Activities at Gran Hotel La Florida or nearby

• Accommodations:

  • 55 rooms & 22 suites

  • Some of the rooms offer breathtaking panoramic views over the city of Barcelona and the Mediterranean Sea

  • Designer suites with Jacuzzis, private gardens and terraces

  • Complimentary access to ZenZone SPA and Fitness centre

  • Inter-connecting and adjoining rooms available

  • Rooms adapted for people with disabilities

  • Wifi Internet access (free)

  • Private minibar

• Dining options:

  • Restaurant Orangerie - Offering the freshest and finest ingredients of Mediterranean cuisine; extensive selection of more than 350 wines; unbeatable views over Barcelona. Outdoor terraces - some of which are by the pool - contribute to the dining experience par excellence.

  • Miramar Bar - Located outside the hotel next to the swimming pool, with magnificent views over Barcelona, where both hotel guests and visitors can enjoy light meals and refreshing drinks during the day and long drinks and cocktails at night.

  • Lobby Lounge - Enjoy a wide selection of teas and coffees, wines and tapas in an refined ambience. Located on the lobby level, the lounge also provides a wonderful haven for reading and relaxing.

• Meeting facilities:

  • 3 Executive Garden meeting rooms (46m2-115m2) with a capacity for 35 to 90 people, all of them with natural daylight, private terrace and garden.

  • All meeting rooms are equipped with LCD projector, wireless free Internet connections and IDSL lines.

  • The Tibidabo Room (75m2), for up to 60-70 people, equipped with LCD projector, screen, internet access, DVD, sound system…

• Sports/Relaxation facilities and services:

  • ZenZone SPA, including sauna, steam bath, pressure showers, ice fountain, Jacuzzi, four treatment rooms, and an extensive menu of beauty treatments and massages

  • Heated indoor/outdoor 37-metre stainless steel swimming pool

  • 24-hour fitness centre

• Other facilities or services:

  • Daytime complimentary minivan shuttle service to and from the city centre

  • Private transportation to and from Barcelona airport on request

  • Children services, including baby sitting upon request

  • Use of the property's private Mini automobile available upon request

  • Covered parking

  • Valet parking

A UNIQUE SETTING FOR ART & DESIGN

Gran Hotel La Florida is a unique setting where you can contemplate true works of art including sculptures and suites designed by internationally recognized artists.

The award winning designer Dale Keller and his wife Patricia handled much of the interior design of the hotel with their usual flair. Keller is the mind behind many of the world’s greatest hotels including Aman Nusa and the Four Seasons Resort in Bali.

The old charm of the hotel and its fabulous history are brought to life through beautifully presented antique photographs of the hotel and its surroundings, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. These photos and antique engravings adorn the guest rooms and corridors of the renovated areas of the Gran Hotel.

In juxtaposition, the new areas of the hotel boast contemporary art, bringing to life the Barcelona of the 21st century. Prints of paintings by Gabriele Fettolini adorn guest rooms, while artistic photographs of the Casa Mila rooftop by Manel Armengol face out o­nto the courtyard atrium.

In the swimming pool & jacuzzi area, a long wall of projected interactive visual effects was especially designed for the Gran Hotel La Florida. This intriguing piece of high-tech art offers a relaxing backdrop by day and a dramatic setting for late-night dancing.

Throughout the hotel we see the Catalan artist Isabel Cruellas’ signature flowers, commissioned for the grand inauguration. These stunning paintings bring to life the “modernism” ambience of the hotel’s great spaces.

ABOUT BARCELONA

Not since the 14th century, when the Catalan capital was the most powerful city in the Mediterranean, has Barcelona's future looked so promising. The catalysts for change have been many. The first -- political -- was in 1975, when General Francisco Franco, who had systematically and often brutally tried to eradicate the treasured Catalan language and culture, died. The city in turn started to live and breathe again independently. Today Barcelona is a proud, bilingual metropolis with street signs, newspapers, and television programs in both Catalan and Spanish. In 2006, a progressive statute granted an even greater degree of self-rule to the whole region.

The second -- more cosmetic -- catalyst came just before the 1992 Olympic Games, when feverish renovation work changed the city's image from that of a drab, gray burg to a new gleaming metropolis. The Barri Gòtic, many of whose central medieval buildings had for countless decades been coated with grime, could at last be seen in all its pristine glory, with newly sandblasted facades quietly glowing in the light of the quarter's atmospheric narrow alleys. The waterfront, once lined with large oily containers and sad-looking palm trees, was transformed into an open, sunlit area of promenades, marinas, and modern restaurants stretching several kilometers from beachside Barceloneta via the Vila Olímpica and the 2004 Forum site to Sant Adrià de Besòs

Suddenly Barcelona has become the weekender capital of Europe. Visitors jet in on low-cost flights for the fun lifestyle, superb Mediterranean climate, and an unrivalled location that offers easy access to the delectable coves of the Costa Brava, scenic mountain trails of the Pyrénées, historic cities of Gerona and Tarragona, and wealth of Gothic and Romanesque monuments that fill the countryside.

They also come to see Barcelona's many offerings in the world of art, architecture, and haute cuisine: the Picassos, Dalís, Tàpies, and Mirós; the moderniste extravaganzas of Gaudí and modern eccentricities of Gehry and Nouvel; and Ferran Adrià's "New Catalan Cuisine," lauded even by the French and spearheading a culinary revival that's resulted in half a dozen Michelin rated restaurants to date.

Yet for all its outward changes the city remains at heart what it's always been: practical, businesslike, proletarian, nonconformist, rebellious, artistic, and unabashedly hedonistic. It's a heady, complex blend that has survived many a dark time and whose freewheeling Mediterranean spirit is epitomized in the bustling Rambla avenue, which runs all the way down to the port from Plaza Cataluña along the source of a former riverbed. All this makes for a spirit as communal and sociable as the city's traditional Sardana dance, in which no one leads and no one follows and everyone moves together in unison.