Spanish language courses in Barcelona

Spanish language courses and the museums you must visit in Barcelona

There are many reasons for choosing Barcelona to study Spanish. The city’s location beside the sea immediately comes to mind, as does its nightlife and a well deserved reputation for being avant-garde in the field of modern arts, cuisine and architecture. Besides the museums dedicated to the architect Gaudi which are amongst the most visited of the city, participants of Spanish language courses in Barcelona should take time off to visit some of those discussed below. These museums will help you understand the cultural background of the city you chose for your intensive Spanish language programs.

If ever there was a museum that breathes history, it is the Maritime Museum, set in the city’s original medieval ship building yard. It is a tribute to the power of Barcelona and Catalonia when, before the discovery of the Americas, the Mediterranean was the most important body of water in the world for trade and strategic purposes. Students of Spanish language courses in Barcelona will appreciate the uniqueness of the content of the museum and the building that houses it. Tracing the history of the city’s relationship with this sea form ancient times to modern, one of the principal features of the museum is a full size replica of the royal galley Juan de Austria, the flagship of the fleet of the Holy League which fought the Turkish Navy at the battle of Lepanto in 1571.

In 1895 a person who was to become one of the Twentieth Century’s references in the field of modern arts moved with his family to Barcelona to live. The fourteen year old boy in question was Pablo Ruiz Picasso, and he held the first public exposition of his art here, in a café called the Quatre Gats, located in the old city. The café still operates to this day and for the participants of Spanish language courses in Barcelona it is a great place to visit in the afternoon, as is the Picasso Museum located close-by. The museum was created in 1963 and contains more than three thousand five hundred pieces of the artist’s work, mainly from his formative years. Even if you are not that interested in the art of Picasso, the museum building, typical of those used by medieval merchants in the city, is worthy of a visit by students of Spanish courses for professionals.



Spanish language courses in Barcelona - Sports

As far as sports are concerned, all students participating on the many Spanish language courses in Barcelona know the importance of football to the city. A visit to the museum of Football Club Barcelona, a club founded over one hundred years ago, will confirm this. With the motto “More than a Club”, the museum is the fourth most popular of the city in terms of visitor numbers. It charts the team’s successes both in the Spanish Football League and in Europe, as well as displaying the many cups that have been won, and other sporting memorabilia.

For those on Spanish languages courses in Barcelona that span several weeks, an interesting museum to visit over the weekend is the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, accessible by train from Barcelona with a journey time of approximately seventy five minutes. Sometimes described as the largest surrealistic object in the world, it opened in 1974, and contains the broadest collection of pieces spanning the artist’s entire career. Students on Spanish courses for business people will not be disappointed by the day’s outing to one of the most original museums in the world. The artist is buried in the centre of the museum, in a crypt which contains both his grave and a collection of gold jewellery he designed.



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