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
Darling of the Sunday papers, El Bulli is possibly the most talked-about restaurant in the world today; thus it merits a mention here, despite its location...
Cala Montjoi
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
Completely alfresco, high up in a clearing among the pines, this is a magical space, scattered with deckchairs, hammocks and candlelit tables. Rather...
Mirador del Migdia
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
Ring the bell by the anonymous grey door. In practice, out-of-towners are rarely charged membership, but the card gets some good discounts for cinemas,...
C/Fontrodona 35
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
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
Send Gaudí and the Sagrada Família to hell,' wrote Picasso - and while it is easy to see how some of the religious clichés of the building and the...
C/Mallorca 401