Welcome to the BarsaTours, Historic&Artistic Tour Guide Service around the city of Barcelona. What kind of tours are those? Walking tours though depends the tour public transport will be taken. See bellow for the different themes . How long do they go? For experience we know that two hours walking tour is the most pleasant way to discover the city and its past. All tours here presented are offered in English by Licensed Guides of Catalonia. If you wish to book a Tour give us a call or send us an e-mail. Contact details and Tour prices are shown bellow the Presentation of the different types of tours.


Willkomen bei BarsaTours, Historische und Kunstlerisches Stadtführung Dienst in Barcelona Stadt. Was für eine Tours machen wir? Zu Fuss obwohl in einige Tours wir werden Public Verkehrmitteln benutzen. Sehen Sie die Liste runter(in Englisch) für alle die Themen . Wie lange dauert einen Führung? Nach unsere Erfahrung wir glauben zwei Stunde is am besten zum lernen und freuen der Stadt und ihre Geschichte. Die Reiseleiter wird immer ein Officiel Stadtführer von Katalonien und es kann in Deutsch sein (obwohl diese Blog in Englisch ist). Wenn Sie wollen ein Tour reservieren, ruft uns an oder schink uns eine e-mail. Am ende des Blog sich finden Telephone Nummer, digitale Adresse und die Tariffe.


Bienvenidos a BarsaTours, Servicio de Visitas guiadas histórico-artísticas por la ciudad de Barcelona. ¿Que tipo de tours ofrecemos? Son a pie; solo algún tour requiere tomar transporte público. A continuación pueden ver la lista de todos los paseos (redactado en inglés). ¿Cuanto duran? Por experiencia dos horas de tour es la mejor manera de aprender y asimilar sin cansancio un trozo de la historia de la ciudad. Todos los tours serán conducidos por Guías Oficiales de Turismo de Catalunya y se imparten en lengua castellana. Si desea reservar un tour llámenos o envienos su petición via e-mail. Número de teléfono y dirección digital así como tarifas las encontrará al pie del blog.


Benvitguts BarsaTours, Servei de Recorreguts històric-artístics per la ciutat de Barcelona. Tots els tours que a continuació es presenten en anglès estan a la seva disposició en llengua catalana i sempre per un Guia Oficial de Turisme de Catalunya. Quina mena de tours s'ofereixen? Doncs són passejos a peu encara que en algun cas s'ha de prendre transport públic. Vegin la llista (en anglès) sobre tots els temes a continuació. Quina durada té un tour? 2 hores sabem és el millor per assimilar bé els conceptes i gaudir d'un viatje en el temps sense cansar-se física i mentalment. Si vol reservar un tour facin's una trucada o bé enviïns un e-mail. El número de telèfon, la direcció digital així com les tarifes les trobarán al final del present blog.

GAUDÍ

Outdoors and indoors visits to a selection of Gaudí works: housing, religious architecture and urbanism descriptions; dressed with some biographic notes. Who was that man who came to invent a new type of column? How was he able to mix so well tradition with innovation? Originality is nothing more than the return to the origin (Antoni Gaudí). We will concentrate in the most famous of Gaudí’s buildings, as the Casa Batlló, La Pedrera and the Sagrada Família. Besides some noteworthy biographical remarks the secret of Gaudí’s organicist architecture will be uncover.

GOTHIC

Through the old town visiting some Romanesque churches as well as Gothic Religious and Civil architecture besides explaining the growing of Barcelona, the Mediterranean Empire of the Crown of Aragon and the Nation building. Find out the main charcteristics of the Catalan Gothic architecture, the way society was organised and how it was the daily lifes of people in Middle ages. Barcelona’s 14th Century counted with around 35.000 inhabitants. It is no wonder therefore the remarkable dimensions of the so-called Old Town.

ALL TIMES

Zig-zaging Les Rambles to overlook all societies and civilisations in a chronological way, from the Roman times to our days with the corresponding showings of urbanism and architecture.As all the tours herewith presented, the History of Catalonia is to be one of the main axes for the guide’s exposition. Notwithstanding, apart from National causes, Spanish, European, and worldwide framing will likewise be used. A map will be the companion to draw on the different Ages of Barcelona, namely the Roman City, the Late Medieval City and the Enlargement Modern City.

OLYIMPIC & DESIGN

Are you looking for hidden fashionable places, where to buy clothes, where to have a taste of the New Formats Cuisine, some weird Art exhibition? We know good places away from the main tourist axe. Barcelona has turn into a cosmopolitan city. The open character of the Catalan people, its geographical location, the arrival of millions of visitors, the decision of many newcomers to settle here, many reasons are behind the cultural transformation of Barcelona. Cultural melting pots (mestissatge) always favour creativeness. Barcelona and its people show their will to be in the forefront of the new ways in Art, Fashion and Design. Raval area is one of the Epicentres of that Culture of the ‘mestissatge’. Places like the MACBA or the CCCB have been key for the redefinition of the city and its culture.

