Camp Nou
Carrer d' Aristides Maillol, Les Corts, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
FC Barcelona is famously "more than a club," and its stadium is more than a stadium.
Eixample District
Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
In the mid-nineteenth century, Barcelona was suffocating.
El Born Centre Cultural
12 Plaça Comercial, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
In 2001, workers digging foundations for a new library accidentally uncovered an entire neighborhood that had been buried for three centuries.
Els Quatre Gats
3 Carrer de Montsio, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08002, Spain
In 1899, a seventeen-year-old Pablo Picasso walked into this cafe on Carrer de Montsio and held his first solo exhibition in the main room.
Fundacio Joan Miro
147 Pg Migdia, Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona, 08038, Spain
Joan Miro wanted a museum that was the opposite of a museum.
Gothic Quarter
Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain
Here's the thing about Barcelona's Gothic Quarter: a surprising amount of it isn't actually Gothic.
La Boqueria
91 La Rambla, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08002, Spain
People have been selling meat at this spot since 1217 — that's over 800 years of commerce on the same patch of ground.
La Rambla
La Rambla, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08002, Spain
Before this was Barcelona's most famous promenade, it was an open sewer.
Palau de la Musica Catalana
4 Carrer del Palau de la Música, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
This concert hall is so extravagantly decorated that when it opened in 1908, some critics thought it was vulgar.
Picasso Museum
Carrer de Montcada 15-23, 08003 Barcelona
The first museum dedicated to Pablo Picasso anywhere in the world opened right here on March 9, 1963 — and it almost didn't happen.
Placa de Catalunya
Placa de Catalunya, 08002 Barcelona
Less than two centuries ago, this 50,000-square-metre plaza was empty scrubland outside Barcelona's ancient fortifications.
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