Barcelona Pipa Club | La Boîte | La Cova del Drac | opera singer
Mira Sorvino's Barcelona
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Mark SealENTERTAINMENT "I was really into jazz when I was there, and
there was a jazz club called La Cova del Drac, Cave of the Dragon.
It's an upscale jazz club that has international jazz acts coming
through. You would go there with a date, well-dressed. A more
'downtown' place is the
Barcelona Pipa Club down in the Barrio
Gothico. That's a great place to listen to jazz. Even the
discotheque, La Boîte, has good jazz acts coming through. If you
want more casual 'on the street' music, hang around the steps of
the Cathedral. You're always going to have local guitarists playing
flamenco guitar outside. I remember seeing an opera singer one
night right behind the Cathedral, and then another night, Lou Reed
was playing in the square of the Cathedral. We had the cast party
for Barcelona at Up & Down, which is a real institution. The
crowd there is a little bit older. Disco-wise, there's the local
hot spot Otto Zutz."
SATURDAY
COFFEE "I would just pick any local bakery/coffee shop and
grab a piece of cake and coffee, because everywhere you go has good
coffee. You don't have to seek it out. If you're an early riser,
just find the first place that's open and have a café con leche and
some kind of pastel, pastry."
SIGHTS "The last time I was in Barcelona, it was while I was
first in love with my boyfriend, Olivier Martinez, and we spent all
of our time walking around at night in the Barrio Gothico. It's so
beautiful and spiritual, a very wonderful place to be with somebody
you love. The rest of the city is much more modern, but the Barrio
Gothico is really medieval and a little bit spooky. It used to be
dangerous, sort of a red-light district, but now it's been cleaned
up, and since the Olympics, it's very safe. It's a warm, human, old
area of the city, which I think is really beautiful. I love old
churches, and there's an amazing one in the Barrio Gothico called
Santa Maria del Mar. In the Barrio Gothico you're close to the
port, the Cathedral, a lot of the things that are going on."
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