Running in Barcelona since 2003 · Now coming back
The weird
and wonderful
guide to the city.
Everything worth leaving the house for this week — chosen by hand, by people who actually live there. We've been doing it in Barcelona for over twenty years. Now we're bringing it back to the rest of the network.
A guide to the really good life
9 cities · 200,000 readers
Print guides · Weekly dispatch
What this is
City guides got optimised into mush.
Search “things to do” in any city and you get the same forty attractions, ranked by whoever spent the most on SEO. The listings are scraped. The reviews are farmed. The “hidden gem” has 40,000 reviews.
Le Cool started in Barcelona in 2003 doing the opposite: a weekly email of the strange, the small and the genuinely good — a gig in someone's flat, a one-night-only supper, a bookshop that opens at midnight. Written by people who live around the corner from it.
Barcelona has been running that way ever since — twenty-odd years of weekly editions, still going. What changed is everything around it. So we're bringing the rest of the network back.
2003
Barcelona, issue one
23
Years still publishing
9
City editions
200k
Readers at our peak
The network
Barcelona never stopped. The rest is coming back.
Barcelona
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Come back out.
Twenty-three years in. Just getting going again.
Tell us your city. When Le Cool lands there, you'll be the first through the door — and you'll help decide where we go next.