The Stunning Magic Fountain at Placa de Espanya in Barcelona, Spain

The Magic Fountain at Placa de Espanya in Barcelona is a fantastic spectacle to behold. The combination of lights, water fountains and music produces a magical performance, created over 80 years ago for the Great Universal Exhibition in 1929.

Designed by Carles Buigas and built by nearly 3000 workers in a year, this was a wonderful sight when it gave its first performance, and still is today.

The fountains perform throughout the year, with more shows in the summer months, and is free to watch anywhere in Placa de Espanya or along Avinguda Maria Cristina leading up to the Palau Nacional.

Barcelona Apartments close to The Magic Fountain

Loving Barcelona Apartments has several apartments close by, also conveniently located to the Fira for conference exhibitions such as the mobile phone industries 3G fair.


The Fuentes Barcelona apartment is decorated beautifully and has 3 bedrooms, which can sleep up to 6 people comfortably. There is air-conditioning and fast internet for free. Only a few blocks from the The Magic Fountain and the buzzing area around Placa de Espanya, it's a fabulous location to spend your stay in a Barcelona apartment.



The Parallel Barcelona apartment is ideal for a couple or small family, being a beautifully refurbished 1 bedroom apartment justa short walk away from The Magic Fountain and the Fira. Offering air-conditioning and fast free internet this is a comfortable apartment. Also, it is not far from La Rambla which is Barcelona's main pedestrian boulevard.

Staying near to La Sagrada Familia in a Barcelona Apartment.

When visitors to a Barcelona apartment are choosing an area to stay in, they often will decide to stay in a Barcelona apartment anywhere close to La Rambla, however just a 20 minute walk from there you will find La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's iconic church and a residential area with hidden authentic Barcelona gems.

The area Sagrada Familia lies in the Barcelona district of Eixample. Constructed in the late 1800's and early 1900's to expand the city outside of the old medieval area, it is laid out in a grid of octagonal block with beautiful mansion blocks, many in the Gaudi-esque style.

The are referred to as Sagrada Familia is about a 20 minute walk to the Placa de Catalunya, considered to be the centre of Barcelona, or just a few stops on the Metro.

At first glance the area looks purely residential but it does have some great areas of restaurants and bars that are pretty much tourist free. Avinguda de Gaudi is a pedastrianised street, leading diagionally away from the small park in front of the cathedral. It has a very popular pizza restaurant, trendy cocktail bars and the more traditionanal catalan food restaurants. It's a lively and buzzy area popular with all age ranges.

When staying in a self-catering Barcelona apartment in this area you can buy fresh food from the Mercat Sagrada Familia which is brimming with healthy local produce, including an array of locally caught fresh fish.

Barcelona Apartments in the Area Sagrada Familia
Loving Barcelona Apartments offers some beautiful apartments of a luxury standard in the area around SagradaFamilia, which is a great base for any trip to Barcelona. The Sagrada building has 12 luxury apartments, one with an outside terrace. The apartments are spaciaous and modern in design and ideal for larger family groups that need to sptread over several apartments. The Rossellon building has 11 Barcelona apartments all spacious and bright, a recent addition to Loving Barcelona Apartments portfolio, these are offered at a great value price. Also in this area is the Gaudi Barcelona apartment, a spacious 3 bedroom apartment, with a great balcony terrace for watching the world go by in the streets below.

Planning Accommodation for a Stag or Hen in Barcelona

So are you are best man or chief bridesmaid lumbered with organising a Stag or Hen trip to Barcelona? Trying to find Barcelona accommodation suitable and flexible for Stag or Hen big groups?
Before you even think of where to go and what to do you need to find the best Barcelona accommodation for your Stag or Hen.
Things to consider are:

• You need somewhere that is central to the bars, restaurants and places you will want to go, typically around the La Rambla or El Borne area.


• You need to accommodate all the people in your Stag or Hen group.


• You need all the apartments in one building so you are not spread out around the city.


• You need to think about whether you want to make it as cheap as possible by sharing double beds and using sofa-beds in lounges, or indulging a little by not sharing and not using sofa beds.


• You need to think about your budget, such as a simple open plan studio that will sleep 5, or a luxuriously furnished 4 bedroom with a terrace.


• You need a degree of flexibility as inevitably people will drop out of or be added to your Stag or Hen big group.

Well we can help solve your problems with our Barcelona Accommodation Big Group Booking Tool. It's a unique tool designed to solve all of your Barcelona Stag Accommodation and Barcelona Hen Accommodation problems.

Simply enter your dates, the number of nights you wish to stay, and the total number fo people in your big group and we will show you over 25 buildings in central Barcelona where we have many apartments in the same building, and how much it will cost to accommodate you all, and the price per person per night. You can even configure your trip according to whether you want to share double beds (the Hens normally do, the Stags normally a little reluctant!) and whether you want to sleep on sofa beds or not (the Stags normally do, the Hens normally a little reluctant!)

