This was one of Europe's earliest medical centres. There was a hospital on the site as early as 1024, but in the 15th century it expanded to centralise all the city's hospitals...

DIY-stylish, low-lit and cheap. Aurora's regulars chat over cañas during the week and bounce around the wee dancefloor downstairs at weekends. The smiling, chatty bar staff...

A converted flat on Plaça Reial, decorated with oak, velvet, Sherlock Holmes-style memorabilia and a bar that's often impossible to get anywhere near, despite the prices. For...

Ah - comfy. This is a pretty place done up with throw rugs, vintage lamps that don't do a whole lot (the lighting concept is the uncomplicated 'dark') and dusty sofas. Later in...

The centre of Barcelona is strangely devoid of glamorous nightspots, or at least it was until Buda came along. The place has lots of throne-style furniture and gilded...

One of the masterpieces of industrial Modernisme, this former yarn and textile factory was designed by Puig i Cadafalch in 1911. It spent most of the last century in a sorry...

Built for chocolate baron Antoni Àmatller, this playful building is one of Puig i Cadafalch's finest creations. Inspired by 17th-century Dutch townhouses, it has a distinctive...

This cultural centre for Asia and the Asian Pacific is housed in the jaw-droppingly ornate Palau Baró de Quadras, designed by Puig i Cadafalch. If you can tear your eyes away...

Carpe Diem Lounge Club, to give the venue its full name, remains at the forefront of Barcelona's splash-the-cash, see-and-be-seen celeb circuit - the white beds flanking the...

Designed by Leandro Albareda in 1880, this enormous necropolis, sits at the side of the motorway out of town, and is a daily reminder to commuters of their own mortality. The...

From the street, peer through the glass paving slabs and windows to see the excavated foundations of a round defence tower that dates from the earliest Roman settlement, along...

In a controversial move, the Generalitat appointed new director Vicenç Altaió to pump up the lacklustre visitor numbers for this contemporary art space. Altaió takes his...

With an interior designed by local tastemaker Silvia Prada, a fashionable postcode and a menu of delicate finger foods, Mix attracts a professional, stylish crowd who enjoy...

Make your way past the flash restaurant upstairs - we're talking white sofas swinging from the ceiling - and down on to the brick-walled, loud dancefloor. With no entry charge...