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Bike cities is a  new system that is trying to contribute to sustainable development activities. Different cities around the world have already implemented the bike service, allowing everyone to move within a urban city without pollute!

The bike city service has born in the French city La Rochelle in 1973 when the word environment started to be pronounced. It was a labour that encouraged other cities to create the same service. Nowadays the bikes are consider as a fantastic way of transporting, considering that traffic and pollution are not an inconvenient.

Within the main bike friendly cities there are Helsinki in Finland, Leipzig and Stuttgart in Germany, Oslo in Norway, Amsterdam which is the number one of the bike cities. in France, Lyon, Paris, Montpellier and Avignon are consider as a « ville vélo » , also Valencia and Barcelona in Spain.

Source: Vélos en libre acces

© Barcelona FC

This Monday Barcelona FC receives at the Camp Nou stadium its biggest rival Real Madrid. This match is expected to bring a thousands of tourist who want to see Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo.

Knowing the importance of both clubs within the international football, people from other Spain cities as well as from abroad travel to Barcelona to enjoy of  a traditional match that is a really classic. Moreover, it is a good opportunity for those who like to visit the Barcelona FC museum and club, that receives millions of visits all along the year and that is consider within the main attractions of the city.

© Copenhagen

The European Consumers choice awards (ECA) has given the list of the best destinations for 2011. This time, consumers has chosen the Denmark’s capital after a strong competition with other European cities. The delegate of the ECA has visited each of nominated cities, then the voting was opened for 31 days letting the public have the last word.  Copenhagen has reported the first place with 2894 votes in total followed by Barcelona 2403 and Berlin in the third place with1648 of the 50 000 total votes.

Copenhagen is a city that is so involved in sustainable activities. The city has organised everything necessary for the last year Copenhagen conference on climatic change, and also has started to developed new ideas to contribute to sustainable activities.

Source:The European Consumers choice awards (ECA)