Parking in square Sant Jaume and Barcelona's city hall - Barcelona

Where to park near Plaça Sant Jaume or Barcelona City Hall?

If you want to park near the Plaça Sant Jaume (formerly known as the Plaza de la Constitución) and near the Generalitat de Catalunya, there are two very interesting options: the Saba Catedral car park and the Saba Bamsa Plaza dels Ángels car park.

The Saba Catedral parking is just a 5-minute walk from Plaça Sant Jaume. That's why it's the closest car park to Plaça Sant Jaume. Specifically, it is located on Avenida de la Catedral, Plaça d'Antoni Maura, 08002, and is open 24 hours a day.

The parking has a wide range of services, including mobile phone coverage, an efficient system for indicating free spaces, the option of using VIA T on entry and exit, designated areas for charging electric vehicles, specific spaces for motorbikes, spaces adapted for people with reduced mobility, and the convenient Ecosaba zone.

The Parking Saba Bamsa Plaza dels Àngels is a 13-minute walk from Plaça Sant Jaume. Specifically, it is located at Carrer dels Àngels, 1, Plaça dels Àngels. It is also well known for being the car park of the Barcelona City Council, as it is located in a very strategic area. The Ramblas are just a 7-minute walk away and the Universitat stop on the Barcelona metro is an 8-minute walk away.

This car park is open 24 hours a day, with an efficient system of indication of free spaces. It facilitates entry and exit through the use of VIA T, as well as having areas dedicated to the recharging of electric vehicles. It also cares about accessibility by providing spaces for people with reduced mobility and specific spaces for motorbikes.

Is it possible to park on the street near Barcelona City Hall?

The streets around Barcelona City Hall are narrow and pedestrianised. If you look at a map of the historic area of the city, you will see that they are medieval streets, with no particular pattern and very narrow. This means that parking is really complicated and the best way to avoid worrying is to go to the recommended Saba parkings.

What to do in and around Plaça de Sant Jaume?

Now that you know the two most recommended car parks in the city centre, you should know that there are numerous points of interest just a few metres away.

The parking at the Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona (Parking Saba Catedral) is just a 2-minute walk from Barcelona's Gothic cathedral, officially called the Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia. The current cathedral, built between the 13th and 15th centuries on a Romanesque and Visigothic structure, exhibits paleochristian remains in its subsoil. It has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest and has been a National Historic-Artistic Monument since 1929.

The Barcelona City Hall car park (Parking Saba Bamsa Plaza dels Àngels) is just a 10-minute walk from Plaça de Catalunya and a 3-minute walk from the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. The MACBA collection is the centrepiece of the museum and traces the evolution of contemporary artistic creation since the mid-20th century. With more than 5,000 works created since the 1950s, the collection was made official in 1997 through the MACBA Consortium, which brought together funds from various institutions and private collectors.