The bookshop of Sala Ciutat has moved to El Born – Barcelona History Museum. The new store, Ve de Barcelona, brings together four areas—books, design, gastronomy, and author fashion—with the aim of becoming a space for the promotion of Barcelona’s talent and creativity.

Here is a list of our recommendations for books about Barcelona. Hot-off-the-press and popular titles so that you can enjoy reading about Barcelona this Christmas. You can also visit our new bookshop in El Born. Museu d’Història de Barcelona.


Barcelona City Council presented its municipal publishing label, Barcelona Llibres, at the Fira Internacional del Llibre (FIL) de Guadalajara, outlining the keys to its success and its public-private collaboration model.


 

The new communication signature aims to strengthen the city’s identity and the connection with citizens.


 

New edition of the Barcelona Llibres catalogue, the publishing house of the Barcelona City Council specialized in the city, its history and its people. With more than 400 titles in print and digital format.

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Imatge de la coberta del llibre 'Barcelona: A City Built on its Archives'

Barcelona: A City Built On Its Archives

The History of the Barcelona Municipal Archive (1249–2025)

Ramon Alberch i Fugueras and Bethan Cunningham

Imatge de la coberta del llibre ' Los nuevos realistes / The New Realists'

Los nuevos realistas / The New Realists

Arquitectura catalana y balear desde la crisis del 2008 / The New Realists. Catalan and Balearic Architecture from the 2008 Crisis

Carme Ribas , Joan Roig and AA. VV

Els nous realistes / The New Realists

Arquitectura catalana i balear d’ençà la crisi de 2008 / Catalan and Balearic Architecture from the 2008 Crisis

Carme Ribas , Joan Roig and AA. VV

Miguel Milá

Col·lecció 3P

Disseny Hub Barcelona and Jordi Blasi

Barcelona Metropolitana

Del Consell de Cent a la ciutat global

Xavi Casinos

Testimonis de tot el món sobre Barcelona

Edició molt ampliada d’una monumental documentació de vint segles

Lluís Permanyer Lladós

La SEAT: motor de llibertat

Una lluita obrera a la Barcelona antifranquista

Jordi de Miguel and Cristina Bueno

Sumari Astral

AA. VV , Caterina Almirall and Claudia Elies

Barcelona, esplendor i crisi del segle XV

Pere Orti Gost and Pere Verdés Pijuan

Imatge de la coberta del llibre 'Miguel Milá dissenyador preindustrial'

Miguel Milá. Dissenyador preindustrial

Gonzalo Milá , Claudia Oliva and Miquel Izquierdo

Imatge de la coberta del llibre "20 mirades sobre Barcelona'

20 mirades sobre Barcelona

BIMSA 2004-24

Marta Bugés and AA. VV

Imatge de la coberta del llibre 'Homenatge a Barcelona'

Homenatge a Barcelona

Colm Tóibín , Pau Gasol Valls and Víctor Aldea

La ciutat incandescent

Barcelona viscuda i escrita en francès

Ricard Ripoll

Imatge de la coberta del llibre 'Solare, notturna e sonora'

Solare, notturna e sonora

Literatura i cultura italiana a Barcelona

Amaranta Sbardella and Xavier Valls Guinovart

Giulia Adinolfi

Entre mujeres

Elena Grau Biosca , Violeta Ibáñez Royo , Isabel Ribera Domene and AA. VV

Seguir contándolo

Crónica del programa Barcelona Protege a Periodistas de México

Majo Siscar Banyuls , Sandra Vicente Barreira , Cristina Rivera Garza and Pedro Strukelj

Antifémina

Colita , Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Mary Nash

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La ciutat que recorda

Memòries de guerra i dictadura a l’espai públic de Barcelona

Ricard Conesa Sánchez

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Our living catalogue includes more than 400 books – in both physical and digital, free-to-download format – divided into 12 collections.

Municipal visual identity guidelines

The aim of these guidelines is to make all users of Barcelona City Council’s visual identity aware of the ways it can be applied and its different versions.

Barcelona Metròpolis is a magazine founded in 1986 and published by Barcelona City Council. It deals with cultural, urban planning and social issues relevant to the city.

Consult Barcelona City Council’s Open Knowledge Repository (including decrees, government measures, scientific literature, plans, etc.) and image bank.

General information. Literary promotion. Libraries and reading. The publishing industry. International. The UNESCO Office.

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