Espanyol

Splau

 Splau has two floors:

In the first floor there are the shops and a bowling
In the second floor there are restaurants, cafes and a cinema with
more than 15 rooms.

The shopping centre is in the open air, it doesnt have roof.

Carrer de
Sants

 It is famous
because it has a
lot of luxury
shops.
His name comes
from a door in
the ancient wall
of BCN.
A lot of tourists
visit Portal de
lngel every
day.

The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria,

often simply referred to as La Boqueria.
Is a large public market in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona

Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo

Colombo; Spanish: Cristbal Coln;
Portuguese: Cristvo Colombo; born between
31 October 1450 and 30 October 1451, died 20
May 1506) was a Genoese explorer, navigator,
and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa
(today part of Italy). Under the auspices of the
Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four
voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those
voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent
settlements on the island of Hispaniola,
initiated the Spanish colonization of the New
World.

CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS
In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European
kingdoms through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus' proposal to
reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish
Crown, which saw in it a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through a new westward
route. During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus
landed in a New World, landing in the Bahamas archipelago, on an island he named San
Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser
Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for
the Spanish Empire.

CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS
Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas
(having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the
11th century), his voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the
Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and
colonization that lasted for several centuries. They had, therefore, an
enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western
world. Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of
spreading the Christian religion.
Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to
Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called
the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios (Spanish for
"Indians").Columbus' strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its
appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal
as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later
to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs
claimed were owed to them by the crown.

CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS
The Baslica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Famlia (Catalan
pronunciation English: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family),
is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Catalan
architect Antoni Gaud (18521926). Although incomplete, the church is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in November 2010 Pope Benedict XVI
consecrated and proclaimed it a minor basilica,as distinct from a
cathedral which must be the seat of a bishop.
Construction of Sagrada Famlia had commenced in 1882 and Gaud
became involved in 1883,taking over the project and transforming it with
his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear
Art Nouveau forms. Gaud devoted his last years to the project, and at the
time of his death at age 73 in 1926 less than a quarter of the project was
complete. Sagrada Famlia's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on
private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, only to
resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the
midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges
remaining[9] and an anticipated completion date of 2026, the centenary
of Gaud's death.