For centuries, Barcelona has remained a strategic hub for international business and travel. Its geographic location is the preferred corridor for inter-European trade and one of the...
Living in Barcelona
Perfect apartments to spend a memorable weekend in Barcelona
If your are planning to stay in Barcelona a brief period of time as a weekend for sure your main goal is to make the most of it and to do everything you set out in that short space of time. As...
Where to store your luggage per hours in Barcelona
Sometimes, when you pull up to a city or when you leave to go to another destination or coming back home, you need to do things before arriving at your accommodation or once you’ve packed up...
The 6 Best Centers for Learning Spanish in Barcelona
If you are spending some time or a long term in Barcelona either for study or for work, for sure that one of your main goals is to improve your Spanish, one of the most spoken languages in the world...
Thieves, pickpockets and con artists in Barcelona
Barcelona is one of the safest cities in the world, but the large number of tourists and, indeed, the sense of security at the Catalan capital makes it an easy target for thieves, pickpockets and con...
Elena Villanueva gives us tips on decorating and interior design
Elena Villanueva, Interior Designer in ShBarcelona, gives us some tips to enhance the decor of our apartment. It is time to change the color of the walls and the furniture distribution! Get rid of...
Taxis in Barcelona
In a city like Barcelona, where public transportation allows you to reach almost any part of the city, taxi isn’t the most common way to move around the city among the population. Still, in many...
What are your 2013 resolutions?
Many of us, with the excuse of having survived a alleged end of the world, we have decided to celebrate it by eating and drinking a lot during Christmas. Now is time to pay for it! And one of those...
(Last Minute) costumes for a Halloween in crisis
Have you been invited to a Halloween party and you don’t have a good costume yet? If you don’t have neither the time nor the money to successfully solve this problem, from ShBarcelona we want to...
Getting the Foreign Identity Number (NIE)
The foreign identity number is known by its initials as NIE (in Spanish, “Número de Identidad de Extranjeros”) and is a code used to identify the “non-nationals” that are related to...