- Barcelona This vibrant city has established itself as one of Europe s most important

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2 - Barceona This vibrant city has estabished itsef as one of Europe s most important cutura and business centres. A weath of UNESCO Word Heritage sites, uxurious dining experiences and word-cass shopping neste between mountains and sea to create a destination fu of charm. Discover Barceona and its surroundings with Fairmont Rey Juan Caros I s best tips and attractions.

3 22 3 CERVANTES PARK iag iago iago 5 s II I are ec ia d nv Gra iag CASA BATLLÓ Carrer d Aragó ona CASA MILÀ LA PEDRERA Sa nt s -C re u Co Carrer de Numáncia Av. D na 9 Travessera de es Corts Passeig de Gràcia r ta Av. D 15 MARINA Travessera de es Corts be be r ta 5 Camp Nou GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 12 LA BOQUERIA MARKET gu da Pa r a L3 LICEU LAS RAMBLAS Av in OLYMPIC STADIUM LLUÍS COMPANYS 13 PLAÇA DE CATALUNYA e 16 GOTHIC QUARTER 1 Cataonia Convention Center Wak: 1 minute pcongresos.venuetour.net The Paau de Congressos de Cataunya offers two auditoriums, 38 muti-functiona meeting rooms and has, 43,000 square feet of exhibition space and an auditorium for up to 2,000 deegates. This striking venue has its own coordination department dedicated to ensuring events run smoothy and successfuy. 19 MIRADOR DE COLOM RONDA LITORAL PARC DE LA CIUTADELLA RONDA LITORAL 6 Güe Paviions 11 WELLNESS PHARMACY Wak: 10 minutes fcbarceona.com The home of FC Barceona is a must visit for any footba fan. Visitors can discover the history of the cub and attend a stadium tour with the Camp Nou Experience to see where some of the best payers in the word work their magic. VIA LAIETANA 18 MONTJUÏC CASTLE MARINA LAS RAMBLAS GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES OUTDOOR 4 Roya Poo Cub Barceona Wak: 1 minute rcpoo.com Waking distance from the hote, the Cub offers two gymnasiums; one at the dressage arena and the other at the Roya Fitness & Spa, instructor-ed activities, persona training, swimming poos and a range of outdoor pursuits (trekking, bicyce, running, etc.). Carrer d Aragó PLAÇA DE ESPAÑA 17 na 1 Ramba Cataunya Co 3 Av. D SAGRADA FAMÍLIA Carrer de Bames u Carrer dearibau re ona Carrer de Casanovas -C 21 Wak: 8 minutes barceona.cat Lush greenery and coour in a andscaped area covering 9 hectares, the park contains a beautifu coection of roses set out aong an unusua botanica trai. In addition to the rose garden, which covers an area of 4 hectares, the Parc de Cervantes offers extensive grassy areas which are idea for jogging, cycing, gymnastics or just peope-watching in the heart of the Pedrabes neighbourhood BARCELONA SANTS TRAIN STATION s GÜELL PAVILIONS Carrer demuntaner 5 CAMP NOU 6 Av. D Carrer de Numáncia 2 THE ROYAL CLUB FITNESS & SPA PARK GÜELL Passeig de Gràcia CATALONIA CONVENTION CENTER nt MONASTERY OF PEDRALBES ROYAL PALACE OF PEDRALBES 3 Cervantes Park 8 BELLESGUARD HOUSE 7 1 Sa 8 ARCHITECTURE FOODIE BANK TRANSPORTATION MARKET FOR KIDS SHOPPING SIGHTSEEING TRAIN SUBWAY Car: 5 minutes, Pubic transportation: 10 minutes, Wak: 20 minutes barceonaturisme.com Discover where the fruitfu professiona reationship, and friendship, between Eusebi Güe and Antoni Gaudí started when the entrepreneur commissioned Gaudí to deveop and extend the estate he owned in the Pedrabes neighborhood of Barceona, which is currenty known as the Paveons Güe. SPORTS HOSPITAL 7 Roya Paace of Pedrabes Car: 5 minutes, Pubic transportation: 10 minutes, Wak: 20 minutes museobarceona.com/paacio-rea-de-pedrabes The Roya Paace of Pedrabes is a buiding ocated in the midde of a arge area of gardens. During it was the residence of the Spanish Roya Famiy on their visits to the city. Currenty the Paace hosts the Museum of Ceramics and the Museum of Decorative Arts. POLICE Tobacconist E Corte Ingés Supermarket Condis Supermarket Mercadona CaixaBank Mt Farmacia Farmacia Massagué Vendre Emergencies Hospita Cínic Post office Correos Poice station Metro Zona Universitaria Bus Line 7 Avinguda Diagona, 617 Carrer de Trias I Giró, Carretera de Cobanc, 90 Carrer de Trias i Giró, Carrer Sabino de Arana, 18 Carrer Gonzáez Tabas, 3 Carrer de Viarroe, 170 Avinguda Diagona, 