PARC DE LA CIUTADELLA
passeig Picasso, 21
This station is behind this wonderful park (forthe main entrance: metro L1 Arc de Triomf). It was designed by Josep Fontserè in 1872, with gardens and boulevards rich of sculptures and monuments, some of them emblematic: la Senyoreta del paraigua de Joan Roig, El desconsol de Josep Limona or la cascada monumental de Fontserè. Recently it has been created an playful space for families with children between 0 and 5 years, where workshops and weekly activities are organized.
 EL CASTELL DELS TRES DRAGONS
Parc de la Ciutadella. Passeig Picasso, s/nº
www.bcn.cat/museuciencies
This beautiful modernist building designed by Lluís Domènech i Muntaner was a bar-restaurant for the Exhibition of 1888 and until 2010 houses the Museum of zoology. The building will house the Nature laboratory, where the Geology and Zoology collection will be put together, and also a documentation centre and specialized library.
 UMBRACLE
Parc de la Ciutadella
passeig de Picasso, s/nº
This building was also built for the Expo of 1888, and was used as a conference hall. Later on, the construction was refurbished in order to create an “umbraculum” (a large conservatory structure) with all sorts of trees and plants, in their great majority tropical.
 ZOO OF BARCELONA
Parc de la Ciutadella
passeig de Picasso, s/nº
Phone 902 457 545
www.zoobarcelona.cat
The zoo of Barcelona was inaugurated in 1892 and has one of Europe’s most important collections. Between 1996 and 2003 the zoo was home to Copito de Nieve (Snowflake) the only albino gorilla known and a symbol of the city. Currently the zoo is undergoing reforms that will be finished in 2015. This includes the construction of a maritime zoo, near the parc del Fòrum.
 CHOCOLATE MUSEUM
carrer Comerç, 36
Phone 932 687 878
www.museuxocolata.cat
This museum belong to the Organization of confetionery of Barcelona. It opened in the year 2000, you will find the history of chocolate and of the best pastry cooks and also wonderful chocolate sculptur…
 PHOTOGRAFIC ARCHIVE OF BARCELONA
plaça de Pons i Clerch, 2, 2ª
Phone 932 563 420
http://arxiufotografic.bcn.cat/es
Created in 1931 and located in the old Convent of Sant Augustí, it has more than two millions of photos from the year 1839 unitl the present day, whose main subject is the city of Barcelona. You can see temporary exhibitions.
 LA PUNTUAL THEATER
carrer d’Allada Vermell, 15
Phone 639 305 353
www.lapuntual.info
The programme planning offers spectacles with puppets and the shadow play.
 BLUEPROJECT FOUNDATION
carrer de la Princesa, 57
Phone 931 824 371
http://blueprojectfoundation.org/es
A wide center of contemporary and modern art. Beyond collective and personal exhibition, you will find distinctive shows of music, dance and … café Blueproject to health and delicious plates.
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