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...

The sheet music and songbooks on sale in this old shop in the Raval cover the gamut from Wagner to the White Stripes, with a concentration on opera. Books cover music history...

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...

Discos Castelló is a home-grown cluster of small shops, each with a different speciality in music: No.3 is devoted to classical; the largest shop, at No.7, covers pretty much...

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....

An unglamorous but serious record shop chain with a wide range of stock, which also stretches to DVDs, books and video games. The poor can flick through the always extensive...

A mecca for fretheads, this trio of shops has all the goodies: cedarwood Antonio Aparicio classical guitars, Prudencio Saez flamenco guitars, and cheap Admiras to strum on the...

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...

New Phono's cluster of display rooms holds a range of wind, string and percussion instruments and accessories, while keyboards and recording equipment reside over the road...

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...