Picasso and Barcelona.
Picasso is a symbol of the city and this for many reasons:
He spent much of his youth, from the age of 14 to 23, in Barcelona and is said to have always thought of himself as Catalan, rather than andaluz. The time Picasso spent in Barcelona spanned the whole of his blue period and many of the formative influences on his art.
Apart from the Barceloona museum Picasso, you can still see many of the buildings in which Picasso lived and worked, notably the Escola de Belles arts de Llotja, the apartments where the family lived when they first arrived in Barcelona. Near to Calle de Ferran and to Calle Ample, you can see larges houses along here were converted into brothels at the turn of the twentieth century, and Picasso used to haunt the street sketching what he saw; women at one of the brothels inspired his seminal Cubist work, les demaoiselles d'Avignon.
The museum is located in El Borne, a very centric district of Barcelona. If you are looking for a lodging in Barcelona, have a look to the Barcelona apartments in El Borne.