All our Barcelona guides tagged Barcelona.
Two different cable car rides in Barcelona: the short hop up to Montjuïc Castle and the older aerial crossing over the harbour, what each one shows you, rough costs and how to fit them into a Montjuïc day.
A guide to the Palau de la Música Catalana, a UNESCO listed concert hall covered in stained glass and mosaic: what a guided tour shows you, what an evening concert reveals instead, and how to plan a visit.
Two houses a few minutes apart and most visitors only see one: what each interior actually gives you, which has the better roof, how the prices differ, and how to choose.
Gaudi had contemporaries and their work is often emptier and cheaper to visit: the concert hall, the hospital complex, the third house on the famous block, and where to find the rest.
The park confuses visitors because only the monumental core is ticketed: what is free, what the ticket buys, why timed entry matters, and the walk up nobody warns you about.
The basilica that has been building since 1882: what the two facades mean, why the interior surprises people, how tickets and timed entry work, and the hour that changes the light.
The tower add-on divides opinion: what you see from the Nativity side versus the Passion side, the descent nobody warns you about, and who should skip it entirely.
Fire runs, human towers, giants and a city that shuts down to celebrate: what happens at the September festival, and the other dates worth planning a trip around.
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.
Barcelona has very little violent crime and a serious street theft problem: the specific places and methods, the distraction routines, and the habits that make you a bad target.
A city of late dinners, timed tickets and long queues is easier with children than it looks: which sights survive contact with a five year old, and which do not.
A four day plan grouped by geography rather than by fame: what to book before you arrive, what to leave loose, and where the standard itinerary wastes your afternoons.
Flamenco is Andalusian, not Catalan, and Barcelona still has serious tablaos: how to tell them apart, what a show costs, and what to see instead if you want something local.
One holds the early work of a teenager who became Picasso, the other is a building designed around Miró's own gift to the city: how they differ and which to choose.
A castle, two major museums, an Olympic stadium, gardens and a cable car on one hill: how to order a Montjuïc day so you walk downhill instead of up.
A Civil War anti aircraft battery on a hill above the city, plus the other viewpoints worth the climb: how to get up, when to go, and the rules that now apply after dark.
Vermouth on tap before Sunday lunch, with olives and tinned seafood: what the ritual is, when it happens, what to order and where the crawl actually works.
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.
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.
Nine squares, no grid and almost no sights: the independent former town above the Eixample, what to do there, and why so many repeat visitors end up staying in it.
A walking route through the old city: the cathedral, the Roman wall, the hidden squares, Santa Maria del Mar and the Born market ruins, plus where the route gets uncomfortably crowded.