District #1 Barceloneta

This district in Barcelona is the beach portion of the city. It is a very touristy part of Barcelona and has a lot of great restaurants and bars to enjoy. When heading over to the beach , I was expecting a small area around a harbor that would have a few restaurants. I ended up being happy with my experience due to the fact that it had more of a beach town feel, with lots of people everywhere. Besides just the restaurants, there are vendors everywhere that were selling knockoff items such as Gucci and Ray Band. My favorite part about this area was the fact that there was a casino right on the beach. The total population of this district is 24,508 people. The people around here were rude to me when I tried to talk to me. I do not know any Catalan, so when trying to communicate with locals, they could not fully understand me and ended up treating me in a rude way. From what I could tell about the cultural customs in this district, was that everyone here was a big beach body, and that the people that worked around here were mainly vendors that tried to sell things to tourist. The cost of getting an apartment near the beach here from what I could see was around 300,000 Euro’s for a 1-2 bedroom apartment. Here are some pictures from my excursion into this neighborhood.