Parks and gardens
Green space is treated as public infrastructure here, from the formal parterre to the wild hillsides.
Parc de la Ciutadella
The city's drawing room: a lake with rowing boats, a monumental cascade a young Gaudí helped decorate, and lawns that fill on any sunny Sunday.
Laberint d'Horta
The oldest garden in the city, an eighteenth-century neoclassical jewel with a cypress maze at its heart and a token entry fee most days.
Collserola
Eight thousand hectares of protected forest begin where the last bus stop does, with trails for every level of leg.