Barcelona, day by day

Barcelona's tracked calendar runs on two speeds. Down at club level, Aclam Club carries six of the 21 listings we follow: intimate folk and jazz nights like Emma Swift and Luther Russell, Will Hoge, Twanguero, and the Josep Traver Organ Trio's tribute to Grant Green. Up at arena level, the Palau Sant Jordi holds the big rooms: The Strokes, Niall Horan and the orchestral SYNTHONY night all played it in the same October week, with Band of Horses at Sala Razzmatazz and Fontaines D.C. at the Sant Jordi Club just below that scale. Seventeen of the 21 listings are music.

The rest of the page is markets and family days. La Boqueria, the Mercat de Sant Josep on La Rambla, trades Monday to Saturday, 8:00 to 20:30, and closes Sundays; the Mercat dels Encants flea market runs Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with public auctions from 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning. For kids, the Big Fun Museum sits on La Rambla itself and the Dinolandia dinosaur park pairs with the El Bosque Encantado gardens. Valencia (303 km) and Madrid (505 km) are the nearest big-city pages in the row below.