From hero to zero, the popularity of president Joan Laporta has nosedived spectacularly since the club achieved a historic double in 2006. After two very disappointing seasons,...

Nou Camp, where FC Barcelona has played since 1957, is one of football's great stadiums, a vast cauldron of a ground that holds 98,000 spectators. That's a lot of noise when...

In 1791, the Desvalls family, owners of this marvellously leafy estate, hired Italian architect Domenico Bagutti to design scenic gardens set around a cypress maze, with a...

This hilltop fairground, dating from 1889, is investing millions in getting itself bang up to date, with the terrifying freefall Pendulum and a hot-air balloon style ride for...

The Icària is a vast multiplex, which has all the atmosphere of the near permanently empty shopping mall that surrounds it, but what it lacks in charm, it makes up for in...