Madrid Vs Barcelona: more cosmopolitan?

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by papuolo

For some unknown reason, tourists go to rowdier areas in Barcelona, the areas frequented by hookers, junkies and low lifes before 1992..but more interesting than the area never visited by tourists..90 percent of the city - which is the eixample or the area built after tearing down the walls in 1870 or so.

Barcelona is more cosmopolitan just by the fact that has more people from neighbouring Europe.

Those areas have most of the city's museum, the gothic district, has a major theatre/opera house, etc. Also a lot of it's buildings have been converted to hotels or to Airbnb apartments.

This has been true of other cities. Times Square was a very rowdy places, but all the hotels were nearby and it continued to gentrify until the gentrification became complete, with the exception of all the homeless you see around Port Authority.

So you will have the same thing with the Rambla area in Barcelona.

And please, it's not like people are going to faint just because they saw a hooker or an addict.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

Never, but it is relative. It is the difference between a small street having 25 people walking on it rather than 250 like a New York City sidewalk. Or being able to go into a restaurant and sit down within minutes.

But no, it is not dead. Also, it seems more of the tourists in Barcelona in winter are from Spain and France rather than the entire world and their mothers.

You have a lot of foreign tourists in the winter of Barcelona. Barcelona is warm compared to Northern Europe, so you'll see lots of Northern Europeans. Obviously more people come in the summer, but you have more than a few people in the winter.

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