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Thursday, May 17th 2012
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Harbour Palace Apartments
Barcelona Apartments - Autumn discounts with amazing views
Barcelona Ramblas Clock Apartment
New ADSL Wi-Fi Internet Connection in the Ramblas Clock
Barcelona Apartments in Born Area
Harbour Palace apartments in a building with views over the Marina Port Vell
Winter special discounts on Barcelona apartments
Autumn in Barcelona with special discounts
Barcelona apartments in Gracia
Vila Gracia Barcelona flats building, short and long term rentals
Works in the City Center Penthouse apartments City Block
Construction of a Municipal Parking, Gymnasium and Pre-school building
Plaza Real in Barcelona
Popular Square at the side of the famous Ramblas with nice bars and restaurants
Las Ramblas
Popular street in Barcelona to stroll from Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya
Barcelona Bus Turistic - Tourist Bus
An interesting way to discover the most important sights of Barcelona
Specchio Magico in Barcelona
Italian Atmosphere Restaurant in Gracia Neighbourhood
Modernisme Walking Tour
A Stroll to discover Barcelona's Catalan Modernist Style Architecture
Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso in Barcelona)
Antoni Tàpies Sculpture at the passeig Picasso close to the Parc de la Ciutadella
Barcelona Aquarium
Moll d'Espanya del Port Vell de Barcelona
Roman Barcelona – Barcino
Conjunt Monumental de la Plaça del Rei - Gothic Neighborhood
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Catalan modernist Hospitalary complex by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner
Cerveceria El Vaso de Oro
First-rate Tapas Bar and good Chilled Beer in the Barceloneta Neighborhood
Plaça Catalunya Barcelona Square
Plaça Catalunya, large square in between Ciutat Vella and the Barcelona Eixample
Kiosko Universal in the Mercat de la Boqueria
Seafood and fresh fish restaurant in Boqueria Market
Mercat de la Concepcio, Eixample Neighborhood
Oldest fresh food Market in the Eixample Neighborhood
Enchanting Barcelona Tours
A different way to discover Barcelona
Apartments in Barcelona
About Barcelona
In About Barcelona we have information of things that are happening in the city, events, fairs, congresses, or popular events that will take place together with Festivals and Concerts, Sporting Events and Art Exhibitions. Also information on interesting places to vist and what we like to call our favourite places, museums and outdoor sculptures. And if you are interested, we can provide your Barcelona Accommodation for your stay during the events, congresses or Festivals you are willing to participate.
We hope that our Barcelona apartments will suit your needs during your visit to the city.
City Info > Restaurants & Bars
The Boqueria Market, also known as Sant Josep, just off the Ramblas, has many interesting things to show to the visitors and buyers. From the spectacular and colorful variety of fruit and vegetable stalls at the entrance from the Ramblas or the amazing round center with the fresh fish and seafood over the icy countertops to preserve them at low temperature or the stalls of meats from different animals: bull, ox, cow, horse, lamb, veal and hunting animals or birds and eggs; the amazing and varied collection of mushrooms when the season comes, the stalls with pork products, pates and cheeses or...
Kiosko Universal in the Mercat de la Boqueria
The Boqueria Market, also known as Sant Josep, just off the Ramblas, has many interesting things to show to the visitors and buyers. From the spectacular and colorful variety of fruit and vegetable stalls at the entrance from the Ramblas or the amazing round center with the fresh fish and seafood over the icy countertops to preserve them at low temperature or the stalls of meats from different animals: bull, ox, cow, horse, lamb, veal and hunting animals or birds and eggs; the amazing and varied collection of mushrooms when the season comes, the stalls with pork products, pates and cheeses or...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
Plaça Catalunya once stood outside the city walls, and was a yard outside the city located just in front of one of the main gates, from roads started to the surrounding populations. This made it the ideal place to for an open market and became an important point in the life of the city.
When the walls were demolished the new city urban plan (L’Eixample) designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. Cerdà did not include any special place where the Plaça Catalunya is now located, since, according to the project, the Barcelona Gothic neighborhood and the other old...
Plaça Catalunya Barcelona Square
Plaça Catalunya once stood outside the city walls, and was a yard outside the city located just in front of one of the main gates, from roads started to the surrounding populations. This made it the ideal place to for an open market and became an important point in the life of the city.
