BARCELONA. Passejada Cultural. Cultural Walk
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.25 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,024 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 2,024 ft
- Max elevation
- 181 ft
- TrailRank
- 61
- Min elevation
- 0 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 45 minutes
- Coordinates
- 615
- Uploaded
- June 3, 2013
- Recorded
- June 2013
near Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i La Ribera, Catalunya (España)
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Itinerary description
Agafarem la Línea 4 del metro (groga). Baixarem a la parada de Jaume I que ens deixarà a Via Laietana. Des d'allà caminarem fins el carrer de l'Argenteria el qual ens portarà fins a l'Església de Santa Maria del Mar. Després agafarem el Passeig del Born passant pel Fossar de les Moreres fins arribar al Born. Seguirem pel carrer del Comerç fins que trobarem l'Estació de França, però girarem a l'esquerra per l'Avinguda Marquès de l'Argentera arribant al Parc de la Ciutadella que ens portarà al Parlament de Catalunya mentre veiem el Zoo de Barcelona a la nostra esquerra.
Tornarem pel Parc de la Ciutadella i per l'Avinguda Marquès de l'Argentera passant pel davant altra cop de l'Estació de França. Seguirem fins a Pla de Palau on trobarem el Consolat de Mar. Agafarem el sentit del mar passant pel Passeig de Joan de Borbó fins arribar al Palau de Mar on hi ha el Museu d'Història de Catalunya.
A partir d'aquí seguirem pel carrer Moll de Bosch i Alsina (Port Olímpic i paral·lel al Passeig de Colom) trobant-nos l'edifici de Correus fins arribar a l'estàtua de Colom.
A partir d'allà ens endinsarem a la Rambla observant les estàtues vives típiques de la Rambla. Pujant la Rambla trobarem, la Plaça Reial, el Mercat de la Boqueria, el Teatre del Liceu, el Palau de la Virreina fins arribar a dalt de tot de les Rambles amb la Font de Canaletes i la Plaça Catalunya. Baixarem altra cop per les Rambles fins trobar-nos a l'esquerra el carrer de la Portaferrissa, amb el Palau Moja. Seguirem per Portaferrissa enllaçant amb el carrer dels Boters que ens portarà a la Catedral. D'allà ja arribarem seguin el mateix sentit de la marxa a la Plaça Sant Jaume on trobarem el Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya seu del govern català i l'Ajuntament de la ciutat de Barcelona.
Aquesta és una ruta familiar de quasi 7 quilòmetres en la qual veurem una gran part de l'essència de la Barcelona antiga i l'actual.
Take subway line 4 (yellow). Get off at Jaume I will leave that to Via Laietana. From there, walk up the street Silverware which leads to the Church of Santa Maria del Mar. Then take the Passeig del Born passing Fossar de les Moreres to reach the Born. Shops along the street until you find the station France, but turn left on Avenida Marques de l'Argentera coming to Ciutadella Park, leading to the Parliament of Catalonia while watching the Barcelona Zoo left.
Return the Ciutadella Park and Avenue Marques de l'Argentera passing another blow against the station France. We will continue to Pla de Palau de Mar where there Consulate of sea. Take the sense of the sea passing through Joan de Borbó Walk up to the Palau de Mar where the National History Museum of Catalonia.
From here continue along Wharf Street Bosch i Alsina (Olympic Port and parallel to Passeig de Colom) finding us the Post Office until the Columbus statue.
From there we enter the Rambla watching ordinary living statues Las Ramblas. Raising find Rambla, Plaça Reial, the Boqueria market, Liceo Theatre, Palau Virreina up to the top of the Ramblas with Canalettes Fountain and Plaça Catalonia. Another blow down the Ramblas to find us on the left street Portaferrissa the Palau Moja. We will continue to connect with the Portaferrissa Boters street that leads to the Cathedral. From there it follows the same lines arrive at the Plaça Sant Jaume where is the Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia and Catalan government headquarters from the city of Barcelona.
This is a family of almost 7 km route in which we see a lot of the essence of the old and the current Barcelona.
