Barcelona
Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, combining Gaudí’s architecture with beaches, tapas bars and a lively street life. Explore the Gothic Quarter, take the cable car up Montjuïc and visit the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Architecture lovers should see Casa Vicens, Casa Amatller and the Palau de la Música Catalana, while art fans head to the Picasso Museum. Football fans can tour Camp Nou. Start planning with our Barcelona travel guide.
Monuments in Spain
The story of Casa Amatller - A chocolate fortune, a Flemish gable and a home frozen in 1900
Next door, the crowds queue for a dragon. Here, a chocolate maker's family left their slippers, cameras and teacups exactly where they were.Casa Amatller is the house that chocolate...
Natural Attractions in Spain
First visit to Park Güell? The Monumental Zone, the dragon stairs and the best entrance
What do a failed housing estate, a mosaic dragon and a bench that snakes for more than 100...
Monuments in Spain
Best time to visit Barcelona Cathedral - Free worship hours, the rooftop terraces and the thirteen geese
Thirteen white geese patrol a Gothic cloister in the middle of a city of almost two million people....
Monuments in Spain
Should you book a guided tour of Palau de la Música Catalana? The stained-glass skylight, the stage muses and how to see a concert
Most concert halls switch off the daylight before the music starts. This one was built to let the...
Museums and Art Galleries in Spain
MNAC map and route - Romanesque apses, Gaudí furniture and a rooftop over Barcelona
Some of the paintings inside were peeled off church walls high in the Pyrenees, rolled up and carried...
Inside Poble Espanyol - 117 buildings from across Spain, craft workshops and flamenco on Montjuïc
Where else can you walk from a whitewashed Andalusian lane to a granite square from the north in ten minutes, without leaving the city?Poble...
How to visit the Gran Teatre del Liceu - Opera nights, the Hall of Mirrors and what to wear
It burned down twice and survived an anarchist's bomb. Each time, the city paid to bring the music back.The Gran Teatre del Liceu is...
Montjuïc cable car, Barcelona’s sky ride to the castle - Mirador views, the funicular link and the Port Cable Car
Eight seats, a wide window and a few quiet minutes with pine trees, rooftops and the Mediterranean sliding past below your feet.The Montjuïc cable...
Casa Milà, Gaudí’s stone quarry in Barcelona - Warrior chimneys, a whale-ribbed attic and rooftop nights
What do a Rolls-Royce, a lawsuit over unpaid fees and a rooftop guarded by stone warriors have in common? One apartment block on the...
What to see in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona - Roman columns, a shrapnel-scarred square and Gaudí’s lamp posts
Look up as you pass under the little stone bridge on Carrer del Bisbe. Somewhere in its carvings, a skull pierced by a dagger...
Camp Nou before you go - The Barça museum, stadium views and what the rebuild means for your visit
Plenty of fans skip it, convinced the whole place is a closed building site. They're wrong, and they miss the moment the stands suddenly...