When the walls were demolished the new city urban plan (L’Eixample) designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. Cerdà did not include any special place where the Plaça Catalunya is now located, since, according to the project, the Barcelona Gothic neighborhood and the other old...
Art and Culture > Popular Events and Traditions
September 11 in Catalunya is the National Catalan Day (Diada de l'Onze de Setembre or Diada Nacional de Catalunya). September 11th commemorates the 14th month Siege of the city of Barcelona in 1714, the fall of Barcelona in the hands of the Bourbon troops under the Duke of Berwick and the total defeat during the War of the Spanish Succession.
As a result of the defeat and to punish the Catalans for supporting to the claim of Habsburg Archduke Charles to the throne of Spain, the institutions and rights of the territories of the Crown of Aragon were abolished by the victorious Bourbon monarchy.
Catalunya...
Catalan September 11
September 11 in Catalunya is the National Catalan Day (Diada de l'Onze de Setembre or Diada Nacional de Catalunya). September 11th commemorates the 14th month Siege of the city of Barcelona in 1714, the fall of Barcelona in the hands of the Bourbon troops under the Duke of Berwick and the total defeat during the War of the Spanish Succession.
As a result of the defeat and to punish the Catalans for supporting to the claim of Habsburg Archduke Charles to the throne of Spain, the institutions and rights of the territories of the Crown of Aragon were abolished by the victorious Bourbon monarchy.
Catalunya...
City Info > Tours
A walking tour guide through the Ramblas and part of the Gothic Neighborhood to end up at the Cathedral.
There are different ways to discover Barcelona, and the many interesting places in the city. It is possible to do it by your own or it can be interesting also to be accompanied by a guide that will give you tips about the places you are going through.
One of the classic walks around the Gothic Quarter that takes around 2 hours and a half starts at Plaça Catalunya and walking down the Ramblas on direction to the Port first you will find newspaper stands and probably several human...
The Ramblas and the Gothic Quarter
A walking tour guide through the Ramblas and part of the Gothic Neighborhood to end up at the Cathedral.
There are different ways to discover Barcelona, and the many interesting places in the city. It is possible to do it by your own or it can be interesting also to be accompanied by a guide that will give you tips about the places you are going through.
One of the classic walks around the Gothic Quarter that takes around 2 hours and a half starts at Plaça Catalunya and walking down the Ramblas on direction to the Port first you will find newspaper stands and probably several human...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Museums
Plaça del Rei - Gothic Quarter - Ciutat Vella
The foundation of the city of Barcelona is not clear as there are two different myths; one credited to Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca around 230 BC, and the other to one of the nine ships of the fleet of Hercules when he joined Jason and the Argonauts in the search of the Golden Fleece, travelling across the Mediterranean, 400 years before the building of Rome.
It is known that between years 15 and 13 BC, in the era of Emperor Augustus, that the Romans founded the Mons Taber, a temple 12 meters high on a little hill near...
Roman Barcelona – Barcino
Plaça del Rei - Gothic Quarter - Ciutat Vella
The foundation of the city of Barcelona is not clear as there are two different myths; one credited to Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca around 230 BC, and the other to one of the nine ships of the fleet of Hercules when he joined Jason and the Argonauts in the search of the Golden Fleece, travelling across the Mediterranean, 400 years before the building of Rome.
It is known that between years 15 and 13 BC, in the era of Emperor Augustus, that the Romans founded the Mons Taber, a temple 12 meters high on a little hill near...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
La Ribera/Borne - Gothic Neighbourhood
The church of Santa María del Mar is the best and most beautiful example of what it is called the Catalan Gothic and the only great perfectly finished Catalan gothic church, built only in 50 years between 1329 and 1383. The architects in charge were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig.
The outside of the building presents a heavy and austere aspect completely different from gothic style of other parts of Europe with predominance of the horizontal lines and the big sections of wall without great openings or decorations....
Santa Maria del Mar
La Ribera/Borne - Gothic Neighbourhood
The church of Santa María del Mar is the best and most beautiful example of what it is called the Catalan Gothic and the only great perfectly finished Catalan gothic church, built only in 50 years between 1329 and 1383. The architects in charge were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig.
