Cool for Catalans: 10 stylish places to stay in Barcelona
Picasso’s Barcelona: in the footsteps of the artist as a young man
October 2023
Keeping it surreal: my Dalí-inspired art trip to Catalonia
Portlligat, Cadaqués and Cap de Creus provide the ‘hallucinatory’ backdrop to an emotive journey into the natural world that helped create the artist
August 2023
‘The mountains soothed the soul’: a long walk in Spain’s Pyrenees
On a 52-mile hike in Catalonia between five refuges, we found chamois, griffon vultures, rare butterflies, an ultra-trail running legend – and very few people
April 2023
Picasso pilgrimage: a Spanish art trail marking 50 years since his death
From Málaga to Madrid, there’s a fiesta of special exhibitions this year in the places where the artist lived and worked
February 2023
Barcelona’s ‘other’ great architect: five of his finest buildings
Catalonia’s design gems don’t begin and end with Gaudí. The works of Lluís Domènech i Montaner deserve a closer look on the centenary of his death
November 2022
From pirates’ hideout to Dalí’s bolthole: Cadaqués, star of Spain’s Costa Brava
This hidden cove has drawn artists for generations but the ex-hippy seaside town has maintained its independent character
April 2022
Rail journey of the month
Rail route of the month: Barcelona to Cádiz, the slow train right across Spain
Our slow travel expert takes a 12-hour odyssey from Mediterranean Catalonia – via Cervantes, bandit and sherry country – to Atlantic Andalucía
February 2022
Spain by train: a three city mini-break to Bilbao, Barcelona and Madrid
Turning a Spanish city break into a train trip to remember by visiting three cities and exploring their distinctive food, art and culture
October 2021
Want to see the real Catalonia? Then look beyond Barcelona
From Pyrenean peaks to flamingo-dotted deltas, a new tour draws visitors away from busy Barcelona
October 2020
La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub
Spanish hotel group to offer guests free Covid testing
July 2020
Spain this summer: three under-the-radar holiday regions
This is the year to skip Spain’s crowded costas and busy cities and head for its quiet and lovely mountains, countryside and coast
May 2020
Barcelona without the tourists: ‘We've reclaimed our city but inherited a ghost town’
Last year Barcelona received 30 million visitors – now there are none. Emerging from Europe’s strictest coronavirus lockdown, how do its tourist-weary residents feel about getting their city back?
January 2020
Picasso’s lost paradise: how a corner of Catalonia brought inspiration
As a new Picasso exhibition opens at London’s Royal Academy, we visit Horta de Sant Joan, the hilltop village that the artist said taught him ‘everything’
August 2018
The Guardian picture essay
How tourism is killing Barcelona – a photo essay
A foodie homage to Catalonia: a tour of its unsung delta
July 2018
Barcelona continues crackdown on illegal holiday apartments
Catalan city’s council is advising tourists to check its fairtourism website to ensure apartments are correctly licensed
June 2018
'Tourists go home, refugees welcome': why Barcelona chose migrants over visitors
Increasingly it is tourism, not immigration, that Barcelonans see as a threat to their city’s identity, though numbers of both have skyrocketed in recent years
November 2017
On the radar
Gaudí opening to lead Barcelona’s tourism comeback
The first house designed by the iconic architect – exuberant Casa Vicens in the beleaguered city’s Gràcia district – opens to the public later this month. ‘This could be a moment of peace,’ says its manager
