The nearby Calle Pelai (also leading off Plaza de Catalunya) is also packed with fashion boutiques. There are also several shoe shops and jewellers as well as some traditional “hidden gems” in fact, this is the place to buy typical turrón (a kind of nougat) and artisan ice cream. Don’t miss the chance to wander up Portal de l’Àngel, a pedestrian street that connects Plaza de Catalunya with the old part of Barcelona here you can find the big-name fashion chains with something for everyone. There is a department store and a large range of electronic goods outlets right on the square itself. Right next to the square, Portal de l’Àngel and Calle Pelai are also full of interesting shops. The area around Plaza de Catalunya, in the heart of Barcelona, is another of Barcelona’s shopping hubs. Grab your city map and mark these eight shopping areas to suit all tastes and pockets they should figure among the holiday experiences of your trip to Barcelona. You can enjoy shopping in Barcelona while you soak up the city’s character, its contrasts of local and cosmopolitan, unconventional and traditional its architecture, culture and food. All of this in one of the biggest open-air shopping routes in Europe known as the Barcelona Shopping Line, it covers five kilometres through the city’s different districts whose architectural and cultural environments make shopping in Barcelona a unique experience. The city of Barcelona in eastern Spain offers a whole host of options, from hundred-year-old shops where you can take home a little part of the most traditional Barcelona, to the latest, avant-garde designer products, with gourmet shops where the city’s flavours are the souvenir.

Whatever the case, Barcelona (Catalonia) is the place for you. It doesn’t matter if you are just browsing in shops on the way to the next monument or museum, or if on the contrary, you want to devote your entire trip to shopping.

The crossing places