617 Travessera de es Corts, Line 3 to city center, Line 9 direct to Airport Avinguda Diagona, 690 Car: 5 min., Pubic transportation: 8 min., Wak: 20 min. Wak: 10 min. Wak: 10 min. Wak: 10 min. Car: 7 min.s, Pubic transportation: 9 min., Wak: 20 min. Wak: 5 min. Car: 12 min., Pubic transportation: 20 min. Car: 5 min., Pubic transportation: 8 min., Wak: 20 min. Car: 13 min., Pubic transportation: 17 min. Wak: 5 min. Wak: 6 min. 2 The Roya Cub Fitness & Spa Located at Fairmont Rey Juan Caros I fairmont.com/barceona/activities-services/spa/ Located in the magnificent gardens surrounding Fairmont Rey Juan Caros I, The Roya Cub Fitness & Spa offers our guests a uxurious weness experience. The spa deivers a wide range of reaxing and revitaizing heath and beauty treatments with sumptuous products. The spa comes compete with an indoor poo and water circuit, sauna, steam room, and experience showers a with separate mae and femae access. 8 Monastery of Pedrabes Car: 10 minutes, Pubic transportation: 20 minutes, Wak: 30 minutes monestirpedrabes.bcn.cat A hidden gem, one of the most beautifu buidings of the Cataan Gothic period in Barceona. The buiding from the eary 14th century shows the everyday ife of nuns and reigious art from the 14th to the 20th century is dispayed in the monastery museum. Highights are the three-storey coister and the park inside the monastery.

4 9 Shopping Area 14 La Pedrera 17 Oympic Stadium Luís Companys 21 Park Güe Car: 5 minutes, Pubic transportation: 8 minutes, Wak: 20 minutes pedrabescentre.com - ecorteinges.es Just a short wak from Fairmont Rey Juan Caros I is the shopping centre of Pedrabes and E Corté Ingés, the famous Spanish department store. With hundreds of high quaity brands to choose from as we as more boutiques to expore, it's the perfect pan for any shopahoic! Pubic transportation: 22 apedrera.com La Pedrera, an ironic ausion to the resembance of its façade to an open quarry, was constructed by Antoni Gaudí. For its unique artistic and heritage vaue it has received major recognition and in 1984 was added to the UNESCO Word Heritage List. Casa Mià today is a beacon shining with creation and knowedge, with a crucia roe to pay in the transformation of society and commitment to the community. estadioimpic.cat Visit the Oympic stadium of Luís Companys. Originay buit in 1927 for the 1929 Internationa Exhibition in the city, it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Oympics. Car: 25 minutes Pubic transportation: 45 parkgue.cat Park Güe, one of the main works of Gaudí in Barceona, is one of the most beautifu icons of the city. Located in the upper part of Barceona, with stunning views of the city, you can enjoy a wak surrounded by a green environment with modernist works. 10 Barceona Sants Train Station ajuntament.barceona.cat/castedemontjuic Standing on a vantage point 173 metres above the port, Montjuïc Caste commands stunning views of the city. Now a peacefu pace, the memory of this fortress endures in Barceona as a symbo of repression but aso of the city's strugges during different periods in its history. Car: 10 minutes Pubic transportation: 15 minutes raieurope-word.com/pace/barceona-sants Barceona Sants Station (Sants Estacio) is the busiest raiway station in Barceona. It is the main train station for nationa and internationa train connections. The Barceona Sants Station is ocated in the west of the city of Barceona and can be easiy reached by bus, taxis or metro (Bue ine, L5 and Green ine, L3). 19 Mirador de Coom Pubic transportation: 20 barceonaturisme.com The statue of Christopher Coumbus stands more than 60 m high. It watches over the city and wecomes its visitors. The monument to the discoverer of America is one of Barceona's most embematic. The outstretched arm and the pointing finger are part of the city's urban egends. What is reay impressive is the tower's viewpoint, which you can reach via an interna eevator. The status has 360º panoramic views of the city. 11 Barceona E Prat Airpot Car: 15 minutes Pubic transportation: 45 minutes aena.es E Prat Airport, the main internationa airport of Barceona, is the second argest and second busiest airport in Spain, and the seventh busiest in Europe. 