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...

The market leader in Spain, this colourful store has every conceivable babycare item, from dummies and high chairs to bottle-warmers and travel cots. Its clothes and shoes are...

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...

This French chain stocks everything a pint-sized fashionista might need, though the girls do a bit better than the boys. Newborns to 14-year-olds are served with a covetable...

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....

At once enchanting and disturbing, El Ingenio's handcrafted toys, tricks and costumes are reminders of a pre-digital world where people made their own entertainment. Its...

As well as the endless racks of excellent toys that made Imaginarium famous, the new three-floor flagship store for Spain's biggest toy chain has a hairdresser's, shoe...

This venerable toy shop has been selling traditional toys, board games and everything you need for a game of billiards since 1840. Try the Spanish version of snakes and ladders...

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...

Run by the energetic Lulu, Mujer is the local nerve centre for expat parents. It stocks imported funky baby gear from the likes of Cath Kidston or Twisted Twee and is the...

The brainchildren of Barcelona-based designer María del Mar González, quirky and colourful Lolitas are the ultimate in voodoo chic. These personalised male or female rag dolls...

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...