Barcelona is Gaudí. Barcelona is mediterranean and modernism. Barcelona is culture, sports and business. Barcelona is city and nature. Barcelona is center, but it is also periphery as the audiovisual productions have shown us. Through this map, we invite you to explore those peripheral places that film cameras have captured in recent years. Places which are key to holistically understand and experience the identity of Barcelona.Database: FiHeTo in collaboration with FACES-50 (ref. RTI2018-094100-B-I00).

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Film location

Grassroots heritage

Cultural heritage

Natural heritage

Routes

Hogar

Sarriá-Sant Gervasi

National

Sant Adrià del Besòs

Tres

Horta-Guinardó

Sants-Montjuïc

Chavalas

Sant Ildefons / Cornellà de Llobregat

Requisitos para ser una persona nomal

L'Eixample

female director

Biutiful

International

Parc de Montjuïc

Gràcia

Nou Barris

Sant Andreu

Sant Martí

Mi vacío y yo

Tres metros sobre el cielo

Un novio para mi mujer

Mi soledad tiene alas

La hija de un ladrón

Esplugues de Llobregat

Poblenou

Girasoles silvestres

Hospitalet de Llobregat

El Gran Vázquez

Any de Gràcia

The bust is dedicated to the flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla. The statue was an initiative of the Centre Cultural Gitano de la Mina and the Ajuntament de Sant Adrià de Besòs.

Camaron bust

"We are in our home, in our bench", says Desi ("Chavalas") to her friends in the scene shot here.However, the bench was part of the movie's attrezzo which, by the way, was stored in the Sant Ildefons Civic centre during the film shooting.

Square

From this station is where Julia and the children go to Melilla.

North Station

Turó Park is a nature space with paths and landscape corners that make it one of the most emblematic parks in Barcelona since the beginning of the 20th century.In the movie “Mi vacío y yo” we see the protagonist Raphi walking and taking photographs of families and couples that are enjoying the park. It is a place where she goes to reflect and find inspiration for her art.<a href=https://www.barcelona.cat/es/que-hacer-en-bcn/parques-y-jardines/turo-park-parc-del-poeta-eduard-marquina-92086011942 rel="noopener noreferrer">To learn about its history, biodiversity and main interests click here</a>

Turó Park

Inside the Desvalls palace, over the centuries, this primitive tower that we can see above the roof of the palace was hidden. It is a round defense tower with battlements that dates from the 11th and 12th centuries.

Torre Sobirana

Here is where H and his friends compete in the pull-up challenge.

Torre Baró viewpoint

The Palacio de les Heures, a French-style castle, was built in 1898 for the industrialist Josep Gallart under the design of the architect August Font. The building and gardens were decorated with various sculptures. On the main façade we find one that gives its name to the Palace, representing a woman and a child surrounded by ivy plants. This was the place where President Lluís Companys had to take refuge in 1938 due to the Civil War. An air raid shelter was built in the basement.

Les Heures palace

Filled with sculptures, springs and ponds, the garden surrounds a late 19th century palace built by architect August Font i Carreras.

Los jardines del Palau de les Heures

Renaissance-style gardens

MhiC is a space dedicated to teach about immigration, its causes and consequences, and its current situation in Catalonia. <a href=https://visitmuseum.gencat.cat/es/museo/mhic-museu-dhistoria-de-la-immigracio-de-catalunya rel="noopener noreferrer">For more information click here</a>

MhiC - Museo de la historia de la inmigración de Cataluña

In "Un novio para mi mujer", this is the space where the party of the radio is celebrated.

Nau Bòstik

In the film "Hogar", this is the place where the two main male characters meet for the very first time.

Sant Àngel Custodi church

La Model opened its doors in 1904 as a prison in Barcelona, and from the 70s on, more than a thousand homosexuals and transsexuals passed through it. After it closed in 2017, it has become a place of memory for the victims of the repression, and there is currently a project to transform the building into a cultural center that aims to unite memory and heritage with various facilities, public housing and a large park.<a href=https://www.lamodel.barcelona/ca rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Page</a>

La Model Cultural Center

Known as "the Sagrada Familia of the workmen", these chimneys are the remnants of a thermal power station built in the 1970s. The Catalunya Media Hub will be located next to them by 2030.

The three Xemeneies

The current Bar La Rovira has only been called that since 2015 because it was previously the Bar Comulada, which closed in 2008 and was reopened only for filming Any de Gràcia in 2011.

La Rovira Bar

This is the bar where Javier and Tomás meet in the film "Hogar". The bar is open since 1930.

Bar Urgell

Entrance of the radio where Lucía begins working.

Entrance to a building

This is the natural area where Borja ("Requisitos para ser una persona normal") starts his sports training.Designed by the French architect Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier, this is an area frequented by locals to wander and exercise.

Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier Garden

This is the street where C. is hit by a car.