12 La Boqueria Market Pubic transportation: 22 boqueria.barceona The Mercat de a Boqueria is one of the most iconic andmarks in Barceona. It is a definite must both for ocas and traveers. The market is fu of ife at a hours, packed with peope, coours, smes and interesting things to see. Some of the stands offer deicious daiy specia menus with fresh fruit and vegetabes. 18 Montjuic Caste 20 Casa Bato 15 La Sagrada Famiia Car: 22 minutes Pubic transportation: 30 sagradafamiia.org The Sagrada Famiia is the best known and characteristic monuments of Barceona and Gaudí's most ambitious and extraordinary creation. A must in any trip to Barceona. Pubic transportation: 22 casabato.es Casa Bató is a masterpiece of shape, coour and ight. In this work, Gaudí is pre-empting the theory of rationaism, which woud come 30 years ater, with its modern notion of ventiation. Considered the most embematic work of the briiant Cataan architect. 22 Beesguard House Pubic transportation: 25 beesguardgaudi.com The Beesguard house was buit by Antoni Gaudí between 1900 and 1909, using rectiinear forms rarey seen in his other work. Gaudí buit this caste with a bend of Art Nouveau and Gothic stye and restored the ruins of a medieva paace, which are now part of the estate s grounds. 13 Paça de Cataunya 16 Gothic Quarter Pubic transportation: 20 meet.barceona.cat The Paça Cataunya, with its arge shopping centres and department stores, is constanty teeming with peope. It is Barceona's most centra area and a favourite meeting pace for ocas and visitors. It aso connects the Eixampe and the od town. Car: 22 minutes Pubic transportation: 25 barceonaturisme.com The Gothic Quarter has been inhabited since Roman times. This neighbourhood is home to the Cathedra, the od Jewish quarter, the Town ha, and many medieva churches and andmarks. 23 "Tibidabo Amuesment Park" Car: 25 minutes Pubic transportation: 60 tibidabo.cat Enjoy an amusement park ocated on Tibidabo in the Coseroa Ridge in Barceona. The park is among the odest in the word sti functioning. It is Spain's ongest running amusement park and Europe's third-odest.

5 FRANCIA ANDORRA ROSAS 40 GIRONA LLEIDA 39 COSTA BRAVA GRANOLLERS Car: 60 minutes Pubic transportation: 1h15 tarragonaturisme.cat A bastion of the Roman Empire on the Iberian Peninsua, Tarragona was decared a Word Heritage Site by UNESCO in Find the ancient ruins of this ceebrated historica site, and discover ancient treasures incuding the great Devi s Bridge aqueduct and one of the finest exampes of a 1st century Roman amphitheatre in Europe. 31 Serra de Coseroa Natura Park 38 Portaventura Park & Ferrari Park Car: 25 minutes Pubic transportation: 60 minutes parcnaturacoseroa.cat The Coseroa mountain range stands as a watchtower in the midde of the metropoitan area of Barceona. The are has more than 8,000 ha of protected natura space, where forest areas predominate but with a variety of vegetation that gives the area important bioogica diversity. Car: 60 minutes Pubic transportation: 2h portaventuraword.com The most visited theme park in Spain and the sixth most visited theme park in Europe. An entire word of fun with the best rides and entertainment, cuisine and shopping that you can imagine. Car: 30 minutes eprat.cat E Prat Beach is a beautifu beach, 5.5 km in ength, stretching from the mouth of the river Lobregat to the ake Remoar. A secret gem for the ocas Tarragona: Roman Heritage Site Pubic transportation: 60 minutes cataunyaenminiatura.com With square meters, of them devoted to scae modes, it is one of the argest miniature parks in the word,and the argest in Europe. It dispays 147 modes of paaces, churches, bridges and other buidings from Cataonia and Maorca and it incudes a the major works by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí. 32 E Prat Beach BARCELONA HOSPITALET LLOBREGAT Cataonia in Miniature SITGES 33 Sitges: The White Viage by the Sea TARRAGONA 41 BALEARIC ISLANDS 39 Costa Brava Car: 60 minutes costabrava.org The Costa Brava is a 160-kiometre stretch of beautifu, rugged coastine in the region of Cataonia with natura beauty, endess mies of sandy beaches and summer sunshine. A pace where uxury can be found in harmony with unspoit fishing viages, shetered rocky coves and medieva