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Barcelona is the home city of two internationally-known football teams: FC Barcelona, also known as Barça, who play at the 100,000 capacity Camp Nou stadium, and RCD Espanyol, who play at the 56,000 capacity Olympic Stadium. FC Barcelona has also internationally known basketball, handball and roller hockey teams that play at the Palau Blaugrana, situated in the same complex as the Camp Nou.

Near Barcelona, in Montmeló, the Circuit de Catalunya racetrack hosts the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix.

Also Barcelona is one of the most attractive cities for skateboarding, and thousands of skateboarders visit it each year. This overwhelming popularity of Barcelona among skateboarders lead to a new anti-skateboarding (and multiple other activities) law, which came in effect on the first day of 2006. Even though it is still possible to skateboard in the city, skateboarders are sometimes given tickets.

In addition to the University of Barcelona, the city is home to the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Technical University of Catalonia, the Ramon Llull University and the International University of Catalonia.

Barcelona offers a unique opportunity for the tourist on foot to walk from Roman remains to the medieval city, and then to the modern city with its open thoroughfares and grid-iron street pattern. The historic city center is fairly flat, while the modern city fans out towards the surrounding hills, bordered by steep streets that are vaguely reminiscent of those found in San Francisco.

Art visits include the museum of the Fundació Joan Miró, where several paintings and sculptures of this artist are shown, together with guest exhibitions from other museums around the world. There is also a unique museum featuring the lesser known works of Pablo Picasso from his earlier period. The National Museum of Art of Catalonia (in the Palau Nacional left behind by the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition) possesses a well-known collection of Romanesque art, including wall-paintings of Romanesque churches and chapels around Catalonia that have been transferred to the museum. The Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA) is also worth a visit, not only because of its paintings and sculptures, but because of its architecture, and the vibrant square in front of it, the sitting wall used by skaters, and the inveriably changing wall of graffiti. The building was designed by the American architect Richard Meier. The Fundació Antoni Tàpies holds a collection of Tàpies works.

Barcelona's airport is 12km southwest of the city at El Prat de Llobregat, was built when the city was a much less popular destination, and is now expanding to cope with the strain. The airport is linked to the city by regular and direct train or bus services. The train (6am-10.40pm; journey time 30min; 2 weekdays, 2.30 weekends and public holidays; info on 934 811 299) runs every thirty minutes to Sants Estació and - more usefully if you're staying in the Barri Gòtic - continues to the station at Plaça de Catalunya and on to Arc de Triomf, with the exception of the very last train which terminates in Sants. Buy your ticket from the automatic vending machine at the platform (you don't need the exact change) or at the ticket office. There's also a very useful Aerobús service (Mon-Fri 5.30am-11pm, Sat & Sun 6am-11.30pm; 3) which leaves every fifteen minutes from outside both terminals, stopping in the city at Plaça d'Espanya, Gran Via (at c/Comte d'Urgell), Plaça Universitat, Plaça de Catalunya (in front of El Corte Inglés) and Passeig de Gràcia (at c/la Diputació) - this takes around thirty minutes to reach Plaça de Catalunya, though allow longer in the rush hour.

There is a second bus connection from the airport that's not as convenient but does run throughout the night at irregular intervals: bus #EN, leaving at 10.15pm, 11.25pm, 12.30am, 1.35am and 2.40am for Plaça d'Espanya (just south of Sants Estació).

A taxi from the airport costs roughly 20.50 to Sants Estació, and 21-22.50 to somewhere more central in the old town. There's a list of current prices posted inside the airport near the baggage reclamation area. There's an information office in each terminal of the airport, as well as exchange facilities and car rental offices

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