Barcelona - Discover Spain: Experience the Best of Spain - page 152

Offline map Google map (Roman Temple of Augustus; Click here ; Carrer de
Paradis 10; admission free; 10am-2pm Mon-Sat) Four mighty, 1st-century
columns from the temple stand just beyond the southeast end of the cathedral.
Car & Motorcycle
Autopistas (tollways) head out of Barcelona in most directions, including the C31/
C32 to the southern Costa Brava; the C32 to Sitges; the C16 to Manresa (with a
turn-off for Montserrat); and the AP7 north to Girona, Figueres and France, and
south to Tarragona and Valencia (turn off along the AP2 for Lleida, Zaragoza and
Madrid). The toll-free alternatives, such as the A2 north to Girona, Figueres and
France, and west to Lleida and beyond, or the A7 to Tarragona, tend to be busy and
slow.
Train
The main international and domestic station is Estació Sants (Plaça dels Països
Catalans) , 2.5km west of La Rambla. Other stops on long-distance lines include
Catalunya (Plaça de Catalunya) and Passeig de Gràcia (cnr Passeig de Gràcia &
Carrer d'Aragó) .
INTERNATIONAL
For information on getting to Barcelona by rail from European cities, see Click here .
One or two daily services connect Montpellier in France with Estació Sants (€59
each way in turista class, 4½ hours). A couple of other slower services (with a
change of train at Portbou) also make this run. All stop in Perpignan.
From Estació Sants, up to eight trains daily run to Cerbère (from €10.60, 2½ hours)
on the French side of the border, from where you can pick up trains to Paris via
Montpellier.
DOMESTIC
Eighteen high-speed Tren de Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) trains between Madrid
and Barcelona run daily in each direction, nine of them in under three hours. A typ-
ical one-way price is €114, but it comes down if you book a return or book well in
advance on the website (which can bring the cost down to about €45). The line will