Destination Guides

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Spanish Language Workshops
There are excellent opportunities to improve students’ language skills through sessions with native Spanish speakers. Sessions will be adapted to the ability of your students which are led by highly qualified language teachers.

Sightseeing Tours of Barcelona
The tour is an excellent introduction to the city and will typically visit places such as Sagrada Familia and other Gaudi landmarks. The Olympic Port, Montjuic and the old city. Tours are available on a variety of themes including the Genius of Gaudi, Historic city tour, or they can be tailored to your requirement.

Sagrada Familia
Barcelona’s most iconic landmark, Sagrada Familia represent Gaudi’s dedication to building a church with precise symbolic meaning. The irony is that this masterpiece was unfinished by the time he died in 1926 and is still unfinished today. The crypt museum tells the story of the building and how it evolved.

Nou Camp Football Stadium – FC Barcelona
Trophies, documents, photographs and audio-visual shows trace the history of one of the greatest clubs in the world. You can view the stadium from the grandstand.

Port Vell
Port Vell is the oldest part of the Port of Barcelona which has been reinvented to become a retail and leisure complex. Here the students can visit the Maremagnum, the Aquarium, the Maritime Museum, take a short boat cruise around the harbour or simply enjoy the time in the many shops or eateries.

Tapas Tasting
Enjoy a typical Spanish evening tasting these small dishes designed for sharing and give the students an authentic dining experience.

Flamenco Show
Although not traditionally famed for its Flamenco, Barcelona does still offer a range of shows and workshops to demonstrate this Spanish art form. The Flamenco Show can be combined with a workshop with the stars of the show which is ideal for dance or drama students.

Poble Espanyol
The Poble Espanyol or the Spanish Village, is an open-air museum compromising full-scale replicas of 117 buildings from different parts of Spain, with streets, houses, parks, theatres, schools, restaurants and artisan workshops. A great place for students to practice their language skills.

 

ART & DESIGN

Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

Opened in 1995, the MACBA seeks to bring contemporary art to a wider audience through its collection. MACBA invites visitors to explore current social, economic and political dynamics through modern and contemporary art.

Joan Miro Foundation
The foundation houses the permanent exhibitions of more than 217 paintings, 8000 drawings 178 sculptures, tapestries and all graphics by Joan Miro. White walls, rustic tile floors and an elegant system of roof arches make this one of the world’s greatest museum buildings.

Picasso Museum
The newly renovated Picasso Museum is vital for understanding the formative years of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The genius of the young artist is revealed through more than 4,000 works that make up the permanent collection. However, the Picasso Museum also reveals his relationship with Barcelona, an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, and continued until his death.

Dali Theatre Museum
This museum contains the broadest range of works spanning the artistic career of Salvador Dali, from his earliest artistic experiences and his creation within the Surrealist movement down to the works of the last years of his life.

Park Guell
This park is based on the design of garden cities in England and a classic representation of Gaudi’s ideas. At the centre is the Great Esplanade with a bench covered in some of the finest examples of trencadis (broken mosaic work) mostly by Gaudi’s overshadowed assistant Josep Maria Jujol.

Guel Palace
Built by Antony Gaudi for his patron Count Guell, the interior of this townhouse boasts an extraordinary richness in details. It is one of the first buildings that showed the originality of ideas. Only guided tours are available here.

Concert Hall
“The Palace of Catalan Music”, is an iconic modernist architecture in downtown Barcelona. Built between 1905 and 1908 by the greatest architect Lluis Domenech I Montaner, the Palace is an architectural jewel of Catalonia and essential part of any visit to the city.