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Teja Rau handles content and operations for The Barcelona Edit. She is an avid traveler and seeks experiences that give unique insight into local culture and people. Her favorite part of Barcelona is all of Barcelona. She's an intermediate level flamenco dancer, occasional fiction writer, and loves all puns, not just the good ones.
Dogs are generally welcomed in Barcelona and are well tolerated in most public spaces. They are just as much a part of café life here as cañas and bravas. The city has required leash laws and taking your canine friend on public transportation requires a carrier or...
Despite a thriving café culture, Spanish coffee has long suffered a maligned reputation, thanks to its Franco era practice of torrefacto. Faced with shortages and trying to keep costs down, local roasters coated coffee beans in sugar prior to roasting (torrefacto),...
Gràcia, Gotico, and El Born may receive all of the attention, but Barcelona has a wealth of other neighborhoods just as distinct as the touristy favorites. Time Out magazine recently declared the Esquerra de l’Eixample (Eixample left) as the 2020 coolest...
Wedged between a farmacia and a school, Casa Vicens is an outlandish gingerbread house monster of a building on an otherwise nondescript little street in the Barcelona neighborhood of Gràcia. To be fair, only fields surrounded the house when it was completed in 1888...
Forget politics. If you want to start an argument with a group of Catalans, bring up the Costa Brava. A conversation about “the best” Costa Brava beach town is an invitation to controversy. The cynical traveler would suggest that the little villages dotting the rugged...
The Catalan modernisme style Casa Sayrach occupies the entire corner of Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Enric Granados. Completed in 1918, Casa Sayrach is the last Barcelona house built in the modernisme architectural tradition. It also happens to be a testament to its...
Imagine being sick and in the hospital, surrounded by medical staff, equipment, that smell particular to hospitals, and a host of other things that generally don’t make for a pleasant experience, no matter how necessary. Now, imagine being in a hospital bed,...
Practical-minded though they may be, Catalans are romantics at heart. Take, for example, their embrace of the legend of Sant Jordi (St. George), the patron saint of Catalonia. While many other countries call him their patron and celebrate in his honor, the Festival of...
Palau Güell With so much architecture and art in Barcelona, fighting through the tourist crowds on La Rambla to see “yet another” Gaudí building may seem like an obvious addition to your why-bother list of places to avoid in the city. After all,...
Live from El Born: Online Cooking Class Kneading dough, it turns out, is the best way to escape the online COVID-19 insanity. It’s near impossible (unless you really don’t care about your cellphone or laptop) to text, scroll, and comment once your hands are covered in...
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