Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 93 302 13 20;
www.cookandtaste.net
;
Carrer del Paradís 3; half-day workshop
€60)
Learn to whip up a paella or stir a gazpacho in this Spanish cookery school.
Tours
A number of tour options present themselves if you want a hand getting around the
sights.
Barcelona Walking Tours
Walking
( 93 285 38 34; Plaça de Catalunya 17-S)
The Oficina d'Informació de Turisme de
Barcelona organises guided walking tours. All tours last two hours and start at the
tourist office.
My Favourite Things
( 637 265405;
www.myft.net
; tours €26-32)
Offers tours (with no more than 10
participants) based on numerous themes: anything from design to food and
rollerblading to sailing.
Activities
Festivals & Events
Dia de Sant Joan
This is a colourful midsummer celebration on 24 June with bonfires, even in the
squares of L'Eixample, and fireworks marking the evening that precedes this holi-
day.
Midsummer
Festa Major de Gràcia
(
www.festamajordegracia.org
, in Catalan)
This is a madcap local festival held in Grà-
cia around 15 August, with decorated streets, dancing and concerts.
Gràcia
Festes de la Mercè
(
www.bcn.cat/merce
)
The city's biggest party involves four days of concerts, dan-
cing,
castellers
(human-castle builders), a fireworks display synchronised with the
Montjuïc fountains, dances of giants on the Saturday, and
correfocs
- a parade of
fireworks-spitting dragons and devils from all over Catalonia, on the Sunday. The
festival is held around 24 September.
City Festival
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