Getting your residence card in Spain can be difficult if you don't speak Spanish so if you can,…read morebring a friend with you. Since arriving in Spain, the first step is to make an appointment at the ajumente de Barcelona to get the padron document. This requires an original contract of your lease and passport or id. My boyfriend is a resident here and I'm not on the lease but they will accept it. You're allowed to check in at the earliest 10 minutes before your allotted time. Go to the second Red machine and enter your confirmation number. It will give you a ticket and then it's like a DMV - wait for your number to be called and then present your documents. Then you have to fill out an el padró municipal form which is in Catalan. They will provide you two copies of your padrón document.

Great place to take your kids. All ages. It's a library and learning center. They also have a parc…read morebehind it. Some people are friendly but I swear they are not clear in helping. I don't get it. Ugh! But anyways there is a area to study. Use the computer. There is a play area on the second floor for little kids. Books to read. A reason area. There is a information desk on the first floor. And also classes below the first floor which makes it -1 -0. I don't get it but yes. Class rooms. The Casal Infantil is on the 2nd floor you have to pay €3.20 for a day. You can leave your child and come back before 8pm.

The Gothic Quarter is exactly my kind of architecture. This is where the Catedral de Barcelona…read moresits, and it was so beautiful in person. I wish I had more time to actually learn about the cathedral and its history. Great place to take pictures obviously. Even though there were a lot of people around, we were still able to get shots without anyone in the background. Probably because we went there around evening, but it was still rather bright at night. Highly recommend!

The Cathedral of Barcelona, which is also called the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia,…read morewas built in the Gothic style from 1298 to the 15th century. It is an active church that provides masses, confessions, and other sacraments. It also provides tours for 16 euros and up (as of the time of this review). I understand that some people think that a church should be free to enter, but I also understand that many tourists are not practicing Catholics and that the church needs to bring in revenue to pay its bills. My tour guide took my husband and me to the exterior of this church and explained its architecture and history. We did not pay for an interior tour. It is a lovely church to see.

Excellent stay, the service is top notch & the rooms are immaculately clean. The hotel is newer, in…read morea great location in the l'eixample district near the high end shopping, and far enough away from the touristy pickpocket las ramblas street (still close enough to walk there if you feel like you want to). there is a nice rooftop area where you can sit and lounge. They leave you waters in your room and will call in a masseuses if you want one. We would definitely recommend this hotel and would stay it again.

I loved this hotel - modern, clean, roomy (beautiful bathroom). The staff couldn't have been…read morenicer. And the restaurant downstairs was very good. The breakfast was outstanding but it was also nice for tapas and drinks.

The only thing they know how to do is passports (and apparently they do those well), and have…read moreadmitted, in writing, to a complete lack of competence for other standard services in US citizen services, so they keep trying to push passport applications for everything. Renunciation (removing US citizenship voluntarily and by request of a dual citizen) IS NOT a passport application. They've delayed a basic completed (on my side) and paid for renunciation procedure for over two years this time (8 years in total so far) because they do not know how to send it to the US for processing because its standard form is several more pages than a passport application. That's $2350 I paid, plus all the airfare, visits, documentation (completed to their specifications with appointments attended at their specified times, etc.). They have cost me well over $50,000 (I'm being kind with that number, the cumulative has exceeded 1/4 million in reality) so far in expenses due to their delays that often come with random copy paste emails with a variety of random excuses. I'm actually not rich and this is going to bury me for life. I'm being buried so someone can be lazy and feel that they can be because they have unchecked power over others.

Some of the best government workers are in the State Department, and when you need an American…read moreconsulate, you NEED AN AMERICAN CONSULATE. This one is also located with a nice view overlooking Barcelona below.