Street

An association that works to disseminate and stimulate a positive social image of mathematics, bringing them closer to people through interactive experiences and manipulation activities.<a href=https://mmaca.cat/en/ rel="noopener noreferrer">Web of the museum</a>

Museum of Mathematics in Catalonia

The oldest building in Sant Ildefons neighborhood. It was built by Arnau Mercader in the 19th century. It was used as a bird's lookout and astronomical observatory.

Miranda tower

Opened in 1883, in this cemetery are buried figures who have shaped Barcelona's history. For example, the former Catalan president Francesc Macià, and artists like Joan Miró. A stroll through this serene haven reveals valuable funerary architecture and sculpture, surrounded by Mediterranean plants and trees, and offering magnificent sea views.<a href=https://www.barcelonaturisme.com/wv3/en/page/1480/montjuic-cemetery.html rel="noopener noreferrer">More information</a>

Montjuïc Cemetery

Pious school Sarrià

This civic center and library are making a name for themselves in the more liberal art world. They have a fund specialized in LGBTI literature and for years they have been organizing the NOSaltres exhibition, a small new reference for 'queer' art.<a href=https://www.ccsagradafamilia.net/ rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Page</a>

Sagrada Familia Civic Center and library

Work made in 1992 by the sculptor resident in Cornellà, Paulí Collado i Martínez (Barcelona, 1932-2021), specialized in wrought iron works. It shows the figure of Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, depicted at full gallop with outstretched wings. In the city you can find other works of his such as: Papallona, in Plaça Josep Tarradellas, or Eclipsi in Plaça del Sol.

Sant Ildefons Square

The protagonist's brother goes to this bar after escaping from the juvenile center. Sara picks him up there because he knows the owners. It is also here where they celebrate her brother's communion party.

Litoral Bar

Place where the main characters meet

Babi and H's meeting street

The sculpture of the politician, writer and intelectual Blas Infante is located in this square. This is one of the places where locals from Sant Ildefons celebrate the Andalusian Day through, for example, a floran offering.

Blas Infante Square

Continental Bar

Tengo ganas de ti

La Farinera has its origins in 1908 in the old Casa Harinera de San Jaime S.A. This company produced flour until 1991 and four years later the city council decided to rehabilitate it to turn it into what it is now, a cultural center.The modernist building was designed by Josep Pericàs i Morros and is a witness to the industrial past of the neighborhood as well as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. Currently it is a creation and meeting space for the performing, musical and audiovisual arts, and participates in community projects and popular culture events.<a href=https://farinera.org/agenda/ rel="noopener noreferrer">To see their events and activities schedule click here</a>

La Farinera del Clot Cultural Center

Parc del Guinardó

As a civic center of the city, this municipal facility organizes activities and offers services for society.In the film El Gran Vázquez, it represents the Bruguera Editorial.

Civic Center El Coll-La Bruguera

In "Un novio para mi mujer", this is the gym where Lucía meets Gustavo for the first time.

Crossfit Poblenou

At the school where Sara works, a van arrives with products for the canteen and she unloads it. Later, her father goes to see her at work and they argue in front of his van in the street.

German school

Ateneu L'Harmonia is a true incubator of grassroots social and cultural entities, an ideal showcase for samples from the LGBTI community and initiatives based on the social fabric. Here we also find the Associació Grup d'Amics Gais that organizes itinerant exhibitions, works to explain historical memory and promotes meetings of older LGBT people.<a href="https://ateneuharmonia.cat/?s=LGTBI%2B" rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Page</a>

Ateneu L'Harmonia

In "Hogar", Javier, an advertising executive, harasses the new inhabitants of his old house with increasingly sinister intentions. The apartment with which Javier is obsessed is situated here.Attention: This is a private building. Please respect the privacy of its inhabitants.

House

In the film "Tres", this is the working place of the main character, C. The Nau Ivanow is a space for the creation, production and dissemination of contemporary culture.

Nau Ivanow

La Federica is a meeting bar for queer youth that has become a corner of art and expression for the LGTBI+ community. Among its activities we find exhibitions, comedy nights, lectures, book presentations, and drag shows.<a href=https://www.instagram.com/barlafederica rel="noopener noreferrer">Go to their Instagram to see the schedule</a>

La Federica

Virreina Square

The old Pegaso truck factory was the scene of several worker protests during the 50s and 60s of Franco's regime. In the 1970s, the neighbors claimed the space for social use, so the factory ended up moving. In 1986, the park that exists today was inaugurated, preserving the old entrance door to the factory and a plaque in memory of the workers who fought for freedoms and well-being.

