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You have been standing under the columns of the Sagrada Família for five minutes and you haven’t taken your phone out once. The light comes in green and blue through the windows on the sunrise side, and you know why it does, why the columns branch out like trees and what the façade you have […]

It’s half past seven and nobody in the room is asleep anymore. Your two-year-old is jumping on the bed and your five-year-old asks for the third time whether today is shark day. At the hotel breakfast, the family at the next table is going over their plan with a phone in hand: Sagrada Família at […]

It is eight in the morning and the hotel window is covered in raindrops. Down in the street, the café awnings are still rolled up and people walk fast, close to the buildings. At breakfast, the couple at the next table pull on two plastic ponchos and go over their plan out loud: Park Güell […]

Marta had spent forty minutes in the Sagrada Família queue on a Tuesday in October. Ahead of her, three groups with headsets. Behind her, a cruise ship that had just docked. When she finally got in, the nave was so crowded she couldn’t take a single photo without a head in it. On the way […]

In Barcelona, free happens at two moments of the week: Sunday from three in the afternoon, and the first Sunday of every month. Outside those, very few doors open without a ticket: the Picasso Museum on Thursday afternoons, the MNAC and the MACBA on Saturdays, and whatever is out in the street. Arrive between Monday […]