Barcelona, La Ribera part 2 Montcada, Picasso and Casa Gispert
Continuing our walk through La Ribrera, one of Barcelona's extensive pedestrian zones, we visit a historic shop in business for 160 years, Casa Gispert, where they roast their nuts in an original wood-fired oven dating to 1850. We walk along Carrer de Montcada, one of the best pedestrian lanes, passing the Picasso Museum, with our local guide Sandra Benzal, who can be found at her website:
Ruta dels emblemàtics. Casa Gispert
Entrevista a Enric Comelles de Casa Gispert per la Ruta dels Emblemàtics de Barcelona.
CASA GISPERT, FRUTOS SECOS TOSTADOS EN HORNO DE LEÑA
CASA GISPERT ES UN VIAJE UN SIGLO Y MEDIO ATRÁS EN EL TIEMPO
Una emblemática tienda de Barcelona que cuenta con el reconocimiento del ayuntamiento y con un premio Coq D'Or
Barcelona, La Ribera part 1 tapas and Santa Maria del Mar
Walking in Barcelona's La Ribera neighborhood with our guide Sandra Benzal, we observe how this trendy district has been improving, visit a tapa bar, and enter the gothic church of Santa Maria del Mar, with its massive interior second only to the Barcelona cathedral in size. The church is really impressive, consisting of a huge nave with soaring ceiling supported on pointed arches, and brilliant stained glass. This was all built during the medieval period, in the 13th and 14th centuries, so the architectural form is pure gothic. There is no influence or embellishment here from the later period of the Renaissance, nor was it built upon an earlier foundation in the Romanesque style of thick walls, low ceiling and small windows. Sandra is an excellent guide with an informative website:
Barcelona's Extension, the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Barcelona's Eixample, or Extension, district is a great example of fine urban planning, its broad boulevards lined with sidewalk cafes, stylish shops, beautiful landscaping, and thousands of excellent apartments. We stroll along with our Barcelona guide, Sandra Benzal, exploring Passeig de Gràcia, the main boulevard. Just north of the well-known Gothic Quarter and Plaza Catalunya, many tourists might miss this Eixample neighborhood, but you will see it is worth visiting. Several landmark Modernist buildings are here including Casa Batllo and Casa Milà by the great man, Gaudí. We show you those in a follow-up movie also with our excellent guide, Sandra Benzal, who you can find through aguideinbarcelona. The Eixample is located in Barcelona in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain.
Parròquia de Sant Gervasi i Protasi i de la Bonanova
Running Barcelona, Mirador Maria Gispert, Collserola
Running Barcelona, Mirador Maria Gispert, Collserola
Barcelona, La Ribera part 3 Mercat Santa Caterina
Barcelona's Mercat de Santa Caterina, with it swooping, colorful roof sheltering typical food stalls and a few small restaurants, is a feast for the eyes and mouth. Our guide, Sandra Benzal tells us all about it, and we have an excellent dinner in the superb Santa Caterina Cuines restaurant, built into the market. Located in La Ribera, one of Barcelona's most interesting neighborhoods, it is only two blocks away from the cathedral and main square of the city. Learn more about Sandra and her Barcelona tours at her web site, which describes various tours she offers.
Buskers in front of the Picasso Museum, Barcelona Spain
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Viatgeu arreu del món al Museu de Cultures del Món de Barcelona
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EPIC Barcelona Food Tour (10 AWESOME Stops!)
Discover my TOP 10 places to eat in Barcelona! Chocolate, jamón, tapas, seafood, markets, croissants, bomba, vermouth, cava, patatas bravas, fideuá and more! This is the delicious Barcelona food tour I give to my Spain loving friends when they visit! Beware - it's EPIC! And it also includes stops from our Devour Tours food tours! Venga, let’s go! ????
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Barcelona is an amazing place to eat! But here’s the thing - it can also be hard to eat well in Barcelona because it’s so touristy. There are just so many options, and lots of them literally are tourist traps. But happily there are also so many incredible places to eat and delicious things to taste and drink if you just know where to look.
In this video I take you to 10 of my favourite places to eat 10+ incredible bites. And we visit 3 famous neighbourhoods across the entire video. We go to the Born, the Gothic Quarter and La Barceloneta - three neighbourhoods that you have to visit, and we’ll eat delicious food in each!
And a number of places are places we visit on Devour Tour’s food tours - including our Tastes & Traditions of Barcelona Food Tour and our Tapas, Taverns & History Food Tour
Also, once you’ve watched this, be sure to check out my playlist of Barcelona videos - including my epic 9-stop Barcelona Tapas Crawl.
So, where do we go?
1. Granja Dulcinea for an incredible suizo (chocolate and cream!)
2. Mercado Santa Caterina: We visit Bar Joan for a fry-up breakfast and cava and Antonio Iberics for a fantastic selection of cured meats. Plus, we visit a stall for delicious escalivada.
