Free tour

EIXAMPLE + PARAL.LEL + SANTS: Down with the walls! Popular culture and local traditions in non-touristy Barcelona.

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Barcelona

Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes

Languages: English and Spanish

Guru: Charlie Ruiz

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Registered on 13 January 2020

Charlie Ruiz Tours... don't be a Guiri and feel the magic of enjoying Barcelona as a local!!! Following the Top10 list of "you must do/visit" is way to easy but you will never get involved by people's energy. Do you really want to walk by through Barcelona streets and not leave the footprints of your heart in this amazing city? Taking lots of pictures will help you get a nice album to show to your family and friends but that is the same as collecting nice images with no feelings or emotions. Yes indeed, you visited a new city and you can say "I was there" in the same way as if you sit and watch the film but jumping actively into the screen and becoming the main character of that movie is much more exciting. Plus, there are hundreds of libraries and excellent History books to learn more about the city but I'm completely sure you're expecting much more right? You could even get over collapsed by lots of data and information that you could also read or find on Internet, Google and Wikipedia. But this is not what my tours are about. Moreover, are you the type of person wanting to live new experiences and adding new emotions to your visits and trips? Why should visiting Barcelona become just one more place to mark on an endless checklist of places to visit? Let's make a difference out of that! Don't you prefer creating the best story of your life? How about being the Genious of the lamp and see how the holidays of your dreams come true? Play, live, experience and feel the magic of enjoying BCN as a local with the best Tour guide you could ever imagine. Did you realize that you are now on a one way direction road to happiness in Barcelona? You've just got your ticket as a Dream-maker and about to see how you are about to FALL IN LOVE WITH BARCELONA!!!! CHARLIE RUIZ WALKING TOURS is your best option!!!

Free booking and cancellation

Pay-what-you-wish tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free

Tour description

EIXAMPLE TOUR + PARAL.LEL / SANT ANTONI + SANTS, down with the walls!!

Have you already visited the Gothic Quarter + Born, Gaudí's Modernist houses on Passeig de Gràcia, the Mercat de La Boqueria in Les Rambles, Sagrada Familia and Park Güell, Barceloneta beach or Barça's Camp Nou stadium?

Congratulations, super tourist! You've already completed the wonderful top 10 and you have more than a thousand amazing photos for your vacation album! ... but you feel like you're still missing "something", right?

Do you want to feel the magic of Barcelona as if you were 100% local, do you want to discover the city that tourists don't usually visit and become a true Barcelona resident?

If you are interested in folklore and local traditions, popular culture, daily life in neighborhoods and their people, urban planning and social transformations, tensions between the Catalan bourgeoisie and the working class, their impact on municipal regulations that affect architectural development of the city, the conquest of social and labor rights for the people, discovering that Art is not only in museums but also in the street and in the people, etc. then this is your tour.

TOUR EIXAMPLE- PARAL.LEL-SANT ANTONI- SANTS: Down with the walls! The new Barcelona is born!

What happens when the walls are torn down in the mid-late 19th century, the municipal aggregation decrees are signed and Barcelona begins to grow? How is this urban development managed? Have you heard of the Cerdà Plan and its project to reform the city? l'Eixample? How did the new neighbourhoods that completely transformed the city in the 20th century come into being, leading to the modern, open and tolerant, supportive, cosmopolitan, international and multicultural Barcelona of today?

- Portal of Santa Madrona and Maritime Museum
- Gardens of the 3 Chimneys
- Apollo and El Molino Theaters
- Poble Sec and Carrer Blai Wineries
- c. Poeta Cabanyes 95
- Porticoed houses 1882 on Paral.lel Avenue
- Super island of Sant Antoni
- Orxateria Xirvent / Bodega d'en Rafel
- Sant Antoni Market
- Plaza Espanya
- CC Arenas 360° viewpoint
- Sculpture "Woman and Bird" by Joan Miró
- Creu Coberta shopping centre
- Industrial Spain Park
- Sants Station
- Osca Square

All this and much more in 3 hours of "Eixample- Para.lel-Sant Antoni- Sants Tour: down with the walls of Barcelona!" with the best free tour agency in the world: Guruwalk #charlieruiztours

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Av. del Paral·lel, 12, 08001 Barcelona, Spain

Avinguda Paral.lel 12- Portal de Santa Madrona. Red Guruwalk cap + orange folder.

Outside visit

Portal de Santa Madrona

Outside visit

Monument to Columbus

Outside visit

Plaça Espanya

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours don't have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).