The Horta neighborhood loses La Caracola, one of the few bookstores that remained there
The space, which sold books and music, had scheduled some 250 activities since it opened in August 2024.
BarcelonaAlthough nearly 30,000 Barcelonans live there, the Horta neighborhood is one of the least populated in terms of bookstores. Until now, there were Sagitari Llibres (Vila i Rossell Passage, 10), La Font de Mimir - Ibiza (Ibiza Square), La Retrospectiva (Fulton Street, 13), specializing in secondhand books, and La Caracola (Feliu i Codina Street, 19), which has just announced its closure. "At La Caracola Casa Intercultural, we will maintain the activities scheduled for February and will be returning the books on consignment. We will continue selling new and secondhand books, but now increasingly secondhand, at least until the day of the total stock clearance, which we will announce soon, but which will be around mid- or late March," the booksellers announced.
The news comes two years after the final closure of Sopa de Lletres (9 Porrera Street), a shop that combined books and gastronomy and was launched in 2014 by writers Oriol Izquierdo and Dolors Borau. From La Caracola, where they sold books but also music, they held workshops, concerts, presentations, and recitals: "We spent a year and a half promoting culture and the neighborhood, with some 250 activities and many wonderful experiences and lessons learned," they commented. "The overall result has been very positive, but it hasn't been enough to make this project sustainable, and now it's time to change course."
The booksellers added that they are in talks "for a local project to take over the premises, but nothing is finalized yet."
