Always wondered what Barcelona can give to a tourist. We invite you to visit all of ours Barcelona dedicated articles. There you can find main sights and wondering if there still places to visit. Looking to step off the beaten track and get into the local rhythm? Or maybe you just want to escape the tourist crowds? We try to cover all your wonderlust feeling, whatever your interests, whatever the weather and of course all tips are for travellers with kids.
I’ll start with the thing every other article leaves out: Cadaqués is about two and a half hours from Barcelona, there is no train, and the road in ends with a mountain pass. That’s five…
Girona is thirty-eight minutes from Barcelona on the fast train, which means you can leave after breakfast, climb a medieval wall, stand inside the widest Gothic nave in the world, and be back in the…
An hour and a half inland from Barcelona there’s a town called Igualada where you can fly three different ways — a paraglider, a glider, or a hot-air balloon. And in Barcelona itself, the municipal…
Every “best restaurants in Barcelona” list is written by someone who was here for four days. We’ve lived here since 2010, and this is the honest version: the places we take visitors, the places we…
Barcelona sits in a bowl between the sea and a ridge of hills, which means it has more good viewpoints than almost any city its size, and most of them are free. It also means…
It rains about 55 days a year in Barcelona, and when it does it tends to do it properly — heavy, sudden, and for a few hours rather than all day. If one of those…
I’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010. Before that, and for fourteen years afterwards, I worked as an account manager for a major online travel agency, looking after hotel portfolios across Spain — including this coast.…
Montserrat is the day trip everyone takes from Barcelona, and the one most people get needlessly wrong before they’ve even left the city — because there are four ways to get up the mountain, three…
Bunkers del Carmel: Barcelona’s Best View, and the Sunset Rule Nobody Mentions The Bunkers del Carmel have the best view in Barcelona. Not the best famous view — the best view, full stop. You stand…
What a Week in Barcelona Really Costs a Family of Four Every “how much does Barcelona cost” article I’ve read gives you a range. Eighty to two hundred euros a day. Which is useless, because…
Tap the square icon in the top corner to open this map in the Google Maps app and save it offline. Most Barcelona maps show you pins. They don’t tell you the thing you actually…
Rupit has 280 residents, sits on a rock in the mountains of inland Catalonia, and you can walk the whole village in an hour. We took three hours, because we had three children and there…
One weekend every October, more than 250 buildings across Barcelona open their doors for free — including a great many you cannot get into on any other day of the year. The 48h Open House…
Quick answer MNAC is the enormous domed palace at the top of the steps above Plaça d’Espanya that everyone photographs and almost nobody goes into. But during pandemics, with everything closed, once we were allowed…
Quick answer I went with our kids twice, once on the first Sunday of the month during pandemics, and the second time with kids and my parents who came to Barcelona. Both times we went…
Quick answer We visited this place during pandemics, when it was possible to move around Barcelona city. Here to mention, that the price was different then for us. On the other hand, this was our…
Quick answer The two tickets, and which one you want Ticket Over 120 cm 90–120 cm Over 60 Entrance (whole park) €39.00 €15.50 €11.70 Panoramic (emblematic rides + views) €21.50 €11.80 €9.10 Single ride, one…
Quick answer Where to stay in Barcelona — our three picks Budget · GràciaGenerator Barcelona – private family rooms at hostel prices, five minutes from Passeig de Gràcia and metro Diagonal (L3/L5). Rooms are small…
Quick answer Where to stay in Barcelona — our three picks Budget · GràciaGenerator Barcelona – private family rooms at hostel prices, five minutes from Passeig de Gràcia and metro Diagonal (L3/L5). Rooms are small…
Every winter we watch tourists walk down Passeig de Gràcia in t-shirts, and every winter I want to stop them. Barcelona in winter is mild compared to London, Oslo or Paris — it rarely drops…