Opened in 2008, these subterranean, bare-bricked Arab baths are superbly relaxing, and offer a range of extra massages in addition to the basic package of hot and cold pools,...

An array of fabrics and accessories for traditional Spanish costumes is on display in this colourful, shambolic interior, dating all the way back to 1886. Making your way...

Elegant Catalan ladies have come to Alonso for those important finishing touches for their outfit for more than a century. Behind the Modernista façade lie soft gloves in...

Every aspect of travel is covered in this, the largest travel bookshop in Europe. You can pick up guides to free eating in Barcelona, academic tomes on geolinguistics,...

This large, bright bookshop has an appealing café at the back, an ideal spot in which to check out your purchases (DVDs to postcards, poetry to magazines, art to comics). The...

Miró famously likes to cause a stir on the catwalk, using illegal immigrants and even local prisoners to model his wares. His clothes, however, for men and women, couldn't be...

The walls here are dripping with masks, crafted from papier mâché and leather. Whether gilt-laden or in feathered commedia dell'arte style, simple Greek tragicomedy styles or...

Bagués is perhaps the city's most prestigious jeweller. Lluis Masriera, the original master jeweller of the house, created revolutionary pieces using a 'translucid enamel'...

This well-stocked English-language bookstore has a wide range of learning and teaching materials for all ages. There's also a decent selection of contemporary and classic...

Everything for Macs and PCs: software in English, hardware and software installations, repairs for personal computers and laptops and ADSL support. There's English-speaking...

This temporary set-up, in operation only while the Sant Antoni market is being refurbished (it's due to reopen in 2012), houses tables packed with every manner of reading...

Spain's monks and nuns have a naughty sideline in traditional sweets including 'pets de monja' (little chocolate biscuits known as 'nuns' farts') candied saints' bones, and...

Soft leather handbags in cherry reds, chocolate browns and parma violet made by hand just upstairs by designer Lisa Lempp. Sizes range from the cute and petit to the...

A luggage shop that, in levels of service and size of stock, recalls the golden age of travel. Here you can still purchase trunks for a steam across the Atlantic, and ladies'...