La Pegaso factory

Inaugurated at the end of the 19th century, El Molino is one of the most historic theaters on Paral·lel Avenue. With a groundbreaking tradition, this performance hall has always been highly valued for its ability to escape all censorship, creating its own double meaning languages at the limit of what was allowed. Although it closed in 1997, it reopened in 2010, and continues to offer music hall, burlesque and flamenco shows every night, operating also as a restaurant and nightclub.<a href=https://www.barcelona.cat/es/coneixbcn/pics/el-molino-99400179259 rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here for more information</a>

El molino

Palace modified in 1845 by Elies Rogent, who, following the orientalist fashion of the time, made an Arabic facade. The Desvalls family frequented the palace and gardens on vacation until the 1960s.

Desvalls palace

Here there is two blocks of flats with a central rink where Oscar plays with Julia's children while she is sitting on the stairs.

Building

In "Un novio para mi mujer", this is the sports center is where Diego plays soccer with the team from the Agency where his friend works.

CEM Bogatell

This bell tower does not belong to any church or public building. It was built in 1845 on the old slaughterhouse because the council house of Sant Joan d'Horta wanted the bells to be heard from its parent religious nucleus, Sant Genís dels Agudells. In 1950 it was renovated together with the building, although the same bells were put back. The bell tower is now a symbol for all the people of Horta

Horta's bell tower

In "Requisitos para ser una persona normal", this is the bookstore where María and Borja meet for the very first time.

La Central Bookstore

Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona

Bar where Sara meets her father to tell him that she wants custody of his brother.

Amsterdam bar

This parish is where Sara's brother takes his first communion.

Parish of Sant Bernat de Claravall

CEU Ciutat Meridiana

Football pitch

This residential building built by Ramon Puig i Gairalt in 1926, is listed as an asset with elements of interest and is an icon of the Poblenou neighborhood. One of its most recognizable features is its triangular shape and round balconies.It is in this building that we see Vázquez living with his wife in the film.

Antònia Serra i Mas House

Bar La Patata

Made by Iago Almuni, this sculpture was inaugurated during the commemorative acts of the International Women's Day at work in 2003.

The woman and the world

This bar is where they celebrate a farewell party for Sara's roommate.

Corazón Latino Bar

The scene where Marta's mother ("Chavalas") practices tai-chi is located behind the Sant Ildefons Market. This market was built in 1970 and is considered one of the most dynamic markets and with the best offer in the local region.

Square - Sant Ildefons Market

Here is where the bar where the main characters from the film "Chavalas" is situated. The Castilla la Mancha Cultural Center was funded in 1999.<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6V0vFVD6D6LrO18top7kIb?si=f763843e81f84d96" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to the soundtrack</a> of "Chavalas".

Castilla la Mancha Cultural Center

The Antinous bookstore has become, in its more than 20 years of existence, a true cultural referent. Their specialty is the LGBTI theme and they have a wide range of books and films in which the queer theme appears treated in its diversity and richness.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.antinouslibros.com/catalog/nosotros.php">To find out more about it click here</a>

Antinous Bookstore

This is the house where María, from "Requisitos para ser una persona normal", lives.Attention: This is a private building. Please respect the privacy of its inhabitants.

This bar opened in 1927 and since then it has been a very busy and popular place in the neighborhood. Currently the children of the second owner are continuing the trajectory started by the founding couple, as their father had already done.

Quimet d'Horta

In this location is where the call center offices scenes of the movie "Mi vacío y yo" were filmed. But in reality it is the city's LGTBI center and it offers a wide catalog of direct care services aimed at LGTBI people, on a personal, group and family level.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/barcelonalgtbi/?hl=es" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a><a href=https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lgtbi/en/services/barcelona-lgbti-centre rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Page</a>

Barcelona's LGTBI center

Route

This civic center is where Raphy participates in an exhibition and shows her art, and as you could see in the film, they offer a wide range of workshops, activities and cultural cycles aimed at the residents of the neighborhood, all of Sant Andreu and the city of Barcelona.<a href=https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ccivics/trinitatvella rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Page</a>

Trinidad Vella Civic Center

This stadium was designed by the architect Pere Domènech for the 1929 International Exhibition and was going to be the venue for a Popular Olympics in 1936. This was intended to be an alternative to the Berlin Olympic Games with the aim of disseminating the values ​​of bonding between peoples through the practice of sport, with a clear anti-fascist and interclass character. The fascist military uprising caused it to be suspended.

Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium

The sculpture "David and Goliath" was erected in 1988 in memory of the International Brigades, military units formed by foreign volunteers from various countries who arrived in Spain during the Civil War to fight in favor of the Republic and against the fascism.

David and Goliat

This space, which is delimited by retaining walls that form a roundabout, is an important meeting point for the neighborhood. On its walls we find artistic expressions and graffiti, as well as remains of a climbing wall that plans to be restored along with the rest of the square.

Plaça Botticelli

Sol Square

In "Un novio para mi mujer", this is the hotel where Lucía and Gustavo have their first lunch meeting.

