Festa Major de Gracia!

Festa Major de Gracia

Casa Vincens

The biggest and the most popular event of the year is Festa Major de Gracia! The Festa Major de Gracia takes place from 15th to 21st of August and all city and the neighborhood will turn into a wonderful fairy tale. Local people are competing in street decorations and they take this very seriously, you will be immersed oeuvre! Besides the street decoration there are also many parties, live music concerts, human towers, parades and fireworks, Festa Major de Gracia is for sure something is Barcelona that is really worth´s to see! There are a lot of wonderful places in Gracia, it would be better for you to read about them and of course visit it! Gracia is famous for its beautiful, marvelous sunny squares, bars, cafes, restaurants and terraces, little streets with little traffic and boutique shops. As well you may know Gracia was like an independent town until the end of the 19th century. The most of the locals from this district are very proud of their roots and even reply they are from Gracia, even not from Barcelona. Gracia district is a very diverse, it has a high ethnic population and despite of the trendy nature, it is also a very traditional district with its

own history and a huge amount of elderly people, this diversity create wonderful atmosphere of looking how its inhabitants walk around the streets. Ones of the most crowded and lively places of the Gracia are the squares. Let´s go to some of them! If do you look for some place where to go to it- Gracia’s districts are the perfect places! It is heaps of restaurants and cafes. In these lovely restaurants and cafes you can have a dinner, drink or whatever you want. Let’s start from the first square Virreina Square, which is located near the compelling Sant Joan church. Virreina Square has 3 terraces located on this square and they are always cowded. In the centre of the Virreina Square, there were children playing with the ancient waterpump. Next is the Diamant Square, this place is not so crowded as the Virreina Squere, there was only one terrace, Diamant restaurant. The food there is really good, but unfortunately not cheap. You 100 percent must Placa Del Sol.  Placa Del Sol is one of the favorites of the locals! The atmosphere was there marvelous and you can even take in nightclubs on this square.  There you could find the Gaudi’s masterpiece of in the district Gracia, also known Casa Vincens, a house built in 1888. Casa Vincens is the building that was the important one of his creature and it is a family residence. One more important thing about the Casa Vincens – it is for sale ! Unfortunately, people can’t visit this place, but it is definitely worth a visit! There you will find a luxury five-star hotel, named Casa Fuster, where one night stars about €250. Pretty good! Is not it? It is the modernism’s splendid masterpiece and it is ranked as the most expensive buildings ever made in Barcelona.

Placa Del Sol

If you adore cooking with ultimate fresh ingredients, you have to go to a market like Mercat de la Llibertat. Mercat de la Llibertat is a big inside market, there you will find a huge variety of fresh food like a bread, fish, meat, vegetables and fruit. It is a busy, but cozy atmosphere in Mercat de la Llibertat, when the local people of Gracia are doing their daily shopping. And of course, not to miss, one of the most greatest sights of Barcelona that is located in Gracia: Parc Guell. Seems like everybody know extensive garden complex with marvelous architectural elements of Gaudi? The park is a perfect place to hang around and there is a beautiful view over the city of Barcelona from the top of the hill. Now read really attentively because it will help you! There is some special road to Parc Guell where you don´t have to climb up hill. At this special pace are escalators. When you are up, you just have to ask the locals where Parc Guell is! Good luck! Have fun!