The most thrilling gallery in the Picasso Museum contains the Cubist artist’s riffs on the Baroque painter Diego Velázquez’s revered work, “Las Meninas.”
Early risers — or those just winding up the night — can squeeze onto stools at the Boqueria market for a Barcelona ritual: breakfast at Pinotxo.
Reward yourself for saving room with a stellar example of modern Catalan cooking at Suculent in the Raval district. The chef Antonio Romero also once worked at elBulli, and its influences occasionally show up in unexpected textures, like the orange gelée that adds a jolt of brightness to a dish of fresh anchovies and olives.
Tarraco’s amphitheatre had an exquisite setting, carved into a steep slope between the Roman walls and the Mediterranean.
Couples and families stroll on the Rambla Nova up to this lookout with unbroken panoramas of the sea.
Refined Catalan dining in a traditional locale with a leafy, semi-covered terrace.