La Central

L'Eixample


An excellent multilingual bookshop with titles stocked amid lovely old tiled floors and a speciality cafe run by Satan's Coffee Company, with a sunny back terrace.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby L'Eixample attractions

1. Fundació Antoni Tàpies

0.2 MILES

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is both a pioneering Modernista building (completed in the early 1880s) and the major collection of leading 20th-century…

2. La Pedrera

0.24 MILES

In the top tier of Gaudí's achievements, this madcap Unesco-listed masterpiece, with 33 balconies, was built in 1905–10 as a combined apartment and office…

3. Casa Batlló

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One of Europe's strangest residential buildings, Casa Batlló (built 1904–6) is Gaudí at his fantastical best. From its playful facade and marine-world…

4. Museu Egipci

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Hotel magnate Jordi Clos has spent much of his life collecting ancient Egyptian artefacts, brought together in this private museum divided into thematic…

5. Casa Amatller

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One of Puig i Cadafalch’s most striking flights of Modernista fantasy, Casa Amatller combines Gothic window frames and Romanesque flourishes with a…

6. Museu del Perfum

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At the back of the Barcelona-founded Regia perfume shop, this museum tells the story of the scent world through the ages, with 5000 bottles of infinite…

7. Museu del Modernisme Barcelona

0.27 MILES

Housed in a stuccoed, red-washed 1902 Modernista building by Enric Sagnier, this museum seems like a big Modernista-furniture showroom. Several pieces by…

8. Palau Robert

0.28 MILES

The 1903-completed building that hosts Catalonia's regional tourist office also serves as an exhibition space, mostly for rotating Catalan-themed shows…