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Christmas shopping in Barcelona

Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:04

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Walking around on the beautifully decorated streets of Barcelona during Christmas is a experience on its own.
It will surely be enough to get you excited for the holidays. During Christmas the whole city becomes veiled in a romantic atmosphere and is therefore a wonderfull place to spent Christmas in and learn more about Catalan Christmas traditions.

Besides checking out many interesting sights and do fun things Barcelona also is a great place to do your christmas shopping in.We have written down some tips how to do the best Christmas shopping in Barcelona.

Big departmant stores

During Christmastime the big departmand stores always give there best effort to get in the Christmas spirit and make a beautiful sight. They normaly provide this feeling, once you walk into a big store you immediately get overwhelmed with a Christmas feeling, the whole place is ususually decorated beautifully and Christmas songs are also played a lot.During the Christmas days a lot of places will be closed but the big department stores are usually open and give you a great possibility to go shopping there.

All though it is advised that you do the Christmas shopping a few days before because during Christmas the place is normally filled with people.The best malls to go to are the following ones: diagonal mar,maremagnum,Glories and corte ingles.

About the last one, Corte Ingles usually also has a Santa Claus in their mall during Christmas, he will be on the 8th floor at the toy section and it is a fun activity when you are there with children.The entry is free the only thing you need to give is you adress so that when your child has its picture taken with Santa Claus it will be send to your home.

Christmas Markets

Barcelona has a lot of Christmas markets, and those are a must visit if you are here during Christmas time, its great to stroll around at those markets to see and buy some of the things they have to offer.

Fira Santa Llucia Christmas Market

One of Barcelona's most well known Christmas markets, Huge place with lots of the stalls selling Christmas decoration,misseltoes and Christmas trees. As part of the Catalan Christmas traditions Caga Tio plays a important role, its also possible to buy your own Caga Tio at that Christmas market.The whole market has a very Spanish atmosphere, not the typical German ones you usually see at Christmas markets.

So it might be handy to know that you will not find the bratwurst or the gluwin there.Besides these things there is also a special markets ection that is called Artesania, here you will find various stalls that are selling artisan and hand made products like leather products,jewellery,and toys.

It is great to check out because most of the times the products are designed very creatively.Some people like to just stroll the

Christmas market and enjoy the Catalan atmosphere of the place. If thats you then Fira de Santa Llucia is a good recommendation.< The market has a very warm Christmas feeling going on especially with the decorations,stalls,products and the marketlights reflecting of the near located Cathedral.This Market is in El Born, which is a neighboorhood in Barcelona. You can reach it by taking the yellow line L4 to the Jaume 1 undergoundstation.

Fira de Brocanters Christmas market

Located near plaza Catalunya it is a usual thursdays market from 10:00 until 21:00, during Christmas time though it turns into a wonderfull little Christmas market.It consists of 14 stellars that have a variaty of products on there like postcards,stamps,jewellery and ornaments.
this is a great market to visit during Christmas when you are into antiques.You can reach the place by taking the green L3 line to Plaza Catalunya.

Fira de Nadal a la Sagrada Familia

You can reach it by taking the blue line L5 or the Purple line L2 to Underground station Sagrada Familia.There are some smaller Christmas markets available as well but when you are in Barcelona either of these 3 are most worth visiting.

Little shops in the Gothic Area

The Gothic neighbourhoods is propably one of the best places in Barcelona where you can wonder around for hours just getting lost in the small streets full of amazing buildings and great little stores.

But the period before Christmas is really amazing with a lot of places turning into greatly decorated places that give you the nice feeling of Christmas time. When you are staying in Barcelona make sure to stroll around in the Gothic area as its one of the best places to be in and shop as well.
Also it can be a good choice to have a typical Catalan Christmas dinners in of the local restaurants.

Special Chocolateshops

No Christmas is complete with out some sweets and chocolates are a great choice for that.

Barcelona is one of the best cities in Europe to spent your Christmas in and there are a lot of activities going on during that period, as you can see shopping in Barcelona is very entertaining during Christmas time, You can check out the malls let your kids have their picture taken with Santa Claus, wonder around at the Christmas markets and get lost eating some great chocolate in Gothic and the other special places Barcelona has to offer.

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