Barcelona is a thriving city which attracts millions of visitors interested in our culture and the Mediterranean lifestyle. I am Spanish and, although I wasn´t born in Barcelona, this is the city where I have lived most of my life. For the last twenty years I have done a lot of international travel mostly for work and, being back to Barcelona after five years of living abroad, I felt like sharing a perspective to help others discover the city through shopping.
This is a blog intended mainly for travelers and foreigners which is why I have chosen to write it in English. Nevertheless, everybody is invited to participate, and comments in French, Italian or Portuguese and, of course, Spanish and Catalan are also welcome.
Shopping is one of the pleasures of foreign travel. Whether we buy crafts, fashion, books or items in pursuit of our hobbies and interests, the things we buy when we travel can bring us fun and pleasure, help us grow, create good memories, and share special moments later on.
Shopping is exciting when we find something unique or it can be emotional when we buy things for our loved ones. Shopping can also be a way to express our values and to contribute to a better society when we decide to acquire an environmentally friendly product, or to buy from a local artisan, a small company, a young entrepreneur or a museum shop. Shopping can also help us discover the culture of the places we visit through traditional crafts and products, street markets, local designers or food.
In Barcelona, shopping districts are knitted in the fabric of the city and some of them, made of narrow streets with small shops -where tourists and locals mingle- are a very distinctive trait of our Mediterranean culture.
Come and enjoy!!
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