Sants-Montjuïc district, Barcelona
Chauffeur Service in Hostafrancs
Hostafrancs began as an inn for travelers who reached Barcelona after the city gates had shut, and it still sits between two transport hubs, Barcelona Sants and Plaça d'Espanya. From here a driver serves trains, trade fairs, the airport and the cruise terminals.
Sants-Montjuïc district
Hostafrancs, an inn on the Madrid road
Hostafrancs owes its name to an inn. Joan Corrades i Bosch bought land here in 1840 and named his hostal after his home village, Hostafrancs de Sió in the Segarra, and travelers on the Madrid road who reached Barcelona after the city gates had shut could stop there for the night. The area had belonged to Santa Maria de Sants until 1839, when the provincial council moved the stretch from Pont d'en Rabassa to Creu Coberta into Barcelona.
Today Hostafrancs belongs to the Sants-Montjuïc district: 41 hectares, home to 16,102 people in 2021, with the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Carrer de Tarragona and Sants as its edges. Its commercial street, Carrer de la Creu Coberta, runs over a branch of the Roman Via Augusta, and the iron-built Mercat d'Hostafrancs opened on it in 1888.
The neighborhood sits between two transport hubs. Plaça d'Espanya and Espanya station mark its eastern edge, Barcelona Sants station lies just to the north, and Fira Barcelona's Montjuïc exhibition grounds are on the far side of the square. From here a driver can take you to a train, a trade fair, the airport or the cruise terminals. Give the street, the time and the size of your party, and the journey is quoted for you.
Chauffeur services in Hostafrancs
Every service below can start in Hostafrancs. Choose one, add your street and send it. Barcelona Chauffeur Service explains them all for the city as a whole.
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Airport transfers
To or from Barcelona Airport in either direction. Send the flight number, date and time with your request.
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Business travel
Hotels, offices, venues and the airport, planned around a business schedule.
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Chauffeur by the hour
A vehicle and driver for a set number of hours: meetings, shopping or several stops in one day.
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Events
Transport to and from conferences, trade fairs and private events in and around Barcelona.
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Private tours
Day trips and city tours from Barcelona with your own vehicle and guide, priced per group and booked online.
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Long-distance journeys
Door-to-door drives from Barcelona to the Costa Brava, Andorra, the Pyrenees and other cities.
Barcelona Airport and Hostafrancs
The airport's official name, as Aena lists it, is Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, and it has two terminals, T1 and T2. Hostafrancs has no airport route page, so use Barcelona Airport Transfer to ask; each transfer is quoted on request.
Coming in, send the flight number, the date and time and your terminal. Going out, send the Hostafrancs address and the flight time. Add how many guests and bags are traveling.
Every airport transfer we quote, in one place.
Popular journeys from Hostafrancs
Two of these trips are short from Hostafrancs: Barcelona Sants and the Montjuïc fairgrounds. The rest are written from Barcelona and quoted from your street.
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Hostafrancs to Barcelona Sants
Barcelona Sants Station Transfer
The station lies just north of the neighborhood.
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Hostafrancs to Fira Barcelona Montjuïc
Fira Barcelona Chauffeur Service
Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, across Plaça d'Espanya.
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Hostafrancs to Fira Barcelona Gran Via
Fira Gran Via Chauffeur Service
Fira's other site, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
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Hostafrancs to Barcelona Airport
Barcelona Airport Transfer
Either terminal, either direction.
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Hostafrancs to Cruise port
Barcelona Cruise Port Transfer
Include the ship and the sailing time.
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Hostafrancs to Sitges
Barcelona to Sitges Transfer
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Hostafrancs to PortAventura
Barcelona to PortAventura Transfer
Around Creu Coberta and Plaça d'Espanya
The details come from the source linked with each place. Name the street side you want when you ask for a pickup.
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Mercat d'Hostafrancs
A market hall by Antoni Rovira i Trias, opened in 1888 and listed as a cultural asset of local interest. It is a free-standing iron building of three naves, the central one wider and taller, with addresses on Carrer de la Creu Coberta, Carrer d'Hostafrancs de Sió, Carrer de Vilardell and Carrer de l'Àliga.
Source: Viquipèdia, checked October 3, 2026
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Carrer de la Creu Coberta
This commercial street lies over one of the branches of the ancient Via Augusta, the road into Roman Barcino, and finds along it include Roman milestones and figures of gods. Local traders hold a Roman festival on it, the Barcino Colonia Romae.
Source: betevé, checked October 3, 2026
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Parc de l'Espanya Industrial
A park next to Barcelona Sants station, just over the line in Sants, built on part of the old L'Espanya Industrial textile factory and inaugurated on 26 October 1985. Luis Peña Gantxegi, Antón Pagola and Montserrat Ruiz designed it with nine lighthouse-like towers above a lake, and Andrés Nagel's dragon sculpture was added in 1987.
Source: Viquipèdia, checked October 3, 2026
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Fira Barcelona Montjuïc
Exhibition grounds at Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, s/n, built in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exhibition, with seven halls inside Montjuïc Park near Plaça d'Espanya. See Chauffeur Service for Fira Barcelona.
Source: Fira de Barcelona, checked October 3, 2026
Areas near Hostafrancs
Hostafrancs borders four neighborhoods of its own district and two of the Eixample district. Every area is listed on the locations page.
Same district, bordering Hostafrancs to the west, with Barcelona Sants station.
Chauffeur service in La Font de la Guatlla
Same district, across the Gran Via to the south.
Chauffeur service in La Bordeta
Same district, bordering Hostafrancs to the southwest.
Chauffeur service in El Poble-sec
Same district, on the other side of Plaça d'Espanya.
Chauffeur service in La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample
Eixample district, bordering Hostafrancs to the northeast.
Chauffeur service in Sant Antoni
Eixample district, also bordering Hostafrancs to the east.
Questions about a chauffeur in Hostafrancs
How close is Hostafrancs to Barcelona Sants station?
English Wikipedia places Barcelona Sants just north of the neighborhood. A ride to the station with luggage, or from an arriving train to your door, is quoted like any other trip; Barcelona Sants Station Transfer explains how to ask.
Can I get a car from Hostafrancs to a trade fair at Fira Barcelona Montjuïc?
Yes. Plaça d'Espanya is on Hostafrancs's eastern edge, and Fira de Barcelona gives the Montjuïc grounds' address as Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, s/n. Add the hall or entrance and the days of the fair to your request; the venue has its own page, Chauffeur Service for Fira Barcelona.
My fair is at Fira Gran Via. Can I go there from Hostafrancs?
Yes. Fira Gran Via is Fira de Barcelona's other exhibition site, at Avinguda Joan Carles I, 64, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Journeys there are covered on Fira Gran Via, and a pickup in Hostafrancs is quoted from your street.
Can I be picked up at the Mercat d'Hostafrancs?
Yes. The market stands on its own block, with addresses on Carrer de la Creu Coberta, Carrer d'Hostafrancs de Sió, Carrer de Vilardell and Carrer de l'Àliga, so tell us which side you will be waiting on.
What will a trip from Hostafrancs cost?
No fares are published here. Send the pickup street in Hostafrancs, where you are going, the date and time, and the number of guests and bags, and you get a quote for that journey.