A true retreat, this small and friendly bed and breakfast offers a home-style experience and is ideal if you're looking for a more peaceful city break. The centre is about 20...

Artkuisine's French credentials do not leap out sporting berets and strings of onions. Instead, they make themselves known in other, more subtle ways: the buttermilk Regency...

This small venue in the unlikely setting of L'Illa, a monolithic shopping centre, hosts concerts about once a month. The Schubert cycle (93 290 11 02, www.schubertiada.com) and...

From their heyday in the 1980s, when the stars of Barça's basketball team were as famous as the footballers and matches were played at the massive Sant Jordi stadium, Barcelona...

Bikini lost some muscle in recent years, with the big-name stars it once booked replaced by little-knowns and ageing rockers. However, it showed a few signs of new life in...

This comfortable four-screen cinema has recently made the move from dubbed films and now shows crowd-pleasers in their original languages.

There are 14 lanes to try for that perfect 300, in an alley that hosts international tournaments. Early afternoons are quiet; otherwise, sit at the bar and wait to be paged....

Looking a tad jaded, Bucaro's white leather sofas and pouffes still manage to pull a crowd of glamour pusses, who stalk their prey from the mezzanine. There's chill-out and...

Downstairs in the basement, the low sofas fill up with amorous couples, while upstairs everything is sleek and light, with brushed steel, dark leather and a Klimt-like mural. A...

Said to be the biggest science museum in Europe, CosmoCaixa doesn't, perhaps, make the best use of its space. A glass-enclosed spiral ramp runs down an impressive six floors,...

If you have a Porsche and a model girlfriend, this is where you meet your peers. Housed in a converted mansion, Elephant is as elegant and hi-design as its customers. The big...

Up in the vicinity of Nou Camp, the main attraction of this mammoth two-tier white tent is a 1,000sq m (10,800sq ft) concert space that plays host to national and international...

As large and well equipped as any private gym in town, Europolis centres are municipally owned but run by the British chain Holmes Place. They provide exercise machines, as...