Shops and vendors that turists might need

Here is a list with the websites of the companies that rent car.

http://www.atesa.es
http://www.athloncarlease.es
http://www.avis.es
http://www.bcnrentacar.com
http://www.budget.com
http://www.europcar.com
http://www.gocartours.es
http://www.hertz.com
http://www.ifasa.com
http://www.laserrentacar.com
http://www.over-rentacar.com
http://www.pepecar.com
http://www.solmar.es
http://www.totcar.es
http://www.vanguardrent.com

If you want to send a post card, then you need to buy postal stamps, you find them on the shops named "TABACS" - where they sell cigarettes

If you need to buy tools, electricity components like outlets, cables, etc, look for shops named "FERRETERIA"

That's all for now, I hope it helps

Transportation in Barcelona

Transportation in Barcelona is very good.
Most of the streets are one way, and only the bigger streets have both ways.
Also the public transportation is very good. The subway covers most of the city. Very well made and organised. Bus and tram transportation is also exceptional.
Here is the timetable for the Metro
http://www.tmb.net/en_US/barcelona/moute/horaris/horaris.jsp
Costs: a one trip ticket costs 1.30 Euros. A 10 trip ticket costs 7.90 Euro. A one day ticket costs 5 Euro.
The public transport is designed for comuters, so you have 1 hour and 15 minutes from the moment you entered the metro (or bus or tram) to change the tranportation. For example you enter the subway at station "Placa Catalunya" and get out at "Glories". From there you take the bus and go further without being charged an extra trip. Of course if you enter the subway again, you will be charged. So it's good to know that you have 1:15 hours for changing the transportation system

Views from Castle Montjuïc:
Commercial Port	Cruize Port	City and Tibidabo
Sagrada Familia	Torre Agbar	Palau Nacional

Places to visit in Barcelona

One good thing about Barcelona is that you have the option to see the town from above, which offers you a very nice view. Here are some places where you can have this kind of view:
- Castle Montjuïc
- Tibidabo amusement park and Torre de Collserola which is very near to it
- Park Güell
- Mirador de Colon (Columbus Monument) - it has a lift inside

Views from Castle Montjuïc:
Commercial Port	Cruize Port	City and Tibidabo
Sagrada Familia	Torre Agbar	Palau Nacional

Views from Tibidabo:
Tibidabo Church	Tibidabo	Jesus 1
Jesus 2	Tibidabo from the Church	City 1
City 2	Park Guell	Torre Agbar
Sagrada Familia	Torre Maprfe and Hotel Arts	Park Montjuïc
Castle Montjuïc	Olympic Stadium and Montjuic Telecommunications Tower	Palau Nacional (and Plaça d'Espanya)

in this order: Tibidabo Church, Tibidabo, Jesus from the top 1, Jesus from the top 2, The amusement park from Tibibabo church, City 1, City 2, Park Güell, Torre Agbar, Sagrada Familia, Torre Mapfre and Hotel Arts, Park Montjuïc, Castle Montjuïc, Olympic Stadium and Montjuïc Telecommunications Tower, Palau Nacional

Views from Torre de Collserola:
Torre de Collserola	City and Park de Montjuïc
Tibidabo	Tibidabo	Tibidabo

Tibidabo - access
you can reach Tibidabo with your own car by public road or by public Transportation. Public transportation: The funicular costs 3 Euro for going up and coming back.

Other costs:
Tibidabo church lift: 2 Euro
Torre de Collserola lift: 5 Euro
Sagrada familia entrance: 8 Euro

Locutorio

A Locutorio is the spanish name for "Call Shop". Locutorios are very popular in Barcelona, there are a lot of them, you can find one almost on every street. They offer long distance calls, at very good prices. Many imigrants use them for calling at home. Most of the locutorios are run by imigrants from Pakistan - seems they are very good in doing it. Most of the locutorio shops offer this services too:
- Long distance and local calls
- Internet access - usually for 1 Euro / hour
- Printing
- Photocopy
- Laminate papers (plastify)
- some of the Locutorio shops also offer international money transfer service (most of them work with RIA Envios - http://www.riafinancial.com)

Copisteria
Copisteria is the catalan name for "Copy Shop". This shops offer you black/white and color printing, copying, laminate, print photos and other related services.

Here is a map of Locutorio (Call Shop) and Copisteria (Copy Shop) in Barcelona. Locutorio are marked yellow, Copisteria with purple.

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Here are some web links of the chain Locutorio and Copisteria shops:
http://www.workcenter.es/
http://www.fotoprix.com/
http://www.copystart.com/

Shopping in Barcelona

So you are in Barcelona for a while. You want to know a lot of things: places to visit, where to buy things, etc.
Let's talk about food shops now:
The main food shop chains are: DIA, Spar, LIDL, Mercadona, Bonpreu, Bonarea, Consum, Condis, Opencor, Carrefour Express
The biggest chain is DIA supermarket, owned by Carrefour. There are a lot of DIA shops, almost on every street there is one. The prices are very good, and they have their own products (with DIA logo), sometimes at almost half the price. For example in a DIA shop a pizza is 1.40 € (DIA branded), and 2.50 € / kg for the pizza that is not branded DIA. So their own logo on a product means much cheaper product, and the quality is the same or almost the same with non DIA products.
Opencor is a food shop, owned by El Corte Inglés. There are 18 Opencor shops in Barcelona, and they are open 18 hours daily, from 8 AM in the morning to 2 AM in the night, every day of the year. The prices are a bit higher than the other shops, but opens earlyer and closes later than the regular food shops.
Here is a map of the Opencor Shops:

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Here you can see where you can find a Bazar in Barcelona:

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