BARCELONA is Spain’s CRAZIEST City - WATCH Before You Go!
foreign don't trick my buddy okay then they're gonna hassle you for money and they don't like when I record as you can see giving me the middle finger steel I just watched that girl steal the ball if you drink water you're condemned to coming back sometimes you don't need any words to describe how good something is we literally got a 47 Euro discount you guys we've discovered some sort of encampment here let's check it out Smithereens hundreds of buildings were destroying hundreds of lights were lost and hundreds more wounded Barcelona is absolutely crazy in summer it's a whole different vibe foreign 1936 there was a young Spanish military General stationed in the North African country Morocco and he attempted a massive Nationwide military coup here in the country of Spain now many of the cities were successfully overtaken with Little Resistance however the city of Barcelona and here in Las ramblas Y Plaza de Catalunya was met with heavy resistance now that military general's name was Francisco Franco so before we continue this tour I want to make sure you guys are aware of all these little scammers all throughout the city especially in this area Las ramlas Plaza Catalunya Etc there's a ton of them don't don't take picture oh what middle finger well don't trick my buddy okay they're gonna ask you for money that's why I asked them no no they say no but they want money leave them alone when you come here you want to be careful of these people behind foreign because they're gonna be nice try to take a picture with you and then they're gonna hassle you for money some could say that they're working but really they're really bothering every single tourist they come in contact with and they don't like when I record as you can see giving me the middle finger but this is a problem in Barcelona just so you guys know Franco's plan a lot of his nationalist troops right up here along the ramblas better arms better equipped and attempt to overthrow the democratically elected left-wing politicians at the time however Barcelona the capital of Catalonia has always been known to be a bit rebellious and it's the people there in 1936 the left-wing troops the anarchists the Socialist Party connected with Moscow those same people lesser equipped less equipment rebelled resisted against the Nationalist troops as they attempted to come up here and take over Plaza Catalunya they use their molative cocktails whatever rifles they could get their hands on and they resisted now I'm here in Las ramblas the famous pedestrian tourism where millions of tourists walk every year but behind the facade of this tourist zone is a long history a history where for three years the left wing resisted the Nationalist troops and a lot of blood was spilled well I want to show you guys a magical Fountain here this is the Fountain of canaletas Legend has it that if you drink water from this Fountain a fountain where all the Barcelona fans congregate to celebrate the big wins historically speaking and nowadays as well the legend says that if you drink water you're condemned to coming back to Barcelona and it's true because I've been here three times are you a Barcelona fan uh no when someone drinks water from this well you always come back always come back you're condemned to come back to the city yes I'm here every year now that's exactly what you want to avoid when you're here on Las ramblas because this place is known for pickpockets of course I was exaggerating anyways I'm back here for a couple different reasons one because the last time I filmed here I only showed like the CD underbelly of this area El graval adjacent to this quite frankly the things that actually do happen but two I'm here because I wanted to give you guys another look at Barcelona Barcelona is absolutely crazy in summer it's a whole different vibe the city is vibrant it's flowing there's a lot of things to eat a lot of things to see great weather Etc so yeah let's go around and make a video in Barcelona and show the things I didn't show in the last video vamos my buddy here is about six foot 392 centimeters so basically if he's around here at night nothing's gonna happen so I told him to go explore last night take a look see what the nightlife is like in Las Rambo so tell me what did You observe last night observed a lot so I started people trying to get me to the strip club I observe you know people trying to sell me I saw a girl stay in a corner for the dude just peeing not by a tree but by like door of a store kind of gross you know yeah so little history about La ramla the name comes from Arabic and it means dry Stream So basically this has been like the sewage kind of like yeah dirty before of course they covered it up and made it look all pretty but yeah interesting history apart from the Civil War Medieval history uh Roman pre-roman Etc but you just never know if you didn't like learn it or read about it and this is what it looks like during 