Barcelona

Barcelona's oldest shop sells candles, its oldest food shop still roasts almonds in a wood-fired oven, and the café where Picasso had his first exhibition went bankrupt within six years because its owner kept feeding his friends for free.

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Hotel Casa Fuster (Passeig de Gràcia) — Lluís Domènech i Montaner's last major building in the city, finished in 1911 for Mariano Fuster as a present to his wife, and the first in Barcelona faced in white marble. It survived a demolition attempt in 1962 and has been a hotel since 2004.