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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
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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.
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
From April 1st to May 21st of 2011 the annual edition of the Guitar festival will schedule more than 30 concerts related to the world of guitar, open to all tendencies from classic guitar to the most forefront artist with their different proposals in its 22 edition.
Different artists will take place in the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from well known Spanish names like: from the flamenco guitar world, Tomatito; from the Catalan contemporary music like performer and composer Toti Soler with classical training and influences of blues, jazz and flamenco; from the Spanish urban rock, player...
22 Festival de Guitarra de Barcelona
From April 1st to May 21st of 2011 the annual edition of the Guitar festival will schedule more than 30 concerts related to the world of guitar, open to all tendencies from classic guitar to the most forefront artist with their different proposals in its 22 edition.
Different artists will take place in the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from well known Spanish names like: from the flamenco guitar world, Tomatito; from the Catalan contemporary music like performer and composer Toti Soler with classical training and influences of blues, jazz and flamenco; from the Spanish urban rock, player...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
DE CAJÓN! 2011 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to March 2011
The sixth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco Festival has started early this year with the Christmas Carol Concert of Niña Pastori at the Palau de la Musica Catalana.
It will continue on February 3, with another very special artist visiting the Palau de la Musica. Rosario Flores, daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores and Antonio Gonzalez, “El Pescaílla”, developer of the Rumba Catalana, will be back to present “Raskatriski”, her first album with new unpublished...
DE CAJON! 2011 Festival de Flamenco
DE CAJÓN! 2011 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to March 2011
The sixth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco Festival has started early this year with the Christmas Carol Concert of Niña Pastori at the Palau de la Musica Catalana.
It will continue on February 3, with another very special artist visiting the Palau de la Musica. Rosario Flores, daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores and Antonio Gonzalez, “El Pescaílla”, developer of the Rumba Catalana, will be back to present “Raskatriski”, her first album with new unpublished...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
Within the 2010 Concert Season Masters of the Spanish Guitar (Mestres de la Guitarra Espanyola) Manuel González presents a very interesting program formed by different pieces from some very well known Spanish Composers such as Joaquin Rodrigo (Aranjuez ma pensée), Isaac Albeniz (Asturias and Sevilla from the Suite Espanyola), Ferran Sor (Introducció, tema i variació, op. 9), Francesc Tarrega (Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Jota Aragonesa) and Gaspar Sanz with arrangements by himself (Fantasia Española).
Manuel González is a guitarist, born in Barcelona,...
Manuel González - Masters of the Spanish Guitar
Within the 2010 Concert Season Masters of the Spanish Guitar (Mestres de la Guitarra Espanyola) Manuel González presents a very interesting program formed by different pieces from some very well known Spanish Composers such as Joaquin Rodrigo (Aranjuez ma pensée), Isaac Albeniz (Asturias and Sevilla from the Suite Espanyola), Ferran Sor (Introducció, tema i variació, op. 9), Francesc Tarrega (Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Jota Aragonesa) and Gaspar Sanz with arrangements by himself (Fantasia Española).
Manuel González is a guitarist, born in Barcelona,...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
The young voice of Sebastian Cruz will be singing in Barcelona accompanied on the guitar by Raul Cantizano in a Concert organized by the Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa El Dorado on April 15.
Sebastian Cruz Marquez, born in 1977 in Beas, province of Huelva, is a singer from family tradition. Since he was 12 years he has been singing in parties, clubs and festivals and he was awarded with a scholarship from the Cristina Herdeen Foundation where he could receive lessons from maestros in the Flamenco art like José de La Tomasa, Calixto Sánchez, Paco Taranto o Esperanza...
Sebastian Cruz-Raul Cantizano
The young voice of Sebastian Cruz will be singing in Barcelona accompanied on the guitar by Raul Cantizano in a Concert organized by the Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa El Dorado on April 15.
