My name is Marta, and I'm a Barcelona NATIVE and CERTIFIED tourguide. My clients say I'm very knowledgeable and professional, but also FUN, welcoming and caring for the details.

I have been always IN LOVE with my city, since my highschool years when a couple of great teachers contagiated me their PASSION for our history and architecture.

Although I look younger than I am (thanks to my mother's genes!), I started giving tours in 2000 when I passed the exam to be an oficial local tourguide. Little earlier I got hired at the Sagrada Familia Church, Gaudí's masterpiece, to be one of their protocol tourguides. I worked there for 2.5 before I quitted to become a FULLTIME FREELANCE tourguide.
Since then I've worked for some of the BEST local travel agencies and few LUXURY and GOURMET US agencies, and the concierges at the TOP Barcelona hotels (Arts, Casa Fuster, Florida...) know me well. Also those at the new hotels recently open such as W and Mandarin are starting to find my face familiar too!

I've SPECIALIZED IN PRIVATE TOURS for couples, families and small groups travelling together (friends or coworkers), and I love it! Having different people every day forces me to deliver a DIFFERENT itinerary everyday, and to adapt my explanations to different interests and styles. I've learnt to be PERSONABLE and adaptable, and I've got now many resources to make my tours FLOW.
This is why I've received many thank you letters, old clients often refer me to other people and even some of them have become friends.

I'm also very VERSATILE: I'm one of the few certified tourguides offering EPICUREAN tours (markets, food stores, tapas tours...), I can also give GARDEN tours (my grandmother passed me her love for nature), and I've got also a lot of experience showing the local JEWISH heritage.

My job also allows me to feel the CITY HEARTBEAT and be on the loop on what's up in town. And I love SHARING it with my clients! I know all the little cozy caffes, and all the chocolate and cakes stores in town, and I have a long list of favorite restaurants of all kinds!

I personally move around the city by subway and bus, but I'm used to giving tours on taxi or with drivers, so I know all the shortcuts and how to move around the city EFFICIENTLY, so we make the most out of our time together.

Also, as a certified guide I'm allowed to SKIP THE LINES to enter museums and other sites. That saves a lot of time, and in some places we'll even be given a reduced tourguide fee!

"I'm a TRAVELLER that has been to many countries in Europe (France, England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Norway, Sweeden, Finland, Hongary, Croatia, Russia...), the US (Florida, California and NYC) and the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Syria). And many more places are still in my wish list!
So I know what it is to be in a foreign country where you might not speak the language nor know much about the customs. And I know sometimes you want to see as much as possible, but sometimes you can be tired, sometimes you want to learn as much as possible about a place and sometimes you just need to get the feel of it. I've developped an ability to be sensitive about people's wishes and concerns, their energy levels and SAFETY.
And I know that when I travel I also don't want to feel like a tourist but rather like a traveller and I want to INTERACT with the locals and get in touch with their world so it might start feeling a bit like being home.

That's what I always try to give to my clients, and I've become quite EMPATHIC: I'm good at grasping my clients needs and giving them what they really want.Because there is a Barcelona for every visitor!"

- Official Tourguide licensed issued in 2000 by the Generalitat Catalan Government.
- University Degree on Translation and Foreign Languages, issued in 1998 by the Autonomous University of Barcelona

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