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Would you like to know the places where the famous novel the Shadow of the Wind runs in Barcelona?

I provide a tour about this Best Seller by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

My name is José Gómez.

I am a full time license guide of Barcelona and I organize tours in Barcelona.

if you love this book, you will enjoy discovering the places that you have imagined reading the book.

I remember the first time I read this novel, it blew me away.

The story takes place in the Barcelona of 1945, a city marked by a recent Civil War.

It is about a teenager Daniel Sampere who finds a novel called the Shadow of the Wind.

A novel that will arouse in him a great curiosity about its author.

During the investigation, Daniel will meet characters, he will go on adventures and even he will find the love. The novel takes place in the most beautiful places in Barcelona.

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A Amazing Barcelona History tour

Do you want to know a bit of history of Barcelona?

Would you like to know who founded the city and a lot of interesting things that you can't even imagine?

You will visit the Roman remains such as the wall and the aqueduct.

You will explore medieval palaces, we walk through streets full of charm and small squares.

You will pass through the Ramblas, the Raval neighborhood and old monasteries.

You also discover the New Barcelona with the wonderful houses that Gaudí designed.

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SOME IMPORTANT tips to travel to BARCELONA

What are the best Barcelona travel tips ?

Barcelona is a fantastic city: with good weather, good food, full of charming places, with a beautiful beach, charming people... but if you want to visit this wonderful city and want to make the most of it, there are 7 very important tips that you should not forget.

These tips are:

1. Plan what you are going to do during your stay in the city.

I know that sometimes we like to improvise and feel free. Get up in the morning and decide over a cup of coffee your plan for the day.

It is a romantic idea, but if you plan your trip you will take advantage of it much more:

2. Buy all the tickets for the monuments in advance.

The Picasso Museum, Gaudí's houses, La Sagrada Familia... if you try to buy the tickets on the same day, they will surely be sold out or you will have to stand in long queues, which will make you lose a lot of time.

Seriously... buy your tickets before... it's very easy.

3. Beware of the heat if you visit Barcelona in summer.

Start your visits early in the morning, believe me. It's worth it and dedicate the afternoon to something more relaxed: enjoy the hotel pool or the beach.

The months of June, July and August are very hot.

If you visit Barcelona in summer: wear light colored clothes, they are cooler, a hat and a backpack with water.

4. Avoid eating on the Ramblas.

Las Ramblas is a promenade where there are always hundreds of people walking and it is full of restaurants that offer paella and tapas. Tapas are small portions of food typical of Spain.

Don't eat on the Ramblas. The food is of very poor quality and the price is expensive.

5. Hire a private guided tour with an official guide

A guided tour will allow you to make the most of your time.

You will visit the best of the monuments and you will not have to worry about anything. Just let yourself be led by the guide. Visiting a monument with an official guide is very enriching, it is as if they were telling you a story

I have been organizing guided tours in Barcelona since 2009 and I love to see the expression of happiness of the participants in my guided tours when they discover surprising things.

Write me and I will inform you more about my guided tours. I leave my address in the description of the episode.

6. Beware of pickpockets

Barcelona has a problem with pickpockets, there are many: in the metro, on the street, in shops...

It's a safe city, I mean there is no violence in the streets and you can go anywhere...but please avoid wearing jewelry, expensive watches. Do not leave your cell phone on the restaurant table and if you are carrying a backpack, carry it in front of you to avoid being opened from behind.

7. Visit original places

There are neighborhoods that are not very visited by tourists but are charming:

Some of my favorite neighborhoods are:

The Sant Antoni Market. the metro stop is called Sant Antoni.

It is a food market held in the 19th century. in 2018 it was completely renovated and today it is one of the most charming places in the city to walk. Do not miss the surroundings of the market, with its squares, its charming shops and its people.

Another of my favorite neighborhoods is the neighborhood of Gracia.

It is an old town that joined Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century.

Even today you can breathe the atmosphere of a town. There are about 20 small squares and there are artists' workshops, small restaurants and a certain bohemian atmosphere.

Look for the Verdi cinema which is considered the center of the neighborhood and from there just discover the neighborhood.

and that's it.

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The 10 BEST things to sse in Barcelona

Private tours of Barcelona with a local

Barcelona is a city full of charming places, museums and beautiful walks.

I have selected for your my BEST TEN things to SEE in Barcelona, ​​

So in the next 5 minutes I will explain to you theses amazing places that you can not miss in Barcelona.

And these places are:

1.Sagrada Familia

2.Park Güell

3.Camp Nou Stadium

4.Casa Batlló

5.La Pedrera

6.Gotic area

7.Picasso Museum

8.La Citadel Park

9.The beach

10. Gracia area

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Discover Barcelona in english with a private tour.

My name is José Gómez. I am a full time licensed guide in Barcelone

In the next 5 minutes I will recommand to you the 3 top tours to discover the city.

I have desight these three tour for those who are newcomers because I will explain to you, plenty of interesting thigs about the city: history, legens, customs,....... I am a foody, so I will show you some of our most delicius specialities, and these 3 tours are:

1.La Sagrada Familia and Park Güell

Both sites were desight by Gaudi, the famous architect. And both are clasified by Unesco as Word heritache sites.

