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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.

In Barcelona’s El Born neighborhood find Paradiso, a speakeasy in a clandestine place, accessed through a fridge that belonged to the store at its entrance. The same place where they make excellent pastrami sandwiches from the Rooftop Smoked House.

If you are fascinated by photography, you will love this hotspot.

IFoto Colectania is a non-profit organization, founded in Barcelona in 2002, with the aim of disseminating and publicizing Spanish and Portuguese photography after 1950

Barcelona is a city with a great culinary tradition, boasting extraordinary first-class gastronomy. The Catalan capital continues to be at the forefront of the international gastronomic vanguard, demonstrated by its 31 Michelin Star restaurants.

The bookshop offers a selection of more than 45,000 books in different languages

A museum that gathers the works of the most representative artists of the moment.

Nordic influences and Mediterranean essences, this is the Fiskebar restaurant