Guide N°01 — The digital collection
Barcelona
Cafés in old courtyards, beaches past the crowds, streets the light finds first.
Map
The city locals keep to themselves.
Barcelona rewards the traveler who turns off the main street. Two blocks from the queues there are courtyards where the morning takes its time, bodegas that have poured the same vermouth for sixty years, and beaches the city keeps mostly to itself.
This guide is a map of those turns — the version of the city locals actually live in, arranged so you can walk into it on your first morning.
Inside the guide
Morning light, good coffee, no laptops required.
A glimpse inside
barcelona
A courtyard café
Saved to your phone
Representative pages. The full Barcelona edition — every place, written out — arrives the moment you buy it.
Read the night before. Follow on the day.
The guide and the map are two halves of one thing. The guide is where the city takes shape — places written out, with the why and the when. The map is how it travels with you: every recommendation pinned in Google Maps, sorted by category, working the way your phone already works.
No printouts, no retyping, no thirty open tabs at the hotel.
Why this guide is different
Chosen, not aggregated
No scraping, no reposted top-tens. Every place is selected one by one, for a reason we can name — and the reason is in the guide.
The city locals keep
The edit leans toward neighborhoods, rituals and rooms with regulars — not the postcard you've already seen.
Made to be used
A guide you read the night before and a map you follow on the day. Designed for the trip, not for the feed.
It’s for you if
You'd rather find one perfect café than tick off ten landmarks.
You plan trips from saved posts, screenshots and a note called “Barcelona???”.
You care what a place feels like — the light, the room, the street outside.
You'd happily skip the top-10 list you've already seen everywhere.
The digital collection
Barcelona
- curated places
- 50
- city guide
- Digital
- included
- Google map
- one-time
- $29
Questions
Anything else — about the studio or by email.
Instantly. After checkout you get an email with your guide and instructions for opening the map — usually within a minute.
You receive a link to a curated Google Maps list. Open it once and every place is saved on your own map, organised by category.
Yes — the guide is designed to be read on a phone, and the map lives in the Google Maps app you already use.
The guide does once downloaded. For the map, Google Maps lets you download an offline area of Barcelona before you go.
English.
The guide is for personal use — yours to keep, across all your devices.