Discover Barcelona from a different point of view on this private bike tour with a multilingual guide. This is an alternative and original way to enjoy Barcelona with your friends or family compares to any traditional bike tour. It’s a unique occasion to visit the city as a local discovering work of arts that are out of the traditional tourist bike tours.
Barcelona is a very beautiful and bike friendly city with more than a 150 km of cycle lanes. The city’s mild and sunny climate allow for all-year-long outdoor activities. This guided bike tour stick follows the bike lanes and pedestrian streets avoiding traffic wherever possible and always follows the flattest ground. The tour is designed for all ages to enjoy and stops are frequent and every hundred meters, to discuss the sights or have a drink. Enjoy a relaxed and informative way to discover the beautiful city of Barcelona.
You will ride from your meeting point through the Gothic Quarter where you can admire the metropolitan Roman gate and wall of the old city, the Cathedral of Barcelona toward Plaza S. Isidre Nonell. Once in the square you will perceive what you are about to watch: an enormous kiss capable of illuminating the whole street. It is a photo-mosaic mural called “The world begins with every kiss” by J. Fontcuberta.
This masterpiece is composed by a daily life small fragments. Then crossing the narrow street of the Gothic Quarter you will reach Plaza S. Jaume the political and administrative heart of the city, from here you can easily ride to the nearest lovely little Plaza S. Miquel where stand the contemporary Monumento a los Castellers realized by A. Llena i Font.
Riding down along carrer Ferran you will get inside Plaza Real with its characteristic lanterns designed by the Catalan Modernist architect Antoni Gaudi, on the plaza there are a large number of restaurants and some of the city’s most famous nightclubs including Karma, Jamboree and the Sidecar. Then, crossing the Raval neighborhood via carrer S. Pau where it is the old Marsella bar, the first bar in Barcelona frequented by Dalí, Picasso, Gaudí, Hemingway, and many other famous artists, you will ride towards the Rambla of Raval to admire the greatest sculpture of F. Botero El Gato afterward you will reach the old Modernist S. Antoni Market; you will ride till Plaza Universitat where in the its north-western side lies the New-Gothic main campus.
The plaza is arguably one of the most common gathering-places for demonstrations in the city, as well as offering a pedestrian area very popular between the skaters and it is also surrounded by a number of shops and restaurants. From here, via carrer Tallers, a street which with its over 700 years of history has become a meeting point for the rebels misunderstood youth, it is the “underground “ heart of Barcelona; before coming back in the meeting point you will have a break tasting a good glass of wine in an atelier of the new young bohemian artist of the city (if the atelier it is available ).
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