Barcelona Metropolitan—Your essential guide in English to living in and visiting Barcelona

The first step on the ladder

Meredith Gales explains the paperwork you'll need and the homework you'll have to do when embarking on an international adoption

February 8, 2010
Adoption agencies in Catalunya

Our blogger Meredith Gales details how adoption agencies here work

February 1, 2010
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Finding true north

Get Scandinavian cuisine at Mediterranean prices at Barcelona's Routa restaurant

February 4, 2010
Hollywood wines

Jean Leon's Terrasola range beautifully express the terroir of the Penedès

February 1, 2010
Cut the bulli

The 'best restaurant in the world' closes its doors

January 28, 2010
Los Aguilares, Pago El Espino, Ronda 2006

"No me digas…spectacular reds from Andalucia?"

January 25, 2010
Back at the Ranch

Traditional feasting out in La Floresta

January 21, 2010
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Features

We asked a selection of readers where they get most of their food from in Barcelona

January 29, 2010 in City

Third exhibition at Sala Parés for this artist who won the gallery's Young Painter Prize in 1992

February 5, 2010

Photo by Lorenzo Vecchia

Is the phrase ’ethical foie gras’ an oxymoron?

Oriol Alamany

Lying just inland from Barcelona, Bages is at the spiritual and physical heart of Catalunya

Photo by Rosie Free

Animal lovers looking for a different kind of weekend break can help out at the Mona chimpanzee sanctuary

May 8, 2009 by Rosie Free in Visiting

Photographs by La Vanguardia photographer Roser Vilallonga and signed with messages from celebrities regarding the situation in Tibet

January 8, 2010

By Stefan Hoenerloh

Stefan Hoenerloh is a German painter who captures architectural visions of different places

January 21, 2010