It is located on the first floor of the Casa Juncadella [ca] along the Rambla de Catalunya in the Eixample district of Barcelona, near major landmarks like the Galeria Mayoral and the Coliseum.

[1] At its inauguration, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo noted that the mission's opening built on momentum arising from the 2007 state visit of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to Spain, highlighting the deepening relationship between the two countries.

[4] Led by journalist Daniel Infante Tuano, who writes for a local OFW publication, opponents of the closure called on the DFA to organize more consultations, especially as it would be too inconvenient for the Filipinos living in the Consulate's service area to go to the Philippine Embassy in Madrid, 600 kilometers (370 mi) away.

[7] Puig would continue to serve as honorary consul until he was dismissed after participating in a pro-Catalan independence general strike on October 3, 2017,[8] with the DFA ending his term six months early on January 31, 2018.

Prior to this current post, Lazaro, a career diplomat who has been with the Philippine foreign service since 2000, served as the Executive Director of the DFA's Office of Consular Affairs, and was also previously deployed to the embassies in London and Bern.