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Barcelona-Sitges vintage car rally 2008-03-27 05:39:36 From 29 of March to 31 of March, the popular Barcelona
-Sitges vintage car rally (Great Audi Prize), arrives at 50.ª edition.
Until the moment, this edition of rally registers a spectacular record of participation, with almost 150 cars and participants coming from diverse points of Spain and Europe.
If you are in Barcelona, this is a good oportunity to see [...]
Holy Week in Spain 2008-03-24 08:23:10 Spain have an important catholic traditions, and Spain Holy Week traditions are some famous in the world. The most glamorous celebrations are in Seville, Malaga and Cadiz. (until Antonio Banderas has been there, like in another years)
The participants in the Processions, names “nazarenos”, and they dress with a tunic and a “capirote” (hood wiht conical tip). Ironically, is similar to [...] Read more:Spain
The new Roller coaster in Tibidabo - Barcelona 2008-03-12 07:55:23 The new roller coaster of the amusement park of the Tibidabo (Barcelona
) will have a length of 718 meters, that it will cross in 85 seconds and it will get to reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. The attraction will begin promoting 33.2 meters of unevenness with motor until reaching its higher point, located [...] Read more:Roller
Dalà Castle in Pubol 2008-03-10 06:57:13 The Gala Dalà Castle
in Púbol, open to the public since 1996. Is a medieval building in which Salvador Dalà lent material form to an exuberant creative effort with his mind set on one person, Gala.
Sundays 23 of March, 13 of April and 11 of May, the Castle of Púbol open to a interesting familiar [...]
The utility of the emptiness (Exhibition in Barcelona) 2008-03-04 03:48:51 “The nothing”, or the silence or the emptiness
, is a creative elements in the art (in music or design for example). The exhibition “The utility of the emptiness”, in the Museum of the Decorative Arts of Barcelona
, compiles up to 120 pieces that make us think about the importance of the emptiness.
The exhibition explores the relations [...] Read more:Exhibition
Differents photographies of Barcelona 2008-02-27 07:38:46 Sailing by Internet and looking for pretty and differents photographies , from the city of Barcelona
, I have found the interesting blog of the photographer Carlos Lorenzo.
He says about his blog: “Barcelona pictures there are many, commented Barcelona photos there are few, so I intend to provide not just images but information about the daily [...]
Barcelona Movie 2008-02-18 04:00:41 Barcelona Movie is a new web, that will serve to give relevance to certain locations of Barcelona that still are not tourist icons.
The idea is that the tourists organizes the visit to the city from a cinematographic point of view, crossing the scenes where diverse rolled films was success in Barcelona.
The web Barcelona Movie, is to discover [...] Read more:Barcelona
“Bodies…The Exhibition” in Barcelona 2008-02-15 03:42:48 In the Drassanes Reials of Barcelona
, “Bodies” will be until day 31 of March.
This exhibition on the human body, that it has attracted more than 3 million people everywhere, has obtained in Barcelona more than 110,000 visits from its inauguration, the past 17 of November.
 ”Bodies” arrived at Barcelona like a exhibition that broke records, simultaneously [...] Read more:Exhibition
Valentine’s Day Barcelona 2008-02-13 05:55:39 Valentine’s Day is a special celebration, as you know, on February 14.
Generally, the lovers express their love sending presents, flowers, swets, and some of them, going to special site in the night.Â
In this order, we can suggest you a good thing to enjoy with your lover (if you remember an love ABBA):
The Barcelona
Teatre Musical is now showing the Catherine Johnson musical [...] Read more:Valentine
Childrens in Barcelona 2008-02-08 04:29:08 If you are in Barcelona
in this moment, with yours children, is a good time to them.
From 8 to 13 February in Barcelona is the Festes de Santa Eulà lia , an interesting festival for children, that is celebrated in Ciutat Vella and throughout Barcelona .
The programme has some activities for all the childrens:Â shows, concerts, popular cultural [...] Read more:Childrens
La Colifata in Barcelona 2008-04-01 04:51:43 Those that we are in Spain, we have been seeing for a time a Tv  publicity of Aquarius (Coke), of “the Colifata”.
But, what is La Colifata? The Colifata is a radio that was born in 1991 in Buenos Aires, and at the microphone they are the patients of the psychiatric center Jose Tiburcio Borda.
It was born like [...] Read more:Barcelona
Sculptures of Manolo Valdés exposed in Las Ramblas of Catalunya 2008-05-17 15:33:45 The exhibition is part of the program ‘Art in the street’, of Obra Social aL Caixa, that will be exposed
until the 15 of June, and then it will travel to other Spanish cities.
Some of works of the artist already had been exposed in Park Avenue de New York, in the gardens of the Palais Royal of Paris, and [...] Read more:Sculptures
Loop’08 Videoart Barcelona 2008-05-08 08:52:49 LOOP BARCELONA is the annual point of contact for the lovers of videoart of the world. This year, the platform adopts the form of Festival-Fair-Conferences.
