| Any visitor to Barcelona has a wide range of possibilities to choose from as far as sightseeing goes. With the city's ancient history, since its time as a Roman colony at the beginning of the 1 st Century BC, on an even older Iberian settlement, Barcelona has gradually accumulated vestiges and conserved the buildings which are indicative of a lengthy succession of periods, and whose wealth is evident to the eyes of the discerning visitor, together with the work of the modernist, modern and contemporary avant-garde architects.
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Unique spaces and places are gradually swelling a long list of monuments, and the truth is that a good few days would really be needed to follow up the suggestions proposed herein. Nevertheless, the list here is by necessity brief, with a selection which will help the reader to glean an overall vision.
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In the port area, the visitor's attention will focus on a newly-built centre called Maremagnum, whose wide offer includes a fabulous Aquarium, one of the largest in Europe of its kind. The mobile Rambla de Mar links up with the Portal de la Pau, in the centre of which rises the emblematic monument to Columbus.
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The so-called Moll de la Fusta, now a promenade, leads to the remodelled Port Veil, where the Palau de Mar, adapted to house the Museum of History of Catalonia, and whose porches harbour restaurants offering interesting varieties of cooking. In this regard, the main restaurants which attract the visitor's attention are the ones on the quay of the Port Olympic.
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