Special Needs Activities

Barcelona is not an easy city for people with disabilities to navigate. There are narrow streets, small doorways, endless flights of stairs and few ramps. Newer hotels and the more expensive restaurants are usually equipped for wheelchair-users. Equally, most museums, buses and some metro stations are wheelchair-friendly. Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (www.tmb.net) has information on all bus and metro lines and their accessibility. For housing information, www.gencat.es/probert (Generalitat) and www.bcn.es (Ajuntament) have lists of establishments that have been adapted to suit the needs of people with disabilities. Federació ECOM (www.ecom.es) is one of the most informative associations in Barcelona, with links to transport, accommodation, sport and travel websites. If you want to get away for a few days, Valinet.org (95 491 54 44, www.valinet.org) organises personalised trips, depending on each person’s disability, to Andalusia and Extremadura, providing detailed information on hotels in the region.

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