Sebastian Cruz Marquez, born in 1977 in Beas, province of Huelva, is a singer from family tradition. Since he was 12 years he has been singing in parties, clubs and festivals and he was awarded with a scholarship from the Cristina Herdeen Foundation where he could receive lessons from maestros in the Flamenco art like José de La Tomasa, Calixto Sánchez, Paco Taranto o Esperanza...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
Pat Metheny will open then 21 Guitar Festival of Barcelona, on Febrary 21 in L'Auditori, presenting his new project, entitled Orchestrion, in which he develops a new idea: the "solo ensemble”. Metheny alone on stage offers a very special journey with a new technology developed through the work of a complete year, and that forms part of his last album, recorded in this format.
The Orchestrion Project is a leap into new territory. This project represents a recently developed conceptual direction that involves the merging of an idea from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with...
Pat Metheny, The Orchestrion Tour
Pat Metheny will open then 21 Guitar Festival of Barcelona, on Febrary 21 in L'Auditori, presenting his new project, entitled Orchestrion, in which he develops a new idea: the "solo ensemble”. Metheny alone on stage offers a very special journey with a new technology developed through the work of a complete year, and that forms part of his last album, recorded in this format.
The Orchestrion Project is a leap into new territory. This project represents a recently developed conceptual direction that involves the merging of an idea from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
The fifth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will close its edition this year with a very special concert presenting Pitingo, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, with Juan Carmona Amaya, guitar, Fernando Soto and José Antonio Camacho ´Piripi´, clapping, Juan Carmona Reyes, percussion and Tere and Angela Bautista, choirs.
Born in Ayamonte (Huelva) in 1980, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, Antonio Pitingo, grandson and nephew of Cantaores is related to three of the best sagas of Flamenco artists: the Carpio, the Valencia, and the Pelaos...
DE CAJÓN! 2010 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA
The fifth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will close its edition this year with a very special concert presenting Pitingo, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, with Juan Carmona Amaya, guitar, Fernando Soto and José Antonio Camacho ´Piripi´, clapping, Juan Carmona Reyes, percussion and Tere and Angela Bautista, choirs.
Born in Ayamonte (Huelva) in 1980, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, Antonio Pitingo, grandson and nephew of Cantaores is related to three of the best sagas of Flamenco artists: the Carpio, the Valencia, and the Pelaos...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
In Barcelona, from February to June, 2010.
The Guitar Festival is one year more in Barcelona on its 21st edition, having this year two of the most influential guitarists of the last decades for the Opening and Closing concerts; In between more than twenty concerts, mainly focused in the world of the six strings, but together with other thematic variations.
Pat Metheny will be opening the Festival on Sunday February 21st in L’Auditori, presenting his last work Orchestration, and months after Paco de Lucia, the most influential guitarist of recent history of flamenco, will close the festival...
21 Festival de Guitarra i altres Acords
In Barcelona, from February to June, 2010.
The Guitar Festival is one year more in Barcelona on its 21st edition, having this year two of the most influential guitarists of the last decades for the Opening and Closing concerts; In between more than twenty concerts, mainly focused in the world of the six strings, but together with other thematic variations.
Pat Metheny will be opening the Festival on Sunday February 21st in L’Auditori, presenting his last work Orchestration, and months after Paco de Lucia, the most influential guitarist of recent history of flamenco, will close the festival...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
DE CAJÓN! 2009 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to April 2009
The fourth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! comes this year with some changes. The first is a change on dates, instead of being during springtime this year the festival will go on through the winter opening on January 9th with a concert of Diego El Cigala and his group at the Gran Teatre del Liceu presenting also some special guests like Remedios Amaya and Moncho. Also the number of concerts has changed reaching to a total of 17 concerts, more than double that of the previous edition...
DE CAJÓN! 2009
DE CAJÓN! 2009 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to April 2009
The fourth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! comes this year with some changes. The first is a change on dates, instead of being during springtime this year the festival will go on through the winter opening on January 9th with a concert of Diego El Cigala and his group at the Gran Teatre del Liceu presenting also some special guests like Remedios Amaya and Moncho. Also the number of concerts has changed reaching to a total of 17 concerts, more than double that of the previous edition...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA , May to July 2008
The third edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will last from 29 May to 6 July.
