Gemütliche 2-Zimmer-Wohnung in Sants

Sants is a lovely neighborhood that used to be an independent village early in the past century until it was annexed into the main city. It still conserves many of its centenary customs nowadays such as its renowned "Festa major de Sants" celebrated yearly by the end of August. Every now and then transit at Sants street is diverted for 1 or 2 days and the street is turned into a huge open market of up 2km long with all sort of catalan and spanish goods for sale. Eventually you will find the street it's also put to perform spectacular parades to celebrate christmas, carnival, summer/winter solstice and many other events.

The apartment is placed right in the middle of Sants street, a thrilling, popular commercial street which happens to be the longest shopping street in Europe, accounting for about 1.5km of shops of all kinds. To spice this up, the street ends up right at the Las Arenas shopping centre, by the Montjuic hill where you can enjoy the most amazing 360 sightseeing city views from the top of mall centre.

If you are up into cooking your own food the apartment is just within a couple of minutes of "Mercat de Sants", one of the oldest local market places in the city with more than 120 years of history. The place has been recently fully refurbished and now happens to be one of the most modern markets in the city without compromising its centenary look and feel. It happens to have earned the city "best market of Barcelona" prize the last 2 years. It is the one place you want to go to get all sort of fresh food and live for while like a local.

If instead you're up for restaurants, really close to our place you have a selection of one of the finest catalan, spanish, basque, italian and asian restaurants which you surely love.

For families & leisure,

Right in front of the apartment you've got a bus stop that gives you access to bus lanes D20 and 50. They can take you to Las Arenas shopping mall centre in 10 minutes, Plaça Catalunya/Las Ramblas and Maremagnum shopping mall centre in about 20 and to Barceloneta beach area (by the W hotel) in just about 30.

Then within a couple of minutes walk you can get access to L1 and L5 subway lanes; the former can get you to Plaça Catalunya in 15 minutes, and the later right to Diagonal/Passeig de Gracia in 15 and to Sagrada Familia in 20.

If you plan to do regional or longer trips just within 10 minutes walk you're in reach of the major Barcelona railway station, Barcelona-Sants. From there you're about 30 minutes away from the Airport Terminal 2, get access to AVE/TGV high speed trains to Figueras/Girona/Tarragona (30 minutes) Lleida/Zaragoza/Madrid (1 to 2:30h) and Cordoba/Seville/Malaga/Paris (4 to 6h). Of course you also get access to multiple regional trains which can travel you around the most amazing places in Costa Brava, Costa dorada, Montseny and the Pyrenees.

Going back to urban transport, the railway station also gets you access to subway lane L3 which can take you to the bottom part of Las Ramblas in just about 15 minutes.

For business,

You can get to Fira de Barcelona real quick from here. Fira de Montjuic is within 15 minutes reach by bus (Lane 50 or D20) or subway (L1). Fira de l'Hospitalet is within 20 minutes by subway. (L5, then L9) .

Alternatively you can take a cab straight to the Fira and get there in just about 15 minutes under normal traffic conditions.

@22 is about 45 minutes away (subway lane L1)

Airport Terminal 1 is within 25 minutes by Taxi and reachable by Train or Subway within 60 minutes aproximately.