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Let the Spring Begin in Barcelona, a glimpse!
Let the Spring begin! Although officially, Spring has begun this Monday, we already noticed it from the weekend that we have taken advantage to go to the Barceloneta beach. Spring always comes with changes: in our hemisphere, it dawns earlier and we enjoy more hours of sun. There are also more changes in nature, starting with ourselves. We are invaded by good humor and joy. We will also go through a new Daylight Saving time change to adapt to Summer. This will happen when local standard time is about to reach Sunday March 26, 2017 2:00:00, clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday March 26, 2017 3:00:00, local daylight…
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Zurich Marathon in Barcelona 2017
Although difficult to believe, the Barcelona Marathon Zurich is a very comfortable event (in terms of organization and conditioning of the city). Among all those who have already signed up or have planned to do it next year, many are repeaters but others have the first appointment with the Zurich Marathon in Barcelona in two days. As first-timers, you have surely consulted an endless number of indications and piece of advice in different sources of this discipline. The Barcelona Marathon Zurich official web site offers valuable information in regards with the race and route, previous preparation, how to register (registration period ended), collection of numbers (very important) and other details…
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The Venue of Technology and Smartphones: MWC Barcelona 2017
The NEXT ELEMENT: The Mobile World Congress 2017 will showcase how the phenomenon of mobile is changing the foundation of today’s world. You don’t want to miss it. In just 2 days, on February 27 to March 1 Barcelona becomes once again the technology capital of the world. The GSM fair will celebrate its new edition of Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2017 (MWC Barcelona) – We make a small parenthesis to thank the assembly of workers of the Metro to lift the call for a strike during this event. As usual and consistent, most events and conferences will take place in the exhibition site Fira de Gran Via, just 10km…
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Barcelona Carnival 2017
It is a long-awaited celebration among Catalans. So much so that we are not content with only one-day to show off our costumes, but we get the most out of our imagination for a whole week. This year’s most expected week for fun comes from Thursday 23 February to Wednesday 1 March. It is true that there are some very picturesque and busy carnivals in the town of Sitges (Barcelona province), even so, in Barcelona we also costume the atmosphere of debauchery and transgression, very rich and characteristic of this party. On February 23, Thursday Lardo (Dijous Gras in Catalan), with the arrival of the offender King Carnestoltes, the carnivals…
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Winter Festival in Barcelona: Festes de Santa Eulàlia 2017
It is more likely to become better-known among Catalans as the Annual Winter Festival of Barcelona, but it is very welcome as well to say that the next 10, 11 and 12 February will return to the streets of the city Els Gegants de Barcelona (the giant figures of Barcelona) and the Àliga (eagle), the highest protocolary representative of the city of Barcelona, to celebrate one more year The Festivities of Santa Eulalia. At the end of September, with temperature and rhythm of summer still, we have Festes de la Mercè, patron saint of Barcelona. The Virgin of Mercy (Mare de Déu de la Mercè in Catalan), celebrates her homage…
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Black Novel in Barcelona: BCNegra 2017
Until February 4, BCNegra is being held in Barcelona. We quickly tell you what it is about, its intentionality and all those writers and collaborators who support another year (it’s been 12 years already) this week of intrigue, mystery and much more. It is the festival dedicated to the black novel, created in Barcelona in 2005 under the commissioner Paco Camarasa, who after twelve years in command has recently announced that this 2017 is his last year in charge of this love story between Barcelona and the black novel (according to words of Camarasa), alleging health issues. In four days, the black calendar in the city is featuring: The ‘dark’…
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Scaramouche The Musical
Literally meaning “small and quick quarrel”, the Catalan Theatre company Dagoll Dagom fine-tunes the thrust in this new musical, a homage to the swashbuckling film with the French Revolution as a backdrop. Two swordsmen perform a millimeter choreography on stage. Swords caress, feet dance, arms defying gravity. The public does not lose detail, sitting on the edge of the chair, in a throbbing silence. If either of the swordsman had used his sharp weapon towards the sitting area, he could cut off the tension at that moment. Mighty good. Scaramouche is a comedy musical directed by Joan Lluís Bozzo and starring Toni Viñals, Ana Sanmartín, Ivan Labanda and Mireia Mambo.…
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SUNDAYS ARE FREE IN BARCELONA: EL BORN CC I MEMÒRIA
There are no boring Sundays in Barcelona! Our proposal for this Sunday in Barcelona is EL BORN CULTURAL AND MEMORIAL CENTER Why visit EL BORN CC I MEMÒRIA? If you are keen on archaeological sites and getting to know the history of the city you are visiting or your own home place, the Born CCM is a must. It is a cultural space with museum that exhibits the ruins of the district of La Ribera in a restored market of 19th century. Historical space The building of this former El Born Market (1876) hides in its bowels an archaeological site of streets and houses in Barcelona of the 1700s. The find…
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The Three Wise Men Parade in Barcelona
As every year, the Three Wise Men arrive in Barcelona on the night of January 5, a tradition celebrated in Spain and Portugal and in most nations of Latin America. Given due regard on the experts, they tell that the three wise men were not always 3 in number and that the biblical fragment from where they have origin never spoke of the actual number of sages. What is read is that they appeared from the east to worship the first manifestation of Jesus as a child offering three symbolic gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. With the passage of time the tradition adjusted the 3 gifts brought to 3 Kings…
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New Year’s Eve in Barcelona 2016/2017
It has been 3 years already since the first official Barcelona New Year Chimes celebration. To the elite of multitudinous enclaves of this yearly celebration like the Times Square in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Germany, Big Ben in London or the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro among others, since the Christmas of 2013 it has been added the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona. New Year’s Eve with the Spanish traditional 12 grapes and the bell rings will come along for this time with impressive choreographies of water, music and colors, the characteristic performance of the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc. This 12-grape Spanish tradition is very simple:…
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Open-door Training Session FC Barcelona
If you’re tired of the Christmas lights, the Santa Claus hanging on the balconies and carols in the streets, do not miss the open door training session of FC Barcelona on 3 January at the Miniestadi. It has almost become a Christmas tradition! With free admission for members and 5€ cost for the general public, Luis Enrique’s team wanted to wait for the return of the trident and Gerard Piqué, who are coming back from their Christmas holidays on January 2, to delight their fans in a day of training full of surprises and excitement. Next January 3, with the new year just released, all the magic of football and Christmas…
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Barcelona At Christmas With Your Kids: Children’s Festival 2016
Let your imagination run free these days. Christmas, gifts, meals … everyone, deep down, feels it excited. Although that feeling may not be that strong, there was a time when we did were excited about Christmas. We were happy to receive the catalogs of the toy stores and even during breakfast we were not bothered by the advertisements. We spent hours leafing through those pages full of Playmobils, bikes, scooters, puzzles. So many things … that even on the “date of delivery” we were eaten away by the uncertainty of whether we had chosen well, or on the contrary, we were going to be unhappy all year with what would…
