A trio of Barcelona hotels — Hotel Mercer, Casa Camper, Placa DO Reial — made it into TripAdvisor’s recent list of Spain’s top-25 small hotels. The list is a yearly list in which TripAdvisor ranks the hotels based on their community scores. For example, the top small hotel in Spain…
Nothing quite inspires creativity like a painting workshop in an art museum. This past December we hosted a painting workshop inside Barcelona’s European Museum of Modern Art, a museum with eclectic exhibition of local artists and temporary exhibitions tucked away amid the winding streets of Old City just a few…
Parles Català? The Catalan language has long-confounded armchair linguists and Barcelona travelers for its uniqueness and cultural significance. Barcelona is the epicenter of the Catalán language for many reasons — the city is the capital of Catalonia and the most famous architectural and art works in the were created by…
Spaniards love their kings. Today marks the arrival of Three Kings Day (TKD) in Spain, a holiday also known as the Epiphany in other parts of the world. TKD is a religious holiday in that it celebrates the day on which the three kings went to Bethlehem and offered gifts…
Our luxury hotel review series began about a month ago with our post about the W Barcelona.We decided to fine tune the process a little bit. Over the next few months, we’re giving you reviews and in-depth information about Barcelona hotels that fall into the Official Barcelona Hotel Association’s 5-Star…
