Barcelona - Ribera and Born walking tour
We're going to take you on a walking tour through the little back lanes of Barcelona exploring a neighborhood that many visitors miss. We' re going into La Ribera, and El Born. Only a few blocks east of the Cathedral and the famous Gothic Quarter, Ribera, is a local neighborhood – residential with shops, restaurants, bars, and it's a great place to visit. You will find many pedestrian lanes with no cars to upset the tranquility – it's an authentic slice of local life.
The route that we' re following brings you from one end to the other over to the big park and then back into the center of this walking zone. You don't really need a map but we've got some practical suggestions for you to help show you how to explore La Ribera and we will visit a Gothic church, and starting out at the concert hall, Palau de la Musica Catalana.
From Palau de la Musica we will take you along Carrer St. Pere over to the church and place of St. Pere and then down, around and over into the park and returning back over along Princesa to a couple of lovely pedestrian streets with malls and outdoor cafes, and continuing along back into the heart of this district, and then we'll do some meandering – kind of get lost a little bit, going this way that way to the Gothic church of Santa Maria Del Mar, and then back into the center of the Gothic Quarter.
Continue through the district of Sant Pere. The neighborhood is named after the former convent monastery of Sant Pere an ancient church on a small Plaza of Sant Pere.
This is a quieter part of town and it enjoys a slow pace of life in a world of its own, so you can hang out here for a while and just simply meander.
And as you walk along you're going to see the locals going about their business, shopping, talking, hanging out.
Here you can enjoy an ordinary working-class neighborhood set with an old-fashioned atmosphere a little bit off of the beaten track out from the center of Barcelona. It's fair to say that most tourists never get here.
A couple blocks south the Sant Pere neighborhood opens up, wider pedestrian lanes and more people. There's some shops and restaurants nearby. A lively neighborhood and it is just another block over to the big park where we find the Arc de Triomf. It was the main access gate for the 1888 Barcelona World's Fair, built in a redbrick Neo- Mudéjar style.
This is the Parc de la Ciutadella. Today it's the major park of Barcelona, a very popular spot, especially on a weekend.
Returning to the Old Town neighborhood of La Ribera visiting couple of lively little plazas. We're going to find that even though the residents don't have green parks, they do have lovely plazas and gathering places and pedestrian lanes and wide sidewalks along the streets, and with many big trees to enhance the environment.
You'll always see young families out with their kids, the local people walking the dog, and folks doing a little shopping, a little talking and doing a lot of sitting around at these cafes. The outdoor ambience of the place is really quite wonderful.
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Places to see in ( Lille - France ) Villeneuve d'Ascq
Places to see in ( Lille - France ) Villeneuve d'Ascq
Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area (27.46 km²) after Lille; it is also one of the main cities of the Hauts-de-France region. Built up owing to the merger between Ascq, Annappes and Flers-lez-Lille communes, the new town is the cradle of the first automatic metro system of the world (VAL).
Villeneuve-d'Ascq is nicknamed the 'green technopole' thanks to the implantation of many researchers - the campus of Lille University of Science and Technology, Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III and many graduate engineering school - and companies in a pleasant living environment. Owing to its activity centres, its Haute Borne European scientific park and two shopping malls, Villeneuve-d'Ascq is one of the main economic spots of the Hauts-de-France region; multinational corporations such as Bonduelle, Cofidis and Decathlon have their head office there.
Outside its academic, scientific and business facilities, Villeneuve-d'Ascq is mostly known because of its sporting events – two stadiums (Stade Pierre-Mauroy and Stadium Lille Métropole) are located there and some of its sport teams are playing in the top division; its museums – the most famous is the one of modern, contemporary and outsider art (the LaM); its green ways and its medical facilities for disabled people.
Its name means new city of Ascq in French and is derived from the Flemish word for ash. The name of the city is generally written without the customary hyphen. The city counts approximately 10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) of greenspace, lakes, forests and arable lands. It is located between Lille and Roubaix, at the crossroads of the principal freeways towards Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels.
The roots of the city can be traced back to Celtic Gaul, and are anchored in two feudal mounds, a Gallo-Roman site and a Carolingian one. Its site was selected in the 1960s to accommodate the new town of Lille-Est, which was to channel the development of the agglomeration. The commune of Villeneuve-d'Ascq was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the communes of Ascq, Annappes and Flers. Its name evokes at the same time the new city and the memory of Ascq, martyr city of 1 April 1944, date on which the Nazis massacred 86 men, see the Ascq massacre. The city's merger with Lille was contentious and failed twice (1972 and 1976).
Having succeeded Gérard Caudron as mayor from 1977 to 2001, Jean-Michel Stievenard and his team wish to maintain balances the environnement and the economic development, the greenery and technology, the daily wellbeing and the great projects, the social one and quality, opening on the its internal comfort and rest of the world, its finance and high degree of public utility. The mayors of Villeneuve-d'Ascq since 1977 have been members of the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste).In 2008, the local elections brought back to the city council Gerard Caudron as mayor. Villeneuve-d'Ascq is the seat of the canton of Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
As a part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, Villeneuve-d'Ascq is connected to Lille city centre by a VAL, a type of fully automatic (driverless) light rubber-tired metro. The VAL metro line runs through Villeneuve-d'Ascq from Quatre-Cantons and Cité Scientifique stations and drives up to Lille historical city centre and railways stations in about ten minutes.
( Lille - France ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Lille . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Lille - France
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