Barcelona Features

Experience Barcelona

When to Go

For optimal weather, fewer tourists, and a sense of local life as it is, the best times to visit Barcelona...

Top Attractions

The city's premier icon, Gaudí's gargantuan unfinished Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família...

Great Itineraries

Stroll the Rambla and see the colorful Boqueria market before cutting over to the Catedral de la Seu...

Top Festivals & Events

Carnaval dances through Barcelona in February just before Lent, most flamboyantly in Sitges, though Barcelona's...

Quintessential Barcelona

Few pastimes in Barcelona are more satisfying and exciting than spontaneous wandering, tippling, and...

If You Like

If, as St. Augustine wrote, music and architecture are twin arts, it should be no surprise that Barcelona's...

Barcelona Today

Capital of an ever-more-autonomous Catalonia, Barcelona continues to thrive as a bilingual (Catalan and...

Architecture in Barcelona

Barcelona's independent outlook has been spectacularly reflected in its anthology of architecture, which...

El Call: The Jewish Quarter

Its name derived from the Hebrew word qahal (meeting place, or place to be together), Barcelona's Jewish...

The Barrio Chino

Sandwiched between the Pigalle-like Avinguda del Paral.lel and the lower Rambla, Barcelona's most notorious...

Picasso's Barcelona

The city's claim to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) has been contested by Málaga (the painter's birthplace)...

Local Cuisine

Be prepared for tongue-twisting specialties such as the minimandonguilles amb tomaquet concassé...

Visitors to Spain didn't use to rank food, especially tapas, ahead of, say, Gaudí in the greater...

Catalan First, Spanish Second

Throughout a topsy-turvy history of political ups and downs, prosperity rarely abandoned Barcelona, as...

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