Gràcia was an independent municipality until the end of the 19th century, and it shows. La Vila de Gràcia keeps a web of narrow streets and squares that work as open-air living rooms: Plaça del Sol, Plaça de la Virreina or Plaça de la Vila, with its clock tower. It has long-established shops, markets, cinemas, bookshops and a very active community life, which every August goes all out for the Festa Major, when residents decorate their streets. Higher up, la Salut, el Coll and Vallcarca are quieter, more residential neighbourhoods, on the slopes of the parks surrounding Park Güell.
The buildings are lower and more varied than in Eixample: buildings of only a few floors, small houses with a ground floor and one upper floor, apartments with a shared roof terrace and a few modernista gems, such as Gaudí's Casa Vicens. Many buildings have no lift, and the apartments tend to be more compact, with plenty of charm and, at times, original details that are worth keeping in a renovation.
Gràcia attracts young professionals, creatives and couples who want a neighbourhood feel without leaving the city, and many foreigners who fall in love with its life around the squares. Also families who value being able to do everything on foot. It is a walk from the Passeig de Gràcia and Park Güell, and the metro and the Ferrocarrils connect it with the centre in a few minutes.
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