(email barcelona at cookwood.com for more info)
This cozy fifth floor walk-up is in the center of Barcelona
If you look at a map of Barcelona, our apartment is in the very center. It is in Gràcia, one of Barcelona’s historic neighborhoods, known for its small streets, lively plazas and outdoor cafes, plethora of restaurants of all ethnicities, shops and boutiques, art-house movie theaters, mom-and-pop grocery stores and delectable bakeries. It is authentic Barcelona at its best: a mix of safe and friendly small-town combined with hip fashion and gourmet food.
Our apartment is a five minute walk from Barcelona’s Boardwalk and Park Place: the Passeig de Gràcia where you can find Gaudí’s Pedrera and Casa Batlló as well as a cacophony of other Catalan modernist architecture, and Rambla de Catalunya, the lush, tree-lined, cafe-centered boulevard flanked by Barcelona’s most exclusive shops with views of Tibidabo at one end and the Plaça Catalunya at the other. The Gothic Quarter, with the famed Rambles, Picasso Museum, and Cathedral, among many other things, is just below Plaça Catalunya.
One of the things that distinguishes our apartment from other rentals is that my family and I actually live here part of the year. That means you’ll find comfortable modern furniture, a well equipped kitchen, cotton sheets and cozy blankets on the beds, wireless DSL for speedy Internet access, a flat screen television and DVD player/recorder, central heating, a washing machine, and a telephone with free calls to all land lines in Spain. The apartment really works.
Our apartment has a living/dining room, terrace, three bedrooms, and a gallery, along with the kitchen and bathroom.
The living room has a plush sofa and bookshelves and a dining table and chairs.
The lovely outdoor terrace has cushioned garden chairs and a round dining table, a retractable canvas awning, and views of Tibidabo
The “master” bedroom has a queen-size bed, large armoire, and chest of drawers.
The second bedroom has two single beds in a modified bunkbed system which they call a “train” in which one bed overlaps the other about half way. This system has the advantage that the lower bed is not completely closed in and the upper bed is not as high as a traditional upper bunk. There is ample storage for folded and hanging clothing.
The third bedroom is very small (and difficult to photograph) but extremely efficient and well organized. It has a single loft bed over a desk with an armoire and drawers.
The sunny, cheerful gallery is lined with big plate glass windows and offers an additional sitting area with a sofabed and desk and chair (as well as the washing machine).
If you’d like more information, have any questions, or want to know just how many stairs are involved in a fifth-floor walkup, please contact us via email at “barcelona followed by the at sign followed by cookwood.com”