2023. needless to say there's never a boring day in Las ramblas we are not good we are excellent all right hey there you go all right all right we come back we come back all right so I wonder like would it actually be a really enjoyable experience to eat here perhaps if you do like to see the people and everything but you know if you're looking for okay food I would say it's more mediocre and you can just take a look on Google reviews and see you know reviews of three stars or less so yeah do a little research and decide what you want before you come here don't be surprised if you get solicited for a wheat club or one on the street here because there's over 700 cannabis clubs in the city um yeah quite interesting pretty much legal but I kind of think it's kind of like a tourist trap because supposedly only natives like catalonians or Spanish are allowed to be members of the club yeah you have usually foreigners like Indians or pakistanis soliciting you on the street to join a club get a commission and smoke some expensive weed real weed yeah yeah uh how much you have to join the club right yeah how much join Club yeah to enter yeah membership to any Euro 20 euros oh okay thank you I'm okay all right thank you no no thanks appreciate it all right so 20 euros to join uh a cannabis club and he gets a commission I mean it's actually pretty normal but interesting now remember how I mentioned that those anarchists and communist troops fought and resisted the Nationalist troops back in 1936 there on the ramblas while there was a famous Soldier and author by the name of George Orwell now he was actually shot by a sniper in the neck and miraculously he survived and of course he went on to write the famous novels of Animal Farm in 1984 and Barcelona actually dedicated this Plaza to George Orwell in fact it's called Plaza de George Orwell and before it was named after him this actually was called the trippy Plaza because there were so many people doing drugs acid hard drugs everything they could get their hands on there was also a lot of crime and so Barcelona installed the first cameras in the city of Barcelona talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy here hold your fruit so um um no he's like down in an email see you bro that's almost the second time somebody got you I knew he was doing I've seen it before hey you're learning you're learning all right I just don't want you to learn the hard way okay oh what's that Taco Bell Taco Bell no let's go see what's there oh the erotic Museum how are you I'm doing it whoa you can record everything really you look like Marilyn Monroe yeah guys where are you from Wonderland oh Wonderland you're not you're not catalana oh everywhere wow she's Alice in Wonderland oh all right so we have a really nice museum the radic museum this is your girl she's gonna get you to come in and and maybe she'll also get you to come in you know got a very open mind so after the Spanish nationalists won the Civil War here in the year of 1939 Francisco Franco became the long-standing dictator that ruled as an ultra nationalist Ultra Catholic far-right dictator and of course many things were prohibited and deemed highly illegal among them same-sex marriage homosexuality prostitution Regional languages like Catalan Basque and galicin were completely suppressed even prohibited and destroyed in some cases but after the death of Franco Venus became a democratic country where things like art and culture and language came back places here in Catalonia and now Barcelona is like kind of like the capital for the erotic museums and shows and here we have yes Marilyn Monroe a hero in many eyes hey Emeka I found your favorite t-shirts whoa that's what Noah Meister that's not my favorite all right that's all all right what are the odds we've got Mr Donald Trump right next to his good buddy the rocket man yeah makes perfect sense what did you buy I buy some uh Kim Jong-un wait wait you're telling me that capitalism is now selling him just like Che Guevara wow those guys would not be very happy if they saw this no but also those guys all right guys well we finally made it to the good old barceloneta neighborhood we got some good live music okay guys wow what a nice Vibe here on a Tuesday night and the Beautiful Beach beneath us probably better I really like this neighborhood barceloneta the five here is is great Mac was saying it's like the California yeah like the boardwalk over there but I think even though I've never been to California I was I think this would be better I guess it depends on your on your likes so I want to tell you guys a little bit about this neighborhood La barceloneta well it was originally like a poor Fisherman's Village but has since converted to like a trendy hipster Bohemian and even expensive Beachside neighborhood and the waves here are actually pretty big a lot bigger than what you would find in Malaga and it's actually really fresh really cool a really great Vibe it smells just like the sea now inside