
nightlife
La Isabela
A calm, old-school terrace seven floors above La Rambla, with a small rooftop pool.
The best rooftop bars in Barcelona – hotel terraces, sunset cocktails and dinner with the city below.

A calm, old-school terrace seven floors above La Rambla, with a small rooftop pool.

Twenty-three floors above Sants – a rooftop pool and terrace open to non-guests, plus Japanese-Peruvian cooking from Nobu Matsuhisa.

The Barceló Raval’s 360° rooftop – pool, loungers and a full turn of the city, over a lounge doing Mediterranean tapas below.

The rooftop of an Egyptologist’s hotel – discreet, art-filled, no day-club treatment.

Ian Schrager’s Born hotel, where the leafy rooftop bar draws the sunset crowd.

UMA House Trafalgar’s seventh-floor pool terrace, with a 360-degree read on the city’s rooftops, spires and the ridge behind them.

A gallery, bar and rooftop on top of Raima, Europe’s largest paper shop.

The Wittmore’s Michelin-listed restaurant, with a rooftop terrace above it.

The Hoxton’s Poblenou rooftop – a sky-high taqueria for cochinita pibil tacos, margaritas and a front-row view of the Sagrada Família.

Perched atop the glitzy Almanac – a five-star rooftop built for Manhattans by the pool and sunsets that flatter everyone in them.

A chic terrace and plunge pool above the Serras, with serious cocktails and a clean sweep over Port Vell, Barceloneta and the sea.

A plant-filled terrace on the roof of Casa Bonay, trading panoramic drama for a beach-bar mood and Istanbul-inspired sharing plates.

The Axel Hotel’s rooftop – city views, strong cocktails, a crowd that dresses up.

A central rooftop that books real DJs instead of a house playlist, May to October.