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Hotel guide · Eixample, Barcelona
Cotton House Hotel
A five-star house on the Gran Via, once the headquarters of Barcelona's cotton producers' guild.
Cotton House at a glance
- Neighbourhood
- Dreta de l'Eixample, in the Eixample district
- The building
- 19th-century Neoclassical house, later the cotton guild's headquarters
- Category
- 5 estrelles (five-star), Registre de Turisme de Catalunya
- Rooms
- 83 on the register; the hotel counts 78 rooms and five suites
- Eating and drinking
- Batuar restaurant and cocktail bar, with a leafy terrace
- Address
- Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 670, 08010 Barcelona
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01Is it for you?
Is Cotton House right for your stay?
- Why choose it
- The house itself. The library, the painted ceilings and the parquet of the cotton guild's old headquarters have been restored, and a tailor's workshop keeps its textile past alive.
- Who it suits
- Couples and city travellers who want Passeig de Gràcia, the Palau de la Música and the Gothic Quarter on foot, and a restored 19th-century house to come back to.
- What to consider
- It is a city house, not a resort: wellness is a gym and treatment rooms, and La Barceloneta beach is 2.6 km away, by the hotel's own figure.
02The hotel
The hotel and its rooms
The house was designed by Elies Rogent for a Barcelona cotton businessman, and later became the House of Cotton, the headquarters of the cotton producers’ guild. Its architect then, Rubió i Tudurí, kept the Neoclassical façade and added four floors of offices and laboratories, joined by a hanging spiral staircase. The restoration that made it a hotel, by the designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán, kept that staircase and the large carriage doors, and brought back the building’s original features.
Rooms and suites
The 78 rooms come in four types. The Panamá rooms are the compact ones, at 23 m²: interior rooms, away from the street, which the hotel describes as extremely quiet. The Madras rooms (24 m²) face outward, over the city centre, with a queen, a king or two single beds. The Cotton rooms (28 m²) have a balcony over a Barcelona courtyard and a bathroom with both bath and shower. The Egyptian rooms are larger again, with a sitting area and a sofa bed that takes a third guest; some have a terrace over the city or the courtyard.
The suites keep the most of the original house. Damasco and Otomán have restored painted ceilings and balconies over the city; Tafetán, 47 m², looks over the Gran Via and has a separate living room; and Vichy is a 90 m² duplex on the fifth and sixth floors, with two living areas and a private terrace beside the rooftop pool — it can be connected to another double room, which suits a family. Every room has Egyptian cotton sheets and is made up twice a day.
On the practical side: the hotel lists a Panamá room adapted for guests with reduced mobility, with a roll-in shower, and room service comes from Batuar. If a particular outlook, bed configuration or step-free access matters to you, tell us when you enquire and we will confirm it with the hotel for your dates before anything is booked.
At the hotel
Facilities
- The Library, the guild's former meeting room, lined with its original books on textiles, for afternoon tea
- A rooftop pool for hotel guests, looking out over the city
- L'Atelier, a made-to-measure tailoring service run with the Barcelona tailors Santa Eulalia
- A gym, free to guests, and treatment rooms for facial and body care
- Gossypium, the hotel's personal concierge service, for plans in the city
Eating and drinking
Batuar — named after the cotton gin, the machine that pressed raw cotton clean — is the hotel’s restaurant and cocktail bar, for guests and the city alike. The cooking is market-led and Mediterranean, with local vegetables and fish and a menu that changes with the seasons, and the kitchen does not close between lunch and dinner. There are tables out on the leafy terrace behind the hotel, and breakfast is a buffet with hot dishes cooked to order. Food and drinks are served at the rooftop pool too.
03Location
Where Cotton House is
Cotton House stands on the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in the Eixample — in the Dreta de l’Eixample, east of Passeig de Gràcia. The map shows it with what is around it: Plaça de Catalunya, Casa Batlló and the Palau de la Música Catalana, and a little further, La Pedrera and the Cathedral. For the city itself, see our Barcelona travel guide.
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Cotton House Hotel
Plaça de Catalunya
Casa Batlló
Palau de la Música Catalana
More nearby landmarks (2)
La Pedrera (Casa Milà)
Barcelona Cathedral
04Alternatives
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05Planning
Planning a stay with Avelia
Cotton House Hotel can be the whole of a stay in Barcelona, or the Barcelona nights of a longer journey through Spain. Before any payment, we send a written proposal with a quoted trip price and what it includes — such as your room, a chauffeur from the airport, the Sagrada Família and the Gothic Quarter with a guide, and a concert at the Palau de la Música — and refine it with you. Once you approve the proposal and complete the agreed booking requirements, we confirm your arrangements. We coordinate the details and support you while you travel.
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Peace of mind
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Experiences we can arrange
- Private guided visits to the Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló and the Gothic Quarter, on request
- Restaurant reservations across Barcelona, and a concert at the Palau de la Música
- A chauffeur from the airport, and the high-speed train onward where it is the better choice
- Days out to Montserrat, the Penedès, or Figueres and Girona, subject to availability
Start planning your stay
A Cotton room with a balcony over a courtyard, or the Vichy duplex beside the rooftop pool: tell us your dates and who is travelling.
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