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Every Barcelona Christmas guide sends you to the same outdoor markets. This one is indoors, it’s free, and it’s on Passeig de Gràcia — 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 — literally “old city” — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — from the queue at the Sagrada Família, from the next table…
Twenty minutes on a train from Plaça Espanya, there is a UNESCO-listed Gaudí building with no queue. That sentence does most of the work of this article. While several thousand people a day file through…
Besalú looks like a film set, and the odd thing is that nobody has filmed there. You cross a fortified twelfth-century bridge over the river Fluvià — seven uneven arches, two towers and a gatehouse…
Quick answer We’ve been coming to Ciutadella since the boys could walk, and it’s still the park I send visiting families to first. Seventy acres of it, free, ten minutes from the Gothic Quarter, with…
Quick answer AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR WITH KIDS IN BARCELONA. WALKING TOUR OF BARCELONA HOW TO MOVE AROUND IN BARCELONA? The most instagrammable places in Barcelona. 1. Parc Güell Parc Güell is that kind of place,…
Quick answer One day in Barcelona is not enough, and that’s fine — plenty of people get exactly one, off a cruise ship or between flights, and the question isn’t whether it’s enough but how…
Quick answer Four days is the length where Barcelona starts working properly. Three days covers the sights; the fourth is what lets you leave the city for a day without feeling you’ve stolen time from…
Quick answer We’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010, and the single thing visitors most reliably get wrong here isn’t which sights to see — it’s which ticket to buy. Most people either overpay for a…