Travelers to Barcelona are often seduced by the idea of an excursion to Montserrat, the multi-peaked mountain that is home to a famous Benedictine abbey and its legendary black Madonna relic. Though ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. So when guide David Verdejo arrives to show me around Catalonia’s historic seafront city I take him ...

In the new-ish La Quimera bookshop I browse a Gaudi volume beneath a vault that once supported the circus maximus, where rapt residents of the Roman colony of Tarraco gathered to watch chariot races.