The Best Rooftop Pool Hotels in Barcelona

The Barcelona skyline is a study in contrasts: Gothic spires against the rigid geometry of the Eixample grid. To view it from a rooftop pool is to find a different register. Up here, the city’s sounds soften to a low hum, replaced by the quiet displacement of water and the warmth of the sun on terracotta tiles. The experience is one of observation, a place to watch the afternoon shadow of Montjuïc stretch towards the port, the day punctuated not by appointments but by the slow drift of clouds.