TO DO: (6 days)

• ✔ Arc Di Triumph and Parc de la Ciutadella (city park with zoo attached) - 30 mins walk south of Gracia
• ✔ Book IN ADVANCE a nighttime SIDE CAR TOUR
• Bunkers del Carmel (overlooks city)
• City bus tour
• DAYTRIPS: Sitges (beach coastal town with old little city), Girona (hour north - game of thrones town), Montserrat
• ✔ El Born AND old Gothic Quarter
  • ✔ Carrer Avinyó (street in Gothic Quarter)
  • ✔ Catedral de Mar, eat at Honest Greens nearby!!
  • ✔ Cathedral de Barcelona
  • ✔ Chapel of Santa Àgata
  • ✔ La Boquería food Market
  • ✔ La Rambla (pedestrian tourist street walk)
  • ✔ Moco Museum - works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, KAWS and Banksy.
  • ✔ Nevermind Skate Bar and Manchester Bar
  • ✔ Picasso Museum - near gothic quarter
• ✔ El Raval (shops 30 mins walk from hotel in Gracia):
  • ✔ Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (evening skateboarders congregate here, some outdoor bars)
  • ✔ Vintage shops that take you through neighborhood, in order:
    • ✔ Flamingos
    • ✔ Frip
    • ✔ Holala
    • ✔ La Principal
    • ✔ Lullaby
    • ✔ Manifesto La Comune
    • ✔ Nerve
    • ✔ Street: Riera Baixa
    • ✔ Zoetrope
  • ✔ Walk down Passeig de Gracia to see Casa Batlló and Casa Milà aka La Pedrera (6 mins walk south)
• ✔ FLEA MARKETS: Els Encants, Lost and Found, Sant Flea, Palo Alto (cute small makers and food fair), and others flea markets --check dates
• Gracia neighborhood
  • ✔ Anita GELATO (vegan chocolate cookies!)
  • ✔ Carrer Verdi (cute street of shops)
  • ✔ Casa Vicens (Gaudi architecture)
  • ✔ Great vegan spots here
  • ✔ HONEST GREENS restaurant
  • ✔ Rambla de Catalunya, and Passeig de San Joan (beautfil walkways with restaurants)
  • ✔ PLAZAS: Virreina, la Rovira, del Sol
  • ✔ Seventy Hotel
  • ✔ SHOPS: Mahalo, Revolution, Dress Martini
• ✔ Joan Miró Foundation museum & Montjuïc City Park with views - 1 hour walks south east
• ✔ La Sagrada Família (architecture) - 22 min walk south west of Gracia (tickets in advance)
• Maze at Parc d'Horta
• ✔ Park Güell - 35 min walk north (Gaudi) - advance tickets
• ✔ Placa Catalunya
• ✔ Playa de Barceloneta (beach walk/ebike along waterfront) & Artisans’ quarter: Wedged between the Barri Gotic and the Barceloneta. RENT E-BIKES.
• Tibidabo: overlooking Barcelona, with cathedral (Church of Sacred Heart), amusement park, city view. People say Montjuic is better for view etc.

Overview:

• Many things not open until after noon (including restaurants)
• Sunday many things closed
• Taxis or Cabify (we found taxis to be as cheap if not cheaper than apps)
• VO means that a movie is shown in its original language; VOSE in the original language with Spanish subtitles; VOSC (sometimes marked as VOS) with English subtitles

BARS:

• Bar Marsella, Absinthe - El Raval
• Bar Oviso - Gotico
• CocoVail Beer Hall (American) - Eixample
• Garage Beer Co - Eixample
• Hop Town - Sagrada Familia
• L'Ovella Negra - Pl. Catalunya
• Nevermind Bar - Pl. Catalunya (Bar with skatepark) and in Raval
• Polaroid Bar - Gotico
• The High Class (Marijuana Bar - cash only) - Poble Nou

CONCERT VENUES :

• ✔ Primavera Sound Festival @ Parc Del Forum: Bikini Kill, PJ Harvey
• Razzmatazz - Poblé Nou , All genres
• Rock’n’trini - Kinda Far North, Punk Rock Venue
• Apolo 1 & 2
• Palau Sant Jordi
• Olympic Stadium on Montjuïc
• SideCar
• Gothic Quarter is Jamboree, a jazz cellar
• Harlem Jazz Club
• Heliogabal is a small bar in the Gràcia neighborhood that’s a gathering spot for Barcelona’s audiophiles.