What to do for New Years eve in Barcelona?

If you are in Barcelona during the New Year’s eve, we suggest some ideas about where to go.

Go to a restaurante can be a nice idea, but you have to know that so many people celebrate the New year in Barcelona in restaurantes. for that we recommend to make a reservation before.
Some good resturantes near our Bed and Breakfast can be a nice choose for this special night:

Near BBB - Jardinets we recommended:
El Rústico in Terol street number 39 in Gracia
L'Anxoveta in Sant Domènec street number 16 in Gracia

Near BBB - Casanova can be:
Vinya-Roel in Villaroel street number 190 in Eixample
El Velodromo in Muntaner street corner with Passatge Pellicer in Eixample

Close to Casa Maca:
Club Solo in Passatge Concepció in Eixample
La Musclería in Bruc street corner with Mallorca street in Eixample

At 12 o’clock everyone eats 12 grapes at every ring of the clock at midnight and if you do it succesfully, you can make a wish for New Year.

This year, the weather help to spend the time waiting for the New Year on the street, the people meet every year in Plaça Catalunya or Plaça Reial to eat the grapes and say hello to 2012. Don't forget to bring the cava and the grapes!

After that, everything are in your hands! All the bars and clubs will be open, full of people, you only have to choose one!

Some suggestions:

Razzmatazz
Sala Apolo
Harlem Jazz Club
Shoko

We wish you a Happy New Year!

BBB - Casanova Guest House

We renovated the rooms...every day we try to make something more cozy our house.

In BBB - Casanova Guest House, Fabiola and Juan help us in this tired (and dirty!) job!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

We're renovating our Bed and Breakfast!!!

Thanks to Mauricio and Fabiola (our hosts in BBB-Jardinets and BBB-Casanova) we have renovated our rooms.

we want to invite you to visit us and check it!

There is only a example of the work that they are doing.

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Miquel Barceló. La solitude organisative

The exhibition gives the viewer the opportunity to understand the mystery, adrenalin and personal uncertainties behind Miquel Barceló's creative process.

It brings together more than 180 works, from the huge canavesses created since 1983, to more recent works, as well as ceramics, sculptures, watercolours, drawings, posters, books and travel diaries.

You can visit it until 9th of January 2011 in Caixa Forum, situated near plaça Espanya.

Font: magazine of BCN

Barcelona World Race

The Barcelona World Race is the first only double-handed (two-crew) regatta around the world. This is a non-stop regatta with some outside assistance permitted, although subject to rules and penalties.

The start will be given on 31st of December 2010 at 13:00 (local time GMT+1) opposite Hotel W in the Port of Barcelona. The arrival of the leading entries is forecast for the end of March 2011.

The course is from Barcelona to Barcelona via three capes: Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn, Cook Strait, putting Antarctica to starboard. The length of the course is approximately 25,000 nautical miles (46,300 km) along the Great Circle line, the shortest route traced on a map across the world.

Fuente: Barcelona World Race oficial website

Christmas lights in the barcelona's streets

Like every year, Barcelona fills the streets of lights to welcome the Christmas and New Year. This year, more than 60km of brightly colored lights will make you feel immersed in a world of fantasy.

Take the advantage of the night to go out and enjoy it!

Fira de Santa Llucia

This Fira of Santa Llucia begins in late November or early December, with more than 270 stands ordered by sectors depending on what they sell (Nativities and figures, greenery, and crafts) and located in front of the Pla de la Seu (the Cathedral square), on Avinguda de la Catedral.

The sellers offer you, as they have for time out of mind, all the products you need to decorate your home for the Christmas season, and will give you a warm welcome in the hope that you will visit the Fira as often as you want as cheerfully and enthusiastically as them.

Working days: from 10:30 to 20:30
Holidays and vigils: from 10:30 to 21:30

11hs of Music!!!!

This year, you can enjoy of 11hs of music in the Conservatori de Municipal de Música de Barcelona.

The place is located in Bruc street number 112, at only 2 blocks from our Casa Maca Guest House.

