Walking in LA RAMBLA of Barcelona

La Rambla is the most famous and also crowded street in Barcelona. In one end of La Rambla is Plaça Catalunya and on the other is Port Vell (Drassanes). Along Rambla you will see many street artists doing interesting performance and also there are many restaurants. Somewhere in the middle of Rambla is the next place I suggest you to pass by – Plaça Real.

La Rambla is the name of a symbolic walk from the city of Barcelona, which runs between Plaza de Catalunya, the main center of the city, and the old port.
Mimes, imitator, tourists, spanish, pakistan people, drug dealers, prostitutes… La Rambla is crazy crowded all day and night, and everything can happens there.

The promenade is filled with people day and late into the night. Is punctuated by press kiosks, flowers and birds, street actors, cafes, restaurants and shops. Near the port used to settle markets, as well as painters and cartoonists. Walking along La Rambla can admire several interesting buildings, such as the Palacio de la Virreina, as well as the La Boqueria market and the famous El Liceo Theater, which account for operas and ballets. The side streets also have a special charm. One of them, a few meters long, leads to the Plaza Real, a plaza with palm trees and buildings with arcades that host a multitude of pubs and restaurants, and which would meet on weekends collectors of stamps and coins.

Figure wax decorative La Rambla next to the Wax Museum in Barcelona, Spain.
The Columbus monument, at the end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain.

La Rambla is diverse in its different sections nomenclature, so too is its usual name in plural: Las Ramblas, From the Plaza de Catalunya for different stretches receive the following names: Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels Estudis, Rambla de Sant Josep, Rambla dels Caputxins, Rambla de Santa Monica.

The walk from La Rambla empties into the Old Port (Portal de la Paz plaza), where is located the famous statue of Christopher Columbus, thence a wide gateway to the promenade is called Rambla de Mar leads to the area Maremàgnum. By the end of mountain and from Plaza de Catalunya, the upward path that follows the tour by the Eixample to meet with the Avenida Diagonal called the Rambla de Catalunya, which is considered an independent tour that passes through the Ciutat Vella.

In the vicinity is the Maritime Museum (Museu Maritim), especially dedicated to naval history in the Mediterranean, and which displays the full-scale reproduction of an old galley tanks. The museum is located at the Royal Atarazanas yards from the Middle Ages, where the boats were built connecting the extensive domains of the Crown of Aragon in the Mediterranean. The old port offers other attractions, such as an entertainment center and shops, restaurants, an IMAX cinema, and the largest aquarium in the Mediterranean marine life.

In the historical center, very near La Rambla, are also interesting the Cathedral of Barcelona, Sant Jaume Square which houses the buildings of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Municipality of Barcelona, and the narrow but lively streets of both the Gothic Quarter and the Born and Raval.