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Las Ramblas: The Umbrella Shop Dragon
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    • easyoar
  • By easyoar on November 28, 2004
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    • The Umbrella Shop Dragon - Barcelona
    The Umbrella Shop Dragon
    by easyoar
    When you've walked halfway along the Ramblas, you will come to the Placa de la Boqueria where there is the Miro mosaic in the pavement. At this point, look at the buildings on the side of the road.

    One of these buildings used to be an umbrella shop, and the owner of the time had some very ornate decoration put up on the outside of the building in an art deco style. The most impressive part is the dragon with a fan, dangling an umbrella. It's difficult to explain, but the picture should be able to do this!

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  • Address: Placa de la Boqueria - Las Ramblas
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    Las Ramblas: All back alleys lead to....Las Ramblas.
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  • Updated By surferob on July 18, 2007
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    • This is in January, I can't imagine it in summer! - Barcelona
    This is in January, I can't
    imagine it in summer!
    by surferob
    The main artery of Barcelona isn't one that anyone needs to tell you to go and see. If you're in town you'll eventually wind up there one way or the other. So far as what it's good for, I'd say really just the occasional stroll to soak in the most packed-with-life part of town. Yes, it's very touristy, of course. Yes, some of the "performance art" is a little silly. (I just never quite got the facscination with those guys who paint themselves silver and stand motionless, but to each his own, right?) But on the positive side it's a very pretty street, tree-lined and with surprisingly little motorized traffic. And it's capped at either end with a lovely and prominent plaza; Placa Catalunya to the north and Colombus to the south, where you also run into the bustling main port. You may also find it useful as a place to buy anything and everything you need or want, eat an overpriced meal when you're desperate and hungry, catch a metro train, or as a meeting place to hook up with friends or other travelers. And of course there's always the popular pasttime of 'people watching'.

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  • Address: Las Ramblas, center of old Barcelona.
  • Directions: You can't miss it.
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    Las Ramblas: Las Ramblas
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  • Updated By easyoar on November 28, 2004
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    • Las Ramblas - Barcelona
    Las Ramblas
    by easyoar
    Las Ramblas is a very long pedestrianised walk that always has people walking along. The name comes from the Arabic word 'Ramla' which means a dried up river bed of a river that only flows for part of the year. Apparently one such river used to follow this route.

    The Ramblas is actually split up into 5 parts and each has a distictively different feel as you walk down the whole of the Ramblas. One part has flowers for sale, another has pets, there are mime artists along another part. All the way along there are many kiosks selling sweets and newspapers etc.

    The phot attached shows the Ramblas near the Placa de Catalunya, in a typically busy state. It was taken just before Christmas, hence the decorations in the trees.

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    Las Ramblas: Want to take a stroll?
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  • By IIGUANA on January 31, 2005
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    • Rambla de las Flores - Barcelona
    Rambla de las Flores
    by IIGUANA
    The Ramblas. Barcelona's most well known pedestrian streets. I don't know what they have, but walking along them, watching the people, the flowers, the books, the human statues, the painters... everything is worth it. Sitting down to take a coffee, overlooking the Mirador de Colon, watching the spaniards, excuse me, the catalunyans go by, is definately an afternoon's delight.

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    Las Ramblas: Plaza de Catalunya
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  • By Kuznetsov_Sergey on April 27, 2006
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    • Barcelona - Plaza de Catalunya - Barcelona
    Barcelona - Plaza de Catalunya
    by Kuznetsov_Sergey
    The logical finish of the parkway Las Ramblas is the square of Catalunia. It is filled by people almost as well as the parkway. There are two huge fountains a little on an eminence in an environment of white marble sculptures. A little below there is one more fountain with a figure of the graceful woman. Some sculptural groups of a black stone are installed on pedestals. There are a lot of pigeons who are fed with enthusiasm with local residents and tourists at the square.

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    Las Ramblas: CASA FIGUERAS
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  • By Maria_75 on October 1, 2004
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    • Las Ramblas - Barcelona
    by Maria_75
    As you walk along Las Ramblas, make a stop and look at this magnificent shop. Today it is a bakery and pastryshop, last restored in the 1980's after it was nearly faced with demolition.

    In the early twentieth century it was remodeled in the modernista style, by it's original owner Jaume Figueras.

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    Las Ramblas: Strange and Fun!
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  • By emilybcn on April 20, 2005
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    • my mom with some Dali inspired street performers - Barcelona
    my mom with some Dali inspired
    street performers
    by emilybcn
    Aside from Gaudi's architecture the Ramblas is probably one of the best known tourist areas in the city. It is sort of a paradox because it combines a lot of what Barcelona is like with a lot of tourists and high prices. Go and enjoy the street performers, la boqueria, the liceu opera house, flowerbooths, petbooths, and street drawings. Realize that you should be especially careful with your belongings, and that a beer here will cost you much more than in other areas. Las ramblas is also withing walking distance to many other attractions, passeig de gracia, shopping on portal d'angel and el barri gotico.

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  • Address: ramblas, metro catalunya, or liceu line 3/green
  • Directions: metro passeig de gracia-2/purple, liceu, catalunya-3/green
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    Las Ramblas: Las Ramblas
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  • By andrea.d on February 6, 2005
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    • Las Ramblas - Barcelona
    by andrea.d
    La Rambla or Las Ramblas is the main street in Barcelona. As I had only one day in Barcelona, it was already a night when i walked down this amazin street. The thing that impressed me the most was that the street was full of smiling people, i have such a possitive memory!
    Also there were street performers everywhere, so here's one pic!

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    Las Ramblas: Las Ramblas -- A circus of humanity
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  • By Misha_abq on May 31, 2007
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    • The man on his elephant - Barcelona
    The man on his elephant
    by Misha_abq
    This is not a sleepy town, unless you happen to walk the streets at four o’clock in the morning. No, the town seems to pick up its pace somewhere around eight o’clock at night, that is when the real day just begins. Las Ramblas fills with a kaleidoscope of street performers—each one better than the last. The best I’ve seen on the continent with whimsical costumes and imaginative shticks. Although, you’ll have to wait until Saturday night to see the guy on the toilet—he’ll draw a crowd of fifty and not accept anything less than a euro to move.

  • Directions: Down the center of town--a wide walkway with kiosks and street performers.
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    Las Ramblas: Do the stroll
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  • By PierreZA on September 13, 2008
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    • La Ramblas - Barcelona
    La Ramblas
    by PierreZA, 1 more photos
    This is most probably one of the most famous boulevards in the world. It is about a mile long – and I wonder if it ever sleeps.
    It is actually lined with majestic and beautiful buildings. Start walking the Rambla from Plaça de Catalunya, and end at the Columbus Monument.
    Along the way there are many distractions in the form of street artists, shops, markets, restaurants, souvenir shops, flower stalls etc.
    There is a lot to see and do, so I am sure you will return to stroll down La Rambla more than once.
    It is one of those things you have to experience while in Barcelona.

  • Directions: From Plaça de Catalunya to the Columbus Monument
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