the neighborhood you'd find a ton of places to eat lots of seafood there's a market an interesting fact about these beaches here in Barcelona is that these beaches we see here four kilometers of beaches City beaches or basically artificially made before the 1992 Olympics the Summer Olympics that were hosted here it's not that there weren't beaches before but yeah this city really became Like a Beach City since the 92 Olympics and of course the city has since really just taken off it's easily one of the most visited heuristic cities in all of Europe behind London Paris Istanbul Prague yeah it's a great place to visit and it makes sense why I mean just look at the beauty here good morning from the medieval part of Barcelona the gothic quarters now today we're going to explore some of the Curious history and dark past that lies within this Labyrinth of narrow Alleyways behind us and you know we're already up to a good start because those fake mime scammers well they aren't here today I literally watched those guys make around 30 Euros in 10 minutes yesterday pretending to be these poor people who need to help you take photos man those guys are absolutely Shameless and there's a word in Spanish I want to teach you to explain that type of thing in Spain those people are called sin verguencas so coincidentally I just run into a tour guide in Barcelona named Moises businesses play tour how would you summarize Gothic Barrio oh they got that quarter that's a good question uh it's a little bit of everything in Barcelona okay the important thing to understand about the gothic quarter is that since the very beginning this is where it all started and at the same time where the power was always concentrated okay so what does that mean you have like the old town of Barcelona you have three neighborhoods the gothic quarter was a neighborhood with a power with the church with the with a royalty okay so every decision in Barcelona was always made over here so that's uh that could be the best was a lot of the gothic quarters destroyed during the Civil War a lot of it yes right not completely but lots of things were were destroyed like for for example if you go to the cathedral you see a big Square today that one's not a square okay those were buildings that were standing over there and then of course they were taken down during the bombings can you explain a little bit about Plaza trippy trippy okay just like in English trippy yeah to a trip yep and why was that because it was a famous uh the famous Square where a lot of people who had addictions they would gather over there okay and the trip is where also a fun fact about it is that it is the first Square in Barcelona to have video surveillance okay that's why it's also called the Jordan football Square 1984. the reason why you cannot drink outside in Barcelona today is because you shouldn't have glass because back in the day they would throw the glass bottles at you in that square so it wasn't it wasn't so good today it's just fine to go around there my personal Instagram is at Big by Moy p-i-c-b-y-m-o-i we're in the Plaza del Rey or King Square now this place is basically one of the most important places in Spanish history at first this belonged to the counts of Barcelona and then the kings of Aragon one of those kings Fernando II married and United Spain by marrying Isabelle the first of Castile Real Game of Thrones [ __ ] and it said that right here on these very steps they received Christopher Columbus after his first voyage returning from the Americas doing the unthinkable here we have a bridge that joins the two buildings and it said that if you come here and you walk under it you have good luck so I need a good luck for my tour in Barcelona that's why I came here now I'm saved maybe I should see one of those YouTubers who just walks around and never shows their face I mean those videos get a lot of views sometimes well like I said Barcelona is absolutely crazy in summer we have a bunch of tourists pushing the Bus Let's help them luego we finally made it to the top of Mount bonjour next to Castleman jewick for Barcelona so this is known as a castle of verguins or the castle of shame because many wars have passed through here many battles many deaths have occurred none other than the president of Catalunya in the year 1940. approximately five months after the end of the Civil War Franco rounded up all the left-wing leaders he either imprisoned them starved them beat them or Worse executed them and that President Luis cambai he was executed here and proudly he decided not to be blindfolded to Stand Here Barefoot and to scream two last words before his death for Catalunya all right you guys we're gonna take the cable car was actually only 10 euros not so bad it's a very modern one check it out and I got some surprises for you on the way down we're gonna get some great views of the city so uh let's go remember how I said the Nationalist troops try to take over Plaza Catalunya through the ramblas and