free. You can also do the first Sunday of each month, September 24, Day of la Mercè and February 12, Day of Santa Eulalia.FC Barcelona Museum

Besides all the Sundays of the year, from 3 until 8 pm at the following museums of Barcelona: MUHBA Plaça del Rei, Reial Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes, Museum of Music, Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona; Museu Frederic Marès, Museu Picasso, CCCB. Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and Barcelona Maritime Museum.

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Barcelona International Motor Show

May 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Barcelona International Motor Show that will take place in Barcelona from 11 to 19 of May is the most important events for motor enthusiasts and the only one recognized by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.

The latest models of 37 brands and more than 30 new innovations, including world, European and national premieres, will be shown in Barcelona. Also in this new edition there will be a new pavilion for electric cars.

From commercial vehicles and derived from tourism to equipment for the customization of automobile, replacement and accessories, also to mention oil companies, lubricants, additives and chemicals products. Not forgetting all kinds of services and electrical components.

It’s a great opportunity for both, citizens and tourists, to know absolutely all the news concerning the car industry.

This trade show, thanks to its location, on the Avenida Reina Maria Cristina, which connects Plaça Espanya with The Magic Fountain, two major tourist attractions of the Catalan capital, allows the opportunity to be reached in one of the Tours with cars equipped with GPS that Go Car offers to its customers, such as the Barcelona Olympic experience route.Plaça_Espanya

Plaça Espanya was built for the International Exhibition of 1929 and designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, one of the most important architects of Catalan modernism, the house known as “Casa Atmatller” in the Block of Discord in “Passeig de Gràcia” is his most famous building.

In this square today you can see a monumental fountain and the Venetian towers, newer is the bullring converted in a mall that has at the top a viewpoint of 360 º from where you can see much of the city.

While in Montjuïc Fountain is possible to enjoy every night, a show based on the music, water, light and color. Thhe water dance following the rhythms of the music.

If you continue the ascent, you can enjoy a wonderful panoramic view of the city and also to visit the MNAC, a museum where it is possible to observe the Catalan art from the romantic to the mid-twentieth century.

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