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Spain’s second-largest city is blessed with striking architecture, world-class museums and streets filled with the aromas and rhythms of Catalonia.

This concert hall is an awe-inspiring example of modernist architecture. Tour the building or get in early for tickets to a performance.

A lake and a majestic fountain are among the highlights in this urban park that stands on the site of the city’s former fortress.

Take in the large domed ceilings and artistic details in one of Gaudí’s earliest buildings.

If you love exploring medieval streets, watching street artists and eating tapas along shared tables in tiny bars, head straight for the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona.

If you love exploring medieval streets, watching street artists and eating tapas along shared tables in tiny bars, head straight for the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona.

Few places better exemplify Barcelona’s long history than this hilltop structure, which holds a complicated place in the city’s heart.

Barcelona’s cathedral dates back to the 1200s, and contains the remains of the city’s patron saint.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Barcelona’s cathedral dates back to the 1200s, and contains the remains of the city’s patron saint.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Barcelona’s cathedral dates back to the 1200s, and contains the remains of the city’s patron saint.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This museum on Barcelona’s port gives an insight into the city’s important maritime history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Few places better exemplify Barcelona’s long history than this hilltop structure, which holds a complicated place in the city’s heart.

If you love exploring medieval streets, watching street artists and eating tapas along shared tables in tiny bars, head straight for the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona.

If you love exploring medieval streets, watching street artists and eating tapas along shared tables in tiny bars, head straight for the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona.

Former warehouses containing seafood restaurants and a peninsula with an aquarium show how this seaside port has been modernized.

If you love exploring medieval streets, watching street artists and eating tapas along shared tables in tiny bars, head straight for the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona.

Barcelona’s cathedral dates back to the 1200s, and contains the remains of the city’s patron saint.

These lively pedestrian streets in the heart of Barcelona are filled with flower stalls, tapas restaurants and street performers. 

Barcelona’s cathedral dates back to the 1200s, and contains the remains of the city’s patron saint.