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Barcelona Literary Routes

Cécile Carrez Barcelonian, Only-Be, Things to do in Barcelona

Many tourists in Barcelona are just satisfied by proving that they walked into La Sagrada Familia Church, their hands touched Antoni Gaudi’s dragon or that their palate tasted the absinthe at Marsella Bar, while they remembered Hemingway. Other tourists play the role of being literary detectives. Their mission lies in finding the places that inspired writers like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ildefonso Falcones or Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Barcelona’s literary routes invite us on an excursion through the city in fiction times. Some tourists make a journey back in time to the 1970’s, to get into the character of the detective Pepe Carvahlo, the hero of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s novels. From Galicia originally, his character is known for his like for pa amb tomàquet as well as for the girls who offered sex in the streets of the Chinese Town, which was the former name of the Raval Neighborhood. The fans of crime fiction know that the Boadas Bar has served as the scene of their stories and they will not hesitate to order the Mediterranean menu Pepe Carvhalo in the Casa Leopoldo Restaurant. Other tourists will book a room at the Hotel Barceló Fraval, a building made of iron that has a terrace and pink lighting at night, whose structure is located in a square named Manual Vásquez Montalbán. Since the moment the novel “Olympic Sabotage” was launched, which is about the transformation of Barcelona before the Olympic games of 1992, the cityscape that Carvhalo fell in love with, has metamorphosed. Booking a ticket for a literary route is wandering around the current city of Barcelona, but from the... read more