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Carrer de Petritxol is only 130 meters long and 3 meters wide. You could walk it in under a minute. But almost nothing in Barcelona packs more history into a smaller space.

The street goes back to the 14th century, when it was known as Carreró dels Orfebres, meaning Goldsmith's Alley. It runs from Portaferrissa down to Plaça del Pi, deep in the Gothic Quarter, and for hundreds of years it was the kind of shortcut that locals used to slip through the neighborhood.

At number 5 is Sala Parés, the oldest art gallery in Barcelona. It formally became a gallery in 1877, and in 1901 a young Pablo Picasso held his first commercial gallery exhibition here. The show didn't make him famous overnight. But the gallery is still there, still showing art.

The granges (old-style milk bars) are what most people come for today. Granja Dulcinea at number 2 has been serving thick hot chocolate for generations. Salvador Dalí was a regular. The recipe hasn't changed.
In 1959, Petritxol became the first street in all of Barcelona to be fully pedestrianized. No cars, no sidewalks. Just people, chocolate, and art.

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