Where is the best place to live in Spain between the two: Barcelona or Madrid?

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We just had a wonderful stay in both cities...But I am a serious lover of all things Spanish. I always have had a little bit of a negative feeling towards Barcelona...just not my type of place.. Yes, there are great beaches there, great seafood (I LOOOOVE seafood) Great architecture...that turn of the 20th century Modernista style, wide boulevards and the Ramblas! It's a great city...but Madrid is more my style. I like the older, 15th to 18th century flavors of Madrid better...it's more "Spanish", as Barcelonaman pointed out. Barcelona is not IN Spain, it is IN Catalunya. The flavor is entirely different. It's more modern and more lively, as Kalikina said.

Madrid is the center of the Spanish universe. The capital and all that goes with that. Like New York? I don't see that...Madrid is much nicer and more gracious than New York.

All that said, I'll throw my real favorite into the ring for you...and that's Seville. Smaller, older, more historic than either, more romantic, gypsies, flamenco, moors...and, of course, I`m partial, as I have lived there.

Madrid is my favorite of the two you gave.

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