Barcelona’s La Merce 2015 is music. Barcelona’s La Merce 2015 is food. Barcelona’s La Merce 2015 is Catalan culture. Barcelona’s La Merce 2015 is everything you wanted out of a week-long festival and it’s a whole lot more. We’re so excited the yearly festival is here and we want you to…
Over the past year and a half, we’ve had a blast writing about our amazing city and the surrounding areas. While that’s inspiration enough to launch a yearly “Best of” recap of our favorite blog posts, we’ve also chosen September as our celebration of the Barcelona Experience best-of because September is…
Fron Aug. 15 to Aug. 21, Barcelona celebrated the Festa Major de Gracia, a beloved tradition in one of the city’s best neighborhoods. Gracia’s streets are one of the most fun things about checking out FMdG. Neighbors work together to decorate their streets in order to win “Best Street” at Festa…
A few weeks ago we did a tour of the city with a family from Long Beach, California. They were an enthusiastic bunch, but nothing could prepare them for the moment they saw Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia for the first time. The dad said, “Guys, look!” His wife and…
We’re walking down Passeig de Gracia with a group of clients — a family — who is wide-eyed with wonder at the life and vitality of Barcelona’s swankiest street. We head toward Plaza Catalunya. All of a sudden, the dad stops in his tracks. He’s staring across the street at a…
Every year tourists and locals alike take to the streets of Gracia during the month of August to get their fill of what many believe to be the best neighborhood celebration in Barcelona. Festa Major de Gracia is the celebration of the history and heritage of the Gracia neighborhood, once…
Every traveler wants to have a memorable Barcelona restaurant experience. What you don’t want is plate of sub-standard food that isn’t as fresh as it should be. We don’t want that to happen to you either. Now don’t get too worried — you are most likely going to have a…
The numbers are out, and things are looking very good for La Sagrada Familia. Antoni Gaudi’s magnificent masterpiece and perhaps the most recognizable church in the world took the top spot in the Barcelona Tourism Board’s 2014 report on the top-10 Barcelona tourist attractions. We couldn’t reach Gaudi for comment…
It get’s hot in BCN. Real hot. So as you prepare to leave the gray skies of London or the busy streets of New York to visit our beloved city, take a look at our list of five things you can do in Barcelona to beat the heat and enjoy…
The inherent flaw of modern travel writing is its ravenous desire to reduce a place to five bullet points. Like a malnourished plant trying to survive on five drops of water per day, Barcelona is a miraculous creation of culture and beauty struggling to survive on curt caricatures of five…
