Barcelona, decoded

The stories Barcelona doesn’t put on a plaque.

Narrated video guides to the city’s monuments, the activities worth planning a day around, and the restaurants we actually eat at. Made by two people from Barcelona.

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What’s inside today

Monuments
19
Video guides
24
Activities
29
Restaurants
34

Every video guide is free, with no account and no sign-up. The catalogue grows as pieces are produced — these are the real numbers today, not the plan.

The monuments

Each one carries one or more narrated guides. Some — the Cathedral, Pedralbes, Sagrada Família — have several, because one story was never going to be enough.

Casa Amatller1 guide
Casa Batlló1 guide
Casa Milà. La pedrera1 guide
Casa Vicens1 guide
Cementerio de Poblenou1 guide
El Angel1 guide
Jardines de Mossèn Costa i Llobera1 guide
La Catedral3 guides
La plaza Reial1 guide
Las Ramblas1 guide
Mirador de Colom1 guide
Monestir de Pedralbes3 guides
Palau Guell1 guide
Palau de la Música Catalana1 guide
Park Güell1 guide
Plaça de Sant Felip Neri1 guide
Sagrada Familia2 guides
Santa Maria del Mar1 guide
Torre Bellesguard1 guide

Ten more monuments are in production and appear in the app as their guides are finished.

Activities and restaurants

29 memorable activities — family days, romantic afternoons, things that involve a bicycle or a swim. Each one comes with a plan: what to do, where to start, how long it takes.

34 restaurants and tapas bars, with a rule behind them. No commercial interest, no paid placements. Only places we have eaten at with family or friends, and we always pay our own bill.

Events, only while they last

Barcelona is not the same city in September as it is in April. Festival content appears in the app on the days it is relevant and disappears when the festival ends — no stale listings for something that finished last year.

11 Sep

La Diada

Catalonia’s national day: where the flowers go, which castellers perform where, and what the gegants are actually for.

20–27 Sep

La Mercè

The city’s big one. Correfoc, castells, the piromusical, and the popular race that runs days before the festival proper.

Live in the app now
23 Apr

Sant Jordi

Books and roses across the whole city. The one day Barcelona hands its streets to readers.

Built for the rest of the calendar too — Santa Eulàlia, calçotada season, Sant Joan, Festa Major de Gràcia, MWC — each added as its dates approach.

Free and Pro

Every video guide is free — all of them, start to finish — along with the map, every monument listing and all event dates. No account, no sign-up, nothing to create.

Pro is a single one-time purchase — not a subscription — and unlocks the detailed activity plans and the restaurant list: the two things you won’t find on Google Maps.