The Rough Guide to Barcelona
Greg Ward
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0241204356
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The ultimate guidebook to one of Europe's most vibrant, exciting, and stylish cities.
In full-color throughout, with dozens of photos, this guide not only gives you the finest coverage of Barcelona's historic sights and famous architecture, including the magnificent Gaudí creations like the Sagrada Família, but it also has a keen eye for offbeat attractions and in-the-know sights, from quirky museums to neighborhood markets, city beaches, and urban parks.
Walk along Las Ramblas and experience the heart of the city center, explore the winding alleys of the Gothic Quarter, or visit the Museu Picasso.
With up-to-date reviews of the best hotels, bars, restaurants, and clubs for all budgets, you'll find just what you're looking for in The Rough Guide to Barcelona, whether a hideaway boutique hotel or the best sangria in town.
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Barcelona.
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lamb with mustard-and-honey sauce. Most mains are in the range €10–16. Mon–Sat 8.30pm–midnight. Shunka c/dels Sagristans 5 934 124 991; Jaume I; map. Locals figure this to be the best Japanese restaurant in the city – advance reservations are essential, though you might strike lucky if you’re prepared to eat early or late. The open kitchen and the bustling staff are half the show, while the food – sushi to udon noodles, Japanese fried chicken to grilled prawns – is really good. You can eat for
1–4pm & 7–11pm. Cera 23 c/de la Cera 23 934 420 808, cera23.com; Sant Antoni; map. It’s always 5 o’clock somewhere, so go ahead and start your meal at this charming Galicia-meets-the-Mediterranean bistro with an effervescent blackberry mojito, and then tuck into market-fresh dishes like grilled duck with apples, a black-rice-and-seafood “volcano” or almond-flavoured beetroot gnocchi in balsamic cream (mains €12–18). Mon & Sun 7–11pm, Tues–Sat 1–4pm & 7–11pm. Elisabets c/d’Elisabets 2 933 175
the cheery if cramped interior there’s a backdrop of vibrant colours and young guns behind the counter singing along lustily to flamenco nuevo sounds. It’s a bistro menu (lunch from 1.30pm, dinner from 8.30pm, dishes €5–12) and all pretty good value – salads and dips to start, followed by proper hamburgers, stir-fries, pasta or a reassuringly old-fashioned Sunday brunch plate of fideuà (Catalan noodles). Tues–Sat noon–midnight, Sun noon–5pm (summer Sun open until midnight). La Tomaquera c/de
Margarit 58, no phone; Poble Sec; map. Sit down in this chatter-filled tavern to a dish of olives and two quails’ eggs – and any delicacy ends there as the chefs set to hacking steaks and chops from great hunks of meat. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but the grilled chicken is sensational and the entrecôtes enormous (most mains €8–15). Locals limber up with an appetizer of pan-fried snails with chorizo and tomato. Tues–Sat 1.30–3.45pm & 8.30–10.45pm; closed Aug. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT SENYOR
C/de Muntades 37 • Daily 10am–dusk • Free • Sants Estació If you have time to kill at Barcelona Sants station, nip around the south side to Basque architect Luis Peña Ganchegui’s urban park, the Parc de l’Espanya Industrial. Built on the site of an old textile factory, it has a line of red-and-yellow-striped lighthouses at the top of glaring white steps, with an incongruously classical Neptune in the water below. Altogether, six sculptors are represented here – Andrés Nagel was responsible for