A nineteenth-century Eixample mansion on Carrer de Mallorca, its cream stucco facade articulated with wrought-iron balconettes and classical pediments that Ildefons Cerdà's grid was designed to accommodate, provides Alma Barcelona with a structural identity that no amount of contemporary intervention could manufacture from scratch. The building's six storeys carry the measured authority of Barcelona's bourgeois expansion era, and the hotel — which holds 72 rooms across the original structure and a more restrained modern wing visible to the left of the facade — works carefully to honour that inheritance without becoming a period piece. Inside, the tension between the building's nineteenth-century bones and a thoroughly contemporary design sensibility resolves itself through material discipline rather than contrast. Herringbone oak floors ground the rooms, paired with slate-toned upholstered headboards, copper-inlaid joinery panels, and layered kilim rugs whose worn pigments warm the otherwise cool palette. The double-height lobby lounge, its upper mezzanine framed in dark-stained timber and draped with large-format hanging artwork, carries the atmosphere of a private members' club in a former private house — velvet sofas in dusty blue, low tables, curtained restaurant beyond. The rear garden terrace, screened by mature eucalyptus and boxwood, shifts the register entirely: white linen, magenta blooms, dappled afternoon light — a hidden courtyard that earns its keep as one of the more genuinely civilised dining spaces in the neighbourhood.

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The AlmaBarcelona hotel is housed in an elegant building which dates back to the start of the 20th Century. Located right in the heart of Barcelona, just a few metres from the famous Passeig de Gràcia. With its proximity to the Batlló house, La Pedrera, Las Ramblas, Plaza Catalunya, Barcelona Cathedral, Palau de la Música, L'Auditori and numerous other popular tourist attractions, the AlmaBarcelona has one of the best locations in the city. Its 72 rooms are separated into classical and modernist accommodation, providing an interior unlike any other.