Barcelona

A Country House for Sale so close to Benidorm

2011-08-15T15:20:00.000-07:00

We have a friend who has a lovely Villa so near of Benidorm, if you are interested, you can know more here: Property for Sale in Benidorm

VI Festival 'Poetry I +' in Barcelona

2011-07-01T06:32:00.000-07:00

Catalan poets Joan Maragall and Josep Palau i Fabre opened last Saturday VI Festival 'Poetry I +' festival to be held at the Fundació Palau de Caldes d'Estrac (Barcelona) and the Arts Santa Monica until 24 July.

It is a month of performances, recitals and concerts that would combine a broad audience at this annual poetry approaching from different cultural backgrounds.

Beaches of Barcelona are ready

2011-06-24T05:19:00.000-07:00

The beaches of Barcelona are from 09.00 am of today, ready for bathers. Cleaning services of the City of Barcelona have left clean sand after that 70,000 people have passed the festival of Sant Joan on the beach.

Here you can see a list of the beaches of Barcelona (Barceloneta, St. Sebastia, Nova Icaria, Bogatell, Mar bella, Nova Mar bella, Levante), webscams, and conditions of each other.

Night of San Juan in Barcelona

2011-06-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

Tonight is the shortest night of the year, the magical night of bonfires and fireworks, the night of the festival of San Juan! The fires will burn old furniture, old things, old memories and even old desires.

On 15 places of Barcelona, tonight there will be fires, many people, 'calimocho' and beer :-).

If you're in Barcelona, do not miss it!

More information, here.

Barcelona Twitter

2011-06-21T10:22:00.000-07:00

We are here again, in Barcelona, and we are in Twitter!!
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You can follow us in Twitter: http://twitter.com/barcelona_info

Mecal Air: Outdoor barbecues and Short films in Barcelona

2011-06-21T09:44:00.000-07:00

Since 3 June, in Plaça del Baluard in the Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, it will be playing host to a new edition of the Mecal Air. In this initiative that is offering outdoor screenings of short films in chill-out spaces with hammocks, while savouring a delicious barbecue.

The Mecal Air will be on Fridays and Saturdays. It's very interesant! So, you will be able to treat yourselves to until the second week of September.

The opening session will include a screening of a selection of the 2011 Mecal Pro's best short films.

More information: www.mecalbcn.org

Barcelona Museum Salvadro Dali

2010-09-27T06:53:00.000-07:00

If you are in Barcelona, you must go to The Real Círculo Artístico museum of Barcelona, located in the heart of the city, it has the privilege to expose a private collection of Salvador Dali .

Weekend in Barcelona

2009-11-12T10:43:00.000-08:00

The images are of the great protagonists of this weekend, already are in photographic form like in drawing. But there are many more options to spend a weekend active! This weekend, the cultural proposals of the city grant an unquestionable protagonism to the images, or in the form of photography, drawings or in cinematographic format. Even so, also you will find other activities in the city for all the tastes and ages.

Of the photography to the drawing The lovers and fans to the photography will not doubt in visiting the international exhibition " World Press Photo" , in the CCCB, that arrives by fifth consecutive year at the city with 199 photographies that look for the pulse the world. Daily images of conflict, lives, sports, pictures or artistic photographies are some of the categories of the sample that this year has as winning the photography of Anthony Suau for Time, anticipadora of the present economic crisis. If what you prefer is the drawing and the painting, we propose to you that you see the exhibition " Secret images.

Picasso and the erotic stamp japonesa" , that shows for the first time nineteen Japanese stamps that belonged to the artist. These pieces have a discussion with the erotic engravings of Picasso, in a exhibition with more than one hundred works.

More information here.

Barcelona's airport

2009-07-07T03:25:00.000-07:00

Aena has opening a new terminal which is set to be a great communications hub and a great service area, consolidating Barcelona's position as an exemplary airport within the Mediterranean and the south of Europe.

In order to arrive:

The airport of Barcelona is located the southwest of the Condal City, between the municipal terms of Pra de Llobregat, Viladecans and Sant Boi. New terminal T1 is located the south of the T2, between the two parallel tracks. It is possible to be arrived at her by means of particular vehicle, taxi, bus and Neighborhoods the RENFE.

If it accedes by means of particular vehicle from Barcelona by the C-31 it must continue by the same until the deflection that takes to the T1. If it accedes from Castelldefels, before the deflection to the present terminals it must take the B-22 deflection, that takes to the T1. If it accedes from Barcelona by the C-32B, it connects with the C-31, Castelldefels direction, and next it follows by the same until the B-22 deflection, that takes to the T1. If it accedes to the T1 in taxi it has two shutdowns located in the avenue of exits.

