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Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Dreta de l'Eixample is Barcelona's bourgeois quarter, an upscale grid built around Passeig de Gràcia, Rambla de Catalunya, and Plaça de Catalunya.
About Dreta de l'Eixample
Where to stay in Dreta de l'Eixample
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Dreta de l'Eixample is the address for a splurge. Along Passeig de Gràcia and the parallel Rambla de Catalunya, grand apartment blocks hold boutique hotels, flagship stores, and pavement cafés a few minutes from Plaça de Catalunya. The grid stays flat and walkable.
Book here if you want luxury shopping and metro lines at the door.
About Dreta de l'Eixample
What are the main landmarks in Dreta de l'Eixample?
Dreta de l'Eixample gathers a run of specialist museums. The Tàpies Museum, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, and the small Perfume Museum stand among the apartment blocks off Passeig de Gràcia and Rambla de Catalunya. Art collections cluster here.
The Monument a Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer marks the quarter's grand avenues.
What is the history of Dreta de l'Eixample?
Dreta de l'Eixample formed as the eastern, wealthier half of the Eixample grid. The well-to-do of Barcelona settled the new blocks along Passeig de Gràcia and Rambla de Catalunya, and the quarter took its name as the city's bourgeois side, east of Carrer de Balmes. Plaça de Catalunya grew at its edge into the meeting point of the old town and the grid.
The upper-class reputation stuck.
Where is Dreta de l'Eixample?
Dreta de l'Eixample lies east of Carrer de Balmes in the Eixample, wrapping Plaça de Catalunya where Barcelona's old town meets the grid.
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Updated July 2026