Where is it?
Just off Passeig de Gràcia, a hop, skip and churros from Gaudí’s Casa Milà or, if you prefer, Pedrera.
Why so lovely?
It’s one of the Sirs – a collection of boutique hotels founded in 2013 that now boasts, revels in, even, five locations across Europe; Ibiza, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg and, now, Barcelona. They do things differently, here. In all the right ways. Like their in-hotel library, where all the books are by revered female writers in wo-mage to the hotel’s namesake, Catalan author Victor Català (Victor was a pseudonym)
First impressions?
Barcelona regulars might recognize the building from its previous incarnation as Hotel Omm. Well, Sir Hotels have put it through their one-of-a-kind-spirit wash and out’s popped a gleaming, glistening, glamorous, alliterative21st-centurybou tiqueaimedatauthenticity-seekingworld-trotters.That’s us!
And the…