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Summer Theatre Festivals in Spain

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Barcelona apartments and  Badajoz apartments: Mérida Classical Theatre Festival and Grec Festival 2008 in Barcelona
Towns, gardens and historic locations undergo a summer transformation to host their annual theater festivals. This is the chance to enjoy the great classics in an unusual way: outdoors and in very special settings.
Mérida Classical Theatre Festival
A new edition of the […]

Sonar ´08 in Barcelona

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Barcelona Apartments: Advanced Music and Multimedia Art during Sonar ´98 in Barcelona
This year is Sónar’s 15th anniversay and the festival is still a tree with a thousand and one infinitely intersecting branches. It is a multifaceted reality that has room for many other realities on different levels, at different speeds. The Sónar 2008 program exudes […]

Picasso’s friends on vacation in Barcelona

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Meanwhile Picasso visits Madrid, his friends are on vacation in Barcelona. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona presents Pablo Picasso’s personal collection of art works. There are over one hundred works - including some forty paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Rousseau, Braque, Matisse and others - gathered together over a whole lifetime paints. You can visit this […]

Travelling to Barcelona with kids

Monday, January 7th, 2008

If you are planning to visit Barcelona with your kids, I recommend you to check out Emma’s site: Kids in Barcelona. I has all the information you need about parks, theatre, museums and activities that you can do with your children. Rent your apartment in Barcelona and visit the Museu Nacional del Art de Catalunya […]

Venetian art in Barcelona

Friday, December 14th, 2007

If you would had been a tourist in the 18th century you would had visited Venice, the European city which was considered to be setting a number of trends. But, since you live in the 21st century, your destination is Barcelona, a city that recognizes Venetian art re-tracing its creativity in the exhibition `Business and […]

The Barcelona World Race will race 25,000 miles across the world

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

The Barcelona World Race, a new two-handed, non-stop round the world yacht race has started. The world’s best professional sailors from both solo and fully crewed disciplines come together to compete against each other in teams of two. They will race 25,000 miles over three months across the world in high-performance IMOCA Open 60 monohulls. […]

Sonar 2007 is back in Barcelona

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Sonar is back in the city. This progressive music and multimedia arts festival takes place every year in Barcelona at the beginning of the summer, and now that the sun is out heating the beaches it is time for some fun. June 14th, 15th and 16th are the dates for Sonar 2007. For the first […]

Spring and art in Barcelona

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Spring has arrived to Barcelona and everbody in the city is celebrating the sunny days drinking iced coffee in the terraces. It is time to experiment, love and admire art like the installations created by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Their work ‘The Killing Machine and other Stories’ is showing at the MACBA until […]

Discover Barcelona during the eighties at the MACBA

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

You can walk around Barcelona and admire the current atmosphere of the city or go to the MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani) and discover Barcelona in the eighties. ‘Barcelona, 1978-1997… Manolo Laguillo’ explores a large part of the work of photographer Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953) and specifically the part that concentrates on representation of Barcelona. And […]

Carnival time in Spain

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

It is carnival time in Spain. From now until Ash Wednesday (February 21st this year) — and in some places a little longer — it is a wild, weird and wacky season of masks, parades and parties. That is probably what gave the celebration its name: carne vale, Latin, meaning “meat, farewell.” Apokreo, its Greek […]