Vicente Amigo with his guitar accompanied with a group and the voice of Rafel de Utrera will open the festival. The next concerts will bring on stage, between others, the voice of Diego el Cigala and his group, the Flamenco Dancer Juan de Juan with his show, the guitar of Tomatito and his group. The closing Concert will bring to Barcelona to Rosario, the daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores, presenting her last album “Dentro...
DE CAJÓN! 2008
FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA , May to July 2008
The third edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will last from 29 May to 6 July.
Vicente Amigo with his guitar accompanied with a group and the voice of Rafel de Utrera will open the festival. The next concerts will bring on stage, between others, the voice of Diego el Cigala and his group, the Flamenco Dancer Juan de Juan with his show, the guitar of Tomatito and his group. The closing Concert will bring to Barcelona to Rosario, the daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores, presenting her last album “Dentro...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
In Barcelona, from April to June 2008
The Guitar Festival is back one year more to Barcelona with the name of Guitar Festival and other chords, as during the festival the guitar will not be the only protagonist instrument of the festival. Known national and international names will form part of the program of the festival, from April 3rd to June 7th, and the sounds of flamenco, classic guitar, fado, jazz, soul, funk, rock, r’n’b, drum and bass or pop blues will be present on stage from countries all around the world.
Names like QUILAPAYÚN, PAUL ANKA, FITO PÁEZ, MILTON...
19 Festival de Guitarra i altres Acords
In Barcelona, from April to June 2008
The Guitar Festival is back one year more to Barcelona with the name of Guitar Festival and other chords, as during the festival the guitar will not be the only protagonist instrument of the festival. Known national and international names will form part of the program of the festival, from April 3rd to June 7th, and the sounds of flamenco, classic guitar, fado, jazz, soul, funk, rock, r’n’b, drum and bass or pop blues will be present on stage from countries all around the world.
Names like QUILAPAYÚN, PAUL ANKA, FITO PÁEZ, MILTON...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
Festival Flamenco de Barcelona, June-July 2007
From June 1st till July 22nd this new chance to listen in Barcelona’s second Flamenco Festival De Cajón! to very well known flamenco stars like the last year Grammy award Winner Diego El Cigala in the open concert at the Palau de la Musica.
The following concerts will bring to Barcelona the new and promising voice of Maria Lopez Tristancho, Argentina, the well-known voice of José Mercé and the flamenco guitar of José Fernandez Torres, Tomatito, with his sextet. For the closing night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
De Cajón!
Festival Flamenco de Barcelona, June-July 2007
From June 1st till July 22nd this new chance to listen in Barcelona’s second Flamenco Festival De Cajón! to very well known flamenco stars like the last year Grammy award Winner Diego El Cigala in the open concert at the Palau de la Musica.
The following concerts will bring to Barcelona the new and promising voice of Maria Lopez Tristancho, Argentina, the well-known voice of José Mercé and the flamenco guitar of José Fernandez Torres, Tomatito, with his sextet. For the closing night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
Spring is time for the different sounds of the guitar. March to June 2006
An eclectic and cosmopolitan program with a nourished group of artists related to the world of the six cords form part of the 16 Concerts of this new edition of the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from March 22nd till June 7th. The Festival starts with a Concert of Jackson Brown and guests specially prepared for the festival. Jose Mercé, Allan Holdsworth, Shemekai Copeland and Raphael Fays Trio will be the next concerts coming on. Different recently Grammy winner, as Dianna Reeves, will be also appearing on stage....
17 Festival de Guitarra de Barcelona 2006
Spring is time for the different sounds of the guitar. March to June 2006
An eclectic and cosmopolitan program with a nourished group of artists related to the world of the six cords form part of the 16 Concerts of this new edition of the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from March 22nd till June 7th. The Festival starts with a Concert of Jackson Brown and guests specially prepared for the festival. Jose Mercé, Allan Holdsworth, Shemekai Copeland and Raphael Fays Trio will be the next concerts coming on. Different recently Grammy winner, as Dianna Reeves, will be also appearing on stage....