Barcelona, Spain

Hotel Miramar Barcelona

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The takeaway

Choose Miramar for a garden-framed, view-rich Barcelona stay with pools and spa on Montjuïc, rather than a hotel in the city’s street-level core.

About the hotel

On Montjuïc, Hotel Miramar Barcelona looks across the city, port and Mediterranean from gardens above the urban bustle. Its 75-room scale gives the property a more contained feel than a large city hotel. The building brings together the preserved façade of a 1929 Exhibition-era palace and a terraced contemporary extension by Óscar Tusquets. Gardens and views shape the setting; the hotel’s indoor and seasonal outdoor pools, spa, restaurant and bars make staying on the hill an experience in itself.

Choose it if

You want gardens and broad city-and-sea views, and prefer Montjuïc’s hillside setting to staying amid central streets.
You value a hotel with both an indoor heated thermal area and a summer-season outdoor pool.
You enjoy historic architecture interpreted through a contemporary extension by Óscar Tusquets.

Skip it if

You want to be based among central Barcelona’s street-level activity rather than on a hillside; the hotel says the city center is about 20 minutes away by car.

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