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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Barcelona’s Canaletes Fountain
Canaletes Fountain waits for you in front of Hotel Continental Just opposite the famous balconied façade of Hotel Continental on La Rambla, a fairly unassuming wrought iron drinking fountain is one of Barcelona’s most loved landmarks. Why, in a city famous for the mosaiced gardens of Park Güell and the unmissable La Sagrada Familia is it so famous? Here’s our top five things you didn’t know about the Canaletes Fountain. 1. Did you know that the Barça Board used to meet at the Hotel Continental? La Rambla is busy throughout the year, so finding people near the fountain isn’t a big surprise. But when FC Barcelona wins big, then if…
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Discover our commitments to sustainable tourism
HOTEL CONTINENTAL: ALMOST 200 YEARS OF EVOLUTION Hotel Continental is a family hotel company in Barcelona with almost 200 years of history. Perhaps this is what best reflects our commitment to the city, our employees and society. In so many years, we had to overcome situations of all kinds. The strongest and saddest was the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and, one of the most precious moments, the Olympics of Barcelona’92. We have also experienced the impressive transformation that the tourism sector has lived thanks to the arrival of the Internet. We were already pioneers then buying the domain hotelcontinental.com! In addition to our vital responsibility: to offer the best service…
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The Hotel Continental Guide to Keeping Resolutions and Our 2019 Resolution
The Hotel Continental Guide to Keeping Resolutions. We’re already a few weeks into 2019, and it’s time to ask yourself – how are your resolutions going? Has your ‘dry January’ become a bit of a washout? Have your running shoes taken a little jog to the back of the closet? Or are you finding a new lease in life and already starting to see the benefits? Whether you’re a New Year’s resolution keeper or yours are already starting to slip…don’t give up. Our purposes for 2019 As one of Barcelona’s most-loved heritage hotels we love to look back, celebrate our past and orientate ourselves to the future. We continuously evaluate…
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Live the Freixenet Life at Hotel Continental
Live the Freixenet life at Hotel Continental in Barcelona. Christmas in Spain isn’t Christmas without the famous Freixenet Christmas advert. For some, the advert has become as much a part of the Christmas traditions as the tree and the nativity scenes. More than 40 years of famous faces, the golden ‘burbujitas’, and one of the world’s best selling cavas has a special Hotel Continental connection for Christmas 2018. Previous guests may have spotted our hotel cameo, but for those that didn’t and for those who don’t know what all the Freixenet fuss is about, here’s a little of the history. Freixenet is Cava The century long wine making heritage of…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE HOTEL CONTINENTAL PESEBRE
Merry Christmas with tradition and emotion Merry Christmas from Hotel Continental Barcelona Pesebre. In the Hotel Continental Barcelona (La Rambla 138, Barcelona) and the Continental Palacete (Rambla Catalunya 30, Barcelona) we celebrate Christmas with our traditional “Pesebre” (Nativity). The staging of the birth of the Child Jesus, together with Mary and Joseph, accompanied by the ox and cow that gave them warmth in the middle of Christmas Eve, on December 24 in Bethlehem (Palestinian city, Cisjordania also called West Bank) 2018 years ago. Our Pesebre tradition The first Christmas celebration in which a Belén (Bethlehem) was set up to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ was on Christmas Eve of 1223, carried out…
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HOTEL CONTINENTAL COLABORATES WITH BANC DELS ALIMENTS
Hotel Continental colaborates again with Banc dels Aliments For the third consecutive year, Hotel Continental participates in “El Gran Recapte“, the annual campaign organized by the “Banc dels Aliments” (food bank foundation) to collect food for social organizations in Catalonia that serve families and people in vulnerable situations. With the collaboration of its supplier Luanur, with whom the Continental Hotel has been working with for more than 20 years, have sent directly from their warehouses: – 60 kg. Of rice – 40 kg. Of sugar – 45 liters of sunflower oil – 72 kg. Of white beans – 72 kg. Of chickpeas – 72 kg. Of lentils – 72 kg.…
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Picasso at 3 minutes from Hotel Continental Palacete
Picasso at 3 minutes from Hotel Continental Palacete. Picasso had never been so close to the Hotel Continental Palacete in Barcelona. Until January 13 you can enjoy the exhibition “Picasso-Picabia. The painting in question “ in the MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Foundation Room (250 Diputació street) just 3 minutes walking distance from our Hotel Continental Palacete. The exhibition, which consists of 150 pieces, covers the history of art since 1910. The Cubism birth moment, passes through Dadaism in 1915. Picabia is one of its greatest exponents and ends with the last stage of Picasso (1973) through a selection of canvases in which the painter returns to the human figure; and…
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Hotel Continental – Stories of Las Ramblas
If you’ve ever visited Barcelona, you’ve walked on La Rambla. Almost impossible to avoid, this tree-lined street extends from the famous Mirador de Colom with its grand Columbus statue at the waterfront up to the city centre, Plaça de Catalunya. Bordered by the Gothic Quarter and connecting the old city to the more modern Eixample, La Rambla is often known in the plural, Las Ramblas, as it is in fact a collection of smaller streets comprising one main corridor of shops, cafes and people. Trees have been a part of the Rambla experience and charm since the 1700’s, with birch, elm, and acacia all making an appearance for over 300…
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Historical Curiosities Of The Hotel
Anyone who has ever wandered the streets of Catalonia’s capital, knows that Barcelona shows off its rich history and art-centric culture with justifiable pride. Wherever you look you sense there’s a story to tell – from the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Canaletes fountain to the jaw-dropping Sagrada Familia, this is a city that needs more than a weekend break to truly discover. Visitors looking for total historic immersion in the city are well suited to the more than a century of stories behind the doors of the neo-classical Hotel Continental. Here’s a few of our favourite historical curiosities. Embracing Change – In 1931 when the Malagarriga Vallet family acquired the hotel from the…
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EXHIBITION: PUNK – Its Traces in Contemporary Art
This July MACBA museum (Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona) is celebrating the exhibition of PUNK – Its Traces in Contemporary Art. In fact, already from last May the MACBA is offering a tour all along the punk artistic movement and its influence in contemporary art. This July, the exhibition is specially lived with a programme in which every Thursday and in different formats as multiple documentary traces, photographs, video and painting the PUNK Art is depicted. Placing ourselves in the story line, we can say that punk art is found coming from 1976 and 1978 in London and New York. It appeared as a response to the social and…
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: MUSEU NACIONAL D’ART DE CATALUNYA
Last 21st May we went through a magic night in Barcelona with all its museums open as a courtesy of The Art Factories, launched by Barcelona City Council’s Culture Institute. Next Saturday, 16th July the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (National Art Museum of Catalonia) and from now on MNAC, will also celebrate open doors from 8pm to 1am. The MNAC is located in Montjuïc hill, right next to Plaça Espanya and at the top of the stairway of Barcelona’s biggest ornamental fountain, the Magic Fountain. For five hours, you’ll enjoy an evening of open house with free entrance and accompanied by art, music, cuisine and circus performances. Among the…
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Adele in BCN
Will you experience the exhilaration of Adele live? Within the extensive tour throughout Europe (Adele 25 Tour), which started in Belfast last February, Adele is now performing in Barcelona. The upcoming concert scheduled firstly for 24th May has featured another night (25th May) to present her new “25” album to all her fans in the city, an album which has become the fastest-selling release of 2015. You’d better had hurried up in getting the tickets because they are all gone since last year. This latest album of her “25” happens to be the thrid in studio recording. It has been an unprecedented success worldwide after selling over 2.5 million of copies…