GRAVEYARDS

Barcelona's Cemetery keeps the richest collection of Modernist sculpture in the world. Besides the wide show of arquitecture styles the tour looks at the funerary Botany and its symbolic implications. The History of Catalan industrialisation will be outlined commenting the tycoons' pantheons.

ART

Take a walk through the times till reaching our way to materialise our believes and values in the present art. We will emphasize the most remarkable periods of the Catalan Art, namely: Gothic both civil ad religious in architecture, international Gothic in painting; Modernisme; and Olympic design works. Artist like Gaudi, Llimona, Casas, Picasso, Nonell, Gargallo, Miro, Dali, Tapies, Subirachs, and many others will be put in context. Which were the city and the social atmosphere that shaped the character of these artists?

JEWISH QUARTER

The Catalan Jewish was a key minority for many Centuries. Know where they were living, their trades, their contribution to our History and the History of Humanity, and how that community came to an end because the intolerant slash of the Black Friars.When the Jewish people did come to the Iberian Peninsula? That is a matter for controversy. But from 8th C. onwards there are some traces from their presence in the city of Barcelona.The tour will basically go around the streets of the Call. That term probably comes from Kahal and is the neighbourhood when most of the Catalan Jewish were living.Know about how religion was playing in that country a pivotal role through visiting Bishop Palace, Cathedral and so many churches, guardians of important sacred art.

ROMAN

The origin of Barcelona lies in the foundation of the so-called Barcino by the Romans. Many of the Roman streets are still in use and the perimeter of what it was the wall is one of the axes of the Old Town. Romans or Latin gave the main cultural traits of the Catalans, as their language and the first trades with olive oil and wine. The persecution of early Christians by the Roman authorities will be followed with some stories of Martyrs, as St. Eulalia. The devotion to that teenager Saint will be pinpointed in the different corners of the many narrow streets. The first invasions of Barbarian People will help us to introduce us into the early Middle Ages. From then onwards, Visigoths, Muslim and Franks, all of them left their seed and their stone overlapping within the perimeter of that Roman Barcino.

HOLY TOUR

Know about how religion was playing in that country a pivotal role through visiting Bishop Palace, Cathedral and so many churches, guardians of important sacred art.
In a chronological way explanations will start in the times of the Romans, with the price paid by the first Christian believers. The popular figure of St. Eulàlia and the stories around her will be one of the issues treated. The different architecture styles that accompanied the power of the church through the centuries will be pinpointed by the guide when passing by some streets. We will travel from Romanesque in St. Lucy or St. Pau del Camp to Gothic and Renaissance until Baroque. Some altarpieces inside different churches will be also commented both in content as in style, dedicating special attention to the International Gothic paintings.

MODERNISME (ART NOVEAU)

After the necessary social, economic and National framing to make sense of the New Town, we will visit some of the most remarkable Art Noveau buildings which is like the touch of irrational emotion in to the orthogonal planning of the Enlargement.
Differences between the Gaudí, Domenech and Muntaner, and Puig i Cadafalch buildings will be stated. These are the vedettes from the times. Although together with them many other artists from the times helped to embellish the town by the turning of the Century some hundred years ago. (around 150 building have been catalogued as Modernist sites). From the pavement tales to sculptures from Llimona or Miquel Blay, really Barcelona keeps a treasure of Modernist heritage.

MEDIEVAL

Through the old town visiting some Romanesque churches as well as Gothic Religious and Civil architecture besides explaining the growing of Barcelona, the Mediterranean Empire of the Crown of Aragon and the Nation building.Barcelona’s 14th Century counted with around 35.000 inhabitants. It is no wonder therefore the remarkable dimensions of the so-called Old Town.

MUSEUMS

We can give you the historic and estetic background to afterwards guiding you to the museum you choose. Specially in such a big museum as the MNAC the selecction made by the guide would be usefull to get to understand the most important works. Besides the content of the museums we would also coment the continent: medieval palaces for the Picasso; neoBarroque for the MNAC and Modern for the Miró Foundation.

* The tours normally start at the centre, at the most convenient place to see more things. However the guide, at your request, can also pick you up at the Accomodation place where you are.

TARIFS:

• 70 € per Tour up to 4 people. (Every addtional person = 10 € / underaged Free). Each tour goes for 2 hours.



• If you want to do two tours in a row, namely a full service = 4 hours, the tariff is 140 € (max. 15 people)

CONTACT:

If you want to book a tour or know further details please send us an email: miquel@bestbarcelonatours.com

or give us a call at:

0034 696 231 153

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