Restaurants
Explore Barcelona’s lively food scene with Richard’s favorite dining spots, from traditional tapas bars to iconic seaside restaurants serving fresh seafood.
Museum
Discover Richard’s favorite Barcelona museum, where you can immerse yourself in the city’s rich art and cultural heritage, from iconic masterpieces to hidden gems.
Museu Picasso Address: Montcada, 15-23
The museum of Picasso is Barcelona's most visited museum. It is housed in three strikingly beautiful stone mansions on the Carrer de Montcado, which was, in the medieval times, an approach to the port. The museum shows numerous works that trace the artists early years, and is especially strong on his Blue Period, and his early works from the 1890s.
Attractions
La Rambla
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​(Flower Market) - Five separate street strung end to end, La Rambla (also called Las Ramblas) is a tree-lined pedestrian boulevard packed with buskers (a person who entertains people for money in public places); living statues, mimes and itinerant salespeople selling everything from lottery tickets to jewelry. The noisy bird market on the second block is worth a stop.
Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
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La Sagrada Familia is truly awe-inspiring. The life's work of Barcelona's favorite son, Antoni Guadí, the magnificent spires of the unfinished cathedral imprint themselves boldly against the sky with swelling outlines inspired by the holy mountain Montserrat. Gaudí died in 1926 before his masterwork was completed, and since then, controversy has continually dogged the building program. Nevertheless, the southwestern façade, with four more towers, is almost done, and the nave, begun in 1978, is progressing.