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Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu
The 15th-century medieval hospital, now housing the Biblioteca...
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Antigua Casa Figueres
This Moderniste café, grocery, and pastry store on the...
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Barri Xinès
As you walk from Plaça Reial toward the sea, Barcelona's...
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Boqueria
Barcelona's most spectacular food market, also known as the Mercat...
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Catedral de la Seu
On Saturday afternoons, Sunday mornings, and occasional evenings...
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Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona
Formerly a medieval convent and hospital, the renovated Casa...
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El Born
Once the site of medieval jousts, the Passeig del Born is at...
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Fossar de les Moreres
On the eastern side of the church of Santa Maria del Mar is a...
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Gran Teatre del Liceu
Along with Milan's La Scala, Barcelona's opera house has long...
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Monument a Colom
This 60-meter (200-foot) tall monument at the foot of the Rambla...
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Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Designed in 1992 by American architect Richard Meier, this gleaming...
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Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
This fascinating museum traces the evolution of Barcelona from...
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Museu del Calçat
A pair of shoes worn by cello player Pablo Casals and pair of...
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Museu Frederic Marès
You can browse for hours amid the miscellany assembled by the...
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Museu Marítim
The superb Maritime Museum is in the 13th-century Drassanes Reials...
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Museu Picasso
Picasso spent key formative years (1895-1904) in Barcelona, when...
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Palau de la Música Catalana
A riot of color and form, Barcelona's Music Palace is the flagship...
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Palau de la Virreina
The neoclassical Virreina Palace, built by a viceroy to Peru...
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Palau Güell
Antoni Gaudí built this mansion during the years 1886-89...
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Plaça de Catalunya
Barcelona's main transport hub, the Plaça de Catalunya...
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Plaça del Rei
As chronicled in legend, song, and painting, this austere medieval...
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Plaça Reial
Pungent and seedy around the edges but elegant and neoclassical...
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Plaça Sant Jaume
Two thousand years ago, this formal square was the center of...
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Port
Beyond the Monument a Colom—behind the Duana, or former...
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Sant Pau del Camp
Barcelona's oldest church was originally outside the city walls...
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Sant Pere de les Puelles
One of the oldest medieval churches in Barcelona, this one has...
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Santa Maria del Mar
The most breathtakingly symmetrical and graceful of all Barcelona's...
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Santa Maria del Pi
Like Santa Maria del Mar, the church of Santa Maria del Pi is...
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