Attractions

La Rambla
Placa De Catalunya
La Pedrera (The Stone Quarry)
A walk around the Olympic Village
The Fountains of Montjuic
The Grand Theatre of the Liceu
The Cathedral of Barcelona
Picasso Museum
Palau de la Musica Catalana
Temple Expiatori Sagrada Familia

A walk around the Olympic Village

A tour of the Olympic Village enables us to discover this new neighbourhood of Barcelona, an extremely important part of the works of the Olympic program. We begin our walk at the Placa dels Voluntaris, in front of which there stand the two towers, which, with their original architecture, give the neighbourhood its own character. One of the towers is the Hotel Arts, the work of the architects Bruce Graham and Frank O. Gehry, with 44 floors and 456 bedrooms; the other is the Mapfre Tower, designed by Inigo Ortiz and Enrique de Leon, an office building with a commercial centre on the ground floor. These two towers have a height of 153.5 m and are the highest in Spain.

In the Placa dels Voluntaris itself there is a giant fountain, designed by Josep M. Merce, and not far away can be seen the face of the sculpture David and Goliath, by Antoni Llena. Further in the distance we see Frank O. Gehry's Gold Fish, and behind that the Atlanta Gardens, with the chimney of the Can Folch factory, a testimony to the industrial past of the zone. Also the group of buildings in the form of an ellipse, the work of the Martorell- Bohigas-Mackay-Puigdomenech team of architects, who designed the overall plan of the Olympic Village.

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