This is Barcelona as a text adventure. It uses the same real, named places as the 3D version, and every building is described the way you'd find it inside. It works with any screen reader and keyboard, and you don't need graphics.
Type a command and press Enter, or use the buttons. Try look, north, go to and a place name, enter, menu, order 1, sit, talk, leave or help.
2,500 named places from the real map are in this walk. Here is what each kind is like when you step through the door, with real examples you can visit:
Shelves of goods run in rows toward the back, there's a display table near the door, and a register counter sits beside the entrance.
For example: Façana del Naixement, Façana de la Glòria, Museu de la Sagrada Família, Façana de la Passió.
Tables with paired chairs fill the room, and high-backed booths run down one wall. A chalkboard menu hangs over the kitchen counter at the back, where a server stands ready. Posters brighten the side wall.
For example: Els Porxos, O'Grove, Farggi, Lactuca.
A waiting room with chairs and a coffee table faces the reception desk. Down the hall, exam rooms each have a bed, a small desk and a chair.
For example: Espai Dental SF, Instituts Odontològics, Farmàcia Bricio Alonso, Beatriu, Farmàcia Pla Santamans, Francesc.
Long shelf aisles run the length of the store, stocked with colourful goods. A glowing cooler wall lines the back, and checkout lanes wait near the front.
For example: Coaliment, Abarrotes Doña Cuca, Casa Debasa, Carrefour Express.
Desks with chairs, a bookcase of files and a few plants. It's quiet apart from keyboards.
For example: Parròquia de la Sagrada Família, Agrupament escolta Antoni Gaudí, BBVA, Solfinc Pisos.
It's dim and warm. A long wooden bar runs down one side with stools and a row of beer taps, and backlit shelves of bottles glow amber behind it. Neon strips glow on the back wall, a game plays on a TV, and there's a pool table with the balls racked. Booths fill the other wall.
For example: Bar Breixán, Chipiron Bar Restaurant, Bar Catalunya, Snack Bar Nevada.
The espresso machine hisses behind a wooden counter, next to a grinder and a glass case of pastries. A chalkboard lists the drinks. Small round tables fill the room, and a sofa corner with a rug, a lamp and a bookcase sits by the window. Warm bulbs hang low over everything.
For example: Bo & Mie Boulangerie Creative, Starbucks, 365 Café, Fargo Café.
A front office greets you. Down the corridor, classrooms have rows of small desks all facing a whiteboard, with the teacher's desk in the corner.
For example: ELE USAL Barcelona, Language Avenue - Escola d'idiomes a Sagrada Familia - BCN, Barcelona Pool Billiards Academy, Institut Escola Sicília.
The lobby has a long front desk with a brass bell and a wall of key-card slots behind it. There's a red rug with a sofa and armchairs, tall potted plants, a brass luggage cart and two elevator doors. A chandelier glitters overhead. Past the lobby, a corridor leads to guest rooms, each with a bed, nightstands and lamps, a TV on the dresser and a window.
For example: MH Apartments, Ayre Hotel Rosellón, Castro Exclusive Residences, Hotel ibis Barcelona Centro.
Styling chairs line one wall in front of mirrors, waiting chairs sit opposite, and the front counter is by the door.
For example: Pretty Nails - Centro Bellesa estesico, LineUp Mens Salon, Fade Barber Shop, Jota Barber Shop.
A service counter faces a row of waiting chairs, and a flag stands in the corner. Offices open off a corridor.
For example: Club d'Escacs Torrenegra, Centre Cívic Sagrada Familia, Biblioteca Sagrada Família-Josep M. Ainaud de Lasarte, Casal de Barri. Ateneu el Poblet.
It smells of wood smoke and baking dough. A brick dome oven glows orange at the back with a stack of split logs beside it. Pies sit under glass on the counter, a chalkboard menu hangs on the brick wall, and the tables have red-and-white checked cloths with shakers of chili flakes and parmesan.
For example: Can Pizza, Arteteca Restaurant i Pizzeria Napolitana, Via Napoli Restaurant Pizzeria, Papa John's.
Rows of pews split by a centre aisle lead to an altar at the front, with a plant standing on either side. It's calm and still.
For example: Perruqueria unisex Iglesias Vide, Temple Tours, Salón del Reino de los Testigos Cristianos de Jehová, St. Albertus Magnus.
A bright counter runs across the back with three registers, and lit menu screens hang above it. Behind the counter you can hear the fryers hiss and the grill sizzle. Two touch-screen kiosks stand near the door, a soda fountain hums along the right wall, and booths line the left wall, with small two-seat tables in the middle.
For example: Taco Bell, Five Guys, McDonald's, Burger King.
Exercise mats, barbells and punching bags fill the floor. Dumbbells sit on a rack, and the front desk is by the door.
For example: Never Sleep Gym, Alpha Link CrossFit, YogaOne Sagrada Familia, Studio Crossfit Barcelona.
Tall wooden bookcases cover the walls, and tables of new releases are stacked with colourful spines. There's a reading nook with two armchairs, a rug and a standing lamp. The register is by the door, and warm pendant lights hang overhead.
For example: La Ploma. llibreria-papereria, Sendak llibreria, Re-Read Libreria, Sana Books 2.
Rails of hanging clothes fill the floor, folded shirts line the wall shelves, and two mannequins stand near the door. Fitting rooms with curtains run along one side next to a tall mirror.
For example: Fashion, Hotel Boutique Hostemplo, Boutique de Novias, Zarah Supermercat.
The floor is a black-and-white checkerboard. A blue counter holds the tubs, red stools line up in front of it, a freezer hums, and an arcade cabinet and a pinball machine blink in the corner.
For example: Gaudí Gelats, Cacao's - Gelato Siciliano, Gelato Bar de Cremeria Toscana, Santé gelato.
Fluorescent lights hum over narrow aisles packed floor to ceiling with snacks and drinks. Glass-door coolers glow along the back wall. By the register, hot dogs turn on a roller grill under a heat lamp, the slushie machine churns red and blue, and the coffee station smells burnt in the best way.
For example: Cred Carrer Valencia, Repsol, E.S. Esparga,S.L.., Estación de Servicio Repsol G.E.D.S..
Rows of white front-loading washers line both walls, their round glass doors like portholes. Stacked dryers tumble at the back. A long folding table in the middle has warm clothes on it, a row of plastic chairs waits, and a change machine blinks by the door.
For example: Bloomest Smart Laundry, Lavandería Autoservicio Speed Queen, FreshLaundry, Lavanderia. Bugaderia autoservei.
White aisles of boxes in blue, red and green run toward a pharmacy counter at the back under a big PHARMACY sign. Shelves of prescriptions sit behind the counter, and a blood-pressure chair waits near the front.
For example: Farmacia Ecoceutics Eugeni Fors, Farmacia Dra. Pascal, Farmacia Barcelona Dr. A Botet Carreras.
A huge screen fills the far wall, and tiered rows of red velvet seats face it. The popcorn counter is by the entrance.
For example: Super&Regals.
A long teller counter runs across the back, a row of waiting chairs sits by the door, and banker's desks with chairs are spread across the floor.
For example: Triodos Bank.
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