EventExhibitions
The Cult of Beauty
An afternoon for questioning what we call beautiful. Take the exhibition’s questions out into the Raval afterwards.
Barcelona / From the first gallery to the final track
Thursday 24 September
The local editBarcelona
Art, a table, a little sea air
A courtyard behind a quiet door. A long lunch in the Born. A record that takes you past midnight. Let Barcelona lead you somewhere unexpected.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
Barcelona, let the next track decide.
A room on Nou de la Rambla. Bass beneath the Raval. A big night in Poblenou. Check the line-up, choose your sound and make time for the journey home.
Explore after dark
01Barcelona / El Poble-sec
Sala Apolo
The day can end with a different kind of crowd. Choose a concert or a Nitsa night and give the music its own appointment.
Find your night
02Barcelona / El Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou
Razzmatazz
Cross town for the room you actually want to hear. A Poblenou destination for a concert, a club night or a change of tempo.
Find your night
03Barcelona / El Raval
Moog
A late turn off the Rambla. Pick a DJ, leave the dinner plates behind and make the small hours part of the plan.
Find your night
04Barcelona / El Raval
La Paloma
A historic Raval ballroom with a present-tense dance floor. Pick the session, then give the night a proper beginning over dinner nearby.
Find your night
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do Barcelona.
014 stops, at your pace
Raval art, tapas and an Apolo night
A gallery afternoon, a proper dinner and a room chosen for its programme. Barcelona changes tempo without needing a frantic route.
Open the itinerary
024 stops, at your pace
Montjuïc art, neighbourhood pauses, a Raval dance floor
MNAC above the city, a park on the way down and a market pause before a possible night at La Paloma.
Open the itinerary034 stops, at your pace
Born courtyards, art and a longer dinner
A morning looking up at the Palau, an afternoon at Picasso and an evening that settles around a table.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
A few reasons to take the long way home.
El Raval
Bar Cañete
El Raval
The Cult of Beauty
Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
Sorvina at La Mercè
Out there, right now
Your Barcelona day starts here.
EventExhibitions
Like a Dance of Starlings
The final week of MACBA’s collection presentation. Choose a few works to stay with, rather than racing to see the lot.
EventActivities
Poncia
Lolita Flores gives Lorca’s servant a voice of her own in Luis Luque’s solo production. A Spanish-language evening built around the grief and silences of Bernarda Alba’s household.
EventActivities
L’ombra de Pinotxo
A grown-up Pinocchio becomes a puppet maker and retells his adventures with the Cricket. La Puntual’s Catalan-language family production is recommended from age three and gives the familiar story a workshop setting.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
Leave a little room between plans.
Choose a museum, linger over tapas and see where the evening takes you. The best part might be the walk between them.
Make a weekend of itOn the house
EventCulture
Marco de Ana: Poder de protesta
A participatory flamenco performance brings movement and protest to La Mercè.
On the house
The food edit
A small plate. A longer conversation.
RestaurantCatalan
Bar Cañete
Make the table the centre of the evening. A Catalan and Mediterranean stop between the Raval’s galleries and a later night out.
RestaurantCatalan
Bar Brutal
A longer conversation over dinner and wine. Leave the museum behind and make Princesa the place where the evening settles.
RestaurantCatalan
La Plata
A small stop that need not become a small memory. A few tapas give a Gothic Quarter walk a welcome pause.
RestaurantCatalan
Bar del Pla
Keep Montcada for lunch as well as art. A table for sharing a few plates and letting the conversation set the pace.
Art & culture
Look beyond the postcard.
EventExhibitions
The Cult of Beauty
An afternoon for questioning what we call beautiful. Take the exhibition’s questions out into the Raval afterwards.
EventExhibitions
Like a Dance of Starlings
The final week of MACBA’s collection presentation. Choose a few works to stay with, rather than racing to see the lot.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Vacances a Escòcia
ACS Bac de Roda presents a photography exhibition inspired by holidays in Scotland. The neighbourhood venue offers a free, smaller-scale stop that can sit alongside a walk through Poblenou.
On the house
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EventExhibitions
[In]visible Technology
Palau Robert looks back over two decades of mobile technology and its social consequences. Projects in health, mobility and agriculture make the subject tangible, while the exhibition also invites questions about the future.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
More Barcelona, without an admission fee.
Public parks, sea air and museum sessions with free entry. Check the date and reserve when required, then enjoy the afternoon.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
Every barri changes the pace.
Editor’s picks
A day that feels like your own.
GuideCulture
Raval art, tapas and an Apolo night
A gallery afternoon, a proper dinner and a room chosen for its programme. Barcelona changes tempo without needing a frantic route.
GuideCulture
Born courtyards, art and a longer dinner
A morning looking up at the Palau, an afternoon at Picasso and an evening that settles around a table.
GuideCulture
Green space, sea air and a Poblenou night
A park, a small tapas stop and a sea horizon. Keep Razzmatazz as an optional late chapter, chosen for the music.
GuideCulture
Montjuïc art, neighbourhood pauses, a Raval dance floor
MNAC above the city, a park on the way down and a market pause before a possible night at La Paloma.
A closer look
