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Monument hotel review a gourmet stay with a glamorous Barcelona

Read the Monument Barcelona, Spain, hotel review. See photos of this luxury hotel and find details on rooms and suites, facilities, food and drink, location and deals.

Passeig de Gracia is to Barcelona what Fifth Avenue is to New York; the city’s most famous boulevard, brimming with high-end designer shops, multimillion-euro penthouses and swanky hotels. It’s here you’ll find Monument Hotel, with its impressive restaurants, the city’s swishest rooftop brunch and over-the-top features galore. The hotel attracts a well-heeled international crowd — and it’s no wonder when you look at its credentials. Occupying a tastefully restored 19th-century palace on the same block as Fendi and Hermès (to namedrop just a couple), Monument’s blend of historic elegance, state-of-the-art comfort, flawless service, and once-in-a-lifetime culinary experiences keeps the jet-set coming back for more.

Overall score 9/10

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Rooms and suites

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Score 8/10Rooms range from the smallest Deluxe rooms, starting at a reasonably spacious 25 square metres, to the stately 130 square-metre Penthouse Suite with its sweeping views of Passeig de Gracia. All room classes except the Deluxe category are kitted out with double vanities and both a shower and bathtub. Spacious family rooms fit up to five guests, while couples can enjoy the more intimate Suite Paseo de Gracia with its cosy seating area and balcony overlooking the buzzy boulevard below. Although the in-room tech may not be the most state of the art, the excellent sleep quality, thanks to top-notch mattresses and bedding, and some impressive soundproofing, more than make up for it.

Food and drink

Score 9/10Visiting gourmands can call off the search: Monument has what you’re looking for. Every morsel of food served on the tasting menus at exquisite three-Michelin-star Lasarte and slightly less opulent but equally delightful one-star Oria (both by chef Martín Berasategui) is like a tiny taste of heaven: from the silky-smooth squid tartare with green apple juice and liquorice emulsion at Lasarte, to Oria’s cooked-to-perfection turbot with caviar. Up on the lush, plant-filled Verbena rooftop terrace, breakfast is a tasteful indoor-outdoor blend of à la carte hot dishes and a cold buffet of local delicacies such as pan amb tomaquet, Catalan tomato bread and Iberian ham. On the first and third Sunday each month this sun-drenched space transforms into the home of the Yummy Sundays brunch, a feast accompanied by free-flow cocktails that is not to be missed.

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What else is there?

Score 8/10Still hungry? Book a cooking or cocktail-making workshop with the hotel’s chefs or mixologists. The hotel also offers up a small but functional rooftop gym, while families love the rooftop pool with its plush sunbeds — perfect for a refreshing dip after a day of Gaudí-ing. Monument’s Wellness Studio, with cosmetic treatments and wellness rituals for your skin, body and mind, is the perfect place to be pampered after a day of sightseeing.

Where is it?

Score 9/10Set about halfway up Barcelona’s illustrious Passeig de Gracia, Monument is positioned to ensure its guests never get bored. With more designer shops on the doorstep than you can shake a Louis Vuitton handbag at, Gaudí’s Casa Batllo and La Pedrera both within stumbling distance, and many of Barcelona’s top bars and restaurants — from cocktail bar Sips to restaurant Disfrutar — a short walk away in the Eixample neighbourhood, this location has something for everyone. To venture further afield, Passeig de Gracia station is just a few minutes’ walk. From here, you can grab a metro to the old town or catch a train to the airport, nearby beach towns and the Penedès wine region, the home of cava.

Price room-only doubles from £275Restaurant mains from £23Family-friendly YAccessible N

Isabelle Klinger was a guest of Monument Barcelona (monumenthotel.com)

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