What do you think to make your vacation more relax than it should be ? In spite that you are in this city for your holiday, you spend time to walk, to look for souvenirs, to take pictures, to visit museums, to stay alert about pickpockets… At the end, your body and your mind don’t rest correctly; of course you are less stress than your normal day but even during your holiday, you may need to be more relaxed than usual. When I go somewhere, I always try to have a massage for 1 hour minimum, not every day but at least one time during my stay. It is a good way for me to feel “well and renew”. If you are like me, there are a lot of places where

you can go to have a simple or a special massage. During summer time, you will see a lot of asian girls passing in the beach offering, to the person who wants, a massage and if I have good memory, the price is between 5 and 10 euros, I think more around 5 euros.

Until now, I never use their service so if you prefer a place not so open, you can go to some clinic where you will have the choice between the classic massage, the chocolate massage, the diamond massage…

Some medical research has shown that the massage benefits:

• pain relief,
• reduced trait anxiety and depression,
• temporarily reduced blood pressure,
• heart rate
• and state anxiety

Moreover, some theories have been said about the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system which may stimulate the release of endorphins and serotonin and by this way:

• to prevent fibrosis or scar tissue,
• to increase the flow of lymph
• and to improve sleep

Of course, the best is to follow a treatment if we want to benefit to all those advantages in long term but the main goal of an occasional massage, it is to relax our muscles and to feel good after.

If you don’t want to spend a lot of money, instead to go to a clinic, you can go to a chinese haircut place. Indeed, majority of haircut owned by a chinese, they have a room for massage and they do the traditional one so no chocolate, no diamond…

There are few in the downtown, you will have more luck to find one around plaza tetuan:

• by going down passeig de sant joan street from plaza tetuan until arc of triumph place
• by going diputacion street near plaza tetuan to passeig de gracia street
• by going up roger de flor street near plaza tetuan to diagonal street

In the contrary, you will find more clinics near the downtown in passeig de gracia street, rambla de catalunya street and in diagonal street.

But before to look for one of them, don’t forget to check first your hotel because some have a SPA service which includes a massage session.

 

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