Barcelona, playground of both Gaudi and Picasso, is the second largest city in Spain with a population of more than 1.6 million people. Barcelona is bustling with markets, shops and beaches. In Barcelona, art beguiles lovers of all kinds. Architectural gems punctuate Barcelona’s rich 2,000 year history including its concentration of Gothic buildings. Stunning architecture of Barcelona’s museums and churches will make an undying impact on any visitor. Barcelona’s avant-garde chefs will make dining here a love affair with your palate. Walk along the Passeig de Gracia for a full taste of what life is in this culturally diverse.
Barcelona’s Highlight:
Sagrada Familia: This famous church is considered to be Gaudi’s masterpiece. Construction began in 1882 and is expected to be completed by 2026. The Cathedral is open for visitors to admire its stunning columns and arches.
Museu Picasso: Showcased 3800 works of art from this artist who is considered by many to be the most influential artist of the last century.
Barcelona Maritime Museum: A wide range of artifacts such as ships, maps, dioramas and items brought back by once famous World-Expeditions, are what to expect in this one of a kind museum.
Liceu: Barcelona’s famous Opera house is the second largest in Europe.
Palau de la Musica: As one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, it offers variety of choral performances. It is also the home for the Catalan Choral Society.
Camp Nou Stadium: A perfect place for football fanatics. Experience the history behind the team and players of FC Barcelona or go and watch a football match.
CosmoCaixa: It is considered by some as the best science museum in Europe. It features interactive exposition like Toca Toca (touch-touch), Clik de los Ninos (for children) and a Bubble Planetarium.
Some gleaming, towering modernist glass monolith just wouldn’t play in lovely, historic Barcelona. That’s why the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona makes its home where it does, in a classic bank building that’s the better part of a century old. The stately facade blends well with its tony Eixample surroundings, on the Passeig de Gr& ...
Architecturally-minded visitors to Barcelona can’t help but have high expectations these days — it seems every building is either an ultra-modern masterpiece or a centuries-old treasure. These expectations are more than satisfied by Hotel CRAM, a bit of both worlds: a tour de force of modern interior architecture behind an elegant 19 ...
Spacious, cool and clutter-free, the Grand Hotel Central melds the scale and efficiency of a business hotel with the textures and colors of a city-center boutique hotel. The minimalist-chic design looks immediately familiar, immaculately clean and gracefully illuminated, but is confidently handled, and finishes lengths ahead of the average minim ...
On the outside, the Neri Hotel is a weathered 18th-century palace, deep in the heart of the Gothic Quarter, overlooking St. Felip Neri Square, right alongside the cathedral. This is the historic district, dating back to Roman times, so the rakish modern architecture on display elsewhere in Barcelona is nowhere to be found. But fears of sleeping ...
This is another one to file under the heading of “only in Barcelona.” That metal skin, those modern interiors, the mini-tower construction, looking down on the rooftops of the historic Barrio Chino — it’s a perfect fit with the raucous blend of old and new for which the Catalan capital is so well known. The Barcelo Raval ...
Any doubts about whether Barcelona really is one of the world’s capitals of cool are quickly settled by a look at the boutique hotel scene. And in a city full of funky, well-designed small boutiques, the Hotel Market fits in perfectly.
It’s a hotel-restaurant, to be exact, the sort of place where the food comes first, ...
Only in architecturally adventurous Barcelona would one find a downtown grand hotel in a style like this; the Claris is a postmodern mélange of the modern and the classic, visible from a glance at the exterior—the 18th-century shell of the Verdruna Palace remains, but it’s as though the palace’s roof has been removed, an ...
Staying on La Rambla may ensure proximity to Barcelona’s waterfront, but at a price: the ubiquity of the tourist-trap tapas bars and fluorescent-lit souvenir shops quickly begins to detract from the charm of the old pedestrian streets. A ten-minute stroll (or five-euro cab ride) away in a quieter section of town is Granados 83, a fashionab ...
There’s no shortage of ultra-modern accommodations in Barcelona — it seems there’s a stylish little boutique or two on just about every street. This is a first-class city, though, and a phenomenally well-traveled destination, and so there’s always room for another good one, something like the B Hotel, just off the Plaza E ...
These days when a hotelier is stuck for a name, the safest solution is just to use the street address — it’s mysterious and blank, and avoids unwanted connotations, or any connotations at all. As it turns out, Barcelona’s Hotel 1898 is named not for its address at all, but for the year Spain lost the Philippines — in fact ...
Barcelona, already one of Europe’s hottest destinations, has in recent years consolidated its position as a worldwide culinary capital. It’s no longer just about tapas bars that stay open long after other countries have gone to bed, it’s about cutting-edge culinary experimentation as well, pushing high-end dining beyond its tra ...
There’s already a Camper shoe store on the main shopping drag of every city across Europe — it won’t be long before there’s a Camper hotel as well. Here in Barcelona’s arty El Raval district is the first of a projected chain of mid-priced boutique hotels by the Spanish-owned hipster footwear manufacturer.
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Sunlight and privacy — these are the twin motivations behind Omm's unique facade, a slab of light stone with rectangular sections peeled back like the pages of a book, revealing the guest room windows underneath. The white slab reflects the strong Catalan sun into the room, while blocking the view of passing pedestrians and absorbing a ...
Barcelona’s got some fine little boutique hotels, but in a destination this popular, there’s much more demand for high-design boutique-style accommodation than the little guys can comfortably supply. It’s no surprise, then, that some of the bigger luxury hotels would get in on the action. AC Barcelona Forum is in a spot, and on ...
There’s more to Barcelona, architecturally speaking, than just Gaudí. Hotel Bagués is a fine example, a nineteenth-century edifice in the Romantic Classical style, an aesthetic that’s as eclectic as its contradictory name would suggest. In its current incarnation it’s a luxury boutique in a style that’ll be ...
At one extreme Barcelona’s got bold avant-garde architecture and streaming Mediterranean sunshine. And at the other it’s got quiet, chic little hideaways like the Murmuri, a 53-room boutique hotel just off the Passeig de Gràcia, in Barcelona’s central Eixample district.
There’s a refreshing lack of g ...
We’re obviously partial to independent little boutiques, but we freely admit that sometimes, big is beautiful. And so it is, in the case of the Hotel Pullman Barcelona Skipper. With some 241 rooms and suites, and existing as it does under the ownership of the French hospitality giant Accor, it’s no mom-and-pop operation. But with its ...
No one could accuse The Mirror Barcelona of false advertising. With an interior aesthetic devoted to all things glass and reflective, and a radiant whiteness to the furniture and décor that borders on obsessive, this ultra-modern luxury boutique gives off a positively Kubrickian vibe. While this brand of cutting-edge crispness often comes ...
The façade of Barcelona’s Ohla Hotel blends seamlessly with the Catalan Gothic architecture that surrounds it, obscuring the fact that the interior takes its cues not from the spires and stone but from the clean lines of modern hotel minimalism. Ohla brings a ultra-personalized service and impeccable design to one of the city’ ...
The Hotel Pulitzer Barcelona is a boutique luxury hotel in Barcelona, Spain situated on Bergera street which opens on to Plaza Catalunya, the center of Barcelona.
Not to be confused with the delicate old-world Pulitzer in Amsterdam, this Pulitzer is as modern as they come, fitting effortlessly into Barcelona’s already expansive coho ...
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