The Travel Pug. Best Things To Do in Barcelona, Spain. Posted: November 20, 2024 | Last updated: March 23, 2025. #Barcelona is a city located in northeastern Spain, in the region of Catalonia.

Barcelona has closed down one of its central piers for cruise ships, which will now have to dock further out from the city center. The wharf will be transformed into public space, while cruise ...

Barcelona’s cruise-ship port is to close two of its terminals, as part of efforts to fight the city’s overtourism problem.

Taking aim at overtourism and pollution, Barcelona has banned cruise ships from docking near the city center, beginning Oct. 22. All cruise ships will have to dock at the Moll Adossat pier south ...

Barcelona will cut its cruise terminals from seven to five by 2030 to ease pressure on city infrastructure amid rising cruise ...

Nor are the changes at an end. By 2026, all cruise operations at the Port of Barcelona will be conducted out of the Moll d’Adossat docks. For that transition to take place, the port will need to close ...

I first fell for Barcelona as a teenage backpacker in the 1980s, when this was still a rough-and-tumble town, a harbor city that smelled of fish and bad plumbing. But then came the Olympic Games ...