The outside of the building presents a heavy and austere aspect completely different from gothic style of other parts of Europe with predominance of the horizontal lines and the big sections of wall without great openings or decorations....
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Jaume Plensa when the Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona was a promising artist with only 37 years and he was invited to participate, as the Catalan contribution, in one of the most attractive projects of the time, a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations of different European artists through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole Urban Configurations (Configuracions urbanes) .
The installation made by Jaume Plensa conformed by balls, letters and a trunk called “Born”, came to remember the activity...
Jaume Plensa - Born - Urban Configurations
Jaume Plensa when the Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona was a promising artist with only 37 years and he was invited to participate, as the Catalan contribution, in one of the most attractive projects of the time, a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations of different European artists through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole Urban Configurations (Configuracions urbanes) .
The installation made by Jaume Plensa conformed by balls, letters and a trunk called “Born”, came to remember the activity...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Topos V was placed on the location chosen by the sculptor himself, on the only open corner of this medieval square (Plaça del Rei, where the story says that the kings of Spain Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragon received Christopher Columbus when he came back after discovering America), acting like another medieval building closing this open corner. The architectural character of the sculpture with the semicircular arches like windows, gets even clearer with the name given that comes from the Greek word topos, meaning space or place.
These seven tons of cast iron was unveiled...
Eduardo Chillida - TOPOS V
Topos V was placed on the location chosen by the sculptor himself, on the only open corner of this medieval square (Plaça del Rei, where the story says that the kings of Spain Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragon received Christopher Columbus when he came back after discovering America), acting like another medieval building closing this open corner. The architectural character of the sculpture with the semicircular arches like windows, gets even clearer with the name given that comes from the Greek word topos, meaning space or place.
These seven tons of cast iron was unveiled...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
This sculpture of Neptune seated on a rock was made by sculptor Adrià Ferran and inaugurated in 1826 on the area of the old port of Barcelona at the Pla de Palau, to oversee all those who arrive or depart from the port. Some years later the sphinxes located at the statue’s feet where added by sculptor Celdoni Guixà to the monument. Changes on the functioning of the port in 1919 obliged to dismantle the monument and was moved to a new emplacement in one of the parks at the Montjüic hillside that was being converted to gardens at the time. But in 1975 because of the construction...
Adria Ferran i Celdoni Guixa - Font de Neptu
This sculpture of Neptune seated on a rock was made by sculptor Adrià Ferran and inaugurated in 1826 on the area of the old port of Barcelona at the Pla de Palau, to oversee all those who arrive or depart from the port. Some years later the sphinxes located at the statue’s feet where added by sculptor Celdoni Guixà to the monument. Changes on the functioning of the port in 1919 obliged to dismantle the monument and was moved to a new emplacement in one of the parks at the Montjüic hillside that was being converted to gardens at the time. But in 1975 because of the construction...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
This big public sculpture, titled Monument, more than 8 meters tall, is a large-scale version from the original in wood, 80 centimeters high, executed in 1935 by the Catalan surrealist sculptor born in Lleida on 1908 Leandre Cristòfol. It is his first work to appear in Barcelona and was chosen by him when the City Hall offered a place on the new public square, George Orwell square, that had been created after cleaning up from old buildings the space in between the streets of Escudellers, Arenes and Arai. It was unveiled in September of 1991, eight years before the death...
Leandre Cristofol - Monument
This big public sculpture, titled Monument, more than 8 meters tall, is a large-scale version from the original in wood, 80 centimeters high, executed in 1935 by the Catalan surrealist sculptor born in Lleida on 1908 Leandre Cristòfol. It is his first work to appear in Barcelona and was chosen by him when the City Hall offered a place on the new public square, George Orwell square, that had been created after cleaning up from old buildings the space in between the streets of Escudellers, Arenes and Arai. It was unveiled in September of 1991, eight years before the death...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Cap de Barcelona (Barcelona Head) is a sculpture made by Roy Lichtenstein. At the first moment when the agreement between the artists and the Ajuntament (City Hall) de Barcelona was settled it was the Creuta del Coll Park the place chosen as location for the sculpture, but on seeing the prototype made by the artist in 1991 in New york both parts decided to move Lichtenstein’s work from the mountains to the sea and in 1992 just before the Olympic Games it was set into place at the water's edge in the old port. The sculpture was placed to serve as one icon for the visitors of Barcelona through...
