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East of Via Laietana, flat lanes around Santa Maria del Mar and passeig del Born, with the Fossar de les Moreres and carrer de l'Argenteria busy in the evening and Ciutadella one block further.
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High on the Turó de la Rovira: steep streets and long flights of steps, with the old gun platforms at the top used as a viewpoint over the whole city toward sunset.
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The old core between La Rambla and Via Laietana: stone lanes that stay in shade, small squares like plaça del Pi, plaça Reial and plaça de Sant Felip Neri, and cathedral steps people sit on.
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The old industrial grid east of the centre, with the Rambla del Poblenou running down to the sea, the low houses of plaça de Prim, and wide corners where former factory blocks are now offices.
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Dense streets west of La Rambla, between Sant Antoni and the port. Rambla del Raval is a wide strip of palms and benches, and plaça dels Àngels in front of the MACBA is flat stone where skaters gather.
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An old village absorbed by the grid, with narrow streets and a chain of squares — plaça de la Vila, plaça del Sol, plaça de la Virreina, plaça de la Revolució — where benches and terraces fill from the afternoon.
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A grid of narrow blocks on the spit between port and sea. Passeig Joan de Borbó runs along the water, the beach begins at the end of every street, and plaça de la Barceloneta is where the neighbourhood sits out.
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The blocks around the basilica, where plaça de la Sagrada Família and plaça de Gaudí hold the benches and the queues; a street or two away the grid is ordinary, with playgrounds and small squares.
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Cerdà's grid north of Ciutat Vella: long straight streets with chamfered corners, interior courtyards opened as small public gardens, and the wide pavements of passeig de Gràcia and rambla de Catalunya.
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The hill above the port: public gardens, terraces and viewpoints linked by stairs and long ramps, the Anella Olímpica on the flat top, and paths that loop around the castle.
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The city's flat central park behind El Born: lawns under plane trees, the lake with rowing boats, the cascada, and wide gravel avenues where drummers and jugglers set up at weekends.
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The concrete esplanade at the far east end of the seafront, with the photovoltaic canopy, a bathing area cut into the water, and open ground that fills for concerts and markets.
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One of the sand strips on the Poblenou seafront, with a boardwalk, volleyball posts, a skate bowl just behind it, and breakwaters separating it from Bogatell and Nova Icària.
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Between Avinguda del Paral·lel and the Montjuïc slope: a flat grid of short streets, the terraces of carrer de Blai, and stairways at the top end that climb into the hillside gardens.
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The corner of the grid around the Mercat de Sant Antoni, with the ring of pavement around the market hall, the pedestrian stretch of carrer del Comte Borrell, and Ronda de Sant Antoni as its edge.
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A working grid around the station and carrer de Sants, with the long market arcade, and the hard plaza of the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial with its towers above the water.
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Uphill in the northwest, quieter streets around plaça de Sarrià and the old carrer Major de Sarrià, with the Jardins de la Vil·la Amèlia and lanes climbing toward Collserola.
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