the left wing the Communists the anarchists defended the city ferociously well as a result the Nationalist military and Franco decided to bomb the city to Smithereens with the help of the Italians and Mussolini and Hitler of Nazi Germany so if you can imagine in the year 1938 you would have seen a lot of fireworks show down there in the center of the city the historic Center but instead of a celebration the city was being bombed Smithereens hundreds of buildings were destroyed hundreds of lights were lost and hundreds more wounded and that's why all throughout the city bomb shelters were set up everywhere in the abandoned Metro stations and the bunkers and the distance there turrets were made anti-aircraft guns were set up all around the city and this was pretty much a total war zone and of course a lot of the City was destroyed well we're here at this little Park this little uh bar restaurant area here I got myself a turia and for the first time in like two days I've been here in Catalan and Spanish because these seem to be locals behind us because if you're in the center of the city the historic Center Etc you only seem to hear English or other foreign languages it's like I've never been to a more touristic City in my life it's ridiculous and that's because around one-third of the population of Barcelona is made up of people that aren't born or from Barcelona I mean literally there's nowhere else in Spain like this and here we have a great View see how you guys cheers this is atturia good beer by the way all right you guys we've discovered some sort of encampment here let's check it out wow oh hello this is a camping site can I see whoa oh it's actually really cool wow nice oh shut up wow very nice not a problem I live here ah Chevrolet nice to meet you okay this is a only um in one situation for for my side because it's so I'm losing my documents my everything where are you from I am from Colombia the the Bosque the yeah the forest yeah like one camping yeah because you can lose my documents my passport and finish one relation and living with my ex in this moment I'll lose my peace or a camping like this or a living room automatic sleeping in the street yeah there is two schools sure of children and they oh wow nice normally training and how do you earn money if I can ask I am police system from Argentina Market in Italian foreign all right well it looked like a military encampment but just a little makeshift tent here and actually the guy seemed really nice and perhaps he is in a really tough situation like probably thousands of people here in Barcelona hustling on the street and that's actually one of the reasons that crime is rather high in this city because unemployment is dismal it's really bad in Spain in general there's just no jobs especially if you're immigrant or someone who lost your papers yeah not an easy situation however that seemed like a pretty good living situation compared to living on the street and the crime-ridden neighborhood of El ravalo I already have a video that he had his kids there yeah all right don't know what to say not an easy situation but uh it really just looked like a nice campsite to me and now we're gonna enter back down into El raval okay all right and I like this neighborhood because yeah it's really hip trendy but it's also like a bit local we're entering the dinner hour and yeah there's just a lot of people walking here on like a Wednesday night they don't neces see okay so I guess this neighborhood has a lot of Latinos in it Dominican South Americans Caribbeans Venezuelans I don't think it's a very cheap neighborhood because we're so close to the Sun tons of places to eat I like it Carrie do you like this Barrio similar to my street with we got the local footballistas let's go let's go oh save can the goalie hold can the goalie hold I don't know let's go are you ready listo vamos oh with the same movie SOS third attempt Mr blue shirt can he get it foreign that's Lego City wow I'm really like flipping out because this girl said she's equatorian and she looks the part but she has the accent from here it's like so cool we're gonna eat here I absolutely love this concept and this is actually a foreshadow would succumb on the next video or videos that we're going to be making up north and Northern Spain in Basque Country look at all these Pinchos here you just basically grab whatever one you want and they're like 250 a piece but you have so much variety you got the beer here check it out absolutely delicious what I like about it is that you can see what you're gonna eat you can see how much it costs there's no tricks no scams as I say in Spanish no BS really cool area to eat as the sun goes down here now we're back in one of the most visited areas of Barcelona the Sagrada Familia perhaps most emblematic structure in the whole city started in 1882 the first frick was laid in 1883 and it still hasn't finished they say it will be finished in the year 2026 but you never know in Spain comote Senti como entrando esta Maria yes no I think one of the most intriguing things about this massive structure behind us is that Barcelona is kind of like the capital of like anti-establishment at least in Spain anti-establishment rebellious in nature atheism communism Etc yeah and this is like the Pinnacle of the Catholic World in fact my girlfriend said that this impressed her more than the Vatican in Rome if you knew this is what Barcelona and the sergata Familia would be like in 2023. hey
