Comments on: The Saturday City: Barcelona

By: Pol

Pol — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:25:25 +0000

Barcelona is a great city and the best time to go is from May to September because the weather is better! spring and summer.

Like everywhere there are good and bad things. Barcelona has a lot of live, party, culture, good universities, theatres, amazing beaches close to the city (costa brava and balear islands), beautiful mountains quite close to it (the pyrinnes) and some work chances as well. But also too much traffic, pollution and sometimes can even be unsafe in the sense that there are a lots of pick pockets looking for tourist.

And it’s the capital of Catalonia so you can’t say that feels really spanish because it makes no sense! It’s like saying that Scotland or Ireland feels really english! It’s catalonia, nowadays a region of Spain, but it has not been always like that. The catalans have their own culture and language quite different than the Spanish one although close somehow. But also close to the french one. Actually many of its citizens are claiming for the independence of Catalonia.

So if you are looking for the spanish feeling Catalonia or Barcelona are not the best place to find it but if you are looking for a beautiul city and country with his own history and culture as any other european region, that’s your place!

Good website!

By: richard

richard — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:27:59 +0000

very nice description, barcelona was very fun and some much things to discover that 2 weeks were too short, sharing this http://www.world-rt.com/ with anyone, it was very useful to plan my vacation, there are a lot of local info and tips

By: Moises

Moises — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:10:25 +0000

nice words about barcelona, i agree with you, barcelona is very lively and granda is special, good choice in spain, but you should come another time, spain has many more things

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:08:26 +0000

Kabul is my favorite.

By: kayseven

kayseven — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:06:33 +0000

ahhhh!! thanks for the summary nomad!! but where to stay on the cheap???? finding a decent place for inexpensive is a needle in a haystack, i could do a hostel with 8/12 in a room for 25Euros…. any recommendations for end of july 2010….. im all ears!

By: Michela

Michela — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:42:04 +0000

Love Barcelona, recently I chose it as 1° place among my favourite cities in Europe. Hope I will live long enough to see the “Sagrada Familia” completed…:) it will be take definitely longer than 2020, much longer than that !!

By: mirmat

mirmat — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:27:38 +0000

WTF??? what are u talking about?? c’mon girl, we are talking about a different culture, and in spain there sooooooooo many culltures around!!! can’t we compare New York with San Francisco?we can’t say that people from Ilinois are the same as people of Texas, or China is like Japan… so you CAN’T say that things. they just DIFFERENT cities with diferent stories.

And about “the spanish feel” like you say, it’s because comments of people like you that makes us have a different “spanish feel”. If you don’t like living here, go to another part. In Barcelona you can get also the spanish feel, and the mediterranian too, Madrid is also a tourist playground for foreigners if you wanna call it like this.
And please, this post looks you don’t feel good traveling to places really touristical? don’t forget that traveling is about TOLERANCE and RESPECT, start from here and u’ll see how everything will be better.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:39:45 +0000

We were just in Barcelona last weekend and have to say it was one of our favorite cities. Guadi’s designs are amazing, and we spent an afternoon at Park Guell, which was originally designed as a rich housing area. It wasn’t successful and become a public park, and was completly free (unlike other Guadi buildings).

One of the most amazing places I’ve seen, the fact that they built this a 100 years ago amazes me. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen and gets our rating of coolest in Europe. The detail in the sides of earth holding up the walkingpaths, large columns holding up a plaza and beautiful park with parrtos added in just for your pleasure. I would recommend this as a #1 attraction to the city!

By: andygeog

andygeog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:47:06 +0000

I love Barcelona, even had my Stag Weekend there.

Such a brilliant place – on the list of places I could move to.

By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:29:52 +0000

I live in Barcelona and I hate it. I totally disagree with what you say, the “Spanish” feel… have you ever been to Madrid? It’s way better, with bars that give you free tapas, cheap drinks, fantastic nightlife (after hours that open at 6 am?) and actually SPANISH. Barcelona is just a tourist playground for foreigners that come looking for a “spanish feel”, which they will never get, because Barcelona is in Catalunya and Catalans themselves claim they aren’t Spanish. So yes, if you have to decide between Barcelona and Madrid, you are better off with Madrid.