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My name is José and I organise private tours to discover Barcelona. I would like to be your guide in Barcelona. Contact: hello@lookingbarcelona.com Do you like wine? Did you know that .Spain is one of the most important wine producers in the world? Do you want to learn about one of the best white wines in Spain? Today we talk about one of my favourite white wines in Spain: Chadornay Enate 234. Denomination of Origin: Somontano Another Denominations of Origin in Spain for white wine are: -Albariño -Rueda. The variety that they produce is Verdejo. It is another escellent white wine. It is very fresh and dry. -Somontano -Cava. They produce our spanish champagne called Cava. It is delicious. Do not hesitate to write me if you want to visit Barcelona.

Do you want to discover Park Güell by Gaudi? My name is Jose. I am licensed guide of Barcelona and I do private tours. Contact: hello@lookingbarcelona.com Would you like to visit Park Gëll also known as Gaudi Parc? You do not know where to start ? Don't worry...I will help you. If you have just 4 minutes, I will explain you some very interesting things about The Park...... and some tips to make the most of your visit to this work by Antonio Gaudi. Park Güell today is a parc a garden, but the original idea was to make it a residential area. How much time do you need at Park Guell? The Park is very big in extent: 40 eicres. but do not worry. the monumental area where there are all pretty things that Gaudi did... is smaller. You can visit it around 1 hour.. Why is Park Guell so famous? On one side you can admire the work of the famous architect Gaudi. The Park is like a fairy tale, withfantastic houses. Gaudi was inspired by the tale of Hansel and Gretel, they are like gingerbread houses. also ..The Park is located on a hill, so you can enjoy a beautiful view of the city of Barcelona: the hills surrounding the city and the the mediterranean sea. Do you have to pay for Gaudi park? You have to buy a ticket to enter. The Park was free until 2013. The Park is classified by UNESCO and can be damaged by the millions of visitors there each year. It is important to purchase tickets as early as possible as access is limited. Which metro station for Parc Güell? The best metro statin is Lesseps. Afterwards it takes around 10 minutes to get there. Don't worry because it is very well signposted. What is the best time of day to visit Park Güell? The Park is always beautiful. There is a special charm. I love the light, the colors of the vegetation combined with the blue of the sea. Can you do Sagrada Familia and Park Güell in one day? Yes of course, I offer a guided tour of the Park Güell combined with another work by Gaudi: La Sagrada Familia. The combined tour lasts 3 hours. It is a private tour. Just for you, your family or your group of friends. I have a small company "Looking Barcelona" from where I offer guided tours to discover Barcelona. Do not hesitate to contact me. you have my email in the notes...I would love to be your guide in Barcelona! Contact: hello@lookingbarcelona.com

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com Barcelona with children The Labyrinth Park Today I'm talking to you about a very fun park: the Labyrinth Park. A large public garden in which there is a maze made of cipresse cypresses. It is an ideal place for your little ones. They can run around, The metro station is called Mundet. Official site of the park. (prices, schedules, etc.) https://www.barcelona.cat/es/what-to-do-in-bcn/parks-and-gardens/parque-del-laberint-dhorta_92086011952.html I provide guided tours to discover the city: To contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com www.lookingbarcelona.com/en

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com Barcelona with kids: Where to change Pokémon cards in Barcelona Do you have a lot of duplicate Pokémon cards? Today we're talking about a place where your little ones can have fun changing their Pokemon cards with other kids. This place is "el Mercat de Sant Antoni". Saint Antoni food Market The inside of the market is closed on Sundays but outside there are plenty of stalls selling second-hand books and also small groups of childre gather around the market changing cards. Children with their parents who, full of enthusiasm, show their collections to change the repeated cards. They are usually located at the corner of Compte Urgell and Carrer Tamarit streets. The metro station is "Sant Antoni". The area around Sant Antoni Market is one of my favorite places in the city. It is full of small restaurants of all kinds of cuisines and charming little corners to discover A typical place of Barcelona and cosmopolite at a time If you want to write to me, here is my email: I provide private tours to discover the city. hello@lookingbarcelona.com

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com 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.

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com 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. You can write me here: hello@lookingbarcelona.com

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com 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. Contact : hello@lookingbarcelona.com

I Provide charming GUIDED TOURS in BARCELONA. Contact me: hello@lookingbarcelona.com 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. Contact: hello@lookingbarcelona.com