Port Vell Review

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Port Vell

  • Address: Passeig d'Ítaca s/n, Barceloneta-Port Vell, Barcelona, Catalonia | Map It

Fodor's Review:

Barcelona's marina stretches the length of Passeig de Joan de Borbó, and encompasses the large pedestrian wharves (molls). Just beyond the Lichtenstein sculpture Barcelona Head, the modern Port Vell complex stretches up the grassy hill to the wood-panel Ictineo II reproduction of the submarine created by Narcis Monturiol (1819-85). The submarine was the world's first, launched in the Barcelona port in 1862. Beyond are the IMAX theater, the aquarium, and the Maremagnum shopping mall along the Moll d'Espanya. The Moll de Barceloneta, with its five (rather pricey and impersonal) terrace restaurants, stretches along the marina across the way.

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