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Go to Barcelona. It's a great city.
There are some nice boutique hotels roughly in the area between the big square (I forget the name, with the department store Corteo Ingles, spelling?) and the diagonal, on both sides of Paseo de Gracia. This is the upscale neighborhood that has a number of Gaudi buildings, good shopping, good restaurants, etc. I feel comfortable walking around here (on main streets) alone at night, but I would not go near the Gothic Quarter alone at night, nor on the part of Ramblas below the square.