Since opening in 1995, this mall, office and leisure centre has become a focus of local life. There's a seven-screen cinema (foreign films are mostly dubbed...

The sheet music and songbooks on sale in this old shop in the Raval cover the gamut from Wagner to the White Stripes, with a concentration on opera. Books...

The comic scene is big in Spain, and this two-storey shop has been serving Barcelona's substantial geek community since 1980. The ground floor has both...

This three-level mall at the sea end of Avda Diagonal has an airy marine theme and a sea-facing roof terrace filled with cafés and restaurants of the...

Discos Castelló is a long-established and very reputable music store in the Raval. The shop at no.3 is devoted to classical music; the largest shop, at...

An old-school vinyl store specialising in soul and jazz but with a decent range of most other styles up to and including '80s new wave. Take a seat and...

This monolith sits on Plaça Catalunya and stocks all the major international brand names, along with plenty of Spanish labels. This branch is the place for...

An unglamorous but serious record shop chain with a wide range of stock, which also stretches to DVDs, books and video games. Bargain-hunters can flick...

This monolithic mall is designed to look like the Rockefeller Center fallen on its side, stretching 334m (1,100ft) along Avda Diagonal. It features all the...

When Viaplana and Piñon's black-mirrored shopping and leisure centre opened in 1995, it was the place to hang out. After years of declining popularity, it's...

When this black Rubik's Cube of a building opened in the early '90s, it caused such excitement that it even inspired a short-lived TV soap of the same name....