Barcelona’s best barrios to live
When you move to a new city, choosing which area would be best for you is always challenging. Do you want to be in the midst of it all, live quietly or be near the best cultural venues? Fret not: we’ve got you covered with our rundown of the best neighbourhoods in Barcelona!
El Born: an old-city feel with a lively nightlife
El Born is where Santa Maria del Mar is, where you can walk around feeling like suddenly the clock has gone back in time and where you will get a feel of what living in medieval Barcelona was like.
One of the coolest neighbourhoods in Barcelona, el Born has the perfect mixture of culture (with museums like the Museu Picasso or the Museu d’Història), food (hip restaurants and classic vermouth ones distributed in its narrow streets), shopping (with its little local designer shops) and fun (nightlife for all tastes!).
Plus, it’s a stone's throw away from the beach. Living in El Born is an experience not to be missed if you want to feel the real Barcelona.
Find you home in El Born
One of the coolest neighbourhoods in Barcelona, el Born has the perfect mixture of culture (with museums like the Museu Picasso or the Museu d’Història), food (hip restaurants and classic vermouth ones distributed in its narrow streets), shopping (with its little local designer shops) and fun (nightlife for all tastes!).
Plus, it’s a stone's throw away from the beach. Living in El Born is an experience not to be missed if you want to feel the real Barcelona.
El Putxet
Beyond the town of Gràcia, the little hill known as El Putxet is a peaceful and lovely neighbourhood, perfect for those who yearn for a little bit of nature in the middle of the city. There you can find exquisite mansions with splendid gardens, torres; the Jardins del Turó del Putxet, a quiet Mediterranean park with an astonishing 360-degree view; and lovely streets for a relaxing stroll. But you can also enjoy one of Barcelona's most loved traditions: the vermouth.
At Ca la Pepeta, have the anchovies and braves that will send you straight to flavour heaven.
Find your room in El Putxet
At Ca la Pepeta, have the anchovies and braves that will send you straight to flavour heaven.
Les Corts
Are you a Barça fan? This is the place to be. The Camp Nou is the gigantic stadium where the main teams play their matches, but it also houses one of the most visited museums in the whole of Spain: the Museu del Barça. You need to go see it if you are a football fan.
Les Corts was a quiet town before it was added to the city of Barcelona, and it still has many beautiful secret places to discover, away from the main tourist attractions of downtown. The Mercat de Les Corts, a grocery market with the freshest produce; the Centre Cívic Cristalerías Planell, a community centre installed in an old modernist glass factory; or, if you are into parks, the Jardins de Pedralbes, where a yearly summer music festival is held and where names like Jethro Tull, Patti Smith, Kool & The Gang or Diana Krall have performed in the beautiful outdoor stage.
Find your place in Les Corts
Les Corts was a quiet town before it was added to the city of Barcelona, and it still has many beautiful secret places to discover, away from the main tourist attractions of downtown. The Mercat de Les Corts, a grocery market with the freshest produce; the Centre Cívic Cristalerías Planell, a community centre installed in an old modernist glass factory; or, if you are into parks, the Jardins de Pedralbes, where a yearly summer music festival is held and where names like Jethro Tull, Patti Smith, Kool & The Gang or Diana Krall have performed in the beautiful outdoor stage.
Eixample
Ah, the heart of Barcelona and one of the top neighbourhoods to explore in Barcelona, where you’ll find beautiful spacious flats with characteristic hydraulic floors! Eixample is Catalan for “enlargement”, a city plan that ended up creating the Barcelona we know today. Grill-shaped and organised, this barrio will throw all the life you can manage right back at you. Restaurants, bars, offices, nightlife and families make it the most populated and energetic and, being in the centre of town, the perfect place to get anywhere else in the city in 30 minutes or less.
One minor setback is traffic, although that is slowly changing thanks to the Council’s plan of pacifying the blocks, which will give citizens plenty more space to enjoy and walk around without the hustle and bustle of cars around them. Just one question remains: Eixample Esquerre or Eixample Dret? That’s a question for a different post, we’re afraid…
Barcelona is a city to discover barrio by barrio, and we assure you that you will never grow tired of it. Just start somewhere, give it some time and fall in love with the neighbourhood you will choose to live in!
Find your room in Eixample
One minor setback is traffic, although that is slowly changing thanks to the Council’s plan of pacifying the blocks, which will give citizens plenty more space to enjoy and walk around without the hustle and bustle of cars around them. Just one question remains: Eixample Esquerre or Eixample Dret? That’s a question for a different post, we’re afraid…
Barcelona is a city to discover barrio by barrio, and we assure you that you will never grow tired of it. Just start somewhere, give it some time and fall in love with the neighbourhood you will choose to live in!
