Shopping & markets

Poble Espanyol: Barcelona's Village of Spanish Architecture

What Poble Espanyol on Montjuic actually is, who it suits, the craft workshops and museums inside it, and how to fit it into a Barcelona day.

Shopping in Barcelona: Where the Good Stuff Actually Is

Beyond the chain stores on the main avenues: design shops, old workshops, food worth carrying home, and the difference between a Barcelona souvenir and a Spanish one.

Sant Antoni and the Markets Locals Actually Use

The restored iron market on the Eixample edge, the Sunday book and collectors' market that wraps around it, and the neighbourhood halls across Barcelona worth a detour.

La Boqueria: How to Use It Instead of Just Photographing It

Barcelona's famous market is half working food hall and half tourist attraction: when to go, what to eat, which stalls are for cooks, and why the fruit cups at the front are the worst thing in it.