The Apsis Atrium Palace is a new hotel opened in 2003 in a neoclassical building dated 1888 and with a modern soft decoration. The hotel has been conceived with a cutting edge concept of accommodation.
With four stars, the curious thing about this hotel is that, without a large number of rooms (71), the price includes services and facilities which are not very common: free access to the indoor swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi, a small gym, free wireless internet for laptops, art exhibitions, free bottles of water in the room every day, free safety box, iron and board in the closets, voicemail telephones, free access to a business center with computers for internet, a small library about Barcelona, and 23 international TV channels.
Eixample’s elegant grid network is a feat of 19th-century town planning with broad avenues of modernist architecture stretching the length of the city.
Overlooked by Gaudí’s Park Guell, Gracia’s narrow streets and sunny plazas are hidden away from the main avenues of Barcelona and are treasured by the young, artistic community and Catalan locals.