Barcelona, Spain
Things to do in Barcelona
Everything in the Atlas for Barcelona: places to see and things to do, in one list.
Sagrada Família
The interior light is the point; the facades are the argument. Under construction since 1882.
Park Güell
A failed housing development turned public park, with the serpentine bench and the city below.
Mercat de Santa Caterina
A wavy tiled roof over the market Barcelona actually shops in, rather than the one on the Rambla.
Hospital de Sant Pau
Twelve modernista pavilions built as a hospital because Domènech thought patients recover faster in beauty.
The grid, read as a plan
Cerdà's 1859 blocks were designed with gardens inside; a few have been reopened, and finding them changes how the city reads.
This page exists because Barcelona has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Barcelona.