The concert will be next 18th of December from 11:00hs to 22:00hs, and you will enjoy performances on viola, cello, piano, flutes, saxophones, guitars, etc.

A pleasure to the ear!

Hospital Sant Pau, a beautiful example of modernist architecture

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau dates from the year 1401, when the six existing hospitals in Barcelona merged. This is how the Hospital de la Santa Creu was born. At the end of the 19th Century, as a result of the growth of the city and breakthroughs in medicine, the Hospital had become too small and a construction on a new building was considered.


There is a Modernism Route Information Desk at Sant Pau open from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, Monday to Sunday. Information is available on activities related to modernist heritage in general, and about the architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner in particular.

The Sant Pau Hospital is open for guided tours from
Monday to Sunday in several languages: .
10.00 am (English), 10.30 am (French), 11.00 am (English), 11.30 am (Spanish),
12.00 noon (English), 12.30 pm (Catalan) and 1.00 pm (English).

The Hospital is close to sagrada familia, located in Modernist Centre
C. Sant Antoni Maria Claret number 167

Fuente: web oficial del Hospital de la Santa Creu

Artists jewelry in exhibition

The approach by artists to the world of jewellery is the central theme of this exhibition. In it you can admire more than 300 works by Catalan as well as international artists who led the different trends that proliferated during the fertile 20th century.
The MNAC has gathered original designs by Hector Guimard, Josep Llimona, Manolo Hugué, Pablo Gargallo, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso and others.

The items of jewellery being exhibited give us a picture in small format of the artistic character of their creators and at the same time strike a dialogue with other works by them (paintings, sculptures, photographs, fabrics and art objects), thereby highlighting this less well known facet and creating an interdisciplinary exchange amongst the arts.


Date: from 27th of October to 13rd of February 2011 in the MNAC (Plaça Espanya)
Price: € 5.50

Font: MNAC website

jewelry in exhibition

Fideua the Catalan's paella

What is it the Fideuá??
The history say that around the year 1930 in a small city near Valencia, a novice sailor who was cooking rice for some fishermen, changed the rice to noodles so that his boss would eat less. The boss ate so much that he often left the others hungry. All liked the new recipe so much that the idea ran from house to house making way for the fame the recipe has today.

The dish is typical for thursdays and served in most restaurants with 'ali-oli', a mixture of mayonese with garlic.

What do you need?
Garlic
Onion
Pepper
Peeled shrimps
Mussels (shelled)
Sea sticks
Noodles
Cod

Get to work!
Put a little oil in a pan and let it heat. Add a chopped garlic, onion and pepper and fry until it has a goldish color. Then add the peeled prawns, mussels and sea sticks. Let it cook for about 5 minutes and then add the noodles and allow them to absorb the liquid. Finally add the cod and let it heat for a few minutes. Then...serve!

Fuente: cocinay hogar.com

La Rambla

Until 1854, the year in which Barcelona finally broke through its city walls, La Rambla, was used to be only one wide street at the heart of the city, an old stream whose name, according to popular belief, derives from the Arabic ramla, meaning "sandy ground".

The Rambla was merely a path beside a stream running between convents on one side and the old city walls on the other. It was in 1704 that the first houses were built on the site of the old city walls, and the first trees were planted. In 1775 the old city walls by the Drassanes, or medieval shipyards, were demolished and a few years later a road was laid turning that part of the Rambla into a tree-lined avenue.

From the upper end, which runs into Plaça de Catalunya, to the lower end below the Columbus monument, this unique street in fact bears five names, each describing a section of the street. The most important is the first one: there is the Rambla de Canaletes, because of the Font de les Canaletes fountain, found there since ancient times: folk tradition has it that anyone who drinks from this fountain will keep returning to Barcelona.

Font: Web of Ajuntament of Barcelona

Mariscal in La Pedrera

With drawing as an essential instrument, Javier Mariscal has developed his own artistic language which has gone beyond graphic design.

Discover him at the exhibition "Mariscal a la Pedrera", which looks back over this designer's forty-year career. Also, discover the working methods used by this tireless creator who has created a five metre high work entitled Alegria for this exhibition.

