Barcelona - The beautiful city of Spain

Barcelona - The ideal tourist spot for a vacation

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Barcelona is one of the magnificent cities with over 1 million citizens of its own in Spain.It is the third largest city in the country. It has got everything a tourist wants to experience and assured a memorable stay here for anyone coming to this city with Akaza being there always taking care of the tourist's need for a rental accommodation. Be it for a family of small group or a large group of friends, Akaza is always willing to make suitable and tailored service to you. It has a magnificent beach, arts going back to Renaissance era and the most admiring art of Gothic culture with fantastic museums around the city with rare collections belonging to different times of the history.


As a tourist, you also might have experienced a bit hard and frustrating finding a rental accommodation for you or for your family / group of friends on business trips to Barcelona. It is the budget allocation that makes it hard for you to find out something that suits your budget need. But, with Aaza at your hand, your worries can be put into rest.Reach Akaza for a comfortable stay in Barcelona Akaza provides you rental accommodation that suits your budget without burdening you. Being our esteemed customer, we make sure your stay with us very unique and memorable. We know why we are here and what we should exactly do to make you our esteemed customer happy and comfortable.

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Given to the history of the city, it is always a peace loving city and you can experience friendly and cooperative nature of the locals. People are very friendly and make your stay as comfortable as possible. 

You will experience the friendliness of the city as you take a walk around the city even at nights. You will notice a few policemen here and there patrolling and giving you an occasional friendly smile. The metro has nothing much to tell others that it is a violent city. Moreover, the characteristic of the Spanish who generally don’t drink too excess also makes the city violent free. 

However, certain areas in the city, without any doubt, are pestered with the silent thieves – pick-pockets as you will find in any tourist centered city in Europe. You will experience such petty-thieves especially around the central area of the city comparing to the other parts of Barcelona. Most of the time, the thieves targeting your handbags, wallets, phones and cameras which are easy objects to be stolen without getting the attention of the owner. 

This beautiful city, somehow, has a very bad reputation with regard to pickpockets. The tourists’ areas are rampant with petty thieves and pickpockets. Being one of the beautiful cities and most popular tourist destination in Europe, it is probably attracted more number of pickpockets on the streets of the city. 

The banner is written by locals protesting against drug dealers, thieves, expressing their shame of having this in their neighbourhood.

However, with a little more awareness and taking simple precautions on the streets, you can avoid becoming a victim to pickpockets. 

You will naturally find the petty thieves in areas which are filled with tourists all the time, such as Rambla, Sagrada Familia, and other famous tourist attraction places in the city. 

It is easy for any petty thief to rob you when you are travelling by bus or train. Same is applied here in Barcelona as well. Be careful when you travel the metro trains or tourist buses available in the city. 

It is highly recommended that you are in normal clothes since this will not identify you as a tourist here. The most important part of it all, you try to avoid carrying the maps and guidebooks all the time in your hands. This makes you become the east target of the pickpockets. If at all, you need to consult the map or guidebook, go to a corner or doorway where you are not under the watch of everyone. But you must remember, as soon as you consult the map, place it back inside your bag and walk as if you are one of the foreigners residing in the city. Better use foldable and small map and guidebook always, you can get it in any hotels and tourist offices in the city. 

Never leave your bag on the chair next to you or under the table, or over back of a chair when you are in cafes and restaurants. If at all you want to place the bag on a chair or table, make sure, you always keep your hand the strap of your bag all the time. The best practice is to keep the bag on your lap. 

You don’t need to discuss on your new camera, its features or your new mobile phone etc on the table. Be sure, the pickpockets might be standing next to you and listening everything you are telling about your own products. You are only sharing information to the unwanted guest without your knowledge. It is always best to keep your expensive cameras or phones in your bag (let the bag not have the name of the manufacturing company of the camera) and keep carrying the bag all the time. It is highly recommended you avoid having your camera around your neck. 

Never put your phone on the table when you are in a café or restaurant. Be careful not to allow kids or beggars getting closer to you under any pretext. You find kids coming to you with a pretext of selling newspaper or magazines to you. If they find you placing your mobile phones or wallets on the table, they place their newspaper on your table so that you see the newspaper. But when they collect the newspaper from you which you might have probably put it back on the table after reading through, they swiftly collect your wallet or mobile phone as they collect the newspapers. 

