Prestigious hotels
Hotel Ac Som 4* (Marriott)
102 rooms, 40 employees.
Hotel Fira Congress 4* (Exe)
9 floors, 160 rooms, 1,000 m2 for events, 40 employees.
Hotel Renaissance Catalonia 5* (Marriott)
27 floors, 357 rooms, 1,200 m2 for events.
Hotel Porta Fira 4* (Santos)
Japanese architect Toyo Ito – Architectural award “EMPORIS AWARD 2010”, 24 floors, 320 rooms, 800 m2 for events, 40 employees.
Hotel Hesperia Tower 4*
27 floors, 280 rooms, 5,000 m2 for events, 200 employees.
IKEA Gran Via
Inauguration: 2003
Surface area: 18,000 m2, the largest centre in Spain.
A total of 12 million visitors since 2003.
Origin of visitors: 86% from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat/Barcelona/Baix Llobregat; 6% from Tarragona, and 2% from Lleida and other Catalan provinces.
384,428 clients belong to the IKEA FAMILY loyalty club.
More than 600 members of staff, 55% of whom are women.
Fira Barcelona
Two large venues, which feature among the largest in Europe: Montjuïc and Gran Via.
400,000 m2 gross of exhibition surface area.
14 pavilions and two congress halls.
More than 500 events per year.
City of Justice
Inauguration: 2007
Comprising 8 buildings with a total surface area of 233,345 m2.
A total of 3,000 members of staff in the entire complex and more than 13,000 visitors per day.
Parking for 1,600 vehicles and auditorium for 500 people.
One of the buildings (53,062 m2) holds: 130 judicial instructional bodies; the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat courts; the courts for First Instance, trade, criminal, penitentiary, domestic violence and juvenile violence in Barcelona; the Dean and Barcelona Provincial Prosecution service, and the Catalan Institute of Legal Medicine.
Other services: Victim Support Service Office, domestic mediation and adult penal technical advisory services, and the headquarters for the Catalan Institute of Legal Medicine, among others.
Two buildings used solely for offices and commercial premises: 5,000 m2.
Fira Gran Via
Designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Eight pavilions connected by a corridor which channels visitor circulation.
Surface area: 240,000 m² gross.
Heliport: 2 helipads.
Coming soon, the opening of the integrated metro station on Line 9.