Tomaremos la Línea 4 del metro(amarilla). Bajaremos en la parada de Jaume I que nos dejará en Via Laietana. Desde allí caminaremos hasta la calle de l'Argenteria que nos llevará hasta la Basílica de l'Església de Santa Maria del Mar. Después pasaremos por el Passeig del Born paralelo al Fossar de les Moreres hasta llegar al Mercado del Born. Seguiremos por la calle del Comerç hasta que encontraremos la Estación de França, pero giraremos a la izquierda por la Avenida Marqués de l'Argentera llegando al Parc de la Ciutadella que nos llevará al Parlament de Cataluña mientras vemos el Zoo de Barcelona a nuestra izquierda .
Volveremos por el Parc de la Ciutadella y por la Avenida Marqués de l'Argentera pasando por delante otra vez de la Estación de França. Seguiremos hasta Pla de Palau donde encontraremos el Consolat de Mar. Nos desplazaremos en sentido del mar pasando por el Paseo de Joan de Borbó hasta llegar al Palau de Mar donde se encuentra el Museo Nacional de Historia de Catalunya .
A partir de aquí seguiremos por la calle Moll de Bosch i Alsina (Port Olímpic paralelo al Passeig de Colom) encontrándonos el edificio de Correos hasta llegar a la estatua de Colón .
A partir de allí nos adentraremos en la Rambla observando las estatuas vivas típicas de la Rambla. Subiendo la Rambla encontraremos, la Plaza Real, el Mercado de la Boquería, el Teatro del Liceo, el Palau de la Virreina hasta llegar a lo alto de las Ramblas con la Font de Canaletes y la Plaça Catalunya. Bajaremos otra vez por las Ramblas hasta encontrarnos a la izquierda la calle de la Portaferrissa, con el Palau Moja. Seguiremos por Portaferrissa enlazando con la calle Boters que nos llevará a la Catedral . De allí ya llegaremos siguiendo el mismo sentido de la marcha en la Plaça Sant Jaume donde encontraremos el Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya sede del gobierno catalán y el Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Barcelona .
Esta es una ruta familiar de casi 7 kilómetros en la que veremos una gran parte de la esencia de la Barcelona antigua y la actual.
Waypoints
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ZOO
The Barcelona Zoo is a zoo located in the Parc de la Ciutadella, in Barcelona. This location was chosen because the buildings in the park were available after the 1888 World's Fair. It was opened on the day of Mercy, the patron saint of Barcelona, 1892. Zoo has three objectives: conservation, research and education.
Panorama
26 ft
PORT OLÍMPIC
The Olympic Port of Barcelona is a marina that is located opposite the Olympic Village in Poblenou, between the beaches of Barceloneta and Nova Icaria the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. Around it are placed a number of city services, the Barcelona Zoo buildings Mapfre Tower and Hotel Arts, the sculpture "Golden Fish" Frank Gehry, Grand Casino Barcelona Hospital del Mar as well as a number of restaurants, bars and cinemas.
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19 ft
CARRER ARGENTERIA
One of the oldest streets in the sea area of Barcelona, which connects to the Basilica of the Church of the Sea.
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65 ft
MERCAT DE LA BOQUERIA
The Mercat de Sant Josep, popularly known as La Boqueria, is a market town located along the Rambla of Barcelona. Aside from a place to buy all kinds of fresh produce is also a tourist attraction. The area totals 2,583 m² more than 300 stalls offered a wide variety of household products and exotic, both private buyers and for restoration of the city. It is the largest market of Catalonia, the most varied food supply, and the most visited by tourists.
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48 ft
PLAÇA CATALUNYA
Catalonia Square is the largest central squares of Barcelona. It is the junction between the old city and the Eixample. Hence, significant parts of the city roads as the Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia, Rambla Catalonia, rounds and the University of St. Peter Street and Pelayo, like Avenida Portal de l'Angel, the great commercial artery of the city walls and old door.
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48 ft
PALAU DE LA VIRREINA
The Palace Virreina is a palace located on La Rambla in Barcelona. The building is one of the finest examples of Baroque civil architecture in Catalonia. The agencies and the courtyard of the palace are the headquarters area of the City of Barcelona culture and provide a framework for temporary exhibitions. Inside are exhibited on permanent display, the Gegants Ciutat de Barcelona and Barcelona Àliga.