At any cost, avoid physical contact with anyone at any point of time. This is the way they distract you. The petty thieves often in groups and while once distracts you the other robs you. The another way of becoming victim of pickpocket is, you find one or two men/women to pretend to hug you and be your friend. This is another easy way of pick-pocketing your wallet. It is highly recommended that you dont hug strangers. Don’t believe anyone claiming to be a police officer and insists in your identifications. There are cases where pickpockets pretend themselves as police officer and search through your wallet, in the pretext of looking for your ID. Never hand over your wallet and if the person insists looking at your wallet for whatsoever the reason could be, you don’t fail to ask him to take you to the police station 

It is recommended that you avoid playing street games, even if you are invited. You will find a game named, trilo’ played by trileros. Thus game has been classified as a crime by the Spain government. You will also find free shows on La Rambla and people in groups playing the game. 

Another important piece of advice is that you don’t take all your money /credit cards with you when you leave the hotel room. Leave a portion of your money in your room itself, because this will be of great help to you, If you become one of the victims of pickpocket. 

HAPPY STAY!!!

Gràcia – A neighbourhood of Festivals

Gràcia – A neighbourhood of Festivals

Gràcia, the district town of Barcelona is a beautiful place for any tourist visiting Barcelona, Spain. The beautiful neighbourhood, just 1km away, found near Barcelona is one of the most famous places in the neighbourhoods around Barcelona. It is located at the north end of the Passeig de Gràcia , is the most distinctively Catalan neighbourhood found in easy walking distance from the centre of Barcelona. You have a few other fantastic cities found around Gràcia. It is surrounded by cities like Vila de Gràcia, Vallcarca i els Penitents, El Coll, La Salut  and Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova.

The elegant Gràcia was originally established in 1626 by Carmelites – a catholic religious congregation, with their novitiate here. The name of their convent was "Nostra Senyora de Gràcia”(Our Lady of Grace). It is from here, the name of the city is derived from. The city was a municipality until it was annexed to Barcelona in 1897 along with a few more villages in the plain of Barcelona.  However the it was the expansion of the district of Eixample in 19^th century made the northward expansion of Barcelona that resulted in connecting Gràcia to the growing metropolis.

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There are two metro railway stations located near Gràcia. You can start your journey either from Fontana or Lesseps Metro Stations (probably on line 3, please check with the local station guide), since the two stations are located very near to Gràcia. From the station(s), you can notice that the heart of Gràcia is on the NE (you will notice that this appears to be on the east or to the right of Barcelona, if you follow a map)

Tourist Attraction in Gràcia:

For any tourist coming to Barcelona, visiting Gràcia is one of the fixed schedule for any tourist here. This city is worth exploring and you will fall in love with the great awesome sights you found in and around the city.  You are bound to meet all kind of interesting faces and languages as you go around the city and in the fields. You find Gràcia wearing more of the innocent and virginic village weather than a city atmosphere with much of life lived on the many public squares.

The most attractive tourist attraction in Gràcia is the Gaudi-designed Parc Güell. It is located on EL Carmel Mountain. Casa Vicens, Gaudi’s first important work which also one of the UNESCO World Heritate Site, is located in Gràcia.

Gràcia is the home for the world famous Theatre Lliure, one of the most prestigious theaters in Spain.
There are good many of the notable squares in Gràcia including Plaça del Sol, Plaça de Rius i Taulet and Plaça de la Virreina.

Accommodation:

If you are coming to Barcelona and planning to stay for short duration or longer; planning to stay in the city or in its neighbourhoods, the best service provider is Akaza. Akaza provides you transportation facilities right from picking up you from the airport or from the railway stations and to your sightseeing places. The service is 24x7 with personal service to each of you. Akaza provides you tailored services to suite your need as per your budget. Akaza provides you the best accommodations as per your needs; be it independent flats, or family rooms, for groups or business communities. You can choose from the different kinds of apartments available for rent. Basic facilities such as Air Conditioning, Communal Roof Terrace, Heating, Internet, Microwave, TV are available in our rooms. Akaza has its apartments for rentals in major tourist areas such as Sants, Born, Eixample, Gracia, and Barcelona. For further and detailed information please do visit at http://www.akaza.net

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