Travel guide Las Ramblas a boulevard Barcelona Spain see also hotels near Las Ramblas.

La Rambla or Les Rambles (Catalan) Las Ramblas (Spanish) is an iconic and busy street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike it serves as the emotional hub of Barcelona.

Ramblas	Nou Camp stadium	Placa De Catalunya	Port Vell	Sagrada Família
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When walking down La Rambla you can enjoy watching the various performances (actors, mimes etc.). La Rambla can be pretty crowded, especially during the "prime-time" tourist season. For this reason, it has become a prime target for pickpockets. Lots of tourists have had their wallets stolen on this street.

La Rambla , a boulevard that runs from the city centre to the waterfront, thronged with crowds until late at night and lined by florists, bird sellers in the higher part, craft sellers in the lowest, street entertainers, cafeterias and restaurants. Walking along La Rambla one can see the world-famous opera house El Liceu, the food market of La Boqueria and the Plaça Reial (literally Royal Square), with its arches and palm trees, amongst other interesting buildings. There is also a Wax Museum near the end.

La Rambla ends at the old harbour, where a statue of Christopher Columbus points eastwards across the Mediterranean Sea toward his hometown of Genoa.

Next to it is the Museu Marítim (naval museum), which chronicles the history of life on the Mediterranean, including a full-scale model of a galley. The museum is housed in the medieval Drassanes (shipyards), where the ships that made Catalonia a great sea power in the Mediterranean were built.