If you come to do some tourism:

The place is right in the center of everything:
15 min from Pedralbes Royal Monastery included in tourist tour.
http://www.viajesvirtuales.es/monastery_of_pedralbes_barcelona_barcelona_spain_2_244.html

20 min to the natural “ Collserola” park.

http://www.parccollserola.net/catalan/home/marcos.htm

20 min from the park Güell, Gaudi’s most famous park, one of the main touristic point of the city.
http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/gaudi/park-guell.html

20 min from La Pedrera, Gaudi’s impossible to miss architecture, next to the so well known Las Ramblas, plaza Cataluña and port Maremagnum with Christopher Colombus Colum.
http://www.gaudiclub.com/esp/e_vida/pedrera.asp

6 min form the metro which would take you directly to the train station to go to Monsterrat or to go to the sea side best beaches.

http://www.montserratvisita.com/