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Here is a route through five of the best artisanal chocolate shops in Barcelona with information about their star products.

Barcelona dresses up in Chinese colours and traditions to welcome the Year of the Wooden Dragon. the city is transformed into a vibrant scene of concerts, traditional dances and exquisite cuisine.

The Fundació Joan Miró and the Museu Picasso of Barcelona come together to offer a unique exhibition celebrating the friendship and shared artistic legacy of two of the great 20th century masters, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

Lluís Domènech i Muntaner’s legacy endures as an indelible mark that encompasses a new, identity-based and national architectural style that forever changed the appearance of Barcelona.

The Museum of Forbidden Art, this avant-garde space, inaugurated this year 2023, stands out as the first in the world dedicated exclusively to exhibiting works of art that were censored, banned or withdrawn from public exhibition.

Barcelona dresses up with splendid festive lights, inviting you to explore its Christmas soul through its fairs and markets. There is no better way to capture the Christmas spirit than Barcelona’s decorated streets, festive scents and cozy atmosphere.

Winter in Barcelona is really very pleasant. With an average temperature of between 4º and 17º, the first months of the year are usually mild and often sunny. This climate is ideal for walks, taking full advantage of the daylight hours. The city has many routes and today we are proposing four of the best plus a bonus track.

The Tibidabo amusement park, one of the oldest in the world, opened in 1901. Among its numerous attractions, the oldest have become classics and are a reflection of the modernity of the early 20th century. One of the park’s most emblematic attractions is ‘El Avion’ (‘The airplane’). Inaugurated in 1928, it is, even today, one of the park’s star attractions. Suspended from an iron structure, the plane circles taking in impressive views of Barcelona below. Neither is it just any plane being an exact replica of the Rohrbach Roland tri motor that took off from Barcelona on December 14, 1927 and landed in Madrid, the first commercial flight between the two cities.

The Barcelona artist Joan Miró is one of the great exponents of surrealism. A multifaceted artist who excelled as a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramicist. Although he studied commerce and worked for two years as a clerk in a drugstore, it was an illness, typhoid fever, that forced him to retire for convalescence in Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, in a farmhouse that their parents had just bought it. It was there that he decided to dedicate himself fully to painting and enrolled in the Francesc Galí School of Art, where he met other great artists such as Joan Prats, Josep Francesc Ràfols, Enric Cristòfol Ricart and Josep Llorens Artigas, among others.