08 Mar Our neighborhood: Les Corts
The hotel is located near Les Corts. For that reason, we inform to inform you about what to do or what to visit in this neighborhood:
-Camp Nou: is the most touristic and famous place of this area. It is located just three minutes walking from the hotel. You can do the Camp Nou Experience, where you can visit the museum and the whole stadium. Just near the stadium, there is also an ice ring.
-Concordia Square: it is a beautiful square with a lot of history located 20 minutes walking from the hotel. Before being added to Barcelona in 1897, Les Corts was an independent village with 7000 inhabitants and la Concordia was its center. There is a church called Remei and a modernistic house called “Can Deu”.
-Royal Palace of Pedralbes: it was the residence from the Spanish kings from 1919 to 1931 when they visit Barcelona. Nowadays is the venue of the Union for the Mediterranean and two museums: Decorative Arts and Ceramics.
-Pedralbes gardens: it is one of the biggest parks in Barcelona, with an extension of 7,28 hectares. In addition to the beautiful garden, we can find a trellis and the Hercules fountain, both from Gaudí and also, some sculptures from different periods, like the one of the queen Isabel II with his son Alfonso XII on her arms.
-Gardens, parks and rose garden of Cervantes: it is located 20 minutes walking from the hotel (7 minutes by car). A nice walk is recommended through this beautiful park, where the main attraction is its rose garden, with more or less 10,000 exemplars of 2000 species of rose. The best time to visit it is from spring until autumn.
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Madanis Team
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