The beautiful city of Barcelona, Las Ramblas is one of the most romantic tourist destinations in Europe. It's one of the busiest areas with its small streets, shops, and the charm that everything seems to invite you to explore. The term La Rambla means, in Spanish and Catalan, an intermittent water flow and its being wrongly pronounced by the Spanish governments as Las Ramblas. This place is definitely one of the prominent landmarks of Barcelona and meanders down from the Pl. de Catalunya to the Columbus statue. Know more about the Las Ramblas in Barcelona as spaintravelhub.com provides you with an interesting account about the major tourist destinations in Barcelona.
You can enjoy a rejuvenating walk along the 1.2 kilometer-long tree-lined pedestrian mall in the Barri Gòtic which also connects Plaça Catalunya in the center including the Christopher Columbus monument at Port Vell. Here the best things to enjoy the street theatre, cafés and market stall which gift you with a memory of a lifetime. La Rambla originally is known to be a series of shorter streets, which are differently named, and hence they are termed as Las Ramblas in plural. The street is successively the Rambla de Canaletes, the Rambla dels Estudis, the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica from Plaça de Catalunya toward the harbor. In the early 1990s the construction of the Maremàgnum led to the Rambla de Mar which is the continuation of La Rambla on a wooden walkway to the harbor. La Rambla during the prime times of tourist seasons can be really a crowded and lively place to check out and has simultaneously given way to activities like robbery and theft.
The other places of interest in and around La Ramblas are, Miro Mosaic, the Liceu (Opera house), the Mercat de la Boqueria or exhibition centres such as the Palau de la Virreina and the Centre d'Art Santa Monica. Café de la Ópera is also a place giving you a refreshing break from a tiring day of touring. A small walk down La Rambla would lead you to Barri del Raval which had a reputation as the red light area of the city. You will also find the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Calle Montalegre and there is the Palau Güell, by Gaudí in Calle Nou de La Rambla. The other attractions in La Rambla which one shouldn't miss out on are, Pl. Reial, Calle Ferran, Pl. Sant Jaume leading to Palau de la Generalitat and the Town Hall. You can go shopping around Portaferrissa and Portal de l'Àngel. Your tour in La Rambla will remain incomplete without a visit of the places like, Ciutat Vella, Barri de la Ribera, and church of Santa Maria Del Mar.
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