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From habitat apartments , this week, we recommend you our selection of places not so typical !!

Wax museum Barcelona

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Barcelona Wax Museum, the Museo de Cera de Barcelona in a rather old-fashioned 19th C. building. The founder of the museum, Enrique Alarcón, a great cineast. There are over 360 waxworks of personalities from different periods and walks of life. They are exhibited in different settings with projections and audio-visual effects. Scientists and artists from the turn of the century are gathered together in a coffee-house atmosphere. As extra there is a Gift shop
Restaurant or food service for eating a good meal.

Opening times:

Monday to Friday: 10,00 – 13.30 & 16.00 – 19.30
Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays: 11.00 – 14.00 & 16.30 – 20.30
Summer period : 10.00 – 22.00

Cost
Adult             6.65
Senior            3.75
Child 11 & under     3.75
Child 4   & under    Free

Hard Rock cafe Barcelona

Close to the famous Las Ramblas in the Plaza Cataluña, is the Hard Rock cafe for delicious food and see such memorabilia as: A snakeskin jacket worn by Keith Richards, Precision 4-string bass guitar used by The Sex Pistols, Keith Richards' custom Newman 5 -string Teak guitar, Aerosmith Joe Perry's red B.C. Rich Bitch guitar custom, Jimi Hendrix Dobro 12-string electric steel guitar and a Custom made Toru Telecaster used by Tom Petty.
Boasting its own language, culture and government, Catalunya has a distinctive identity, with its capital, Barcelona, easily being

one of the most vibrant, exciting and sophisticated cities in Europe. Elegant boulevards mark the course for leisurely walks, gothic art and architecture is in abundance and tapas cafes are rife with imaginative cooking. Hard Rock Cafe Barcelona completes the local ambience with its inspired, creative fare and glorious rock 'n' roll memorabilia on display in interesting combinations. So after a long day's promenade on Las Ramblas, "Ramble On" over to the Hard Rock for a rockin' good time and good food!

The summer festival Barcelona

From 17th of June till 31th of July there is the summer festival in Barcelona. The Summer Festival is the most important cultural event of the season. This year the 44th edition of this cultural festival held. It´sis one of the reasons why summer is the best time to visit the city. Popularly known as the 'The Grec', the festival offers a great mix of entertainment with musical highlights from previous years including Joss Stone, Brian Wilson, Craig David and Marianne Faithful. Each year the organisers aim to bring something new and different to the international audiences who attend the festival. Most of the 45 events of the Barcelona Summer Festival of theatre, music and dance are performed at Teatre Grec, a Greek-style amphitheatre on the hill of Montjuic.

Habitat apartments you should not miss this event! Choose one of our apartments in Barcelona and enjoy these days this unique festival

For the fifteenth consecutive year, the International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia held. For anyone interested in electronic music, urban contemporary art and the world of multimedia, Don´t mis this!

Sonar is a big dance festival every summerin Barcelona. The festival is during three days and focuses on electronic music: techno, house, electro, hip hop, etc. The festival is split into Sonar by Day and Sonar by Night. The daily program consists of concerts, showcases and exhibitions. Sonar by Night is the big party where everyone comes off and it takes place in different nightclubs. Go wild at the Sonar festival in Barcelona 2011!

Discover Barcelona by bike!

A great and sustainable way to see all the beauty this city has to offer is by bike.  You will get to have a lot of fun, a chance to socialize and be entertained by your local guide and to top it off you will have some exercise! Lifestyle Barcelona takes you on a 3 hour bike tour and shows you Barcelona’s most famous landmarks.
The tour starts in the heart of Barcelona with an introduction about the legendary history of Barcelona, afterwards you hop on a bike and begin your journey to some of Barcelona's most renowned sights. The journey will lead you from the breathtaking beauty of the Sagrada Familia to the gothic darkness of the Cathedral.  An expert local guide will tell you the enchanting stories of the city where you might have heard of and those stories which you never heard before! After you've worked up a sweat, you will have the chance to stop at a Barcelona beach bar and quench your thirst with an ice cold drink! The bike tour is also a great opportunity for the ones who have little time but still want to discover all the highlights of Barcelona. Sport fanatic or not, this is the perfect getaway for everybody!

Enjoy and discover Barcelona by bike with lifestyle! 

Clinic – Pilar Sant Jordi – Special Service by Habitat Apartments Barcelona.

During your stay in Barcelona,  Habitat Apartments  want to take care of you!

Who is this for? – If you want peace of mind whilst you are in Barcelona. We have teamed up with Pilar Sant Jordi health clinic with 24 hours emergency department.

Our solution! – Just in case the need arises we have teamed up with Pilar Sant Jordi Clinic with 24 hours emergency department for your peace of mind. The clinic has translators (English, French, German…) so you won’t need to worry about the language barrier.  Cooperation and agreement with all main international medical and travel insurance companies.

Cruising with style by Lifestyle Barcelona.

If jazz is your favored musical genre and you also enjoy cruising then a jazz cruise experience from Lifestyle Barcelona is an obligation for a once-in-a-lifetime musical vacation!

Sit back, relax and enjoy the comforting, smooth sounds of the saxophone as you drift along the coast of Barcelona starting from Port Vell just in time as the sun starts to set, sailing away to a world of recreation as you enjoy the melodious tone of jazz music with your partner overlooking the view of the city from the sea. Another romantic activity offered by Lifestyle Barcelona that many couples can enjoy for a dreamy afternoon in this so called jewel of a city!

Google Maps Transit. Plan your trip using public transport.

The routes of metro, bus, tram and FGC in Barcelona are now searchable in Google Maps.

Barcelona was already on the global map of all Google Maps. It may take some time, the plane and photographic images via satellite that fly over the city – the two most popular actions -, hundreds of photo´s, videos and buildings in 3D, down to the street level with the Street View application and take a walk anywhere, to name just some of the most common.

Now, Barcelona took a step forward. With Google Maps Transit you can find paths to get from one point to another with public transport, a useful tool for both locals and for visitors. Here you can make a quick planning and it makes it easy to move around in the city.

* Here is an example of how to use this application:

Imagine you're in one of the apartments of Habitat Apartments. For example: Casp Apartment and you want to go to Central Station Barcelona Sants.

1) Enter Google Maps Transit

2) Indicate the exact departure and destination address (street address, city)

3) You´ll see directly a map marked with the travelling plan, point by point, traveling by public transport.

Google Maps Transit is available in 12 different languages and is compatible with screen readers for people with disabilities. It is updated once a week and includes 2,989 stops and 99 bus lines of the EMT; eight lines and 140 subway stations, in addition to 108 routes and 2,573 bus stops of the TMB; 75 stations of the FGC and six lines, 56 stops of the Trambaix and Trambesòs networks. In the first half of 2011 RENFE-Rodalies will join and it is also expected that Bicing will join.

This advance means that people who want to visit the city can, in addition to Google Maps to locate where their hotel is, check if it is well connected with atractions they want to visit. So you can see in detail how to get to Parc Güell, the Picasso Museum or to Camp Nou. Once in Barcelona, from your mobile which is connected with the internet – by the many applications available for Google Maps -, you can also know when to arrive at the chosen site by adding the offset to walk to the first midship of transport and there from the last until the end of the travelling plan. The functions that offer other local services via the Internet, but which is now available on the map that everyone knows.