Barcelona city council’s excellent website. Tons of information on many aspects of the city, including selected concerts and exhibitions and other events. Good, zoomable maps of the city.
Link to Metropolitan Transport pages in English, especially useful for info about bargain tickets, and the circular route tourist buses (get on and off as you please for a single fixed price). These open top buses are a good way to get a feel for the layout of the city on a first visit.
	Well-informed and up-to-date info on events, eating, bars, shopping etc. Well worth checking
	Barcelona's what's on guide is a pocket format weekly magazine, with all kinds of information about restaurants, bars, clubs, exhibitions, live music, theatre, cinema and special events. On sale in kiosks and also on-line.
	On-line only "what's on" guide with pages for various Spanish cities.
	Weekly, e-mail magazine directed at young market, giving very selected events, bars etc in Barcelona and Madrid.
	Click on logo for link to Lonely Planet Barcelona guide book page. They also publish phrasebooks.
	Clicking on the logo takes you to the Rough Guides’ travel pages, and here's a link to their phrasebooks page.
	Click on image to go to Dorling Kindersley pages about their Eyewitness Top 10 travel guides.
The logo links to BBC Spanish language learning pages. If you're shopping for phrasebooks, beware those which are aimed at Latin American spanish – some of their expressions may get you funny looks in Spain. Catalan is widely spoken in Barcelona and most native 'barceloneses' are bi-lingual. Children's schooling is almost entirely in catalan with 'castellano' taught as a second language.
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	Weather in Catalunya. On the map of the linked page hover over the metropolitan area to see an eight-day forecast.
Barceloca.com: quirky web with variety of information, photo-gossip, and useful lists of bars, eateries, clubs etc.
	If you're driving here or back through France and want to stay in the country near Toulouse, you won't be disappointed at this wonderful "chambre d'hôte", Les Abélias.
	In case you change your mind about Barcelona and fancy Germany instead, here's a link to some tasteful, privately owned apartments in Munich.
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