We passed what once was Barcelona's arena for bullfighting. However, bullfighting is not very popular in Barcelona, unlike in the rest of Spain. In fact, bullfighting was declared illegal in 2010 in Barcelona and the bullring was converted into a shopping mall. The law was overturned in 2016, but many Catalonians still reject the Spanish bullfighting tradition, just as they frankly reject much of Spanish tradition and Spain itself!