You can then further allocate or deallocate people into or out of your Stag or Hen accommodation apartments according to who may want to be with whom, or who is best kept apart.

For each building you can click on the apartment names to see photos, honest descriptions, fearures and even guest ratings and comments about each apartment, as well as a Google map to locate it.

So once you have a great selection you then may need everyone to help choose the ones that you want, and agree to the price of your Stag or Hen Barcelona accommodation. Well that is easy too. Simply add the apartments you are interested in into your 'My List' then when they are all in your 'My List' simpy enter your email and your fellow Stags or Hens email addresses and the list will automatically be sent to them for them to check out the details.

Narrowed it down but still not ready to commit? No problem, we can reserve the Stag or Hen Barcelona Accommodation for you without obligation until midnight the next day, during that time you can sort out getting payments for deposits from everyone, but don't worry you only need to pay the balance on arrival.

When everyone is happy with your selection simply book online, or call us and we will take your booking by phone. If you need any further information or advice in Stag or Hen Accommodation in Barcelona you can simply call us and our experts will answer all your questions, as we have all been there and done it ourselves!

Strolling Down La Rambla, Barcelona

A favourite past-time is strolling down La Rambla from Placa de Catalunya to the column mounted by the statue of Columbus at Port Vell.

La Rambla is the Spanish name given to a street that was made to channel storm rains to the sea. La Rambla in Barcelona is actually several joined up streets, so in fact it is also sometimes referred to Las Ramblas, the plural of La Rambla, or in Catalan, Les Rambles. The Spanish word is derived from the 'ramla' which in Arabic means sandy riverbed.

Walking down from Placa de Catalunya to Port Vell, the names of the streets are:

• Rambla de Canaletes,
• Rambla dels Estudis,
• Rambla de Sant Josep,
• Rambla dels Caputxins,
• Rambla de Santa Monica.

To walk the whole length, at a fast pace, can take about 15 minutes, but practically a stroll down La Rambla can take a good half hour, and then if you stop for a few cervesas (beer) along the way then it can be a very pleasant few hours.As you walk along there are several sections of groups of things to see, but dotted all along are kiosks selling newspapers and magazines, some rather more than just 'saucy'.

You'll see:

• The flower stalls, selling unusual and beautiful blooms.
• The pet stalls, selling gerbils, chickens and even dogs.
• The street performers, although some may dispute whether dressing up and standing still on a box is a performance.
• The obligatory 'con' artists, and they are not strangers standing around watching encouraging you to bet on what pea the cup is under. They are all in on the scam, so don't really expect to win anything!
• The genuine and talented artists selling their paintings, that usually are painted in nearby studios.
• The craft stalls selling colourful trinkets.

Add to that along the way groups of young men and women trawling the bars for their stags or hens, a few prostitutes hanging around the sex shops, mingling with all manner of human life from the middle age affluent couples coming out of the Liceu Opera House, to the Bohemian artists sipping a cafe con leche in the cafes.

If it is your first time in Barcelona, then staying on La Rambla, or close to it, is a great choice.

Loving Barcelona Apartments have lots of Barcelona accommodation for rent along or near La Rambla. It's so easy to find them too, simply select the location 'La Rambla'on the apartments list and you can see a great selection of apartments, add your dates and we will also show you the all inclusive price and which apartments are available.

Finding Barcelona Apartment Accommodation

Looking for apartments in Barcelona? Need Barcelona accommodation? When we were looking to rent an apartment in Barcelona, many years ago, the websites around were pretty dreadful. Only a few postage stamp photos, a few lines of description, and no published pricing or availability, and the apartments themselves seemed pretty shabby.

For these reasons we created Loving Barcelona Apartments at http://www.lovingbarcelona.com/.

With our easy-to-use website and advanced unique features you will quickly and simply find your perfect apartment in Barcelona. On our website you can compare prices and features and see large and lots of photos with real honest descriptions.

Simply enter your dates and we show all of our available apartments with the all-inclusive price.

Here are just some of our more advanced features:

• My List.
  To create your own list of favourites simply check an apartment when you like it, and it will be added to ''My List''. You can easily view the list and compare features and prices, and email the list to yourself or your friends.
  
  
• Big Group Booking Tool.
  Coming to Barcelona with a big group of people? Our unique Big Group Booking Tool will solve all of your problems. Enter your dates and number of people, and we will show you all of our buildings with multiple Barcelona apartments, allocate all of your group into apartments and show you the total price in any currency, and the price per person per night. You can even tell us whether you want to use sofa beds, or if people in your group are happy to share beds.
  
  
• Best Price Calender.
  Ever booked a flight on easyJet using their calendar to see when the cheapest flights are? Well if you are flexible with your dates we can show you the cheapest price per person you can stay for, for every day of the month.
  
  

..and we are adding new features all of the time. And if all those features are too daunting for you, simply give us a call and with our experience and knowledge of Barcelona and our apartments we will help you find the right one for you!