Travel/Tourism news & information for Barcelona

PROPERTY prices, housing quality, healthcare and education, living costs and the job market are among the factors that determine where the happiest locations in Spain are, according to research by a leading national...

MADRID'S Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport has been named number one in Europe in terms of services, efficiency, complaints handling, and quality of its shops and restaurants, and Bilbao airport has come second.

The largest wooden ocean-going sailing ship in the world - the Götheborg of Sweden - moored up in Barcelona on Thursday morning.

BARCELONA is number three in the world for the most beautiful monuments, beating much-loved European destinations such as Paris, Florence and Athens, according to a recent study.

ONE THING is for everyone who visits your town, province or country to tell everyone else how wonderful it is and to give it lots of stars on TripAdvisor, but quite another is when the European Union itself endorses a...

WHO doesn't enjoy a mammoth shopping session?

BRIGHT skies and warm weather may not have been our only reason for moving to Spain, or even have figured among our top 50 priority reasons, but they certainly help.

A MUST for fans of motorhomes, campervans, static or towing caravans, Barcelona's huge global trade fair dedicated to holidays on the road has been confirmed for 2022 after the Covid-19 pandemic put paid to the...

AFTER the second-hottest July this century and August lurching from extreme temperatures on one day – around 40ºC in the southern two-thirds of the country – to refreshing thunder storms the next, and September...

BARCELONA'S El Prat airport is about to get bigger: Expansion plans costing €1.7 billion are afoot, turning it into a major long-haul international terminal with a high-speed rail connection.

ALMOST anyone not heading for Spain this summer would be a lot happier if they were in it, and the town in question is probably academic – and although those who already live here year-round are entitled to be...

ONE of Spain's biggest and most famous music festivals has already announced its line-up for 2022, when it will be celebrating its 20th anniversary.