Roy Lichtenstein - Cap de Barcelona
Cap de Barcelona (Barcelona Head) is a sculpture made by Roy Lichtenstein. At the first moment when the agreement between the artists and the Ajuntament (City Hall) de Barcelona was settled it was the Creuta del Coll Park the place chosen as location for the sculpture, but on seeing the prototype made by the artist in 1991 in New york both parts decided to move Lichtenstein’s work from the mountains to the sea and in 1992 just before the Olympic Games it was set into place at the water's edge in the old port. The sculpture was placed to serve as one icon for the visitors of Barcelona through...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
Las Ramblas
Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
Sant Pere, Sta. Caterina i La Ribera - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Palau de la Música Catalana (The Catalan Music Palace) is a masterpiece of the Catalan Modernisme period. The concert hall designed by the architect Lluis Domenech I Montaner, and build in between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society, leading force in the Catalan cultural and political independence movement known as Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth).
The architectural decoration in the concert hall is a work of art of creativity and imagination. The rich decoration of the façade of...
Palau de la Musica Catalana
Sant Pere, Sta. Caterina i La Ribera - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Palau de la Música Catalana (The Catalan Music Palace) is a masterpiece of the Catalan Modernisme period. The concert hall designed by the architect Lluis Domenech I Montaner, and build in between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society, leading force in the Catalan cultural and political independence movement known as Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth).
The architectural decoration in the concert hall is a work of art of creativity and imagination. The rich decoration of the façade of...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
One of the coolest squares in the Old town (Gothic Neighbourhood) of Barcelona, and maybe the quiet’s place in town, is the Plaza (Plaça) Sant Felip Neri. This hidden square that you can only access through two narrow, winding and sometimes not very clean streets is build over what was an old medieval cemetery (Montjuïc del Bisbe cemetery). On one of the sides The Baroque Church that gives the name to the square was build in between 1748 and 1752 and on the others different medieval houses moved there at the beginning of last century due...
Plaza Sant Felip Neri
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
One of the coolest squares in the Old town (Gothic Neighbourhood) of Barcelona, and maybe the quiet’s place in town, is the Plaza (Plaça) Sant Felip Neri. This hidden square that you can only access through two narrow, winding and sometimes not very clean streets is build over what was an old medieval cemetery (Montjuïc del Bisbe cemetery). On one of the sides The Baroque Church that gives the name to the square was build in between 1748 and 1752 and on the others different medieval houses moved there at the beginning of last century due...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
El Raval - Gothic Neighbourhood
It looks like time has stopped in this Archaeological Gothic Complex, one of Europe's earliest medical complexes, build up to put together in one building six hospitals that existed at the time. The first stone was laid by King Martí el Humà in 1401 and mainly developed in between the XV and XVI centuries. It was planned by the architect Guillem Abiell as a big space in a form of four wings on two levels that surrounded an arched patio, following a well-known model from the orient, but it has suffered some important changes through the following...
Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu
El Raval - Gothic Neighbourhood
It looks like time has stopped in this Archaeological Gothic Complex, one of Europe's earliest medical complexes, build up to put together in one building six hospitals that existed at the time. The first stone was laid by King Martí el Humà in 1401 and mainly developed in between the XV and XVI centuries. It was planned by the architect Guillem Abiell as a big space in a form of four wings on two levels that surrounded an arched patio, following a well-known model from the orient, but it has suffered some important changes through the following...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
Located just a small arcaded passageway away from the Ramblas there is the Plaça Reial (Plaza Real). Designed by the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and build in 1848 over what had been and old religious convent from the Capuchinos (Caputxins). This beautiful place has a square plant, and is quite ample and delimited by the walls of one single building (it is like an interior patio). The facades of this building are made up of numerous balconies, and have like tile roof terraces.
It is an important and lively meeting place especially at night,...
Plaza Real in Barcelona
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
Located just a small arcaded passageway away from the Ramblas there is the Plaça Reial (Plaza Real). Designed by the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and build in 1848 over what had been and old religious convent from the Capuchinos (Caputxins). This beautiful place has a square plant, and is quite ample and delimited by the walls of one single building (it is like an interior patio). The facades of this building are made up of numerous balconies, and have like tile roof terraces.
