CEM Can Toda in Gràcia (Barcelona)

CEM Can Toda, in Gràcia, is a municipal sports centre with excellent swimming facilities: an eight-lane 25-metre indoor pool, a diving pool, a small pool for babies with their parents and a 25-metre outdoor pool for sunny days, plus a spa area with a sauna and jacuzzi, a gym and maintenance gymnastics classes. Members find the installations adapted to all audiences, reasonably clean and with good activity instructors. The main drawbacks are price and crowding: an 85-euro registration fee that some find excessive, frequent price rises that young people find hard to afford, pools sometimes limited by water polo training, a very small, always full sauna, a crowded jacuzzi in need of renovation, heat inside and difficult parking. A good municipal centre for swimmers, though it can feel busy and expensive.