Published on Oct, 2024
If there were a Noble Prize for tour guides, Valentina, one of the contract tour guides for Local Cool Tours in Barcelona would win. In fact, there would be no contest. Valentina, somehow, combines the knowledge of Barcelona (more thorough than Wikipedia’s) with the charm and graces and sense of humor of any of America’s late night talk show hosts.
She is an Italian born actress but with numerous graduate degrees from universities in Spain. Her cross cultural knowledge allows her to intertwine her passion and love which is Spanish culture and philosophy and history and of course food. I must also mention that Valentina his few tricks up her sleeve in terms of culinary secrets on producing her variant on the national pastry, churros (a must try—dipped in hot melted chocolate—akin to dying and going to heaven).
Valentina is a unique person and I can’t imagine any visitor to Barcelona not using here to gain once in a life insights.
As they say in Spanish: Ella es major que perfecta.