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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 GĂźell 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,…
There is a fourteenth-century monastery at the top of Barcelona where a closed order of nuns lived from 1327, with a three-storey Gothic cloister that is one of the largest in Europe. Adults pay âŹ5.20.…
Every Barcelona Christmas guide sends you to the same outdoor markets. This one is indoors, it’s free, and it’s on Passeig de GrĂ cia â which makes it the answer to the question those guides never…
There is a shop five minutes from Barcelona Cathedral where it is Christmas in August. Käthe Wohlfahrt sits on Carrer dels Banys Nous, in the Gothic Quarter, and it sells German Christmas decorations three hundred…
Can Fisher sits directly on the sand at Bogatell, which in Barcelona means two things at once: the view is genuinely lovely, and you are about to pay beachfront prices for rice. We took both…
Everyone who comes to Barcelona thinks about the football. Almost nobody thinks about the basketball, and for a family with a sports-mad child, that’s backwards. FC Barcelona’s basketball team plays at the Palau Blaugrana, an…
Barcelona’s old town is not one place. Ciutat Vella â literally “old city” â is four distinct districts pressed together, and knowing which one you’re in is the difference between a good afternoon and three…
Quick answer For my 35th birthday, my husband gave me a session at Flotarium Barcelona. It turned out to be one of the most genuinely restorative things I’ve done in this city â and also…
We’ve stayed at Hotel Roger de Flor by Seleqtta twice, in two very different rooms. The first time we had the Presidential 360 Views room, with a jacuzzi in the room and the whole bay…
An hour inland from Barcelona, near Igualada, people fly. Not metaphorically â there are thermals over the Anoia countryside good enough that this is one of Catalonia’s centres for air sports, and you can go…
There was some time, you dreamy of a trip to Barcelona. Or, maybe you visited this beautiful city and want to come back and enjoy it again. During these times, you don´t know when you…
We moved to Barcelona in 2010 and have lived here ever since, with two children. When you arrive as a tourist you see a completely different city from the one you live in â and…
All of us know, how rich is the Spanish cuisine, with most famous paella, sangria and amazing tapas. Today I was inspired by a local food magazine to share with you some very specific Catalan…
It was a Saturday in November, sunny and not windy, which on the Barcelona seafront is the best weather there is. We’d been walking along the beach with the boys and we were hungry, and…
I’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010. Most of what I know about visiting the city, I learned by watching people get it wrong â from the queue at the Sagrada FamĂlia, from the next table…
Twenty minutes on a train from Plaça Espanya, there is a UNESCO-listed GaudĂ building with no queue. That sentence does most of the work of this article. While several thousand people a day file through…
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