The Christmas festivities are a great opportunity to gift books and visit your neighbourhood bookshops. Here is a list of our recommendations for books about Barcelona. The best of the most recent publications so that you can enjoy this Christmas reading about Barcelona.
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La ciutat del futur
Anna Miracle and Julio Antonio Blasco
Discover through Teresa, a girl from Barcelona, the fascinating initiatives being carried out in different cities around the world to tackle climate change.
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Barcelona. La meva ciutat
Marina Luz García and Neus Caamaño
A highly visual album with the main statistical data on Barcelona to invite young children to discover the city and its neighbourhoods and think about how to improve them.
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Les aventures de l’editorial Joventut
Julià Guillamon and Mònica Baró
This book offers a visual account of the hundred years of the Joventut publishing company, with a spectacular graphic approach, awakening the memory to the surprise of readers.
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Carnet de Voyage: estimada Collserola
Raúl Deamo
An illustrated walk around Collserola through the drawings of Raúl Deamo, describing hilltops, ponds, allotments, hermitages and natural landscapes of great beauty.
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Els cinemes de la meva vida
Carlos Mir
A journey around Barcelona in the 50s, 60s and 70s, through Carlos Mir’s personal memory of the city’s cinemas, most of them now disappeared.
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Lari
Josep Maria Lari Mirambell
Photographic memory of the transformation of Barcelona in the 20s and 30s through the everyday domestic photographs of Josep M. Lari Mirambell.
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Pilar Aymerich
Pilar Aymerich
A route around the main work of Pilar Aymerich, chosen by her, with never-before-published photos and historical memory texts providing moving and historical context.
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Picasso-Barcelona. Una cartografia
Claustre Rafart
On the one hand, this is a biography of the young artist, and on the other, a guide to Barcelona, explaining the link between Picasso and the city which saw him evolve towards a modern painter.
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Guia de fauna urbana de Barcelona
Sergi García Rodríguez and Martí Franch
We might think that only familiar animals live in the city: cats, dogs, pigeons...but there are many more! Discover them in the Guia de fauna urbana de Barcelona.
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Guia de flora urbana de Barcelona
Pere Barnola and Josep Maria Panareda
A highly visual guide to discover and be able to identify over 125 species of trees, bushes and herbs we can find as we stroll around Barcelona.
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Barcelona esgrafiada
Lluís Duran
This book invites us to take a walk and discover the shell of architecture and nearly 150 sgraffito designs that decorate the façades of the city.
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Lluis Domènech i Montaner
Mireia Freixa and others
The book explains the dimension of Domènech as an architect, political, teacher, researcher and writer based on monographic studies of his most significant works.