If it accedes by means of bus has several regular lines of urban and interurban buses, discretionary buses, regional lines and the Airbus. The service of train will operate, initially, through the station of Neighborhoods of the T2. Shuttle will be had a bus that will cover the distance between the station and the T1, agreeing with the arrival of the trains. The time of the route will not surpass the 10 minutes. If it accedes from Barcelona it has North the C2 line. Also it has the C2 line that covers the route Sant Vicenç-Vilanova-El Prat-Maçanet. In the station of Neighborhoods the RENFE of the Prat de Llobregat'll have, also, a bus shuttle that will cover the route until the T1. The new T1 is also prepared for the arrival of line 9 of Meter, that at the moment is in construction.

In order to leave:

The exit of the new T1 is realised through a space that is known like the Place, holding point for the companions. One is the nexus of union between the T1, the public parking, the intermodal lobby and the services of taxi, bus, shuttle and rent of vehicles. In order to arrive at the public parking, the passenger who disembarks must locate the room of collection of luggage. If its origin corresponds to a country nonSchengen it will be forced to pass the passport control before acceding to the room of collection. If its origin is a Schengen country, in his route towards the exit it will happen through the Sky Centre, an amplest commercial space and of restoration; next, he will arrive at the zone of collection of luggage. The room of collection is common for all the flights, as much of Schengen origin as nonSchengen. After leaving this zone, one enters the Place, separated of the collection of luggage only by an opaque crystal wall. According to advance, the passenger will find in first term and to both sides mechanical inclines and elevators to descend to the taxi stand. If he continues, he will find the inclines to lower to the zone of buses and shuttles.

More information about Barcelona airport, here.

Films in Sala Montjui

2008-06-26T09:15:00.000-07:00

If you are this month in Catalunia, you must live this event.
In the Sala Montjui of the Castle of Montjuic, the next five weeks, we can watch films, like a pic nic. In the floor, whit a chair or without it.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 20:30 h, and since the 30 of Juny: Cinema in the Montjuic.
It's a great idea!!

I see it in Barcelona information.

Barcelona: apartments or hotel?

2008-04-24T01:04:00.000-07:00

During your visit to Barcelona, the apartments are a good possibility of enjoying a familiar comfort, that the hotels cannot offer to you.

Thus it is that if we thought about vacations rented in Barcelona, also we could think about apartments in Barcelona.

It will interest us that they are very centric and next to the main points of interest of the city. In that sense, Barcelona apartments (Rentthesun), offers located apartmentos very next to Las Ramblas, that will allow you to enjoy the architecture and the historical places, because you will be in the true heart of the city of Barcelona.

Barcelona beaches

2008-04-08T05:16:00.000-07:00

One of attractive that it has incorporated Barcelona in the last years are their beaches. Thanks to the regeneration of the coast made in 1992, in the occasion of the Olympic Games, Barcelona counts nowadays on six beaches that occupy more than 4.2 kilometers linear of the coast.

The beaches are totally centric, are communicated with the center and are located to few minutes of any point of the city. All is equipped with the most complete services: showers, monitoring, the Red Cross and, in some cases, clothes, rent of hammocks, 'chiringuitos'...

The beaches are put under cleaning every day throughout the year, and all has the 'blue flag' of the European Union that accredits its excellence.

According to data of the City council of Barcelona, every year they receive to more than seven million swimmers. Although the majority is concentrated in the months of good weather, between May and September, the citizens and visitors also can enjoy beaches the rest of the year, since they are equipped to play tennis, voley-beach and other sports.

In the beach of the Barceloneta, next to the Arts Hotel, there is a modern center of municipal 'talasoterapy', the Marine Sport, provided with swimming pools with water of sea, and that throughout allows to the benefit of sport services and health the year.

The six beaches more important are: the beach of San Sebastián, Barceloneta, New Icaria, Bogatell, Beautiful Sea and New Beautiful Sea. In the last one is a space reserved for the nudism.

Architecture Barcelona: Gaudi (and more)

2008-03-13T03:07:00.000-07:00

Architecture Barcelona is well-known like capital of the modernism. The city, in which architect Antonio Gaudí lived and worked counts on some of his more excellent works, than attracts every year million visitors worldwide. Most representative it is the Expiatorio Temple of the Sagrada Family, who Gaudí left unfinished and that is continued constructing in the same way that the cathedrals in the Average Age, with particular donativos and contributions.