It is an important and lively meeting place especially at night,...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
The way to the Frederic Mares Museum from the small square (Plaça Sant Iu Nº 5-6) on the street Comtes de Barcelona, at the side of the Cathedral, gives free entrance to a courtyard that was in medieval times the old orchard of the Main Royal Palace (Palau Reial Major), house of the Counts of Barcelona and from where the monarchs of the Catalan-Aragonese crown ruled the kingdom during the medieval period.
The place with orange trees, plants, some benches and a fountain on the centre surrounded by the medieval buildings from the Palau Reial...
Verger Antic Palau Reial Major
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
The way to the Frederic Mares Museum from the small square (Plaça Sant Iu Nº 5-6) on the street Comtes de Barcelona, at the side of the Cathedral, gives free entrance to a courtyard that was in medieval times the old orchard of the Main Royal Palace (Palau Reial Major), house of the Counts of Barcelona and from where the monarchs of the Catalan-Aragonese crown ruled the kingdom during the medieval period.
The place with orange trees, plants, some benches and a fountain on the centre surrounded by the medieval buildings from the Palau Reial...
Art and Culture > Art Exhibitions
Museu Diocesà de Barcelona - April to December 2007
The most internationally known architect from Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí still has aspects to be discovered. Around seventy works by Gaudí, based on texts from the architect himself, are in "Parla Gaudí", an exhibition at the Diocesà Museum of Barcelona. One of the most interesting aspects of the exhibition is the unseen pieces, such as the Gaudí's working table, colour tests in glass, and the only original window of the Sagrada Família. The exhibition also has works by his students Jujol...
Unseen pieces by Antoni Gaudi
Museu Diocesà de Barcelona - April to December 2007
The most internationally known architect from Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí still has aspects to be discovered. Around seventy works by Gaudí, based on texts from the architect himself, are in "Parla Gaudí", an exhibition at the Diocesà Museum of Barcelona. One of the most interesting aspects of the exhibition is the unseen pieces, such as the Gaudí's working table, colour tests in glass, and the only original window of the Sagrada Família. The exhibition also has works by his students Jujol...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
The Montcada Street in the Borne Area is full with all kind of palaces and small palaces, homes of wealthy nobles and merchants from the medieval period. Many of these Palaces are used now as Museums, Art Galleries or Bars. The Picasso Museum now occupies five of these palaces. The stories of many of these building starts on the XIII century and continues, with many additions and transformations in the following centuries till nowadays.
One of these Palaces, the Palau del Marquès de Llió, has now been tranformed again and is now used temporarily as part of the Disseny...
DHUB Montcada
The Montcada Street in the Borne Area is full with all kind of palaces and small palaces, homes of wealthy nobles and merchants from the medieval period. Many of these Palaces are used now as Museums, Art Galleries or Bars. The Picasso Museum now occupies five of these palaces. The stories of many of these building starts on the XIII century and continues, with many additions and transformations in the following centuries till nowadays.
One of these Palaces, the Palau del Marquès de Llió, has now been tranformed again and is now used temporarily as part of the Disseny...
Fairs and Congresses > Fairs
Barcelona Contemporary Art at the Drassanes Reials, May 2007
A long list of more than 40 galleries will attend to this new contemporary art fair in Barcelona from different countries of Europe, United Sates, Canada, Brazil, China and Japan. The selection committee for this first year of Swab has well known names as Leo Konig (from Leo Koenig Inc, New York), Marta Moriarty (from Vacío 9, Madrid) and Fred London (from Fred London, UK). These galleries will bring well-known contemporary artists and also the new names that emerge and have never presented their works in Spain.
The place...
Swab International Art Fair
Barcelona Contemporary Art at the Drassanes Reials, May 2007
A long list of more than 40 galleries will attend to this new contemporary art fair in Barcelona from different countries of Europe, United Sates, Canada, Brazil, China and Japan. The selection committee for this first year of Swab has well known names as Leo Konig (from Leo Koenig Inc, New York), Marta Moriarty (from Vacío 9, Madrid) and Fred London (from Fred London, UK). These galleries will bring well-known contemporary artists and also the new names that emerge and have never presented their works in Spain.
The place...