Poblenou: the factory district and its rambla
Brick chimneys, an art museum in an old factory, fishermen's cottages, and a rambla that ends at the sea. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Can Framis
Start with the art. The Fundació Vila Casas turned a 19th-century factory into a museum of Catalan contemporary painting — bare brick, white walls, a courtyard between two old wings. Worth the entry even if you only have an hour.

2. The 22@ chimneys
Walk south and look up. The tech district kept the old factory *xemeneies* — the slim brick chimneys — standing among the glass offices, deliberately. They mark where the textile mills were. Spot how many you can count before the rambla.

3. Rambla del Poblenou
The neighbourhood's own *rambla* — a leafy local promenade, not a tourist one. Plane trees, benches, an old-fashioned ice-cream shop or two, and the unhurried pace of a barri that still feels like a village. Walk it slowly towards the sea.

4. Plaça de Prim
Detour a block east for the low whitewashed cottages around the square — the old fishermen's houses of Poblenou, single-storey, with a gnarled tree shading the middle. It's the village the rambla remembers.

5. Cementiri del Poblenou
The seaward cemetery, full of marble and the famous winged 'Kiss of Death' statue if you go looking. Skip it if it's not your thing — but the walls and cypresses are part of the district's texture.

6. Platja del Bogatell
The rambla delivers you to the sand. Bogatell is the calmer of the city beaches — wide, less crowded than Barceloneta, a *platja* (beach) the locals actually use. End with your feet in the water; Bogatell metro is a short walk back inland.

Poblenou: the factory district and its rambla