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Barcelona’s 1992 Olympics went down in history as a real milestone for the city. One of its most defining aspects was the creation of kilometres of artificial beaches, that stretch from Barceloneta Beach to Nova Mar Bella. The organizers of the 1992 Olympics wanted to achieve more than just a sporting legacy. Their main goal was to use the games for a huge Barcelona urban renewal plan, using public funds to improve the city’s infrastructure. The prime example is the Port Olympic seafront, which was a semi derelict area at the time. This was transformed into miles of beach, where restaurants, bars and cafes now thrive. New ports were created and new metro lines installed. Up on the hill in Montjuïc some of the most iconic Olympic venues in history were constructed and still attract thousands of visitors each year. The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys was home to local Barcelona football team RCD Espanyol and now hosts various sporting events. Palau Sant Jordi hosted the artistic gymnastics, volleyball final and handball final of the 1992 Olympics. To this day it is still used for multi-purposes, and has becoming especially popular as a music venue for big name bands and artists. One of the most iconic images from the 1992 games is the stunning backdrop to the diving competition held at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc swimming pool. As the divers prepared to dive, the spectators could see a panoramic view of Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia. This pool is open to the public in the summer, so if you’re planning a visit to Barcelona in the next few months be sure to check it out! New beaches (imagine that!), landmarks and public modern art sculptures were also a lasting legacy of the Olympics in Barcelona. One of the favourites with tourists and beach goers is Frank Gehry’s statue of a giant gold fish based close to the Casino and right by one of the regenerated beaches of Barceloneta, especially made for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The fish has become one of the symbols of post-Olympic Barcelona, it is 56 metres long and 35 metres high. The sunlight reflects perfectly in the scales of this sculpture that overlooks the waterfront of the Olympic Marina and surrounding beaches. The Barcelona Olympics changed Barcelona’s image worldwide, from a ‘local’ European city to a ‘global’ tourist city. The city attracts many thousands of new visitors and is now considered one of the top ten tourist cities in the world. Although not always popular with the locals, it is recognised (even more so in the current economic climate) that tourists are vital to this city. If it were not for the 1992 Olympics the Barcelona we know and love in could have been a very different city.
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Barcelona 1992 Cluichí Oilimpeacha chuaigh síos i stair mar chloch mhíle fíor don chathair. Ba é ceann de na is mó ar ghnéithe a shainiú a chruthú ciliméadar de thránna saorga, go stráice ó Barceloneta Trá go Nova Márta Bella. An lucht eagraithe an 1992 Cluichí Oilimpeacha ag iarraidh a níos mó ná oidhreacht spóirt a bhaint amach. A n-aidhm is mó a bhí a bhaint as na cluichí ar feadh Barcelona plean athnuachana uirbí ollmhór, ag baint úsáide as cistí poiblí chun feabhas a chur ar bhonneagar na cathrach. Is é an príomh-shampla an cladach Port Oilimpeacha, a bhí ina limistéar tréigthe leath ag an am. Bhí sé seo a chlaochlú i míle de trá, áit a rathú bialanna, barraí agus caiféanna anois. Cuireadh calafoirt nua a cruthaíodh agus línte meitreo nua suiteáilte. Suas ar an chnoc i Montjuic Tógadh cuid de na hionaid is íocónach Oilimpeacha i stair agus a mhealladh go fóill na mílte cuairteoirí gach bliain. An Olimpic Estadi Lluís Companys bhí baile chun foireann Barcelona peile áitiúil RCD Espanyol agus anois ina hóstach ar imeachtaí éagsúla spóirt. Palau Sant Jordi óstáil an gleacaíocht ealaíonta, eitpheil agus liathróid láimhe críochnaitheach deiridh an 1992 Cluichí Oilimpeacha. Go dtí an lá tá sé fós in úsáid le haghaidh il-críche, agus tá ag éirí tóir go háirithe mar ionad ceoil do bhannaí ainm mór agus ealaíontóirí. Is é ceann de na híomhánna is íocónach ó 1992 cluichí an cúlra galánta ar an gcomórtas tumadóireacht ar siúl ag an linn snámha Piscina Municipal de Montjuic. Mar an tumadóirí ullmhaithe chun tumadóireacht a dheanamh, d'fhéadfadh an lucht féachana a fheiceáil d'fhonn panoramic de Barcelona agus an Sagrada Familia. Tá an linn snámha ar oscailt don phobal i rith an tsamhraidh, mar sin má tá tú ag pleanáil ar cuairt go Barcelona sna míonna atá amach romhainn a bheith cinnte a sheiceáil amach! Bhí tránna Nua (shamhlú go!), Sainchomharthaí tíre agus deilbh ealaín nua-aimseartha poiblí chomh maith le oidhreacht bhuan de na Cluichí Oilimpeacha i mBarcelona. Is é ceann de na Favorites le turasóirí agus lucht trá dealbh Frank Gehry ar d'iasc óir ollmhór atá bunaithe in aice leis an Casino agus an ceart ag ceann de na tránna athghinte na Barceloneta, a rinneadh go háirithe le haghaidh 1992 Cluichí Oilimpeacha in Barcelona. Tá an t-iasc a bheith ar cheann de na siombailí na iar-Oilimpeacha Barcelona, tá sé 56 méadar ar fhad agus 35 méadar ar airde. Léiríonn an solas na gréine go foirfe i scálaí dealbhóireachta seo a bhreathnaíonn ar an Waterfront na Muiríne Oilimpeacha agus tránna máguaird. Na Cluichí Oilimpeacha Barcelona athraigh íomhá Barcelona ar fud an domhain, ó chathair Eorpach 'áitiúil' go cathair turasóireachta 'domhanda'. Meallann an chathair go leor mílte cuairteoirí nua agus meastar anois ar cheann de na deich barr cathracha turasóireachta ar fud an domhain. Cé nach i gcónaí tóir ag muintir na háite, aithnítear (fiú níos mó ná sin san aeráid eacnamaíochta atá ann faoi láthair) go bhfuil turasóirí ríthábhachtach chun an chathair. Más rud é nach raibh sé ar an 1992 Cluichí Oilimpeacha an Barcelona a fhios againn agus grá i d'fhéadfadh a bheith ina chathair an-difriúil.