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Casa Batlló

Critics' choice
Attractions

In one of the most extreme architectural makeovers ever seen, Gaudí and his long-time collaborator Josep Maria Jujol took an ordinary apartment block and...

Passeig de Gràcia 43
Major venue

Catedral

Critics' choice
Attractions

The construction of Barcelona's Gothic cathedral began in 1298. However, thanks to civil wars and plagues, building dragged on at a pace that makes the...

Pla de la Seu
Major venue

CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)

Critics' choice
Attractions

Spain's largest cultural centre was opened in 1994 at the Casa de la Caritat, a former almshouse, built in 1802 on the site of a medieval monastery. The...

C/Montalegre 5
Major venue

FC Barcelona

Sport, health & fitness

No club in football history has achieved what Pep Guardiola's men managed in 2009: six tournaments, six trophies. This 'annus memorabilis' climaxed in...

Camp Nou
Major venue

Fundació Joan Miró

Critics' choice
Art, Museums

Josep Lluís Sert, who spent the years of the Franco dictatorship as dean of the School of Design at Harvard University, designed one of the greatest museum...

Parc de Montjuïc s/n
Major venue

Hotel Arts

Hotels

The 44-storey, Ritz-Carlton-run Arts scores top marks for exemplary service. CD players, interactive TV, sea and city views and a 'Club' floor are just some...

C/Marina 19-21
Major venue

La Pedrera (Casa Milà)

Critics' choice
Art, Attractions, Museums

Described variously as rising dough, molten lava and a stone lung, the last secular building designed by Antoni Gaudí, the Casa Milà (popularly known as La...

Passeig de Gràcia 92-C/Provença 261-265
Major venue

La Terrrazza

Critics' choice
Bars & pubs, Clubs

Gorgeous, glamorous and popular (with the young, hair-gel-and-heels brigade), La Terrrazza is a nightclub that Hollywood might dream of. Wander through the...

Poble Espanyol
Major venue

L'Aquàrium

Critics' choice
Attractions

The main draw here is the Oceanari, a giant shark-infested tank traversed via a glass tunnel on a slow-moving conveyor belt. Other aquaria house shoals of...

Moll d'Espanya
Major venue

MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona)

Art, Museums

If you're used to being soft-soaped by eager-to-please art centres, you'll have to adjust to the cryptic minimalism of the MACBA, where art is taken very...

Plaça dels Àngels 1
Major venue

MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)

Critics' choice
Art, Museums

'One museum, a thousand years of art' is the slogan of the National Museum, and the collection provides a dizzying overview of Catalan art from the 12th to...

Palau Nacional
Major venue

Museu FC Barcelona

Critics' choice
Attractions, Museums, Sport, health & fitness

Camp Nou, 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...

Avda Arístides Maillol
Major venue

Museu Picasso

Art, Museums

When it opened in 1963, the museum dedicated to Barcelona's favourite adopted son was housed in the Palau Aguilar. Nearly five decades later, the permanent...

C/Montcada 15-23
Major venue

Palau de la Música Catalana

Critics' choice
Attractions

Commissioned by the nationalistic Orfeó Català choral society, this jawdropping concert hall was intended as a paean to the Catalan renaixença and a...

C/Sant Francesc de Paula 2
Major venue

Palau de la Música Catalana

Critics' choice
Music

This extraordinary visual explosion of Modernista architectural flights of fancy is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Built in 1908 by Lluís Domènech i...

C/Sant Francesc de Paula 2
Major venue
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