The Best Places to Stay in la Dreta de l'Eixample

The old bank safes are still here, repurposed into the Banker's Bar, which tells you something about how this Forbes Five Star hotel on Passeig de Gràcia earns its drama. Casa Batlló is a short walk away, Las Ramblas and the Gothic Quarter not much farther. Back at the hotel there's a rooftop dipping pool, a garden, and a spa to help you recover from all that architecture.

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A 1957 spiral staircase, suspended from the ceiling by a metal frame, is the first thing that stops you in the lobby of this Eixample hotel. The building was once the Cotton Producers Guild headquarters, and the frescoed ceilings and ornate tiles remain, though interior designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán kept it from feeling like a museum. Outdoor terraces, a restaurant, and modern rooms complete the picture. Forbes Four Star.

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Locals still call it the Ritz, which tells you everything about how hard old glamour dies. El Palace is a grand luxury hotel on Gran Via, all velvet drapes, marble columns, and gilded everything, the kind of lobby where Frank Sinatra once held court and where Barcelona's cultural crowd still meets for a drink. The rooftop terrace runs a pool with panoramic views across the city. Forbes Four Star.

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The neoclassical façade on Passeig de Gràcia is the opening argument: this is a grand, old-school Barcelona hotel that has been run by the same family since forever. A thousand-piece art collection lines the interiors, with work by Tàpies and Anish Kapoor, so the corridors feel less like a hotel and more like a museum that also has a rooftop pool. Classic rooms, sophisticated without being sterile, and one of the better addresses in the city for shopping.

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Custom Austrian beds and marble bathrooms clad in the kind of white that refuses to apologize for itself set the tone at this Eixample design hotel, steps from the Passeig de Gràcia. The interiors by Jaime Beriestain move comfortably from Art Deco to mid-century to now without feeling like a mood board in revolt. Floor-to-ceiling windows pull in serious Barcelona light, and the rooftop bar looks out over a skyline that earns the view. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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Fingerprint-activated door entry, dark bedrooms that feel like sleeping inside a good idea, and bathrooms done in bright white stone that make you forget you were ever tired. This boutique hotel sits just off Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample, all minimalist hardwood and leather with none of the cathedral-scale drama Barcelona tends to promise. The rooftop terrace helps, as does the midnight room service when the city finally gets around to ending its evening. Holds a Michelin Key.

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The curving ceilings and soaring vertical beams inside this five-star hotel on the Passeig de Gràcia are a deliberate nod to Gaudí, and you're a short walk from Casa Batlló and La Pedrera to compare notes. The 84 rooms come with wood paneling, free-standing tubs, Jo Malone products, and soundproofing thoughtful enough to survive the boulevard. The hotel shares its address with Martín Berasategui's Lasarte, which most guests already know before they book.

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The lobby reads as a bookstore, coffee shop, art gallery, and co-working space simultaneously, which is a lot to ask of a lobby. This Michelin Key hotel sits just off the Passeig de Gràcia, and the fashionable locals who drift through the ground floor never quite make it to the rooftop pool and striped chaises, which are kept for guests alone. Industrial-chic, floor-to-ceiling windows, big ambitions, smaller crowds upstairs.

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Perched where Eixample meets Gràcia, this five-star hotel puts you on locals' turf while keeping the Sagrada Família and Parc Güell within walking distance. Designer Jaime Beriestain layered marble, mirrors, and gold across 89 rooms without tipping into gaudy, and the near-floor-to-ceiling windows frame the neighborhood like a painting. The rooftop plunge pool offers an unobstructed sweep of the Barcelona skyline. It holds a Michelin Key.

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Mosaic and terracotta tiles, cream walls with teal accents, and laundry lines visible from the courtyard: Casa Bonay is a boutique hotel in the Eixample that makes a point of feeling like it belongs here. Rooms are compact but cleverly arranged, and most have outdoor space. The building holds a rooftop barbecue spot, a natural wine restaurant, a lounge, and an outpost of Satan's Coffee Corner, which is a real café and a great name.

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The wrought-iron balconies and oversized ground-floor windows of this boutique hotel belong to the former home and studio of Modernist architect Enric Sagnier, Gaudí's prolific but lesser-famed contemporary. Rooms run pale parquet and leather, a good number have private balconies, and the top ones get terraces with sun loungers. The rooftop lounge and street-level bar add reasons to stay put on Rambla de Catalunya, which is already a solid reason on its own.

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A 19th-century palace shell with a modern glass tower dropped inside it like a ship in a bottle, the Claris is a grand hotel in the Eixample that doubles as an art collection. Pre-Columbian pieces fill the ground floor, Egyptian carvings and Turkish kilims turn up in the rooms, and a Roman mosaic greets you at reception. Rooftop pool, panoramic terrace, polished hardwood floors throughout, and not a beige carpet in sight.

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A 48-room boutique hotel in the Eixample, sitting on the same block as La Pedrera, which is either a selling point or a reminder that your neighbor will always outshine you. The building is a late 19th-century Modernista structure, kept handsome through a thoughtful renovation, with rooms that lean toward confident simplicity, a lobby bar, and a rooftop terrace with a plunge pool for when Barcelona in summer gets to be a lot.

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The Catalunya metro stop is literally steps from the front door, which tells you everything about where this hotel sits: dead center, with the Barri Gòtic, El Raval, and L'Eixample radiating out in every direction. Rooms run from compact and functional to Catalan Art Nouveau apartments with multiple balconies, but all land on the same formula of pillow-top beds and good natural light. The terrace bar, candlelit and strung with warm lights, does the rest.

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A 19th-century industrial building on Rambla Catalunya, redesigned by Lázaro Rosa-Violán, the self-styled "urban archaeologist" whose fingerprints are all over Barcelona's cooler interiors. The 85 rooms are quiet despite the address, with carved-wood headboards and marble bathrooms. Two pools, including a rooftop plunge pool with chaises, take care of the afternoon. Good luck finding it among the other H10 hotels on the same two blocks, but it's worth the navigation.

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Named after the Tenenbaum daughter you'd most want decorating your apartment, this nine-room boutique hotel on Passeig de Gràcia operates more like a private residence than a place with a front desk. Spanish designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán filled it with lacquered screens, African masks, and mismatched furniture that shouldn't work together but does. Everything is for sale at the ground-floor shop, and the wet-room bathrooms come stocked with Aesop. Casa Batlló is directly across the street.

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The skeleton of a 19th-century theater and cinema underlies this sleek design hotel, which keeps the bones and ditches the velvet. Its real calling card is over 100,000 square feet of terraced outdoor space across multiple levels, with restaurants and a cocktail bar where DJs spin nightly, which means the party comes to you. The Gothic Quarter, El Born, and Gaudí's greatest hits are all within ten minutes on foot.

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The mosaic floors and baroque columns belong to a 19th-century palace; the guest rooms belong firmly to the present, done in spare, minimalist style. This boutique hotel sits on Rambla de Catalunya, and morning starts with coffee and fresh croissants before you're released into a neighborhood thick with cafés. The courtyard garden and terrace give you somewhere to land at the end of the day, which you'll need.

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The façade does the talking first: limestone panels that curve open like turning pages, designed by Juli Capella. Inside, this boutique hotel just off Passeig de Gràcia keeps things remarkably quiet, literally so, with rubber-lined corridors muffling the city. Rooms lean warm rather than cold-minimal, with art and natural materials doing the work. The rooftop pool bar looks straight at the Sagrada Família, which is either thrilling or a lot, depending on your mood.

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