Els Quatre Gats
The café where a 17-year-old Picasso hung his first solo show — still serving lunch in the same room.
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The 1897 headquarters of Barcelona's modernists — Casas, Rusiñol, Utrillo, with Gaudí and Albéniz dropping by — inside Puig i Cadafalch's Casa Martí. Its Catalan name means "only a few people"; modeled on the French café Le Chat Noir.
What to look for
- Ramon Casas's painting of himself and owner Pere Romeu on a tandem — a copy, the original now in a museum — inscribed 'To ride a bike, you can't go with your back straight.'
- The corner poster outside, designed by Picasso.
- Eusebi Arnau's carved capitals and Josep Llimona's Saint Joseph — a reproduction, since the original was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War.
A working restaurant, closed in 1903 and reopened in 1978 — pop in for a coffee to see the room.
Els Quatre Gats is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Barcelona, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Barcelona pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Barcelona
- Sagrada FamíliaGaudí is buried beneath a church begun in 1882 and still unfinished — one that in 2025 became the world's tallest.
- Camp NouThe bowl that once crammed 120,000 people in to watch Barça — European football's biggest room.
- Park GüellGaudí's failed luxury subdivision — 2 of 60 planned homes ever built — that Barcelona inherited as a mosaic playground.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera)Gaudí's last private house looks like a wind-carved sea cliff parked on a city corner.
- Casa BatllóGaudí reskinned a townhouse into a slain dragon, down to columns shaped like leg bones.
- Barcelona CathedralThirteen white geese live in the cloister — one for each year Saint Eulalia was alive before Rome killed her.