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WHAT THIS SITE COLLECTS, AND WHAT IT DOES NOT
Analytics, marked affiliate links, one travel script and web fonts, and nothing else
Privacy
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Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics to count visits and to see which pages are read. It records the page you are on, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device you are using.
It does not record your name, your address or anything you type, and the data is kept for fourteen months. If you would rather not be counted, any browser setting or extension that blocks analytics will stop it.
Affiliate links
Some links on the planning pages (getting here, booking ahead and day trips) and on a few planning articles in the journal may be affiliate links, provided through the Travelpayouts network. If you book something through one of them, this site may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
Those links are marked on the page, above the first link, and no sight page carries one. Nothing is recommended because it pays. Following such a link takes you to the partner's own site, which sets its own cookies and has its own privacy policy.
This site does not sell anything, take bookings or reservations, handle payments or hold tickets or rooms. Any booking you make is a contract between you and the travel company, under its terms, and this site is not a party to it and carries no responsibility for it.
The Drive script
Every page also loads a script from Travelpayouts (tpembars.com), called Drive, which can add affiliate links, travel recommendations and previews to the page. It runs in your browser, and Travelpayouts and the travel services it links to may set their own cookies.
Following one of those links does not identify you to this site; the service you land on has its own privacy policy. A content blocker stops the script and every page still works.
Fonts and hosting
The typefaces are served by Google Fonts, which means your browser requests them from Google when a page loads.
The site itself is a set of static files served through Cloudflare, which also adds its own Web Analytics script to count visits; Cloudflare describes it as collecting no personal data and setting no cookies. There are no accounts, no logins and no comment forms, so there is nothing to sign up to and nothing to delete.
Images, maps and links
The photographs are served from this site's own server, not loaded from Wikimedia while you read. The street plan drawn on the homepage and at the top of each sight page is made from OpenStreetMap data, which is available under the Open Database License and is credited to the OpenStreetMap contributors.
Official sites, such as the museums, the transport operators and the venues, are named on the pages rather than linked.
Changes
If this site starts doing anything else with data, this page will say so before it happens.
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- Twenty places, one page eachThe SightsFrom the Sagrada Família to the Port Vell, by way of Gaudí's houses, the Gothic Quarter and Montjuïc: what each one is, what you see there, and where it stands.Open the page →
- Mild winters, hot summers, rain in autumnWhen to ComeA hot-summer Mediterranean climate, season by season, with the festivals and the quieter weeks.Open the page →
- The metro, trams, buses, bikes and your own feetGetting AroundA metro run by two companies, trams, buses and the bike-share system, the lifts and funiculars up the hills, and the streets that are best on foot.Open the page →