Art filled barcelona hotel with a spa near metro passeig de grcia metro in the central eixample neighborhood of barcelona balmes is surrounded by gothic and catalan modernist architecture with major examples by famed antoni gaud the passeig de grcia metro and tram stations are located 3 blocks away making it easy to get around the city gauds vision on display to see gauds masterpieces you can start at casa batll and casa mil followed by sagrada famlia and north to park gell all