Shopping in Barcelona

La Roca shopping village

Shopping in Barcelona

Thursday, 10 June 2010 06:00

Barcelona offers great shopping. You can go on Paseo de Gracia, Portal del Angel or get some fresh fruit and meat in La Boqueria market. Besides the large amount of stores around Barcelona you can take the bus and go for a short trip to La Roca village outlet shopping.

La Roca village is located about 40 minutes north-east of Barcelona and is easily accessible with car, train, or the bus taking you direct to the shopping village. You have over 100 luxury boutiques to visit such as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Diesel, Nike, Lacoste and many more. With up to 60% price reductions in the stores you can get the most out of the 40 minutes travel from Barcelona.

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Lomography Gallery Store

Shopping in Barcelona

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:18

If you're into your photography then Barcelona is the place to come to get some fantastic snaps, of some of the most interesting art and architecture in Europe. But Barcelona also has one of the best lomography stores to enhance all the pictures you are taking. The top photographers are saying that analogue is back and better than before. The new type of Lomography cameras developed by the Russians and have every type of lens and flash you can imagine and can be found in the narrow streets of Borne. This store is not only a shop it also has a small space for exhibiting and photographic workshops.

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Shopping at Christmas

Shopping in Barcelona

Monday, 14 December 2009 09:23

Shopping in Barcelona is not like London, it is in fact a much more tolerable experience! Everyone loves to shop, but especially around busy times of year, like Christmas,there are too many people and too much to choose from, that it can be very stressful. However Barcelona is definitely a much calmer experience, the streets are wider, there are fewer tourists in the winter, and there are lots of branches of the same shop. For high street shops you should look in Portal de Angel, Las Ramblas and El Triangle and for your designer labels head up to Passeig de Gracia.

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The History of the markets in Barcelona 2.

Shopping in Barcelona

Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:15

The history of the markets we know nowadays is, indeed, quite recent. This is because they had to develop new areas in the city in order for the markets to be able to exist, thus knocking down other places, but like they say, "for there to be creation there has to be destruction" and that was how the Boqueria arose. La Boquería was discussed most extensively because it is a market that sets the standard for everywhere else, and because it is still the most important thing in Barcelona. Still a few years later, having continued along this path of development and expansion the market in Santa Caterina was born. The Universal Expositions was also another important milestone in the history of barcelonian markets, as it was so great that the markets of Concepcion, Hostafrancs and Llibertat started, then opened the markets of Clot and of Sant Martí. Years later the markets in Abacería and Ninot were opened.

The most modern market that Barcelona had was The Born, followed by Galvany, Sant Antoni and Barceloneta. Eixample also began their days with a design that completely changed the layout of the typical traditional market, and this was certainly well received by locals and visitors, even though Barcelona was very small.

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