subject: Accommodation Options In Barcelona [print this page] During the last years, Barcelona has become one of the most attractive cities in Europe. The 1992 Olympic Games put Barcelona on the world map; they gave the city important brand visibility and were the perfect pretext to entirely modernise its infrastructure.
The Games were the starting point, but later on the city has maintained its frenetic rhythm: the port and the airport were expanded and modernised, road accesses were improved, universities, research centres and health infrastructure were developed.
In addition, Barcelona became a city for persons, with wide pedestrian areas, an increasing network of bikelanes, popular and well-kept beaches, good schools and hospitals and a great range of activities for all ages. Add an unbeatable architecture and a perfect climate, to quote the Monocle magazine, promoter of the Urban Quality of Life Index, and it wont surprise that Barcelona apartments attracts more and more tourists and qualified workers. Another recognised index, Cushman & Wakefields European Cities Monitor, that classifies the attractiveness of cities for doing business, reflects Barcelonas evolution, that has gone up from position 11 in 1990 to 4 in 2009, only behind London, Paris and Frankfurt.
In 2005 Aspasios identified a deficiency in the city: the offer of Barcelona monthly rental apartment, and more particularly the offer of furnished luxury flats, was not sufficient to cover the increasing demand by investigators, postgraduate students, entrepreneurs, expat managers and, more in general, highly qualified professionals and their families. Five years later, Aspasios offers accommodation Barcelona solutions with a varied portfolio of almost 150 apartments, from small, functional and inexpensive studios to villas with swimming pool and squash court. Aspasios business covers varied accommodation necessities and at the same time strengthens the supply of services in Barcelona, thus contributing to reinforce its global positioning.
