Spring & Summer Things To Do in Barcelona. With temperatures hitting the high twenties and evenings getting longer, spring and summer Barcelona is the best time for after sunset dining, Cava in the sunshine and evening street strolls. To ensure you get the most of your visit and see Barcelona like a local, here’s a few pointers on what’s not to be missed. Parks & Gardens Park Güell – Easily reached by metro or bus, Park Guell is not just a popular destination for visitors in search of the most Instagram-worthy shot, it’s also a bit of a hot spot with the locals. The park designer Gaudi, a well renowned…
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Autumn Music Festivals in Barcelona you can’t miss
Autumn is a great time to visit Barcelona. While slowly greeting colder temperatures the city is bustling of cultural activities aimed to reach the local public as well as visitors. You will find some of the best indoors music festivals to ward off the chill at the most representative concert halls and bars of Barcelona where you will be able to mix with the local crowd. 1 – Festival del Mil·leni When November 2017-May 2018 Where Palau de la Música , Gran Teatre del Liceu , Sala Apolo, BARTS (Barcelona Arts on Stage), Sala Razzmatazz, Teatre Tívoli, Palau Sant Jordi, Auditori Forum, El Molino If you are an eclectic music…
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Top Things to Experience Barcelona in Autumn & Winter
Barcelona is a great city for enjoying in autumn and winter. Due to its good weather conditions and cultural life, the Catalan city will inspire you to live a perfect getaway. At Hotel Continental we celebrate the arrival of chilly weather with a 4-part series, exploring our favorite ways to experience Barcelona during these seasons. Whether you are a culture fan, foodie, music lover or sports enthusiast, the city will inspire you to get the most of it. Explore the Vibrant Cultural Life Barcelona is very well known by its active cultural life, but the autumn season is especially effervescent, with a good number of cultural exhibitions and music festivals…
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Celebrate Sant Joan 2017 in Barcelona
If you are in Barcelona this Friday 23 and Saturday 24 June, remember to bring the earplugs. And if not the fireworks and noisy firecrackers will remind you! Apart from this small inconvenient of easy remedy, it is good know that in Barcelona, each one lives the verbena of Sant Joan in its way. All you need to do is walk the streets and get carried away among the different popular celebrations. In addition, this year, the Nit de Sant Joan is celebrating its 50th anniversary since the Flame of the Canigó first arrived to agermanate the Catalan peoples. The Bonfires The Flame of the Canigó arrives at noon in…
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How to Reach the Primavera Sound Barcelona 2017
Consolidated as an essential in any festival route that wants to start in Europe, tomorrow 31 May the Primavera Sound in Barcelona 2017 will land again in Parc del Fòrum for 5 days. It is a basic in fan agglomerations of independent music of any genre or style, although it is characteristic for an artistic line marked by pop, rock and more underground trends of dance music. It began in 2001 in the Poble Espanyol of Montjuïc, from four years later and still to date it is celebrated in Parc del Fòrum, right next to he Mediterranean sea. ¿How to reach Primavera Sound from the city center? Taxi (Pl. Catalunya –…
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Feria de abril de Catalunya is back
Over the 60s and 70s it took place in Spain a major demographic shift. For workers in Andalusia, Catalonia became the land of opportunity. Even such was the number of immigrants installed that (exaggeration) Catalonia came to be considered “the ninth province” of Andalusia. It is for this reason that for 45 years it has been celebrated in Catalonia one of the most colorful and authentic fairs of Sevilla, La Feria de Abril. Until May 1, you are given the opportunity to unleash the flamenco in you in this 46th FERIA DE ABRIL DE CATALUNYA. And for the last 12 years, this 2017 edition is held at the Parc Forum in…
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Love and Culture This Weekend for Sant Jordi!
So far in so short of the year, we have shown already much of the multifaceted art that owns our city. We have seen from a Barcelona with lights and color for Christmas, a technological and mobile with the MWC17, we have seen a sporty, and a marathon runners welcomer in the Zurich Marató of Barcelona. We have even rediscovered a transgressive and festive Barcelona during the Carnival. Now we wish to tell you what is happening during this weekend in different parts of our city. After Easter, which has left us a traditional and familiar flavour, spring brings us love and culture now. Next April 23 is the day of…
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Barcelona Easter: Processions, Palm Blessing and the Sweet Mona
We have an overflowing calendar of activities in Barcelona as Semana Santa is around the corner. Next Sunday April 9 is Palm Sunday, Messianic entrance of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem in Christian religion. This arrives right after Carnival and Lent. Starting on Palm Sunday, the Semana Santa begins until Resurrection Sunday (April 16). FInd more details about the last Easter here. The good weather and mild temperatures in Barcelona during the month of April added to the complete program of activities organized by the City Council and organizations of the city make Barcelona one of the favorite destinations to spend Easter with your partner or family. Processions Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017 1.…
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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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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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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:…
