Barcelona Night Life: Bar Marsella

One of the essential things every visitor has to make during the holiday in Barcelona is to find the places with traditions, style and character, which give the city the unique feeling it has had through its history.

A great place to find all of the above is the famous Bar Marsella, located in the Raval district, very close the the Ramblas.

The Marsella is open since 1820 and the almost 200 years of history have allowed it to welcome some of the famous night life admirerers of all time such as Salvator Dali, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. The bar is known as the place where you should most definately have a shot or two or three of absinthe as this tradition is kept for a long time and is still going strong, making the bar one of the favourite night time places both for locals and for tourists. Just ask about the traditional way to drink the absinthe and be sure not the get too much of it too fast, so you can clearly remember a historically fun night.


You can find the Marsella Bar at:
Carrer de Sant Pau 65
El Raval district
Tel: (0034) 93 442 72 63
Opening hours: 10.00 pm-ish to around 03.00 am