If sightseeing is your bag, the location doesn’t get much better than this Barcelona apartment. Just a two-minute dander away, Gaudi’s masterpiece – La Sagrada Familia – stands in all its glory. Fifteen minutes on foot in the other direction sees you at Passeig de Gracia, where Gaudi’s Casa Mila and Casa Batlló stand between designer shops and luxury boutiques. The streets around this apartment are packed with restaurants, tapas bars and markets selling fresh Catalonian produce.

Ingredients in hand, head back to this bijou apartment where a kitchenette makes light work of breakfast and lunch. Lightwood floors and sage-green walls create a soothing space to unwind, perhaps with a glass of something local on the pebble-grey sofa. Floor to ceiling glass sliding doors let the sunlight stream in and open up to create a Juliet balcony looking over the street below.

Home truths:
*Quiet hours are enforced between 10pm and 8am
*If you are checking in after 9.30pm there will be a €25 surcharge, and €50 for check-ins after 11.30pm
*This apartment is up several flights of stairs but there is a lift in the building
*The kitchenette has a hob and microwave but not a full oven
*At capacity (four guests), two people will be on a sofa bed in the living room