Getting Here!

Barcelona's cultural roots go back 2000 years. To a greater extent than the rest of Catalonia, where Catalonia's native Catalan is more dominant, Barcelona is a bilingual city: Catalan and Spanish are both official languages and widely spoken.

The Catalan spoken in Barcelona, Central Catalan, is the one closest to standard Catalan. Since the arrival of democracy, the Catalan culture (very much repressed during the dictatorship) has been promoted, both by recovering works from the past and by stimulating the creation of new works. Barcelona is designated as a world-class city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network.

Barcelona has many venues for live music and theatre, including the world-renowned Gran Teatre del Liceu opera theatre, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Auditorium, the Teatre Lliure and the Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall.

Going from the airport to the city is very easy.  You have three options to get there:
By taxi. Usually it costs around 25 and 30 Euros.
By bus:  This is a good, fast and cheap service and it drops you right in the heart of the city. You can take the Aerobus, it costs 5,15 E.
By train: there is a train from the airport to the city every 20 minutes.

In case you take the bus, you would have to get off at the last stop, at the Plaza Catalunya. Once you are at the Plaza Catalunya (the final stop), you have to cross to the other side of the plaza, to the Cafe Zurich find the famous street call LA RAMBLA.