{"id":52360,"date":"2015-05-13T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=52360"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:50:41","slug":"top-leisure-activities-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/top-leisure-activities-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Top leisure activities in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is something you can count on when visiting<\/strong> Barcelona<\/strong> is that you will have fun<\/strong>. From walking tours to sports events, to bar crawls and disco nights, Barcelona offers a variety of activities for all different tastes.<\/p>\n

To help you get the good times rolling, here are some of the top leisure activities <\/strong>in Barcelona:<\/p>\n

Parque de Atracciones Tibidabo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Amu1\"<\/a>Inaugurated in 1905 in the Tibidabo mountain<\/strong>, the Tibidabo Amusement Park started off with only a mirror house and a bowling alley. As time went by, different attractions like roller coasters and carousels were added to the park. With more than a full century of existence, Parque de Atracciones<\/strong> Tibidabo <\/strong>is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world.<\/p>\n

The price<\/strong> of a ticket is 28,50\u20ac, 10,30\u20ac for those who are shorter than 120cm and 10\u20ac for people over 60 years old. Kids under 90cm of height go in for free.<\/p>\n

You can go up to Tibidabo mountain by car, but not all the way to the amusement park. There is a paid parking area where you can leave your car. After that, you have the choice of going the rest of the way by funicular<\/strong> or Tibibus<\/strong>, which is free if you have a ticket to the park.<\/p>\n

Live music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barcelona<\/strong> is a city of artists<\/strong>. It\u2019s easy to find music erupting<\/strong> from different places all over the city. Be it a fifty year old person playing the accordion on the subway, a Chinese old man playing a strange yet beautiful instrument in the tunnels or an impromptu banjo-piano-trumpet concert happening in middle of Pla de la Seu, when you visit Barcelona you will have opportunity to listen to a variety of free live music.<\/p>\n

And if that wasn\u2019t enough, the city also hosts a series of music events like the Festival de Musica de Barcelona<\/strong> <\/a>in the gardens of Pedralbes, a festival that has received iconic artists as Bob Dylan<\/strong>, The Pet Shop Boys<\/strong> and Tom Jones<\/strong>; \u00a0Primavera Sound<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>which takes place in the Forum, gathering some of the hippest names of contemporary music like Artic Monkeys, Alt J, Belle & Sebastian;<\/strong> or the S\u00f3nar<\/a><\/strong> music, creativity and technology festival, which each year presents shows by new and exciting names like FKA Twigs<\/strong> and established bands like The Chemical Brothers<\/strong> and Duran Duran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"amu3\"<\/a>Parades and local traditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barcelona has an interesting number of festivals<\/strong> and traditions<\/strong> celebrating the local culture. Some of the most the most popular festivals are Fiesta Major de Gr\u00e0cia<\/strong>, Fiesta de La Merc\u00e8<\/strong> <\/a>and the Carnival<\/strong>, while some of the most interesting local traditions include the castellers, <\/strong>the gegants <\/strong>and the correfocs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If there is something you can count on when visiting Barcelona is that you will have fun. From walking tours to sports events, to bar crawls and disco nights, Barcelona offers a variety of activities for all different tastes. To help you get the good times rolling, here are some of the top leisure activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":52362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4350],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109560,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52360\/revisions\/109560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}