Barcelona Olympic Beach

The sea at barcelona reached up to what is today the santa maria del mar church.

Barcelona olympic beach. Before the 1992 summer olympic games barcelona was a city that had lived turning its back to the sea. Barceloneta beach is minutes away. This changed dramatically when barcelona was chosen to host the 1992 olympic games. The barcelona beach season usually goes between march 15th and november 15th when all installations and facilities are dismanteled being the high season from 31st may to 28th september mar bella beach is a must for those you like watersports.

In this way the beach of medieval barcelona became an enormously important place for a city which had made commerce its main economic activity. View deals for ab olympic village beach apartment including fully refundable rates with free cancellation. The coastline was quite different to what it is now. A cool place to hang and watch the body builders people watch or stare out to sea.

It s amazing that prior to the 1992 olympics there wasn t really a beach. The post olympic promenade passeig marítim further connects the city to the sea stretching five kilometers along the coast and attracting everyone from locals tourists and runners to rollerbladers cyclists and more. The port is close to both barceloneta beach and icària beach. All rooms have kitchens and 2 bathrooms.

Plans were announced for the development of a new sports marina several docks a new neighborhood to house the athletes the olympic village and two skyscrapers hotel arts mapfre tower. Barcelona had water but no beaches so they imported sand from egypt and palms from hawaii and voila with 7 beaches became the third most popular european tourist destination next to. Here you ll enjoy the windsurfing kayaks and hobie cats. 1992 usa basketball dream team vs angola barcelona olympics game 1 july 26 1992.

The sand was and still is imported from the sahara desert. This area was fully regenerated before the 1992 olympic games. The official emblem designed by josep maria trias from barcelona depicted a dynamic human figure in a stance that suggested someone jumping an obstacle which consisted of the five olympic rings and the simple gestual lines reduced the characterisation of the figure to the head in the blue of the mediterranean the arms the yellow of the sun and wide open in sign of hospitality and the. Well worth popping down to and even in february it was warm enough to sit on and enjoy.