Travelling to Barcelona
Barcelona, the Catalan capital and Spain’s second most important city is well connected to the rest of the world and particularly to the major European cities by various transport modes.
Traveling to Barcelona and planning your Barcelona itinerary will be a walk in the park for you if you look through the Viva Barcelona website to ensure a smooth and hassle free travel experience.
By Air
Flight services in and out of Barcelona are excellent with low cost carriers like Transavia, FlyGlobespan, Sterling Airlines, Blue Air, Ryanair, Easyjet, Wiz Air, Vueling, Click Air, Jet2.Com, Monarch Airlines, and Air Berlin giving a stopover at Barcelona.
El Prat is the Spanish name of Barcelona international airport and welcomes flights from various corners of the globe, especially Europe. Two other airports in the outskirts of Barcelona are Reus to the south and Girona to the north.
By Bus
There are shuttle bus services connecting Girona airport with Estacio Del Nord in Barcelona. Another bus acts as a link between Reus airport and the Barcelona Sants train station.
Barcelona Nord operates all the international and national bus services to and from Barcelona. Their contact number is 902303222.
From 6 in the morning to 12 in the night on 6 days of the week you can avail of the Aerobus that departs at a frequency of 12 minutes. It’s also available during weekends.
By Car
You can drive down to Barcelona in your car by taking one of the several main roads that link the city with the rest of Spain and with French cities. If you can avoid the rush hours, traffic volume on the high ways will be light. Free parking space will be available, perhaps not in the city centre, but certainly a few metro stops away.
By Train
Barcelona is connected to Paris, Zurich, Milan and Montpellier by train and the duration of the journey is 11 hours approximately, 13 hours, approximately 13 hours and 4 1/2 hours respectively.
There is also a very high speed rail service that has recently started operations and links Madrid with Barcelona within a 2 hours and 40 minutes journey.
Barcelona is connected to a host of French cities like Cerbere, Nice, Marseille, Narbonne, Beziers and Perpignan through several direct trains daily.