The Globe Map
🎭

Entertainment/shows

El Duende by Tablao Flamenco Cordobes

4.9 (1,559)$$$ · Expensive

El Duende, staged by the long-running Tablao Flamenco Cordobes on La Rambla, delivers a close-quarters flamenco show built around live guitar, singing, and dance in a small, energetic room. The near-perfect 4.9 rating and reviewer comments about feeling the performers' footwork through the floor point to a genuinely visceral, high-quality show rather than a diluted tourist version, even as a few note the seating is close and the chairs modest. Its high culture and must-see scores relative to its size confirm this as one of the more critically loved flamenco experiences in the city. It suits travelers who want an authentic, high-energy flamenco night without the scale of a big theatre production.

✨ Reasons to go

  • 1Staged by Tablao Flamenco Cordobes, a flamenco venue on La Rambla operating since 1970.
  • 2Cabaret-style seating puts audiences close enough to feel the dancers' footwork through the floor.
  • 3Holds a 4.9 rating across more than 1,500 reviews, unusually high for a tourist-area show.

💡 Good to know

  • 1Book ahead, as this popular tablao fills up quickly
  • 2expect close, cabaret-style seating rather than theatre rows
  • 3arrive a little early to settle in before the performance starts.

⏱️ Typical visit

1h30

🕰️ Best time

morning, lunchtime, afternoon, early evening, evening or late night

🚶 Walking intensity

Easy pace

📍

Address

La Rambla, 33, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain · Ciutat VellaGoogleApple
🎫

Booking

Booking required

What people say

"Performance (music, dance, singing) was perfect - full of energy and profesionality, but premises there wasn't as much perfect - chairs was old and too close to stage on other hand long drinks were very good..."

Marian Valo