Until the 30/01/2011 in Casa Milà - La Pedrera (Passeig de Gràcia street number 92) you can ejoy this exposition for free.

Fuente: web del Ajuntament de Barcelona

Travelling: II International Festival of Short Films in the Metro

The international short film festival in the Metro "Travelling" tries to capture the spirit of vindication of short film format where less is more.


A sample of 15 to 24 October will bring you the best creations of the entertainment and fiction genres made by amateurs and professionals.


Get on the Metro and enjoy all the shows from the platforms, the interiors of subway and the station forecourt Universitat (L1 and L2) or Espai Mercè Sala L5 Diagonal station and vote for your favorites!

Fuente: TMB

We're in facebook!!!

Thanks to Fabiola, our host in BBB-Casanova, we are now in Facebook. we invite you to know more about us.

We invite you to become friends/fan of our Bed and Breakfast and you will discover and enjoy the promotions that offer!

And of course we invite you to participate actively in this new adventure: send us your photos and comments of your holiday in Barcelona...

The MNAC takes the street

Starting this Thursday, Barcelona became a museum in the open air through the project "The MNAC takes the street" which expose over thirty exact digital replicas of masterpieces from the National Museum of Catalan Art exhibited in various venues around the city thanks to the project MNAC takes the street.

Walking along Avenida Diagonal, Rambla Catalunya, Passeig de Gracia and some of the streets of Old Town you will find faithful reproductions of some of the works of Francisco de Zurbarán, Velázquez, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso.

Fuente: Ajuntament de Barcelona

Sagrada Familia

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is a work on a grand scale which was begun on 1882. At the end of 1883 Gaudí was commissioned to carry on the works, a task which he did not abandon until his death in 1926. Since then different architects have continued the work after his original idea.

It has always been an expiatory church, which means that since the outset, 125 years ago now, it has been built from donations. The building is still going on and could be finished some time in the first third of the 21st century.

The normal tiquet cost 12,00€ and the tiquet to visit the church and the museum cost 14,00€

It's open from:

October to March, 9.00 to 18.00 h
April to September, 9.00 to 20.00 h
* 25 and 26 December – 1 and 6 January, 9.00 to 14.00 h

Fuente: Web oficial de La Sagrada Familia

Asia Festival

The Asia Festival comes back for another year with a wide range of high quality events that share billing with initiatives of the Asian communities living in Catalonia.

The stars of this year’s festival are three productions that will come to our city for the first time: kathakali theatre from India; Shan Ren Band, the young rock group from China; and the spectacular performance by the Japanese percussionist Leonard Eto.

Moreover, the concert by the Pakistani pop singer Abrar-ul-Haq was specifically requested by the Asian community itself.

These fascinating shows are complemented by a long list of activities, organised with associations and people from Asian communities, which will take place in the framework of La Mercè Festival: a catwalk of dress and customs, playing games such as Ki-o-rahi from New Zealand, or the workshop of tastes and knowledge where we will discover the secrets of Asian cuisine.


The festival is between 16th to 26th of September in Casa Asia. It's located very close form our B&B in Av. Diagonal, 373.

Fuente: Casa Asia website

Cathedral of Barcelona

The earliest origins of Barcelona Cathedral date back to a basilica with three naves, destroyed by Al-Mansur in 925. The remains of this basilica can be seen at the City History Museum. Around 1046, Bishop Guislabert pushed for the construction of a new cathedral. There are hardly any references to this cathedral. It is believed to have occupied part of the Gothic building but all that has been preserved is Romanesque.

Building work began in 1298. The Santa Llúcia Chapel, built in a late Romanesque style, already existed. Construction was very slow: the Crypt of Saint Eulalia and the choir-stall are from the end of the 14th century; the cloister from the 15th century and the retrochoir and the organ from the 16th century. The façade was finally finished in the early 20th century. Rather than Catalan Gothic, the style is Nordic Gothic. The façade is 70 metres high and crowned with an image of Saint Helena.

