Barcelona has a great many shopping where you can find practically everything. They are ideal places to visit if you are pressed for time with your shopping. Besides shops, these centres offer leisure and eating venues where you can have a bite between shopping.
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El Corte Inglés
This is the biggest chain of department stores throughout Spain, with a number of branches in Barcelona. It offers a wide variety of fashion, sport and electronic goods, as well as perfumes, things for the home, and more. You will always find what you are looking for.
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El Triangle
Another shopping centre located in Plaça de Catalunya, this time on the corner with Carrer de Pelai. One of its main stores is FNAC, where you can buy books, music, films and all kinds of electronic and computer equipment, as well as tickets for concerts in the city. There are other FNAC stores in the Illa Diagonal and Diagonal Mar shopping centres. You'll find Sephora, a perfume shop, at the Triangle centre, as well as shops specialising in watches, candles and glasses and an delicious Italian ice cream parlour (Dino's). Habitat offers a wide range of goods and accessories for the home.
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Glòries
This is a partially outdoor shopping centre with three main buildings offering a wide variety of goods, especially fashion, food, entertainment and children’s toys (with a wide range available at Imaginarium, Drim and Disney), as well as music, a hobby shop (Interkits) and jewellers, plus leisure areas, restaurants and food outlets. The Glòries centre also has a multi-screen cinema and lots to keep children amused, which makes going there lots of fun for them. It is by Plaça de les Glòries, very near the Poblenou neighbourhood and the 22@ district. It has a car park and you can also get there by tram, on the TramBesòs line, using the same ticket for the bus or the underground because it forms part of the integrated fare system that operates on the city's public transport. -
L'Illa Diagonal
This is an elegant shopping centre on Avinguda Diagonal, near uptown Barcelona, in the city's prime business area. Here you will find top quality clothes shops, a Decathlon store selling clothes and all kinds of equipment for sport, delicatessens, a big Disney store, a supermarket selling top quality produce and restaurants of various kinds, among other retail establishments. The centre has a car park and you can also enjoy some very interesting temporary exhibitions and very original installations. -
Maremagnum
At the bottom of the Rambla, leaving the Columbus monument on the right, you come to Rambla de Mar, an extension of Barcelona's famous Rambla, which will take you over the water to the very unusual Maremagnum shopping centre. Its curious location will make your imagination leap. Apart from being in an unbeatable setting, it accommodates a large number and variety of shops: fashion and accessories, toys, an official FC Barcelona store, phones and computers, decoration, records and so on, as well as a multi-screen cinema, 3D cinema (IMAX) and lots of options for eating to make your visit a very pleasurable one. Next to Maremagnum, in this marvellous maritime environment, you will find the Aquarium, a marine museum where young and old alike will have a really good time! -
Diagonal Mar
This is the ideal centre if you like going shopping and also going to the cinema or the restaurant. Above all, it is perfect for taking children, as there is a special children’s area called “Mar de nens”. It is a shopping centre in the most modern neighbourhood in the city, very near the sea, brightened throughout the day by natural light, making for a luxurious day's shopping and a great experience. You can get there by tram, a modern form of transport on which you can use the same ticket as the bus or the underground because it forms part of the integrated fare system that operates on the city's public transport. -
La Maquinista
An outdoor shopping centre, designed like a city in itself, with streets, avenues, arcades and squares where there are benches to have a rest. It gets its name from the Maquinista park, next to the centre, which in turn comes from an old factory that, for many years built the carriages for the Barcelona Metro. A shopping centre which is a long way from the city centre but highly recommended and you can get there by taking a pleasant stroll after leaving the Metro (Line 1) at Sant Andreu or Torras i Bages.
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