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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 33 public transit
Best public transit in Barcelona
The 10 most notable public transit 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
Estación de Autobuses Barcelona Nord
Carrer d'Alí bei, 80
26 m from Estació del Nord, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.506, percentile 100 of 33
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2
Catalonia Barcelona Plaza
Plaza Espanya, 6-8
49 m from Espanya, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.456, percentile 96.88 of 33
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3
Blai Limousines
Carrer del Maresme, 111
391 m from Besòs Mar, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.424, percentile 93.75 of 33
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4
Autocares Izaro - Barcelona
C/ de la Mare de Déu de Port, 153
405 m from Motors station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.397, percentile 90.63 of 33
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5
Jack Beds Francesc Macià - Tienda colchones
Av. de Josep Tarradellas, 124
621 m from Hospital Clínic, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.273, percentile 87.5 of 33
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6
Strip Club Barcelona
Carrer del Gaia 5
261 m from Foneria, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.206, percentile 84.38 of 33
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Centre Mèdic l'Eixample Sagrat Cor
Carrer de Londres, 28, y 38
432 m from Hospital Clínic, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.164, percentile 81.25 of 33
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8
Podoactiva Muntaner
C/ de Muntaner, 545
309 m from El Putxet, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.164, percentile 78.13 of 33
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9
Car hire Barcelona airport - NIZACARS
Carrer de l'Alta Ribagorça, 20
82 m from Mas Blau, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.164, percentile 75 of 33
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10
Concesionario Mercedes Benz y smart QUADIS Autolica
Plaça Europa 54-56
183 m from Europa | Fira station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.164, percentile 71.88 of 33
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).