see this is Australia I want to give you guys a little uh tourist tip so we came to I think the neighborhood of Gracia or at least we're close to Metro Gracia we've downloaded the app called fork and this app helps you find discounts major discount on food all over the cities in Spain we're gonna get some lunch now at a place that's like pretty Gourmet so we're gonna be eating like kings while we get out of the tourist infested zone of the old city looks fancy let's go check it out wow Carrie to see whining and dining at half the price when I met Alia he was a wild beast what's bad hey hey every Beast needs a beauty I'm out Now not no longer a beast I've been tamed by the beauty so let me show you we have atun Rojo from Taris the Atlantic this is lamb Cordero and ameka you've got octopus yeah all right now you guys this plates would be normally 22 24 26 Euros they're not big but they're very very high quality but again we got them for half off 50 off so this is 12 euros this is 14 euros and that is whatever it is not expensive gotta download the app fork and you're gonna eat like a king look at just how this melts I barely am touching the meat oh okay okay oh okay oh wow look at that I feel like my buddy traveled at a guy wow wow so tender yeah guys it's delicious absolutely delicious shout out to travel attic guy he's up in Poland now now this is from barbate you guys we were in Katy so you guys saw on the previous videos we didn't get a chance to try this atunrojo which is famous in the Atlantic off the coast of barbate I guess I'll try it's got a Tangy sauce and some coriander seeds delicious it doesn't actually taste that tuna very tender really really good oh damn sometimes you don't need any words to describe how good something is oh my goodness wow you guys we just ate I want to teach you under Lucy in Spanish even though we're in Catalonia we paid 81 Euros for three main dishes one entree five beers one glass of wine and the best dessert we've ever had we literally got a 47 Euro discount take a look at that Madre Mia I need a siesta yes I'm so so happy because like we get a good quality and good brand and good attention if you guys went to the Ramblers right and you got one of those crappy restaurants there that are all tourist traps perhaps you would have spent 80 Euros on trash hey I'm ecca it's a Starbucks man you're right at home yeah nah man this is not for me this is for basic towards right I'm gonna put a real deal not this Americanized Garden hey what's up there's a problem in Barcelona big buckets really legrones it's actually a problem here a really problem a real problem in particular and where is always aware yeah always aware it's not a Bayonne City no you won't find violence okay but you better take care of your things yeah you're enjoying the variety of occasions you don't want to have a bad time if you lose this you're screwed like you're kind of done for it so I make sure that my head good for you like are you coming here like this it's like no he's a good tourist no he's smart he's smart guy hey gracias right all right thank you thank you what did I tell you guys it isn't a violent city but there is a lot of pickpockets so for those of you who care Barcelona is the only city to be awarded the Royal gold medal of architecture by The Institute of British Architects look it even she thinks it's Royal gold I'm Echo Carrie architecture architecture oh my God foreign why steal I just watched that girl steal the ball for real yes dude I watched her throw trash walk in the Barcelona store and just steal that ball off the player oh that's crazy okay so yeah there's a lot of trash people who like to steal in Barcelona I just witnessed she gave no F's all right you guys well it's getting dark and Carrie and I we gotta get back to our hotel or our friend's house because tomorrow we have an adventure awaiting us but yeah I've had a great time in Barcelona the truth is it's like impossible to record everything in the city there's just so much to offer yeah I could make so many videos it's not even funny how many videos I can make but I do want to recommend a channel Patrick in Barcelona I'll put it in the description if you want to see more about Barcelona because he's based here and I'm saying goodbye to my friend the mecca so yeah it's getting dark here so I'm getting less visible right now but uh all right thanks for visiting me yeah America I'm very good so yes sir peace out from Barcelona
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