Architect Antonio Gaudí’s Modernist works, the Catalán Art Nouveau - As the NY Times article “Antonio Gaudí’s Visions in Brick and Stone” states, “there is no other city that honors and, indeed, so identifies with the work of a single architect. Gaudí’s buildings are a magnet for the cultivated and the curious; even sightseers who [...]

Caixa Forum - Located in the Montjuïc area on Avenida Marqués de Comillas near the Placa de Espanya (fundacio.lacaixa.es). Check the weekly Guia del Ocio, which you can buy at any newspaper kiosk, in Spanish, but easy to figure out to catch one of their great free exhibits. Here I have seen, for nary a [...]

Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya - This enormous, stunning collection housed in the Palau Nacional consisting of 1,315 works on permanent display includes paintings and sculptures from the medieval period, Germanic, Italian Renaissance and Baroque, including Fra Angelico, Cranch, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Canaletto and the Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, moved from the Monastery of Pedralbes to the [...]

Carrer de Montcada 15-23
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 319 6310
museupicasso@mail.bcn.es
The Museu Picasso - This gem of a museum is housed in a series of medieval stone mansions on the very atmospheric, mansion-filled Carrer Montcada in La Ribera district, to the east of the Barri Gòtic (museupicasso.bcn.es). The collection is strong on his very early works, [...]

In Girona there are restaurants specialised in all kinds of cuisine (Italian, Argentine, Chinese…) and especially in Catalan food. Many of them, besides the menu, offer set price lunches (2 courses + dessert) for a price that ranges between 7 and 10 €.
Although it is easy to find restaurants in Girona, the Oficina de Relacions [...]