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Metro (W ) and 20 Minutos
( W ), both with useful local
listings, are given away free in the city on
weekday mornings. For wall-to-wall coverage
of sport (for which, in Barcelona, read FC
Barcelona), buy the specialist dailies Mundo
Deportivo ( W
/fcbarcelona) or Sport ( W ).
The two most useful weekly city listings
publications are Guia del Ocio (Wwww
), a small paperback-
book-sized magazine (in Spanish), and the
newer, magazine-format Time Out Barcelona
( Wwww.timeout.cat; in Catalan), both
available at kiosks all over the city.
English-language
publications
English-language publications include
Catalonia Today (W www.cataloniatoday
.cat), a weekly newspaper about the city and
region. Barcelona Metropolitan (W www
) is a free
monthly magazine for English-speakers living
in Barcelona, available from hotels, bars and
other outlets; or there’s b-guided ( Wwww
), a painfully cool quarterly
style magazine on sale at newsagents.
There’s also the free monthly Barcelona
Connect (W ,
containing an idiosyncratic mixture of news,
views, reviews and classified ads.
Television
In Catalunya you can pick up two national
TV channels, TVE1 and TVE2 (La 2), a
couple of Catalan-language channels, TV3
and Canal 33, and the private Antena 3,
Cuatro (ie, Four), Tele 5 and La Sexta (The
Sixth) channels. In Barcelona you can also
get the city-run Barcelona TV (W www
, which is useful for infor-
mation about local events, and news
programmes on the otherwise subscriber-
only Digital Plus channel. TVs in most
pensions and small hotels tend to offer these
stations, with cable and satellite channels
available in higher-rated hotels.
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Addresses
Addresses are written as: c/Picasso 2, 4° –
which means Picasso street ( carrer)
number two, fourth floor. You may also see
esquerra, meaning “left-hand” (apartment
or office); dreta is right; centro centre.
C/Picasso s/n means the building has no
number (sense numero ). In the gridded
streets of the Eixample, building numbers
run from south to north (ie lower numbers
at the Plaça de Catalunya end) and from
west to east (lower numbers at Plaça
d’Espanya).
The main address abbreviations used in
Barcelona (and this book) are: Avgda. (for
Avinguda, avenue); c/ (for Carrer, street); Pg.
(for Passeig, more a boulevard than a street);
Bxda. (for Baixada, alley); Ptge. (for
Passatge, passage); and Pl. (for Plaça,
square).
Admission charges
Admission charges for all attractions vary
between €3 and €12, though most museums
and galleries cost around €5 or €6. Many
offer free admission on the first Sunday of
every month, and most museums are free on
the saints’ days of February 12, April 23 and
September 24. There’s usually a reduction or
free entrance if you show a student, youth or
senior citizen card. Several discount cards
are also available (see p.31), that give heavily
reduced admission to Barcelona’s museums
and galleries – worth considering if you’re
planning to see everything that the city has
to offer.
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