Casa Batlló – Passeig de Gracia, 43, and Casa Milá, nicknamed La Pedrera, “the stone quarry”, is at Passeig de Gracia, 92. Make sure to visit the top floor apartment and the roof, the Espai Gaudí at La Pedrera for an up-close view of the surreal chimneys, Monday – Sunday, 10:00 – 8:00, €6. It [...]
Carrer Nou de la Rambla 3-5
08001 Barcelona, Spain
Palau Güell – Don Eusebio Güell i Bacigalupi, a prominent nobleman and Gaudí’s most important patron, commissioned this mansion, located in the Raval quarter at Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 3, right off Las Ramblas, as a residence for himself and his family. Inside you’ll find more than [...]
Parc Güell, his playful 50-acre park – When Eusebio Güell bough the land in 1900, he planned for Gaudí to create an urban community for the wealthy, a village modeled on English garden suburbs. The project never came to fruition, abandoned in 1914. Sixty housing sites were provided, but only two houses were ever built. [...]
Architect Antonio Gaudí’s Modernist works, the Catalán Art Nouveau – As the NY Times article “Antonio Gaudí’s Visions in Brick and Stone” states, “there is no other city that honors and, indeed, so identifies with the work of a single architect. Gaudí’s buildings are a magnet for the cultivated and the curious; even sightseers who [...]
Caixa Forum – Located in the Montjuïc area on Avenida Marqués de Comillas near the Placa de Espanya (fundacio.lacaixa.es). Check the weekly Guia del Ocio, which you can buy at any newspaper kiosk, in Spanish, but easy to figure out to catch one of their great free exhibits. Here I have seen, for nary a [...]
A review of the history of art illustrated by drawings and engravings, sculptures, coins and photographs from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods and the 19th and 20th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary display of Romanesque murals, a collection of Gothic art consisting in the main of Catalan works, and pieces by [...]
Carrer de Montcada 15-23
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 319 6310
museupicasso@mail.bcn.es
The Museu Picasso – This gem of a museum is housed in a series of medieval stone mansions on the very atmospheric, mansion-filled Carrer Montcada in La Ribera district, to the east of the Barri Gòtic (museupicasso.bcn.es). The collection is strong on his very early works, [...]
Rosselló, 156
08036 Barcelona, Spain
T:+34 93 453 8566
Area: Eixample
Cocktail bars have a calmer and more relaxed atmosphere than the loud music bars. You often hear Brazilian music or soft jazz from the plant. This bar attracts mainly a sophisticated business crowd who wish for an evening of cocktails and conversation. You can sample from their wide [...]
La Rambla 74
Barcelona
T: +34 93 317 7585
Mon-Sun 8.30am-2am
This is a very friendly and stylish cafe’ bar and has an established staff who are the quickest and most efficient waiters we’ve seen. Here girls hold hands with boys, or boys with boys, and it’s all very relaxed. The decor’s rather English but the atmosphere’s more like [...]
Address : C/ Ronda San Pere, 19-21
Area : Eixample left
(Pl. Urquinaona) Barcelona
Metro/Bus : Metro: L1, L2, L3, L4
Opening hours: 11.30pm – 4am
Despite it being a gay club, all the collest and most stylish from Barcelona’s nightlife flock in.
The boys are beautiful, the girls are stunning and the transexuals are gorgeous
It’s definitely the session par excellence [...]
