The city of Barcelona has always been known for its hospitality. Sports, cultural and music events with international projection bring millions of people together every year. Some examples are Catalonia Motorbike and Formula 1 Race Track, the first edition of the Universal Forum of Cultures in 2004 and the Olympic Games of 1992.

Musical reference
With the arrival of Spring, every year Barcelona becomes a stage for music festivals with great international projection, such as Primavera Sound, a three-day event at the end of May, and the Sónar International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. In the latest edition of this festival, more than 80,000 people enjoyed a musical programme that featured the big names in electronic music with minority proposals. The Grec Festival takes place in July, with more eclectic proposals, while the winter months feature other more independent events in different parts of the city, such as the Wintercase Festival. The major sports stadiums are also used by mega artists such as Coldplay, U2, Madonna and Depeche Mode, among others.

Night life in Barcelona also has numerous ways of catching tourists. The popular neighbourhood of Gràcia boasts a huge number of chill-out bars and outdoor terraces spread across its small and homely squares. Near the hotel, the neighbourhood of El Raval, on one side of Les Rambles, and the Gothic neighbourhood, on the other, concentrate a large part of the nighttime offer of bars and pubs. Eixample, Poble Espanyol (Spanish Village) and the Olympic Port, moreover, feature the most commercial nocturnal offer.

Barcelona, at your feet
Every corner of the city of Barcelona provides unique hooks for tourists, and the kilometre 0 par excellence for getting to know them is Plaça Catalunya, where the Hotel Olivia Plaza is located. Not only is it the most famous square, it is also the busiest and the largest. Around its five hectares, thousands of tourists make the most of the opportunity to take one of the most typical snapshots of the city: the pigeons eating out of the tourists' hands. Plaça Catalunya is, moreover, the point of departure for the main tourist routes and provides access, for example, to the imposing Passeig de Gràcia and the more commercial street of Portal de l'Àngel. Nevertheless, if there is one path that has all the ingredients for strollers to enjoy themselves, then it is Les Rambles, which winds down to the old port of the city. Press, flower and bird stalls, cafés, terraces, restaurants, painters, human statues and musicians congregate all along the mythical Rambles, which also boasts several buildings of interest such as the Virreina Palace, the Boqueria market and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.