Sarrià: the uptown village and the monastery
An old village swallowed by the city, the patatas-bravas bar, and a Gothic cloister on three floors. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Plaça de Sarrià
Step off the FGC and you're in the old village square, in front of the Sant Vicenç church. Start with a coffee under the arcades; Sarrià was an independent town until 1921 and the square still keeps its small-town composure.

2. Sant Vicenç de Sarrià
The parish church on the square — the village's anchor, rebuilt over centuries on a much older site. A short, plain interior worth two minutes before you walk on. The streets behind it are the oldest part of Sarrià.

3. Bar Tomàs
The *patatas bravas* the rest of Barcelona makes pilgrimages for — fried potato, two sauces, no ceremony. On Carrer Major de Sarrià. It keeps its own hours and shuts mid-afternoon and on certain days, so go when it's open and don't overthink the rest of the menu.

4. Carrer Major de Sarrià
The village high street, part-pedestrian, lined with old shopfronts, a small market hall, and the kind of bakery that has outlasted three economic eras. Walk it slowly uphill; this is the spine the whole village hangs from.

5. Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes
Queen Elisenda's 1327 Gothic monastery — and the cloister, three storeys of arcades around a garden, one of the purest Gothic spaces in the city. The nuns' cells and the day cells open off it. Quiet, complete, almost unvisited. This is the *oh-my-god* of the walk.

6. Reina Elisenda (FGC)
Named for the queen who built the monastery, a few minutes' walk back downhill from its gate. One train and you're back in the city the village pretends it isn't part of.

Sarrià: the uptown village and the monastery