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Within a few metro stops from most hotels in Barcelona you can find hundreds of great ways to spend your time. You ve got great bars and beaches, or interesting museums and Gaudi churches. Then you ve had enough military lodging at disney world of the city sidewalks though, there is plenty of beautiful countryside to explore outside this urban magnet.
The most popular attractions are easy to get to on Spain s excellent train system, which continues to keep improving despite the economic troubles in the country. In Western Europe, popular is another word for insanely crowded however, so this is an area where it can definitely pay to go exploring with your own set of wheels. Here are four areas that are difficult to cover properly by public transportation, so with a rental car from Barcelona you can see what you want, at your own pace.
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For more info on the area, see the excellent Enoturisme Penedes website in English. military lodging at disney world There you can even pin wineries to your own custom road map so you ll know where you re going when you set out. You ll pay a tasting fee of six to ten euros at each winery, so choose carefully and keep one person as the designated driver.
One must-visit excursion for many visitors to Barcelona is the Dali Museum in Figueres, his birthplace. Far fewer people visit his other two museum-homes as they are difficult to get to without a car. If you have your own vehicle though, you can make your way to Portligat and the Castle in Púbol, the places he actually lived after he became famous. You can visit the rooms where he lived and slept and see the workshops where some of the world s most recognized paintings sprang forth from his imagination.
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