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72 ft
EL CONSOLAT DEL MAR
The Consulate of the Sea was the body of the Catalan maritime law and other areas in the sea of the Crown of Aragon, to discuss maritime issues , commercial and exert criminal jurisdiction. Competition exercised by consuls of the sea and a judge of appeal, regardless of the established government. The Consulate of the Sea evolves as a legal code and has its roots in the court of Consular Letter of Barcelona( 1258 ), which is based on traditional customs and maritime trade in Barcelona. Legal rules governing the Catalan maritime law will be applied first to the Mediterranean as commercial law and browsing through later in the Atlantic as international law. The Consulate of the Sea was born in the era of what is known as jus mercatorum. The "law of merchants" regulating relations between traders of the time. These traders, in a society essentially feudal, agrarian and rural, were cities, including Barcelona. Suffice to say that ius mercatorum represents the roots of the current commercial law. He was born traders and merchants, so that we can speak of corporate law, because the corporation had to be registered in order to receive the application of this law. At the same time application was autonomous , since it created a jurisdiction that tried ius mercatorum. One of these jurisdictions is the Sea Consulate in Barcelona.
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PARLAMENT DE CATALUNYA
Established in 1283 , as Thomas Bisson Catalan Cortes have been considered by historians the true model of medieval parliament . Thus, the English historian of constitutionalism Charles Howard McIlwain wrote: " the definition of organization and regularity of procedure , or the English Parliament nor the states can be compared to the French Parliament of Catalonia " in the fourteenth century. The early history of the Catalan parliamentary institution dating back to the eleventh century, the Peace and Truce Assemblies and count court . During the reign of James I, Count Court was transformed into the Parliament of Catalonia, an institution that was consolidated in later reigns. Parliament had three arms : the military arm, bringing together representatives of the nobility, the ecclesiastical arm, with representatives of the religious hierarchy and the royal arms, with representatives of municipalities. I must say that large sectors of the population were not represented.
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MERCAT DEL BORN
Beside the demolished citadel was screened Born market to cover food in Barcelona. The market structure Metallica sought functionality. The space is large, covered, enclosed and well ventilated, which helps ensure the safety of the products they are selling, especially fruits and vegetables.
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90 ft
PLAÇA SANT JAUME
Plaça de Sant Jaume is the administrative heart of the city of Barcelona. It is located on the site where it is believed Cardo (current and Call streets Llibreteria) and Decumanus (current Bishop Street / City / Regomir), main roads the Roman colony of Barcino. At this junction were the forum and the Temple of Augustus, the conserved four columns at the top of Mount Taber, Paradise Street.
Religious site
67 ft
LA CATEDRAL
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia is Barcelona's Gothic cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona. The cathedral was built in the thirteenth to fifteenth in the same place where there was a Romanesque cathedral, one of the early Christian and even before. The neo-Gothic façade, however, is much more modern (nineteenth century). The building is a Cultural and from 2 November 1929, the National Historical and Artistic Monument.
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PALAU MOJA
The Palau Moja is a neoclassical mansion located on the street Portaferrissa no. 1 Barcelona Ramblas corner. Construct was made in 1774 by the Marquis of Moja and his wife Mary Louise of Copons to the place it occupied one of the towers of the Gate Ferriss of the old medieval walls of the city of Barcelona. The project was commissioned architect Josep Mas i Dordal, author of Mercy Church, St. Vincent de Sarria in Barcelona and the episcopal palace. The works lasted 10 years and was finally opened in 1784.
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LA RAMBLA
La Rambla, also called Las Ramblas, is an emblematic promenade that runs between Barcelona Catalonia Square, the nerve center of the city, and the Old Port. The word boulevard has its origin in the Arabic word Raml, which means sandy, and its use is first documented in Catalan 1249. A wadi is therefore a normally dry watercourse where only certain times of the year there pass water, which is called in Catalan stream. Geographic characteristic is typical of the northern Mediterranean, where there is an irregular rainfall, with large showers concentrated in the beginning of autumn. By extension, a boulevard ride is done on the bed of a stream.