The sixth edition, LOOP’ 08, will be able to be enjoyed until the 18 May of the 2008. Artists, curators, collectors, directors of museums, critics, and fans to videoart, have a good way to [...] Read more:Barcelona
Sundays in the Picasso of Barcelona 2008-05-01 15:50:42 One of the museums more visited of Barcelona
, is the Picasso
Museum, that now open it doors in Sundays
, with the special cycle: Sundays in the Picasso.
This is a proposal of scenic arts that it tries to turn the museum in a space of citizen participation. The program of Sundays in the Picasso includes spectacles of circus, theater, music, dance.
The [...]
Eduardo Galeano tomorrow in Barcelona 2008-04-20 09:36:11 The writer will presents “Mirrors”, this Monday in Barcelona
. Eduardo
Galeano defines to his text like `Around the world in 600 stories” .
The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano advances that he will read a selection of them in his presentation Monday in “American House in Barcelona“. In an interview, the recognized journalist and writer speak of his work [...] Read more:tomorrow
Women of Water - Exhibition in Barcelona 2008-04-14 06:20:17 An interesting exhibition is in Barcelona
this days. Women
of Water is about Africa, women and the problem of water.
Through the photographies of the catalan photo-journalist Tomás Abella we can see this problematic in some places of Africa, focussing in the zone of Ethiopia mainly.
Abella illustrates a daily life of women in diverse African countries, searching water, to which they [...] Read more:Exhibition
Guitars Festival of Barcelona 2008-04-05 07:03:53 From now, until 7 of June GuitarsFestival
of Barcelona
(a classic one of the primaveral season), arrives this year at his 19 edition and presents one of the most complete programmings of its history.
Josep y Patrick Henríquez, Joe Satriani, Al Kooper, Dickey Betts (Allmans Brothers), Luis Eduardo Aute, Fito Páez, Jorge Drexler, Milton Nascimento y Jobim Trio, [...]
Deambulants in the National Theater of Catalonia - Barcelona 2008-05-28 16:51:01 This Sunday 1 of June, we can enjoy with a very interesting spectacle, in the street.
The group of spectacles of ‘ format vertical’ , Deambulants, appears next to the Fireluche orchestra in the Gardens of the National
Theater of Catalonia, Barcelona
, with its spectacle ” Alt”.
Deambulants is a multidisciplinary group: dancers, plastic and visual creators, [...]
“Music als parcs”: in the green spaces of Barcelona 2008-06-03 07:58:19 In the summer time, some parks of Barcelona
will welcome a free programming of music for all the public, it is the “Music
als Parcs”. The cycle includes sessions of classic music, jazz and the music of the Municipal Band to enjoy calm evenings outdoors and in the green spaces
of the city. All the concerts of jazz [...]
Montjuic Castle (Barcelona) open doors this Sunday 2008-06-14 02:30:27 This Sunday
, 15 of June, there is a celebration in the Castle
of Montjuïc of Barcelona
. The celebration will consist of a day of open doors, since 11. 00 hours to 19,00 hours, and it is tried that the citizens ” they take posesion” of the building.
During the day, all the people will be able to see some spaces that [...]
Cinema in Sala Montjuïc 2008 - Barcelona 2008-06-25 14:38:21 Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 20:30 h (from the 30 of June to the 1 of August), we have the possibility of see cinema outdoors: In original version, in giant screen, in the comfortably turf, and with music and short films, previous to the projections.
This will happen like other years, in the Castle of [...] Read more:Cinema
, Barcelona
European music day in Barcelona 2008-06-20 03:54:44 Diverse free musical activities will be this Saturday, on the occasion of the European
day of music. In this occasion, between the proposals that have been programmed in Barcelona
they emphasize the free activities that they take place in the Place of the Odissea.
17:00h: MANOS DE TOPO
18:15h: NUBLA
19:30h: FACTO DELAFÉ Y LAS FLORES AZULES
21:00h: LA CASA [...]
In Barcelona: Estriptis 2008-07-12 18:44:30 Estriptis is one of the most suggestive productions of the last edition of High Season and arrives now at the Borràs Theater as a sample on the utility of the body like linguistic vehicle.
The ” bailaor” international of Granada, Rafael Amargo, Sol Picó, the cinema director Jaime Chávarri, the director of the Fura dels Baus Carlus [...] Read more:Barcelona
B-Summer Barcelona 2008-07-08 17:03:05 By third consecutive year, with the arrival of the summer, B-Summer
like an attractive musical alternative for the nights of July in the city of Barcelona
. In this edition, the festival changes of format and sum a new space. The programming of B-Summer 2008 will be developed from the 9 to the 29 of July in [...]