Barceloneta & the Waterfront - Discover Barcelona: Experience the Best of Barcelona - page 289

bastià (in La Barceloneta) and Miramar (Montjuïc), with a midway stop at the Torre de
Jaume I in front of the World Trade Center. At the top of the Torre de Sant Sebastià is a
spectacularly located restaurant, Torre d'Alta Mar.

PLATJAS
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Beaches

( 36 or 41, Ciutadella Vila Olímpic, Bogatell, Llacuna or Selva de Mar) A series of pleasant
beaches stretches northeast from the Port Olímpic marina. They are largely artificial, but
this doesn't stop an estimated seven million bathers from piling in every year!
The southernmost beach, Platja de la Nova Icària , is the busiest. Behind it, across the
Avinguda del Litoral highway, is the Plaça dels Campions, site of the rusting three-tiered
platform used to honour medallists in the sailing events of the 1992 games.
The next beach is Platja de Bogatell . Just in from the beach is the Cementiri de L'Est,
created in 1773. It was positioned outside the then city limits for health reasons. Its central
monument commemorates the victims of an 1821 yellow-fever epidemic.
Platja de la Mar Bella (with its brief nudist strip and sailing school) and Platja de la
Nova Mar Bella follow, leading into the new residential and commercial waterfront strip,
the Front Marítim, part of the Diagonal Mar project in the Fòrum district. It is fronted by
the last of these artificial beaches to be created, Platja del Llevant .

Port Olímpic, El Poblenou & El Fòrum

TORRE AGBAR
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Architecture

( 93 342 21 29; www.torreagbar.com ; Avinguda Diagonal 225; Glòries) Barcelona's very own
cucumber-shaped tower, Jean Nouvel's luminous Torre Agbar is one of the most daring
additions to Barcelona's skyline since the first towers of La Sagrada Família. Completed
in 2005, it shimmers at night in shades of midnight blue and lipstick red. Unfortunately,
you can only enter the foyer on the ground floor, frequently used to host temporary exhib-
itions.