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.
If you’re in Barcelona on 5 January with children, cancel whatever else you had planned. The Cavalcada de Reis is the biggest children’s event of the year here — bigger than Christmas Day, which in…
We moved to Barcelona in 2010 and have raised two boys here. This is the guide I send people when they ask what to do, written from living here rather than visiting. It covers the…
We’ve done Christmas in Barcelona every year since 2010. Some of it is genuinely magical. Some of it is a crowded street with a €6 hot chocolate and a child who wants to go home.…
On 23 April, every year, Barcelona fills with book stalls and rose sellers, and the tradition is that you give a book and a rose to the people you love. And everybody goes to work.…
Quick answer Planning the bus day: tickets and hotels near the stops BUS TICKET · 24 OR 48 HOURSBarcelona City Tour – both routes on one ticket, and cheaper online than at the stop. Also…
Quick answer Living in Barcelona means we’re always looking for new family plans in a city we already know well. So when Big Fun Museum invited us to visit, we turned it into a Sunday…
Quick verdict I’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010 and I still get asked the same question every time someone visits: what do we actually do? This is my answer, organised the way you’ll walk it…
Getting Around 2025 This is an updated post about Barcelona. I hope you will find this article about Barcelona very usefull, once you come to visit this stunning city. Barcelona is the best city we have ever…
We’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010 and our two boys have grown up doing these things. If you have three or four days here with children and you want the shortlist rather than the full…
Our two sons live for basketball, and over the last few summers we’ve done the camp circuit the way most parents do: some research, some guesswork, and some money we’d spend differently next time. Damian…
Almost every visitor to Barcelona thinks about seeing flamenco, and almost every article about it tells you it was passionate and mesmerising without telling you what it costs or when it starts. We went to…
Everyone in Barcelona goes to see GaudĂ. The best building in the city was designed by someone else. The Palau de la MĂşsica Catalana is a working concert hall by LluĂs Domènech i Montaner, finished…
Quick answer Our two Barcelona hotel picks Boutique pick · EixampleThe Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection – a boutique hotel in central Barcelona. Check prices Rooftop terrace · Via LaietanaH10 Cubik – by the Gothic…
Quick answer Is Barcelona expensive? The honest answer after fifteen years here: the tickets are, the city isn’t. Sagrada FamĂlia is €26 a head, Casa BatllĂł around €35, and Park GĂĽell’s Monumental Zone on top…
We went to Symphony at CaixaForum after a morning on the Las Golondrinas boat, and I want to start with the thing most write-ups get wrong — including, until now, mine. Symphony is not an…
Barcelona, a city known for its vibrant culture, stunning architecture, and beautiful coastline, offers some truly unforgettable experiences. One of the most unique ways to see the city is by taking a scenic boat ride…
Quick answer Barcelona’s natural history museum sits out at the Fòrum, in a building that looks like a rusted triangle dropped on the seafront. It’s further out than most visitors go, which is exactly why…
We found this library by chance, because we have local friends who knew about it, and proposed us to go here and visit it. It is true, that a lot of locals don’t know about…
Most people in Barcelona walk past Palau GĂĽell without going in. It sits on a narrow street just off the bottom of La Rambla, it has no spires and no queue snaking round the block,…
El Nacional is a 2,600-square-metre hall off Passeig de GrĂ cia with four restaurants and four bars inside it, sharing one enormous modernist room. It was a theatre, then a leather tannery, then a car dealership,…