Barcelona Chocolate Street

In its 130 meters long and 3 meters wide few shops coexist with chocolate and art galleries where artists like Pablo Picasso, Ramon Casas, Isidre Nonell and Santigo Rusiñol exposed in the past. The last one is the author of L’Auca del Senyor Esteve, a modernist work that can be seen in one of the majolicas that there are on this street. He, Santiago Rusiñol also can be seen represented.

It became a habit to go to these galleries and see the works of such artists and later go to taste a chocolate on La Pallaresa or Dulcinea, the latter frequented, first by Angel Guimera, poet, painter and dramatist, and later by the painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer and writer Salvador Dalí.

There is also the studio where not long time ago the soprano Montserrat Caballé rehearsed, as indicated on a plaque near La Pallaresa.

The GoCar users cannot access to the street with the car with GPS, not only for its narrow dimensions, but because since 1959 it is a pedestrian street, the first to be in all Barcelona. But it would be a bad idea not to stop and get into some chocolatiers, because although the custom of going to see art in the galleries are already gone, going to eat chocolate is still alive, so it’s not surprising to see lines in front of both doors, to the Dulcinea door and to La Pallaresa door, establishment which at the end of the twentieth century were joined in their chocolate offer by the chain of chocolate shops named Xocoa.

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