Friends of La Rambla is offering the routes (Re) discover La Rambla again, an invitation (free) to reconnect with La Rambla and its history

From March 27 to April 25, 2025, Amics de La Rambla offers 18 free routes to stroll and rediscover La Rambla

(Re)discover La Rambla proposes different routes that allow you to discover aspects of the history of La Rambla and the city

In this edition, we are launching a new route that encourages exploring the neighborhood of La Mercè

After the success of previous editions of (Re)discover La Rambla - with places fully booked for all routes - Amics de La Rambla has prepared a new invitation to stroll with 18 free routes.

The routes, for which prior registration is required on the Amics de La Rambla website, aim to be an invitation to rediscover La Rambla and discover aspects of its history that we often overlook.

New routes: "La Mercè: Barcelona's first seaside neighborhood" and "Route through the scenarios of the novel 'La señorita de la calle Avinyó'".

In this sixteenth edition of (Re)discover La Rambla, two new routes are presented, one focused on the La Mercè neighborhood and the other on the scenarios of the novel "La señorita de la calle Avinyó" by the Barcelona writer Pedro Hache.

In "La Mercè: Barcelona's first seaside neighborhood", participants will stroll through palaces and convents, relive horse races, and hear stories of noble murders, millers, military institutions, artists, vanished houses, and relocated buildings... all this in a small neighborhood, that of La Mercè, articulated along a single street, which once had the same role that La Rambla has now.

In "La señorita de la calle Avinyó", the Barcelona writer Pedro Hache invites us to walk through different moments in the city's history. The route, guided by the author himself, will make us relive this history in different corners of the old city. A route that will take us from Roman Barcelona to the present city passing through medieval Barcelona, its Jewish quarter, and the early 20th century.

Eight different routes, eight ways of strolling

There are many ways to get to know La Rambla better. Each of the routes that Amics de La Rambla proposes offers a different view of La Rambla and the city.

On this occasion, routes that Amics de La Rambla has been offering for free for some time are being recovered to enhance knowledge and affection towards La Rambla.

The routes offered in this edition - all with prior registration on the Amics de La Rambla website (https://www.amicsdelarambla.cat/cat/re-descobreix-la-rambla/inici )- are: "La Mercè: Barcelona's first seaside neighborhood", "Illustrious visitors to La Rambla", "From La Rambla to the Copa Amèrica, history of Barcelona's Port Vell", "La Rambla, a journey through time", "La Rambla Més Fosca. Gothic", "La Rambla de les Floristes. Lorca, Sagarra and the tradition of a profession", "Route through the scenarios of the novel 'La señorita de la calle Avinyó'" and "La Rambla Més Fosca. Raval".

This is the planned schedule:

• "La Mercè: Barcelona's first seaside neighborhood (Catalan). Thursday, March 27 at 5:30 pm

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