Centre Comercial "El Centre de la Vila" — Local services in Barcelona

Don't have high expectations when you come to La Vila. There is no magic of a luxury shopping center worthy of its illustrious name and beach location. Nope. It has the atmosphere of a bit forgotten suburban mall that's not willing to give up. An interior decorative make-over is advisable, but then again what for if the relaxed neighborhood crowd is content. The individual shops, restaurants and entertainment venues like the cinema Yelmo Icària, supermarket Consum, Syrian restaurant are enough to attract me to come by once in a while, as it is safe, convenient, unpretentious and not as busy as other CCs (Centro Comercial) in Barcelona....

This shopping center has some kind of creepy vibe to it. I don't know what it is, maybe the lack of natural light, the outdated architecture, the lighting, or the mix of ever changing unsuccessful shops, and lack of international ones...This would be a good place to shoot an horror movie, i can't understand why it hasn't been done yet !

Apart from that they have a consum supermarket, and the famous icaria cinema, which broadcasts movies in english, attracting a young and international crowd, making the place even stranger.

People will tell you to visit the diagonal mar instead, but to me this place is way more original and...

I went to this shopping many times as I live close by. I experienced the decadence of the mall the last few years... The cinema is gone that gave great dynamic to it. And honestly everything goes gradually down. The toilets are day after day in horrible condition and not clean at all. The security guy goes constantly after people that get into the toilet to check on them but instead of checking the people he should check if...