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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 32 performing arts venues
Best performing arts venues in Barcelona
The 10 most notable performing arts venues in Barcelona, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Eolia Centre Superior d'Art Dramatic
Carrer de Casp, 82
398 m from Arc de Triomf station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.935, percentile 100 of 32
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2
Salon Pugliese Escuela de Danza y Teatro
Carrer de la Verneda, 4
282 m from El Clot-Aragó railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.917, percentile 96.77 of 32
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3
Escuela de Cine Cine en Acción
Carrer de Rosalia de Castro, 51
321 m from Sant Pau – Dos de Maig, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.915, percentile 93.55 of 32
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4
Aules · Arts Escèniques
Carrer de Salvador Espriu, 47
467 m from Ciutadella | Vila Olímpica, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.914, percentile 90.32 of 32
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5
ITC Impro Training Center
Carrer 26 de Gener de 1641, 11, local 1
235 m from Hostafrancs, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.895, percentile 87.1 of 32
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6
Barcelona School of Creativity
Carrer de Pallars, 65, interior, Nau 4
131 m from Marina, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.876, percentile 83.87 of 32
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7
Institut del Teatre de Barcelona
Plaça Margarida Xirgu, s/n Institut del Teatre de
453 m from Poble Sec, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.859, percentile 80.65 of 32
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8
Nancy Tunon i Jordi Oliver, Escola d'Actors
Carrer de Mozart, 19-21
467 m from Diagonal, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.830, percentile 77.42 of 32
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9
PerformArt
Carrer Alt de Mariner, 14
255 m from Horta, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.788, percentile 74.19 of 32
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10
Hamlet Escola de Teatre
Carrer del Cardenal Vidal i Barraquer, 16
499 m from Sant Boi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.782, percentile 70.97 of 32
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).