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...

Since opening in 1995, this mall, office and leisure centre has become a focus of local life. There's a seven-screen cinema (foreign films are mostly dubbed into Spanish) and...

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...

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...

Part of a well-established Spanish chain, this bookstore offers a diverse assortment of titles that includes some English-language fiction. Glossy, Barcelona-themed...

Barcelona's oldest gay bookshop is run by a helpful lesbian duo who stock a variety of literature and films - from highbrow paperback classics (some available in English) and...

The comic scene is big in Spain, and this two-storey shop has been serving Barcelona's substantial geek community since 1980. The ground floor has both national and imported...

This three-level mall at the sea end of Avda Diagonal has an airy marine theme and a sea-facing roof terrace filled with cafés and restaurants of the fast-food variety. As well...

The mother ship of Spanish retail, this giant white monolith sits on Plaça Catalunya and stocks all the major international brand names, along with plenty of Spanish labels....

With its air of pleasantly dusty intellectualism, Hibernian feels like a proper British second-hand bookshop,. There are books here for all tastes, from beautifully bound early...

This monolithic mall is designed to look like the Rockefeller Center fallen on its side, stretching 334m (1,100ft) along Avda Diagonal. It features all the usual fashion...

When Viaplana and Piñon's black-mirrored shopping and leisure centre opened in 1995, it was the place to hang out. After years of declining popularity, it's ditched most of the...

When this black Rubik's Cube of a building opened in the early '90s, it caused such excitement that it even inspired a short-lived TV soap of the same name. The mall's focus is...