When you move to a new city, choosing which area would be best for you is always challenging. Do you want to be in the midst of it all, live quietly or be near the best cultural venues? Fret not: we’ve got you covered with our rundown of the best neighbourhoods in Barcelona!
El Born: an old-city feel with a lively nightlife
El Born is where Santa Maria del Mar is, where you can walk around feeling like suddenly the clock has gone back in time and where you will get a feel of what living in medieval Barcelona was like.
One of the coolest neighbourhoods in Barcelona, el Born has the perfect mixture of culture (with museums like the Museu Picasso or the Museu d’Història), food (hip restaurants and classic vermouth ones distributed in its narrow streets), shopping (with its little local designer shops) and fun (nightlife for all tastes!).
Plus, it’s a stone's throw away from the beach. Living in El Born is an experience not to be missed if you want to feel the real Barcelona.
Find you home in El Born
One of the coolest neighbourhoods in Barcelona, el Born has the perfect mixture of culture (with museums like the Museu Picasso or the Museu d’Història), food (hip restaurants and classic vermouth ones distributed in its narrow streets), shopping (with its little local designer shops) and fun (nightlife for all tastes!).
Plus, it’s a stone's throw away from the beach. Living in El Born is an experience not to be missed if you want to feel the real Barcelona.
El Putxet
Beyond the town of Gràcia, the little hill known as El Putxet is a peaceful and lovely neighbourhood, perfect for those who yearn for a little bit of nature in the middle of the city. There you can find exquisite mansions with splendid gardens, torres; the Jardins del Turó del Putxet, a quiet Mediterranean park with an astonishing 360-degree view; and lovely streets for a relaxing stroll. But you can also enjoy one of Barcelona's most loved traditions: the vermouth.
At Ca la Pepeta, have the anchovies and braves that will send you straight to flavour heaven.
Find your room in El Putxet
At Ca la Pepeta, have the anchovies and braves that will send you straight to flavour heaven.
Les Corts
Are you a Barça fan? This is the place to be. The Camp Nou is the gigantic stadium where the main teams play their matches, but it also houses one of the most visited museums in the whole of Spain: the Museu del Barça. You need to go see it if you are a football fan.
Les Corts was a quiet town before it was added to the city of Barcelona, and it still has many beautiful secret places to discover, away from the main tourist attractions of downtown. The Mercat de Les Corts, a grocery market with the freshest produce; the Centre Cívic Cristalerías Planell, a community centre installed in an old modernist glass factory; or, if you are into parks, the Jardins de Pedralbes, where a yearly summer music festival is held and where names like Jethro Tull, Patti Smith, Kool & The Gang or Diana Krall have performed in the beautiful outdoor stage.
Find your place in Les Corts
Les Corts was a quiet town before it was added to the city of Barcelona, and it still has many beautiful secret places to discover, away from the main tourist attractions of downtown. The Mercat de Les Corts, a grocery market with the freshest produce; the Centre Cívic Cristalerías Planell, a community centre installed in an old modernist glass factory; or, if you are into parks, the Jardins de Pedralbes, where a yearly summer music festival is held and where names like Jethro Tull, Patti Smith, Kool & The Gang or Diana Krall have performed in the beautiful outdoor stage.
Eixample
Ah, the heart of Barcelona and one of the top neighbourhoods to explore in Barcelona, where you’ll find beautiful spacious flats with characteristic hydraulic floors! Eixample is Catalan for “enlargement”, a city plan that ended up creating the Barcelona we know today. Grill-shaped and organised, this barrio will throw all the life you can manage right back at you. Restaurants, bars, offices, nightlife and families make it the most populated and energetic and, being in the centre of town, the perfect place to get anywhere else in the city in 30 minutes or less.
One minor setback is traffic, although that is slowly changing thanks to the Council’s plan of pacifying the blocks, which will give citizens plenty more space to enjoy and walk around without the hustle and bustle of cars around them. Just one question remains: Eixample Esquerre or Eixample Dret? That’s a question for a different post, we’re afraid…
Barcelona is a city to discover barrio by barrio, and we assure you that you will never grow tired of it. Just start somewhere, give it some time and fall in love with the neighbourhood you will choose to live in!
Find your room in Eixample
One minor setback is traffic, although that is slowly changing thanks to the Council’s plan of pacifying the blocks, which will give citizens plenty more space to enjoy and walk around without the hustle and bustle of cars around them. Just one question remains: Eixample Esquerre or Eixample Dret? That’s a question for a different post, we’re afraid…
Barcelona is a city to discover barrio by barrio, and we assure you that you will never grow tired of it. Just start somewhere, give it some time and fall in love with the neighbourhood you will choose to live in!
