BARCELONA
AIRPORT

One of the advantages of Barcelona airport is that it is really close by the center of city, at just 7,46 miles. It is specifically located at El Prat del Llobregat, the town that gives the name ‘Aeroport del Prat’ to the airport, the second largest of the country after Madrid ‘Aeropuerto de Barajas’. The passenger traffic of 2010 was about 30 million and the position of Barcelona El Prat Airport (IATA: BCN) of the busiest in the world is 32.

Depending on the airline that you are flying with, departing or landing, you are able to use one of the two terminals that the airport has. The biggest and the newest one is T1, finished at 2009. It has 101 gates in its 545.000 m2 divided in the areas A, B, C, D and E.

Terminal 2 (T2), the second most important, has 149.359 m2 with 48 gates and just 30 with finger-docks. It’s subdivided in T2A, T2B and T2C.

About the transport from the airport, the passengers are able to use a rented Car, Taxi, Bus or Train services.

Barcelona has many ways to be visited from all over the world countries. It is basically known as a business and tourism point, which means is a city with many needed infrastructures to provide to all kind of visitors the best services.

For that reason it is tremendously essential to have an appropriate airport to keep Barcelona involved on this commitment of world expansion. Its own personality and the variety of markets that the city takes part are becoming itself as one of the worldwide meeting points.

Barcelona is considered as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, proved with over 1,6 million at the last two months (the busiest months of the year). The huge difference with the summer of 2010 it is about 16,5% and keep showing that is among the first 10 most visited cities in the world.

The main attractions of the town are basically buildings from the architect Antoni Gaudi like ‘Sagrada Familia’ or ‘La Casa Mila’ known as ‘La Pedrera’ as well as FCBarcelona stadium (Camp Nou) or museums like Picasso, Miró, MNAC and many other interesting offers.

The history that it has, the people that live on it, the gastronomy, the climate, the proximity with the Mediterranean Sea and also the Pyrenees make Barcelona a comfortable and quality life city and this.

As a business center, Barcelona brings many congress and meeting points to develop the variety of worldwide markets specifically at the European continent. Facilities like ‘Fira de Barcelona’ built just to cover this market targets are helping the city to continue with this pretension, looking for the future of Catalonia, Spain and Europe.