Market hotel

This public library in the city specializes in Latin American literature in honor of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.It is in this library that we find the Francisco Ibañez collection, with a selection of Mortadelo and Filemón comics.

Gabriel García Márquez library

The main character of "Tres" uses this elevator to go to her mother's house.Since 2010, this elevator saves 30 meters of unevenness. The difficult orography and the real estate speculation of the 20th century led to construction in complex locations. In the neighborhood, the only means of public transport was the bus.

Inclined elevator of El Carmel

It is on this beach that we see Julia with the children.

Nova Icaria beach

Girasoles Silvestres

Bar where Lucía and Diego ("Un novio para mi mujer") have breakfast. They are waiting for the court to call them to finalize the divorce.

OMA Bistró

The Fabra y Coats compoud has its origins in the old factory of the Compañía Anónima Hilaturas Fabra y Coats from 1903. This company was formed by a Catalan public limited company and a British investment group, making it the first foreign investment in the catalan industrialist economy. In 1970 some of the facilities began to close and in 2005 it was closed permanently. Thanks to the demands of a group of former workers who created an association, the memory of the factory and its industrial heritage was not lost. Over time it has become a cultural center with various spaces, such as a contemporary art exhibition room, a cultural multipurpose room and a central room for large-format events.<a href=https://www.barcelona.cat/fabraicoats/es rel="noopener noreferrer">Web Site</a>

Fabra i Coats Compound

The sports brand Nike created an initiative in which an open space was set up to go train, skate, dance and practice different sports. It is a meeting place where workshops, classes and activities for all audiences also take place.

Play Now BCN

Place of conversation on a bench between Julia and a friend, who is Oscar's sister.

Children playground

This social services center is where Sara meets with the social worker to help her find more work. It is here where she bumps into her father who has just been released from prison.

Sagrada Familia social services

"The big fish eats the small one." This declaration of principles is vividly depicted in a 25-meter mural in Barcelona's Carmel neighborhood. The original artwork was created by the Italian artist Blu in 2009, but he had to recreate it after its removal a few years later.<a href=https://www.barcelonaturisme.com/wv3/en/page/5543/.html rel="noopener noreferrer">More information</a>

Shark graffiti

These gardens owe their name to one of the most representative elements of the Poble-sec neighborhood: the three imposing chimneys of the old La Canadenca power plant. It is sheltered and is a very urban space for the neighborhood's free time and rest. The walls in the Three Chimney Gardens are full of graffiti and murals. Many artists come there to express themselves on the walls.

Tres Chimeneas Garden

What seems to be a mere roundabout, in the film "Chavalas" this traffic circle holds a deeper meaning: it is here where Marta buries her father's turtle.

Roundabout

The main character of "Tres", C. , wanders through this square after meeting with her friend and colleague.Previously known as Plaça del Progrés and Plaça del Mercat, this iconic square received the name of Plaça d'Eivissa shortly after the village was added to Barcelona, in the early 20th century. Host the statue L’Eivissenca by Joan Centelles.

Eivissa square

This is Marta's point of departure from the neigborhood where she was born.

Metro station

After his passing, the city of Barcelona decided to pay tribute to Francisco Ibánez, the author of the Mortadelo and Filemón comics, installing various traffic lights with the characters of these comics as protagonists.

Mortadelo and Filemon traffic lights

Antoni Gaudí builds a unique work in Bellesguard, architecturally halfway between Gothic and modernism. It is full of symbols and allusions to the past and surrounded by beautiful gardens where you can lose track of time and let yourself be permeated by the essence and magic of the architect's most unknown work.

Bellesguard tower

This 1952 cross designed by the architect Adolf Florensa Ferrer has had a turbulent history. The one we see here is not the original but it had two predecessors, an iron one that was destroyed in 1835 and one that had the same fate and was damaged in the civil war in 1936. Despite everything, this cross is registered as a cultural asset of local interest and is important for the neighborhood.

Horta's term cross

This point in Nou Barris is dedicated to Salvador Puig Antich, the last Catalan executed by Franco. The square was named after him in 2006, but it was not until 10 years later when a plaque was placed and a sculpture-viewpoint was inaugurated that evokes the passage from imprisonment to freedom. Thiss neighborhood struggled during the 1970s and demanded improvements in public transportation access through strong protests that included several bus hijackings.

Plaça Salvador Puig Antich

This masonry tower inaugurated in 1882 originally served the purpose of taking advantage of the underground flow of the Besòs river. However, the company failed and nowadays it has come down to us as an element that helps interpret the industrial past of Poblenou.

Torre de les Aigües del Besòs

Rosalía de Castro Monument

Bar run for years by the parents of the music group "Estopa". The Muñoz brothers are ambassadors of life in the Sant Ildefons neighborhood through their music, which is another way of accessing the atmosphere of the neighborhood.