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New Pipa Club

The Pipa Club Plaça Reial is a unique meeting place in Barcelona, a non-profit entity, created through a need, accompanied by nostalgia.
Currently members (men, women, young and less young) are part of the association.
The Pipa Club was born from a need to recover the essence of an extraordinary place, located in the heart of Barcelona.
A point on the map, where all attendees will know how to get there and who to take, in order to find the right place.
A Smoking Club that serves as an excuse to also dress up for an art exhibition, concert, monologue or simply your place in the world.
The Pipa Club is open every afternoon for all who wish to know it.

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Our environments

Offering a place with a quiet atmosphere, ideal for people who want an alternative to the disco, a place with different rooms with intimate and interconnected spaces where they can enjoy flavors and company.

This room welcomes the club, with a majestic modern-style bar, mixing textures with natural materials and where our mixologists will prepare a varied and interesting cocktail menu, passing through the classics of all time, or venturing into the most innovative of the moment. A space with minimalist touches of modern decoration and where you can even enjoy a more personalized service in the Bar, where only a lucky few will be able to see the most spectacular cocktails being made live.

It is undoubtedly one of the most intimate corners of the club and its particular atmosphere is responsible for making this room one of the most demanded, be it for the direct views of Plaça Reial, its antique marble fireplace or its combination of different sofas and old tables which allow you to enjoy long talks and various toasts in a very comfortable way. A small adjoining room offers even more privacy to be able to enjoy true romantic conversations and even for more than one declaration of love as in the best movies.

This other corner of the club offers a more didactic facet, where the collection of pipes that are the essence of the Club is exhibited, it also has an infinity of documents, books, encyclopedias and articles from the world of the Pipe and many others belonging to history of this mythical place in the city of Barcelona for those who want to lose themselves in its shelves.

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The most modern space in the club. It has a modern Billiards that provides dynamics and the possibility of disconnecting from the rest of the rooms, enjoying games with our group of friends or interacting directly with other people; also with direct views of Plaça Reial, this room is designed so that you can connect new people. Indirectly intimate like all the others, this is your place for when you want a little more cane.

History of the Pipe

The origins of the use of the pipe are very remote. Some finds seem to indicate that, during the stone age, a rudimentary object very similar to a pipe was already known. Other, more certain information, coming from Central Africa, speak of a singular "brazier" pipe, made up of a small cone of sand in which some side holes were made. It seems that the ancient indigenous tribes made fire inside with hemp leaves and then inhaled the smoke by bringing their mouths close to the holes. In the Congo, members of the Mangú tribe pierced the core of banana leaves, thus obtaining a rudimentary bowl in which rolled leaves were lit. (Excerpted from the book The Art and Pleasure of Smoking a Pipe, written by Giorgio Savinelli) The African Bechuana tribe built a very primitive form of pipe; A semicircular branch of wood was taken and buried in the muddy earth in one place and removed in another, one end was then loaded with tobacco and the smoke was inhaled from the other. In the also African tribe Kirgeeze they mixed tobacco with herbs, they dug a hole in the ground and introduced this mixture, then in groups and lying down, their heads very close to each other, they lit the mixture and inhaled the smoke produced. Nicotine residues were found in Egyptian mummies, this has not been scientifically explained yet. Excavations in the south of France found pipes in iron, bronze and clay from a time close to 400 BC- Important geographers of antiquity such as Herodotus, Strabo, Pomponio Mella and Solinus referred to the use in northern Europe of small smoking pipes long before Columbus arrived in America. (from the book The Table Book by William Hone 1827) For Johanes Wilbert, the age of the pipe certainly exceeds 3000 years, he attributes some pipes found in Mexico to the Olmec culture (1200-900 BC)