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Barcelona

By Travel & Leisure
March 09, 2010
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Credit: David Cicconi

Riding through the Barri Gòtic during the daily siesta.

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Credit: Lyndsey Matthews

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Raval district's futuristic, all-white museum designed by Richard Meier looks like something out of The Jetsons and contains a world-class collection of art created in the past 50 years.

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At your service at Colmado Quilez, a specialty shop where food fanatics can find everything they crave.

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Downtown as seen through the exoskeleton of the Hotel Arts.

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Go to Park Güell, Gaudí’s mosaicked garden complex, for the best skyline views.

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Kicking back at Taverna del Born, an alfresco café in El Born.

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Feathered visitors to La Catedral de Barcelona Gothic cathedral.

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Join the Gaudi gawkers in front of the architect's surreal Casa Batlló.

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Stepping up to the tapas bar at Quimet & Quimet.

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Credit: Courtesy of Palau de la Música Catalana

After a restoration, the Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall is newly resplendent. The intimate auditorium glows beneath stained-glass sky-lights and inverted gold-and-glass dome. And in spite of the profusion of glass and ceramics, the acoustics are outstanding.

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Las Meninas (1957) at the Museu Picasso.

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Bartender Gerard Acereda mixes a classic cocktail at Dry Martini, in L'Eixample.

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