3. Historic Casa Gispert for a selection of wood-roasted almonds, and chocolate treats
4. Hofmann Pastisseria for an insane marscapone croissant
5. La Campana for delicious turrón and horchata
6. Xarcutería La Pineda for vermouth and a selection of potato chips with Espinaler sauce, cheeses and salt-cured anchovies
7. Bodega La Palma for patatas bravas and red wine
8. Can Paixano for a delicious butifarra sandwich and also a pork loin and cheese sandwhich - all knocked back with their famous cava
9. La Cova Fumada for a bomba (it was invented here!), grilled squid and grilled sardines
10. Can Ramonet for a delicious seafood fideuá and drinking from the porrón!
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Why you shouldn't visit Picasso museum in Barcelona on Sunday
Every Sunday there's no entrance for Picasso museum in Barcelona. Either way, if you don't want to stand in line..We don't recomand it :)
Sant Sever, les faves i el clau
Edificis emblemàtics de Barcelona
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Michele Capella
Ainoa Camacho
Alexandra Nogueiras
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Parc de Montjuic - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
On tot va començar Picasso i Barcelona
Allà és on tot va començar, on vaig entendre fins on podia arribar. Així parlava Picasso de Barcelona, la ciutat on es va formar. Què volia dir, exactament? A què es referia?)
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Case study 4. Mother and child by the Sea, Barcelona 1902
Symposium: Around Picasso
Case study 4. Femme et enfant au bord de la mer, Barcelona 1902
·Keiko Imai, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
·John Delaney, National Gallery of Art Washington
·Sandra Webster-Cook, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
·Reyes Jiménez Garnica, Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Barcelona part 10 La Ribera, Born and beach
Entering the section of old Barcelona referred to as La Ribera, turn from Carrer dels Corders into the major walkway of Correr Montcada, which changes names a few times and basically takes you through the center of this historic zone. This was an area of deluxe palaces of rich merchants back in the 14th and 15th centuries and many of these buildings still stand today, adapted to new uses, such as the Picasso Museum.
Love him or not, Picasso was the major artist of the 20th century and lived in Barcelona during his formative years from ages 14 through 23 when his career and fame really got started. Then he left Spain, especially because of his distaste for the dictatorship of Franco, when he moved on to Paris and other parts of France where his genius continued to flourish. Founded after his death, this is the most popular museum in town, with one of the world's largest Picasso collections spread through what had been five separate mansions now seamlessly joined. If you don't want to pay for the museum admission, at least have a look at the series of interconnected courtyards, and you are always welcome to visit the gift shop.
Continue south along Correr Montcada, with some diversions through the numerous side streets that honeycomb this most historic neighborhood, with many little shops tucked away. When you get hungry, it pays to look carefully for the little restaurants hidden away in side alleys. Perversely, it seems the most popular eateries are trying hard to not draw any further attention to themselves and don't post signs, menus or addresses. A good example is Nou Celler, tucked away between Carrer de la Princesa and Barra de Ferro just west of the Picasso Museum, offering Catalan specialties, good service and reasonable prices.
After lunch, head for the large gothic church, Santa Maria del Mar, with its massive interior second only to the cathedral in size. The church is really impressive, consisting of a huge nave with soaring ceiling supported on pointed arches, and brilliant stained glass. This was all built during the medieval period, in the 13th and 14th centuries, so the architectural form is pure gothic. There is no influence or embellishment here from the later period of the Renaissance, nor was it built upon an earlier foundation in the Romanesque style of thick walls, low ceiling and small windows.
Behind is the tree-lined promenade of Passeig del Born with several short shopping streets extending a few blocks south. This neighborhood was the center of town back in the Middle Ages, functioning as the financial marketplace, major gathering spot, execution grounds, and general place to be. Today it is experiencing a rebirth, with many trendy shops and cafes thriving in the blocks around the church. A major park with the public zoo, Parc de la Ciutadella, is about one half-mile further east.
Notice the beautiful small plaza in front of the church of Santa Maria del Mar. It is busy during the day as well as at night with the shops and cafes around it, and the people walking through. This is a major pedestrian thoroughfare connecting different parts of the old section of town, so there are always plenty of people to see.
When exiting this zone, follow the nice shopping street, Carrer de l'Argenteria, which extends 200 yards from the front of Santa Maria del Mar back into the center of the historic district. If you continue walking south for 15 minutes you will come to the big sandy beach, filled with bodies on a sunny day.
Best Barcelona Food Tour in Born Neighborhood | Devour Barcelona
Spain experts Lauren Aloise and James Blick give us a little food tour of Barcelona’s Born neighborhood. They show us their favorite favorite nooks and crannies in Barcelona, many of which are featured on Devour Barcelona food tours! Join along to discover some of the Born neighborhood’s best gems!
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