Welcome to the aquarium (Barcelona, Spain)!

In the aquarium (Barcelona, Spain) L'Aquàrium de Barcelona, tourists arrive daily. Expositions of the aqua complex work on weekdays and weekends. From Monday to Friday in the aquarium (Barcelona, Old Port, Mall of Spain) L'Aquàrium de Barcelona you can come at half past nine in the morning.

The aquarium closes at nine o'clock in the afternoon. At the peak of the tourist season, which in Spain falls on the summer months, the oceanarium completes its work at eleven o'clock in the morning.

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The cost of admission to the Aquarium of Barcelona (L'Aquàrium de Barcelona) is twenty euros. There are solid discounts for pensioners and children who are not yet ten years old. Fifteen euros - the cost of the entrance for babies in the aquarium. Barcelona is a city where people love and care for children!

Transport accessibility

Looking for a map of the oceanarium in Barcelona? How to get to aquamir, will prompt numerous signs and local residents. You can come here by sightseeing bus or by yourself using the public transport of Barcelona.

The nearest metro stations are Dracasset and Barceloneta. The name of the tourist bus stop is "Blava".

Aquarium

The structure of the oceanarium is amazing in its scope. In the park there are thirty-five independent aquariums. They contain in full accordance with the natural conditions of more than ten thousand units of the rarest fish inhabiting the southern and northern seas. In total, there are four hundred and fifty species.

Each aquarium has a unique thematic design, which tells of the natural habitat of fish that are contained in this tank. The heart of the aquamir is a glass tunnel that pierces a giant aquarium. Its length is eighty meters.

It is laid in the very center of the aquarium. The floor of the glass corridor is a moving path, realized in the manner of a travolator. She slowly and slowly moves the guests of the oceanarium from one part of the tank to the other.

The largest aquarium aquarium has a diameter of thirty-six meters. The depth of this tank is five meters! It contains more than four million liters of sea water. This giant aquarium contains the largest inhabitants of the sea depths, such as rays and moray eels, sharks and other no less dangerous and intimidating underwater predators.

Inhabitants of the sea depths

The basis of the exposure of the underwater world of the oceanarium is the inhabitants of the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to the traditional fish and marine representatives for this area, aquariums also had a place for the inhabitants of the Australian reefs, the fish of the Caribbean and Red Seas.

In a separate section, the creators of the aquarium identified a family of invertebrates. They are demonstrated in all its glory in the framework of a separate stand where you can see oysters, octopuses, sea mollusks, snails and squid.

History

The operating oceanarium in Spain (Barcelona, Port Vell) L'Aquàrium de Barcelona was established in 1995. According to the idea, Aquamir was supposed to become not only a center of entertainment and family recreation, but also an integrated base for studying underwater life. For the construction of an aquarium near the central coast of the city, an artificial island was built on which the oceanarium was located.