#1 You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. – Anthony Bourdain

#2 We crossed spacious streets, with building resembling palaces, in La Rambla promenade ; the shops were well illuminated and there was movement and life… I did not decide to go to sleep, even though I wished to, so I could rise early and contemplate, in daylight, this city, unknown to me: Barcelona, capital of Catalonia. – Hans Christian Andersen

#3 I went to have a look at the cathedral, a modern cathedral, and one of the most hideous buildings in the world. – George Orwell (written in 1938)

#4 Barcelona, archives of courtesy, shelter of the foreigners, hospital of the poor, father-land of  the brave , vengeance of the offended and pleasant correspondence of firm friendship, and in site, and in beauty, unique. – Miguel de Cervantes

#5 The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it’s a woman who’s extremely vain. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6 Such a beautiful horizon, like a jewel in the sun , for you a will be a seagle of your beautiful ocean . The bells are ringing, open up your doors to the world. – a quote from the song “Barcelona”, a hymn of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

#7 In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it’s traditionally the least Spanish city, but you’d never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist – as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral when it comes to overseas visitors. – Julie Burchill

#8 Here in Barcelona, it’s the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration – not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. – Julie Burchill

#9 I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. – Colm Tóibín

#10 Allow me to state here how much I love Barcelona , an admirable city, a city full of life, intense, a port open to the past and future. – Le Corbusier

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