Place
There was a time when Can Travi Nou wasn't an old farmhouse hidden inside Barcelona. It was simply a farmhouse, surrounded by fields and livestock in rural Horta. The unusual thing isn't that the building is still here. It's that almost everything around it changed.
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Barcelona, on the Outside.
Torre Melina · El Racó del Cargol · Bunkers del Carmel · Sant Pau · Can Travi Nou
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The North Cotswolds, Still at Work.
Dumbleton Hall · ROSI · Moreton Show · Hart Silversmiths · Hyll
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Andalucía, From the Field Up.
Casa La Siesta · El Disparate · Salina Santa Teresa · Palacio Villapanés · Torre Tavira
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Surrey, Beyond the Green.
Foxhills · Starling · Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden · Botley Hill Farmhouse · Beaverbrook
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France, Facing the Atlantic.
Hôtel Le Garage · L'Aillet · Maison des Paludiers · Fêtes de Bayonne · Villa Grand Voile
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Can Travi Nou, Barcelona
Can Travi Nou — The Farmhouse the City Grew Around
There was a time when Can Travi Nou wasn't an old farmhouse hidden inside Barcelona. It was simply a farmhouse, surrounded by fields and livestock in rural Horta. The unusual thing isn't that the building is still here. It's that almost everything around it changed.
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Sant Pau Recinte Modernista, Barcelona
Sant Pau — The Hospital Built Around Light and Air
A ten-minute walk uphill from the Sagrada Família queue is another Modernista masterpiece, built around an unusually modern proposition for 1902: that a hospital should give its patients light, air, gardens and space.
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Bunkers del Carmel, Barcelona
Bunkers del Carmel — The Neighbourhood That Outlasted the War
Everyone climbs the Turó de la Rovira for the view. Almost nobody knows that the concrete they're sitting on was never a bunker, or that around 600 people lived up here for four decades after the guns fell silent.
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El Racó del Cargol, L'Hospitalet
El Racó del Cargol — The Snails Cost Extra
A restaurant named after snails, a short walk from one of the most famous football grounds in Europe, in a municipality most of the people walking past it don't realise they've entered.
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Torre Melina, Barcelona
Torre Melina — The Hotel That Put the Farmhouse Back in Its Name
For more than three decades, one of Barcelona's biggest hotels carried the name of a king. When it reopened in 2024, it took the name of the farmhouse that had been here first.
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Hyll, Charingworth
Hyll — The Cotswolds Hotel That Wants You to Do Nothing
Country-house hotels have become very good at giving you things to do. Hyll has built itself around the opposite idea.
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Hart Silversmiths, Chipping Campden
Hart Silversmiths — The Guild That Never Quite Disappeared
An Arts and Crafts experiment brought 150 Londoners to a Cotswold town in 1902. It failed within six years. One silversmith stayed, and his family is still working on the first floor of the same building.
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Moreton Show, Batsford Estate
Moreton Show — Where the Heavy Horses Still Matter
Twenty thousand people, three hundred and fifty exhibitors, one day, and a line-up where the headline acts are Shires.
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