From Rentabike to the Parque Güell, through the Gràcia Quarter

Duration from 30 minutes to 1,5 hour

• Breakfast in Carrer Venus, at Italian Café Bicioci, this place breathes the history of the great names and moments of cycling.

Café Bicioci in carrer Venus

                                                

• The Plaça del “Gato Pérez” is named after one of the great names of the Rumba Catalana, the origins of which are to be found in the fifties in the local gipsy community.
• Plaça del Raspall, the place where the local gipsy community used to gather;

Plaça del Raspall

                                               

• The chimney in the Carrer de Siracusa is a remnant of the old textile plant “Vapor Nou”.
• In the Carrer de Milà i Fontanals take a vermouth in the old Bodega Marin.
• In the Carrer Puigmartí buy some fruit or some pastry at the colorful Abacería market (you can take the bike with you).
• Make a stop at the popular Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia, with the old town hall and the bell tower.

Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia

                                          

• Eat some tapas at "Sol Soler" at the Plaça del Sol, or at “Pepa Tomate” on the Plaça de la Revolució.
• Make a stroll through the Carrer de Verdi, one of the liveliest streets of Gràcia, full of boutiques, restaurants and tapas bars.

Carrer de Verdi

                                        

• On the Plaça del Diamant you will find the accesses to the anti air strike shelters of the Spanish Civil War. The sculpture is an  homage to the famous novel “La Plaça del Diamant”, by Mercedes Rodoreda. The texts on the accesses to the shelters are quotes from the book.
• Carrer Asturies is a very animated commercial street, full of little boutiques and ecologic food shops.
• The Plaça de la Virreina is one of the nicest squares of Barcelona, with the church of San Juan Bautista. On Sundays people gather here to dance swing.

Plaça de la Virreina

                                      

• Take a beer at the Café Flandes on the Plaça de Rovira i Trias, the bronze sitting on the bench is Antoni Rovira i Trias, promoter of the Plan Cerdà which shaped the Eixample.

Plaça de Rovira i Trias

                                     

• Now there remains no other option than to go uphill to get at Parque Güell, which we will do using Carrer Rabassa and Carrer Cardener. We park the bikes at the designated places.

Amazing view of the city in Parque Güell