Characters

Ulysses Grant and Barack Obama: from the White House to La Rambla

From John Wayne to Jack Nicholson: Hollywood in La Rambla

Rubén Darío: a Modernist poet in Barcelona

Madonna, running La Rambla and aggresive bodyguards

When Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul-Sartre visited Barcelona

Raquel Meller, the woman who met Charlie Chaplin and rot in oblivion

Pablo Picasso and Barcelona: banquets, bars and brothels

Orson Welles, from Barcelona to Havana

La Moños, La Rambla’s most famous woman

Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen’s accidental tourist in La Rambla

Writing to La Rambla

…Then Maria Callas performed at the liceu

Talking with Gaudí

Flowers for García Lorca

Chronicles​ ​of​ ​La​ ​Rambla, by Josep Pla

An artist’s gift to La Rambla

On a walk with the surrealist genius

A room for Mr. Albert Einstein