President Aragonès tried, unsuccessfully, to meet with the former US president during his stay in the city. Obama was in Barcelona to attend the first of Bruce Springsteen's two concerts at the Olympic Stadium.
The former leader of the Democratic Party spent three days in the Catalan capital in which he displayed an intense agenda of leisure and cultural activities. The couple was accompanied by film director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw. Among other visits, the four went to the monastery of Montserrat on Saturday.