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Housed in a converted locomotive factory in the Barri de Sant Andreu is Barcelona’s gleaming new shopping complex. The mall offers everything under one roof, with over 200 shops, a multiplex cinema, a bowling alley and fast-food eateries galore.

The very latest on the contemporary art scene features at this innovative gallery, started by four local artists in the late 1990s.

In this theatre-turned-vintage store, you’ll find everything from glitzy 1950s cocktail dresses to 1920s costumes.

Multimedia and digital design are spotlighted at this trendy bookshop space.

Amazing antique clothing from flapper dresses to boned corsets, silk shawls, puff sleeved shirts and pin-tucked shirt fronts. There’s also a selection of antique dolls and fans.

Barcelona’s most famous food market is conveniently located on La Rambla (La Rambla). Freshness reigns supreme and shoppers are spoiled for choice, with hundreds of stalls selling everything from vine-ripened tomatoes to haunches of beef and moist wedges of Manchego cheese. The city’s seaside status is in full evidence at the fish stalls.

In the heart of the Eixample is this large market, renowned for its flowers. Blooming bouquets at the entrance offer a fragrant welcome to the bright flower stalls that lie within.

At weekends, local artists flock to this Barri Gòtic square to sell their art and set up their easels. You’ll find everything from water-colours of Catalan landscapes to oil paintings of churches and castles.

Antiques aficionados and collectors contentedly rummage through jewellery, watches, candelabras, silver trays, embroidery and assorted bric-a-brac at this long-running antiques market in front of the Cathedral.