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PARC DE LA CIUTADELLA
The Ciutadella park occupies the site of the present citadel Philip V ordered built to dominate Barcelona and Catalonia after the War of Succession. On 11 September 1714 , after a siege of more than 13 months, Barcelona surrendered before the army of King Philip V Franco who, to keep the city and the Principality of Catalonia under firm control , ordered the construction under Joris Prosper Van Verboom direction between 1715 and 1718 citadel or fortress, the largest in Europe, with a star, which takes its current name the park and the neighborhood surrounding the Citadel. For its construction and for the release of land around military, facing the city, it was decided to demolish part of the Ribera district, a task which forced the residents themselves, who, along with workers hired, were transferred to the new district of Barceloneta three decades later. The people who inhabited the area had to bring stone to stone there to Barceloneta.
Religious site
179 ft
SANTA MARIA DEL MAR
Santa Maria del Mar is a gothic church in Barcelona, located in the Ribera district and built between 1329 and 1383. The foremen were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig. As for the exterior, is considered the only Gothic church Catalan completely finished, although one of the towers was not finished until the nineteenth century.
Fountain
79 ft
FONT DE CANALETES
Source Canalettes is one of the most significant places of Barcelona, located in the Raval West at the top of Las Ramblas. The current source is iron made in the nineteenth century and has four springs It is crowned by a four lamp lights.In a corner of the source is a small fountain for dogs. This source gives name to the top of the Ramblas, the Catalonia Square , known as the Rambla de Canalettes. The name comes from a source that existed in the sixteenth century in that area where the water flowed down a gutter, hence the name Source Canalettes. These chutes were to give a trough. Gutters is also famous for being the place where it meets the fans " Barça " to celebrate the successes of Barcelona Football Club . The reason for that is the source of Canalettes site, which comes from the 30s to the results of the Catalan teams, football fans went to the offices of the newspaper La Rambla to read the results that were in front of a blackboard the source.
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TEATRE DEL LICEU
The Gran Teatre del Liceu, popularly known simply as the Liceu opera house is located on the Ramblas of Barcelona, no. 51-59. It opened on 4 April 1847, but its history begins in 1837. It was, by its capacity, the largest opera house in Europe during its first hundred years. It is characterized by a rough past, which has repeatedly resurfaced. Since its inauguration and for nearly a century, the Lyceum was also the first opera house in Catalonia and Spain, the reference point of convergence and expansion of the artistic life, social and political Barcelona. Thermometer was glorious stages of development and decay of their concerns. Then, from the third decade of the twentieth century, the Liceu was losing its direct relationship with the ups and downs of social life to take a more determinedly hegemonla art and music.
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36 ft
PLAÇA REIAL
The Royal Plaça is located next to the Ramblas, in the Old City of Barcelona. It was called so because he wanted to dedicate to Ferdinand VII, who had been king during the time of construction, and also praised the monarchy.
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38 ft
MONUMENT A COLOM
The Columbus Monument is one of the most famous statues in the city of Barcelona. Built in honor of the explorer Christopher Columbus, is erected in the Plaza del Portal de la Pau, between the south junction of the Rambla and Passeig de Colom, opposite the port of Barcelona, in the old Gate of Peace. Inside the column there is a lift that takes you up to the hemisphere beneath the feet of the statue, where one can otear city.
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PALAU DE MAR. MNHC
The Sea Palace is a building constructed between 1880 and 1890 in Plaça Pau Vila to host former General Stores. The building is typical of the architecture of the nineteenth century port and is now the Museum of the History of Catalonia, the Centre for Contemporary History of Catalonia, the Department of Social Welfare and Family of the Government of Catalonia and a series business gastronomic restaurant. Formerly served as a storage area for goods arriving at the port. The Stores are part of the most important examples of industrial heritage of Catalonia, just built in the first decade of the twentieth century and were renovated and transformed from the Olympic year of 1992. They were designed in 1881 by engineer Maurice garrano, first director of the Board of Works Port of Barcelona, with the intention of using them in commercial deposits.
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ESTACIÓ DE FRANÇA
France station name was previously used in the construction of the present building in 1929. The company Railways Barcelona Girona, founded in 1862, merged in 1875 with the Railway Company from Tarragona to Barcelona and Martorell create Railway Company from Tarragona to Barcelona and France (TBF). On 20 January 1878 the section was opened to Port Bou creating international connections with France.
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