Arounder Barcelona Virtual Tours

Arounder launched a new issue – Arounder Barcelona – with 20 panoramas of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Barcelona captured the world’s attention with the 1992 Olympics, but travelers visit today for its unparalleled architecture, boulevards full of people strolling on their evening walk, cozy restaurants serving tapas, noisy bars and the city’s historic love affair with art and the artists it has generated.
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Located on the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the shores of the Mediterranean, Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain in both size and population (1.5 million). It is also the country’s hippest town featuring the architecture of an eccentric genius named Gaudi, museums with collections by Picasso and Miró, and alive with vibrant, stylish and fun-loving people.

Visit Arounder Barcelona and tour the city: take in the Fundacio Joan Miro, one of Spain’s greatest artists; the famous Picasso Museum; Gaudi’s monumental yet unfinished cathedral Sagrada Familia; the historic Barri Gotic, Barcelona’s oldest quarter; and Gaudi’s spectacular Park Guell, among many others.

Barcelona Virtual Tours and Maps

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Anella Olimpica Spain > Barcelona The Olympic Ring on Montjuòc was the nerve centre of the 1992 Games and the most important of the city's four Olympic sites. The Ring showcases the refurbished Stadium, which hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games and the athletics competitions. It's located on an esplanade alongside the Olympic Stadium (Estadi OlÌmpic), near a series of sports facilities designed by Federico Correa, Joan Margarit, Alfonso Mil‡ and Carles Buixade. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Palau de la Música Catalana Spain > Barcelona A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it was built in 1908 by Doménech i Montaner as a home for the Orfeù Català, the Catalan Choral Society, as an alternative to Barcelona's more aristocratic Liceu opera house. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Port Olimpic - Peix Daurat Spain > Barcelona With over 40 restaurants and bars, the Olympic harbor is one of Barcelona's most popular all-day attractions where visitors can also practice water sports. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi
Park Güell Spain > Barcelona Parc Güell is where GaudÌ turned his hand to landscaping, with spectacular results. The park is laid out on a hill with fantastic views of the city. Huge ceramic benches, giant decorative lizards, ceramic mosaics and pavilions of contorted stone all combine into a brilliant swirl of the imagination. Photo: Gabriele Ruggeri	Barri Gùtic - Portal de Sant lu Spain > Barcelona The Barri Gotic, or Old Town, is Barcelona's oldest quarter. Streets in this district are very narrow and although there is little sunshine, it is one of the city's best places to stroll. In the Middle Ages, this neighborhood used to be encircled by the city walls. Big efforts are being made to prevent the deterioration of this quarter. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Port Vell - by night Spain > Barcelona Port Vell, the waterfront area of the city, has some of the best fish restaurants particularly in the old fisherman's quarter, Barceloneta. It's an interesting area to stroll around; as well as bars, a shopping mall and leisure center, there's the Maritime Museum, the largest aquarium in Europe and three recently cleaned up beaches. You can get a good view of the whole area from the observation deck on the Columbus Column or by taking one of the harbor cruises. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi
Sagrada Familia Spain > Barcelona The monumental church El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia (Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Family) is Antoni GaudÌ's most famous work and the finest example of his visionary genius. Gaudi undertook the task in 1883 on the site of a previous neo-Gothic project begun in 1882. Gaudi dedicated his life, in his later years to the exclusion of all else, to carrying out this ambitious undertaking, which due to his sudden death in 1926 was left unfinished. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Casa Batllò Spain > Barcelona The colorful Casa Batllò is an apartment building located at No. 43 Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona. It was totally renovated by GaudÌ from 1904 to 1906 on a commission from the textile industrialist Josep BatllÛ i Casaanovas. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Casa Batllò - hall Spain > Barcelona Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi
Casa Milá - La Pedrera Spain > Barcelona Casa Mila (Mila House) also known as La Pedrera (the quarry), is an apartment building situated at Passeig de Gràcia No. 92. It was built between 1906 and 1910 for the Mila family. As the last example of Gaudi's civil architecture, it is one of his finest and most ambitious creations, extraordinarily innovative in its functional, constructive, and ornamental aspects. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Fundació Joan Miró - drapery Spain > Barcelona This stop is a must if you don't want to miss one of Barcelona's foremost museums. The Fundació Joan Miró and the Centre for Contemporary Art Studies is one of Barcelona's foremost museums. It opened to the public in 1975 and, since then, has been one of the cornerstones of the city's cultural life. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Fundació Joan Miró- sculpture Spain > Barcelona Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi
Passeig de Colom Spain > Barcelona The Paseo de Colon Boulevard is ideal for an enjoyable stroll. Head to the Old Port, dominated by the tower of ColÛn, from the top of which you have a fantastic view of Barcelona and the great boulevard Paseo de Colon. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Plaça Reial Spain > Barcelona This is one of the most famous squares in Barcelona, where you can find many bars, restaurants, pubs and discos. Known in Catalan as Plaça Reial, this 19th century plaza is quite large and was once an ancient convent to Capuchin Monks. Today, the cloistered look is still well preserved and the square is adorned with palm trees and street lamps designed by Antoni Gaudi. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Plaça Reial Spain > Barcelona Tibidabo is where you will find the Church of the Sacred Heart with its beautiful bronze statue of Jesus Christ looking toward the Mediterranean with open arms. The church is a modernist temple of neo-gothic inspiration begun in 1902 by Enric Sagnier and which took 60 years to complete. Josep Miret Llopart was responsible for the monumental sculpture of the Sacred Heart on top of the church. Inside the white stone walls are three central mosaics. Completed in 1941, they depict three scenes in vivid color and provide the interior with a constant rainbow of wonderful light. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi
Forum 2004 - installation Spain > Barcelona The Forum 2004 in Barcelona offers a new and creative space to think and experiment on the principal cultural and social conflicts that the world has to confront in the 21st century. It is a meeting place for the citizens of the world and a space for dialogue. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Museu Picasso Spain > Barcelona Barcelona's Picasso Museum has the most important and exhaustive collections of the works of Pablo Picasso's youth and education, in particular the ones he did between 1895 and 1904. At the Museum, you can view Picasso's childhood sketches (some completed when he was only 9 years old) and see a few paintings from his Blue and Rose periods, which were spent in Barcelona. Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi	Tibidabo Parc de Collserola - panoramic view Spain > Barcelona Photo: Giuseppe Pennisi