La Sagrada Familia is the most visited monument in Spain.

It is a very original church. It is fulll of colours, fantasy and symbols.

Park Güel, today this is a garden,, but the original idea is to do a residential area for rich people, and Gaudi desigh everything.

The second tour "Barcelone at a galnce".

A 3 hours tour where I will show you the new and the old city:

We will explore the most luxury street in Barcelona: Passeig de Gracia, we will see the outside of some amazing houses as: La Pedrera, La Casa Batlló by Gaudi.

We will enter in the oldest part of Barcelona: Las Ramblas, Gothic area, the outside of the Cathedral, the roman walls and we will walk throuht charming streets and squares.

This tour is ideal for those who are new comers to Barcelona.

and the third tour is Picasso Museum with the Born area.

Picasso was living in Barcelona and there is a Museum dedicated to him.

A very interesting museum where you will learn a lot of things about this spanish artist and after we will explore the Born area.

This is a Medieval area in Barcelona, today a fasionable area.

Barcelona tours in english.

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Picasso Museum tour in Barcelona in english. A private tour

Are you intrige by Picasso?

Do you know that in Barcelona there is a muesum dedicated to this brillian artist?

Do you want to learn about his life and his work?

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If the answer of this questions is yes, this is your podcast.

In 5 minutes I will explain to you some interesting things about Picasso Museun In Barcelona and how to enjoy it to the fullest.

Tours in Barcelona in english by Jose.

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The best Gaudi tour of Barcelona.

Jose is a local full time license guide of Barcelona.

Discover all Gaudi´s secrets with a local guide.

If you visit Barcelona, of course you have to visit Gaudi houses.

Antonio Gaudí was a brilliant architect that work in Barcelona at the end of XIX century until 1926.

He was inspired by nature, fantasy and colors.

And his desigs are as a dream.

If you listen this podcast, you will learn more about the best Gaudi houses in Barcelona

I am José Gómez, a full time licensed guide of Barcelona.

I have a small company, Looking Barcelona, ​​where I provide tours to discover this wonderful city.

If you want to cvisit Barcelona with me just write me.

The style of Gaudi´s designs is known as Modernism and it is characterized by the use of ceramics, wrought iron, pottery, wood and stain glass windows....

Gaudí was a fasionable architech. He received commisions from rich people, in Barcelona Gaudi design 9 houses in aditon the other works as: lampost, furniture, he desigh a coffe shop and other works.

His most important project was: La Sagrada Familia.

This is a church and it is where he invested all his money and his efforts, still today is under construction.

Gaudí was born in 1852 and died, run over by a tram in 1926.

he was hit by a tram way around 5 pm on June 10th , it was 1926 when he was going to hear mass at his favorite church: The Church of San Felipe Neri.

He was a strong catholic person He never married, he haven´t children. He dedicated his life to God and architecture.

Today we will do a Gaudi tour to discover 4 of his most important works: La Sagrada Familia, La Casa Milà, La Casa Batlló and Parque Güell.

These 4 works are classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

I provide a tour: Gaudí and modernism in which we visit these houses and also we talk about Gaudí´s personality

If you are interested to do this tour with me. you can write me and I will inform you in more detail.

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Today I suggest to you a chocolate tour.

Barcelona has a great chocolate tradition because Spain had colonies in America and cacao beans arrived to the city.

We start at Plaça Catalunya.

Walking down Las Ramblas we arrive to Carme Street where our first stop is : Chock.

We follow to Puertaferrisa street and there a street called Petritxol Street. We pass by Pares Art gallery and our second stop is in La Granja Dulcinea.

You can taste hot chocolate, churros, ensaimada y melindros. All is delicious.

We finish at"La Plaça del Pi".

I hope you will enjoy it.

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In this chapter We´ll do a food tour with your little ones.

I know that it is an option that sometimes we see complicated with children.

In today's program I will recommend you two restaurants and a small tour so that both you and your little ones have a fun time.

The tour starts at Argenteria street and we stop at the Sagardi Born restaurant at number 62.

Then we´ll go through the main door of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar to Paseo del Born.

We take "Carrer Montcada", carrer is street in catalan, the local language.But before entering, we find "El carrer de les mosques" on the right the narrowest street in Barcelona and on the left to "Carrer dels Sobrerers" with the Gispert store.

On Calle Montcada we stopped at La Bodega La Puntual at number 22. Ideal tapas for children are: croquetas, patatas bravas and octupus with parmatier souce.

and for dessert: "pa amb chocolate, sal i oli"

I hope you enjoy it.

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Today I suggest you a walking tour of about 40 minutes through one of the most luxurious streets of Barcelona: Paseo de Gracia.

This tour is designed so that both, you and your little ones have a great time

We will start in the garden of a 19th century palace, we will pass by two Gaudí houses: La Pedrera and Casa Batlló, we will stop to taste a delicious hot chocolate and we will finish in the Plaza de Cataluña.

The key points of this tour is: .

 Robert Palace No. 107

La Pedrera No. 92

Versache Store # 87

Manuel Comas House No. 66

Casa Batlló nº 43

Amatller House No. 41

I hope you enjoy it!

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