The advice you’ll find on most travel sites puts you in the Gothic Quarter or near the Sagrada Família. Both are central and both are fine. But if you want to actually feel what the city is like to live in, you need to be in a residential neighbourhood — and there are good options…
The metro is your baseline. Eight lines, clean, frequent, and cheap — a single T-Casual card (10 trips, €12.15) covers metro, bus, tram, and suburban FGC trains within Zone 1. Buy it at any metro station. Don’t buy single tickets; they cost almost three times as much per ride. Within the old city — the…
Before I lived here, I thought the Boqueria was the market. Everyone thinks that. It’s the market the internet decided to care about — the one on Las Ramblas, the one with the fruit stalls and the tourists photographing jamón. It’s fine. It’s not the point. Barcelona has neighbourhood markets, and they are significantly better….
Barcelona’s metro is excellent. The T-Casual card is the thing. Here is what you actually need to know.
July in Barcelona is hot, crowded, and still one of the best months to be here if you know what you’re doing.