Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
&
Biking
Top 10 Spectator
Sports & Events
Hire a city bike from
Barcelona Biking and breeze
around Barcelona. Mountain
bikes are also available for rent
here.
d
Barcelona Biking • Baixada de
Sant Miquel, 6 • 65 635 63 00
!
FC Barcelona Football
Tickets to see this side are
rare; book online or by phone.
d
Sep-Jun • 93 496 36 00/902
189 900 • www.fcbarcelona.com
*
Pool & Billiards
@
RCD Espanyol
It's easier to get tickets
for this first-division football
side; they play at Estadi
Olímpic
(see p90)
.
d
Sep-Jun
• 90 219 62 59
£
FC Barcelona
Shoot some pool at Gràcia's
lovely Cafè Salambó, where
there are pool and billiard tables
for rent upstairs, not to mention
good drinks, tasty food, a
friendly ambience and a lively,
arty crowd
(see p115)
.
(
Sardanes
Basketball
The team of the city's second
favourite sport play at the
Palau Blaugrana.
d
Sep-May
• 90 218 99 00/93 496 30 00
These traditional Catalan
dances
(see p65)
take place
regularly all over the city and at
most local festas. Far from being
exclusive, they often involve up to
200 people and there's no reason
why you can't be one of them. The
tourist office
(see p134)
can pro-
vide information on these events.
)
Frontó
$
Barcelona Marató
The marathon takes in the
whole city before culminating
at the Plaza d'España. d
Early
March • 90 243 17 63
%
Barcelona Open
This tennis tournament
attracts some big names.
d
mid-late Apr • 93 203 78 52
^
Cursa El Corte Inglés
Egalitarian tennis or poor
man's squash, all you need is
a tennis racket and ball to beat
against the wall to enjoy this
popular pastime. The city's parks
are full of free
frontó
courts; one
of the best is next to the Casa
del Mig in the Parc de l'Espanya
Industrial
(see p57)
.
A 11-km (7-mile) run with
thousands of participants.
d
May or Jun • 90 112 21 22
&
La Volta Ciclista
de Catalunya
Cyclists warm up for the more
serious European events with
this testing route.
d
late May-
Jun • 93 431 82 98
*
Montmeló
Motor racing, including
Formula 1, regularly comes to
this circuit.
d
Apr-May • 93
571 97 71 • www.circuitcat.com
(
Cursa La Mercè
A 10-km (6-mile) run
through Barcelona's centre.
d
Late Sep • 010
)
Catalunya Rally
Top-class rally-driving in
spectacular surroundings.
d
Oct • ww.rallyracc.com
Biking in Barcelona
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For walks & bike rides in and around Barcelona
See pp58-9