On the basis of modern means of construction, its completion is predicted towards year 2020. Others of works more known Gaudí are the Güell Park (Parc Güell), the Milà House, also denominated "the Stone quarry", and the Batlló House. In addition to works of Gaudí, Barcelona counts on other jewels of the Catalan modernismo like the Hospital of San Pablo and the Palace of the Catalan Music of Lluís Domènech i Montaner, or the Macaya Palace and many other works of Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

The Sagrada Family, Barcelona. Apart modernist works, Barcelona also counts on excellent works pertaining to other styles and historical periods. Within the medieval period they emphasize specially gothic works that they proliferate in its historical center, indeed denominated "Gothic District" like the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia. In this same style the Church of Santa Maria of the Sea, characterized by its austerity and harmony in the measures is framed, that are considered by required muchos the gothic most outstanding work of the Catalan. Also it has different samples from contemporary architecture.

It emphasizes the German Pavilion of Ludwig Mies go to der Rohe, that was constructed in the occasion of the Exhibition the International of the 1929, like the Foundation Joan Watched of the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert. Years later, in the occasion of the Olympic Games of 1992, the city lived a stage of great transformations that gave rise to works as the Palace of sports Sant Jordi de Arata Isozaki, the Tower of Collserola de Norman Foster and the Tower of Montjuic of Santiago Calatrava. Before the Games also it was carried out the remodeling and extension of the Airport of Barcelona, that directed Ricardo Bofill.

In the post-Olympic stage the city has continued maintaining a development architectonic, constructing buildings like the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) of Richard Meier, the Tower Agbar de Jean Nouvel, and the projects of a new station in the Sagrera with a skyscraper, or the Tower of the Railway Triangle of Frank Gehry. Other performances have been carried out with reason del Universal Fórum for the Cultures, like the Fórum Building de Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

Places to visit in Barcelona

2008-03-13T03:03:00.001-07:00

Barcelona offers to the visitor the possibility of crossing on foot from the Roman ruins and the medieval city to the districts of the Catalan modernism, with its characteristic buildings, its square apples of sectioned songs, their hoisted streets and their wide avenues. The old city is practically level, whereas the new districts, as they approach the coastal mountain range, acquire more slope.

Of the concurrence and one places greater attractive is the Boulevards (in Catalan Them Rambles), stroll located between the Seat of Catalonia (in Catalan Plaça de Catalunya), center of the city, and the old port. There are kioscos of press, flowers, domestic birds and animals, street actors, cafeterias, restaurants and commerce.

Near the port swap-meets, as well as painters and sketchers of all sort are used to settling, emphasizing the zone by their artistic and cosmopolitan nature. Walking by Them Rambles several buildings of interest can be admired, like the Palace of the Virreina, the market of the Boquería and the famous theater of Great Theater of the Grammar school, in which operas and ballets imagine. A lateral street of few meters of length, leads to the Real Seat (in cat. Plaça Reial), a seat with palms and buildings with porches that lodge breweries and restaurants, and in that the collectors of seals and currencies meet to the week ends.

The stroll of the Boulevards finishes next to the old port, where the statue of Cristóbal Columbus indicates towards the sea. To two steps is the Marine Museum (Museu Maritim), dedicated mainly to naval history in the Mediterranean, and in which the reproduction on accommodation ladder of one old galera is exhibited battle. The museum is located in the shipyards of the Average Age, where the boats were constructed that sailed by all Mediterranean. The old port offers other attractiveness, like a leisure center, with commerce, restaurants, a cinema IMAX, and like documentary center, with a aquarium of the Mediterranean marine fauna. In the historical center, closely together of the Boulevards, it emphasizes the Cathedral of Barcelona, the Seat of San Jaime who welcomes the buildings of the Majority of Catalonia and the City council of Barcelona, and the side streets as much of the gothic district as of the Suburb and the Tip.

Barcelona

2008-03-13T02:54:00.000-07:00

Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia (Spain) and the province homónima, in the northeast of Spain. It is located to borders of the Mediterranean Sea, about 120 km to the south of the mountainous chain of the Pyrenees and the border with France, in a plain limited by the sea, to the east, the coastal mountain range (Mountain range of Collserola) to the west, the Llobregat river to the south, and the Besós river to the north.

With a population of 1.595.110 inhabitants (INE 2007), Barcelona is the second Spanish city more populated and tenth with the European Union. The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, integrated by 36 municipalities, has a population of 3.161.081 inhabitants and one 633 surface of km². The metropolitan Area of Barcelona is the boundary like defined urban nucleus officially, nevertheless this one would be including in the urban Region of Barcelona, that would extend by all the area of influence of the city, with 4.856.579 inhabitants with a density of population of 1,496 hab/km².

Barcelona has been scene of diverse world-wide events, that have contributed to form the city and to give international projection him. Most excellent they have been the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and the one of 1929, and the Olympic Games of summer of 1992.