Antiga Casa Buenavista is a family-run 4-star boutique hotel in Barcelona’s Sant Antoni. Housed in a restored early 20th-century building, it offers stylish rooms, a rooftop pool, and a restaurant honoring its century-old legacy.
Whether you are looking for a quick healthy snack or an elaborate set menu meal, Barcelona offers a rich variety of vegetarian, vegan and organic restaurant options.
Barcelona lives and breathes artistic creativity, with icons such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Antoni Gaudí having once called the city home.
Modernist pharmacies of Barcelona feature stunning original woodwork, stained glass, ironwork, paintings and ceramic jars that transport you back over 100 years.
Barcelona traces its origins over 2,000 years ago to the Roman colony called Barcino. It was founded by Emperor Augustus during the period of 15-10 BC, and the full Latin name of the colony was Iulia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino.
Many important figures in the history of Barcelona are known to have been Freemasons. These include Ildefons Cerdà, who designed the 19th-century extension of Barcelona called the Eixample and Lluís Companys who was President of Catalonia during the Civil War.