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ARC DE TRIOMF:The Arc de Triomphe is a monument located at the confluence of the Paseo the Lluís Companys, the Paseo de San Juan and the Ronda de San Pedro, in the city of Barcelona. It was designed by the architect José Vilaseca as the main entrance to the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888.

PARK GUELL:Park Güell is a public park with gardens and architectural elements located in the upper part of the city of Barcelona. It is located on the southern slope of Mount Carmel, which belongs to the foothills of the Collserola mountain range; in the northern face is the park of Carmel.

Palau De La Música:The construction of the Palau de la Música Catalana was the product of the persistence of two Catalan musicians, Amadeu Vives and Lluís Millet, founders of Orfeo Català, a choral society of vital importance in Catalonia at the end of the 19th century and that it agglutinated the Catalan national sentiment.

SAGRADA FAMILIA:  The Sagrada Familia On this day, as today in 1882, the works of the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia began in Barcelona. The original neo-Gothic project was by the diocesan architect Francisco de Paula del Villar, but in 1883 Antoni Gaudí was entrusted with the continuation of the works. Gaudí finished the crypt initiated by his predecessor but proposed a new monumental project that abandoned the neo-Gothic style for another more personal and innovative modernist inspiration.

Maremagnum:Maremagnum is the result of the transformation and recovery of the Barcelona coastline that began at the end of the 1980s, during  the 1992 Olympic Games.The Old Port dock in Spain was used for recreational facilities ,with the IMAX panoramic cinema,the Aquarium and the Maremagnum shopping center,all of them inaugurated in 1995.3.

Les Rambles: Also called Las Ramblas (Catalan Les Rambles), it is an emblematic promenade of the city of Barcelona that runs between Plaça de Catalunya (in Catalan, Plaça de Catalunya), the nerve center of the city, and the old port.

Montjuic:The traditional attribution of the etymology of Montjuich is that of "Mount of the Jews", supposedly of the medieval Catalan, motivated by the existence, confirmed by the documents and the archeology, of a Jewish cemetery in the mountain. It also contemplates the possibility that this place name comes from the Latin form Mons Iovis, that is, Mount of Jupiter, name mentioned by Pomponio Mela in his work choreography.

Hospital de Bellvitge:The University Hospital of Bellvitge is located in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, in the south of Barcelona. It has practically all of the medical and surgical specialties, except paediatrics and obstetrics. It develops activities in the field of assistance, research and teaching.

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