towns with ancient castes. The Costa Brava stretches from Banes, north of Barceona, to Roses near the French border. Car: 30 minutes Pubic transportation: 60 minutes visitsitges.com Once home to Bohemian artists in the eary 1900s, Sitges is a magnificent white town overooking a bue sea. Now an important tourist resort not far from Barceona, Sitges is sure to fascinate and deight anyone incined to take a wak through its timeess medieva quarter, with its impressive views over the Mediterranean and narrow, winding streets. MALLORCA 34 Barceona-Cataunya Circuit 24 The Lobregat Deta Natura Park 27 Coonia Güe Car: 15 minutes detaobregat.cat The Lobregat Deta Natura Park is one of Cataonia's most important wetand zones. It is home to 20 natura habitats which have been designated specia areas of conservation by the EU, and has an extraordinary diversity of pant species. Car: 15 minutes Pubic transportation: 45 minutes gaudicooniague.org Discover the argest modernist Coony town in Cataonia that, 120 years ater, sti preserves its historica heritage. The Coony of modernist origin transmits the atmosphere of the nineteenth century that sti ingers in its streets and make it so specia. 25 Sant Cugat Monastery Car: 25 minutes Pubic transportation: 60 minutes visitsantcugat.cat The Monastery of Sant Cugat is a Benedictine abbey in Sant Cugat de Vaès. Founded in the 9th century, and buit unti the 14th century, it was the most important monastery in the county of Barceona. Its main feature is the arge coister, in Romanesque stye. 26 RCDE Stadium Car: 10 minutes Pubic transportation: 30 minutes rcdespanyo.com The RCDE stadium is home to RCD Espanyo, a professiona sports cub based in Barceona, Cataonia, Spain. Founded in 1900, the cub pays in La Liga, the highest division of Spanish footba. Car: 30 minutes circuitcat.com The Circuit of Barceona-Cataunya is a word-cass motorsport race track in Montmeó. With ong straights and a variety of curves and chicanes, the Circuit de Barceona-Cataunya is seen as an a-rounder circuit. The track has stands with a capacity of 140,700 and the circuit has FIA Grade 1 icense. 35 Codorniu Vineyard 40 Girona: Jewish Heritage in a Medieva City eprat.cat Watch how panes and or how the they take off from the unique viewpoint of the Prat de Lobregat airport viewpoint. A unique experience that surey surprises everyone. Car: 30 minutes Pubic transportation: 1h20minutes visitascodorniu.com A 30 min drive to where the infuence of the sun and the Mediterranean sea makes the Penedès a privieged territory for winemaking. Underground, in a abyrinth of cears, is where Codorniu s cavas have, for over a century now, undergone their second fermentation and ageing at a constant temperature. Car: 1h25 minutes Pubic transportation: 35 minutes girona.cat Known as the Forence of Cataonia on account of it magnificent architecture and artistic heritage, Girona is a historica treasure trove bursting with character. Once an important Jewish centre, this unique town is fu of unforgettabe sights, sounds and memories making it a must-see for overs of history, architecture and od word charm. 29 Oympic Cana of Castedefes 36 Montserrat: The Hoy Mountain Pubic transportation: 1h10 canaoimpic.cat The Oympic Cana was constructed in Castedefes in 1992 during the Oympic Games in Barceona. Since then this artificia cana on the marshes of the Lobregat river and 1,200 meters ong, has continued to grow into one of the argest sports compexes in Europe. 41 Baearic Isands Car: 40 minutes Pubic transportation: 1h40 minutes montserratvisita.com Montserrat is home to the word famous Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria De Montserrat, which began as a sma hermitage in 888AD before expanding to its current size. This unforgettabe hoy site has seen its fair share of coour and drama over the years, from miraces and wonders attributed to the Virgin Mary, to destruction and death brought about during the area s many historica battes. Pane: 45 minutes iesbaears.trave The Baearic Isands are a Spanish archipeago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsua. The four argest isands are Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. 28 Prat de Lobregat airport viewpoint