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Absinthe bar

Bar Marsella

Nineteenth-century absinthe under the same dusty chandeliers — patina nobody installed.

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Nothing here was decorated to look old, which is the whole argument: mirrors, chandeliers, marble tables and an absinthe served with its ritual of water and sugar, in a Raval that has changed around it without changing it.

It is the cheap historic counterweight to the city’s designed cocktail rooms — and a late-night walk in the deep Raval deserves ordinary care. Address and opening hours publish once verified.