In the cloisters, for Corpus Christi, there is a typically Barcelonian custom: "l'ou com balla" where an egg is put into the jet of water in the cloister garden fountain to make it "dance". There is also a pond with thirteen white geese. Always thirteen, because that is how old Saint Eulalia was when, according to legend, she was martyred.

The Feast of La Merçè

The celebrations to mark the Feast of La Merçè will take place on 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th of September. This year there will be new events and entertainments that combine the tradition of a festival dating back centuries and the innovations of the digital word.

This year's guest city will be Dakar, and the Museum Marítim and the Parc de la Ciutadella will be hosting a wide range of events, entertainments and film screenings devoted to the Senegalese capital and its culture.

For first time, the Parc de la Ciutadella will be the setting for a new initiative which you can take part in, and which will fill the festival nights with the light, colour, and entertainments associated with the new technologies.

The sky will be filled with firework displays; the streets will host parades of "giants" and "big heads"; demons and dragons will invade the pavements, the square will be filled with dancing to the sound of orchestras...This is La Merçè!

Fuente: Barcelona Turisme

The Poble Espanyol

The Poble Espanyol, or Spanish Village, was built in 1929 for Barcelona's International Exhibition as a pavilion dedicated to art.

It is one of the few surviving landmarks from a world fair that is still open as a visitor attraction.

The Poble Espanyool is an open-air architecture museum and features replicas of 117 buildings, streets and squares from around Spain. Declarated an Area of Craft Interest, it is home to 40 crafts worshops where you can see artworks being created in situ.

The Poble Espanyol is also home to the Fran Daurel Collection, the Sculpture Garden and a monumental sculpture by Josep Guinovart. It also has a wide range of shops and restaurants.

The Poble Espanyol is open:
Mon: 9:00hs to 20:00hs

Tues to Thu: 9:00hs to 2:00hs

Frid: 9:00hs to 4:00hs

Sat: 9:00hs to 5:00hs

Sun: 9:00hs to 00:00hs

The normal price is 8,90€, but they have disocunt for students, family, pensioners and childrens.

It is located in Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia 13, in the Montjuic.

Fuente: Barcelona turisme

Casa Maca Guest House

A new Guest House was open in the heart of Eixample area.

Surrounded by the most significant works of Gaudi, you find this new Bed and Breakfast, a house designed for their guests, where not only they can enjoy a clean, comfortable and very well located Guest House, but also to live for some days in a wonderful modernist floor.

They have 5 room (some single, some doubles, some triple and 1 family room!). They offer too you access to our fridge and microwave, an almost ingredients to prepare yourself a varied Mediterranean breakfast. In the library of the Bed and Breakfast you'll find guides and maps of Barcelona, tourist information and tips for nice and affordable bars, restaurants and shops.

We hope your visit soon!

Touristic information office

Barcelona has a lot of differents offices of tourisme where you can find all the information that you need. Below you can find a list of this offices:

Plaça Catalunya: Located in the heart of the city, this office has tourist and cultural information in different languages. It also offers services such as selling travel. They are open daily from 9.00 to 21.00 h.

Plaça de Sant Jaume: At the very center of the Barri Gotic, particularly in the basement of City Hall, is another of the tourist information offices in Barcelona. This office offers tourist information and cultural district in various languages offered by informants. Sale and distribution of brochures. It's open on Monday to Friday: 9-20h. Saturday: 10-20h. Sundays: 10-14h.

Sants Estació: For those arriving by train, Turisme de Barcelona has an information office in Barcelona Train Station Sants. Their hours are: Monday to Friday: 8-20h. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: 8-14pm. From 24 June to 24 September: daily: 8-20h.

Aeroport Terminal 1 i 2: At the airport, some offices are managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Provincial Council and Turisme de Barcelona. They open everyday from 9.00 am to 21.00 pm

Cruise Terminal: If you come to Barcelona by boat, you can get tourist information once desembarqueis.
These offices are strategically located in different terminals at the port of Barcelona, we offer:
Customer cruise, providing tourist information and cultural district in several languages.
This office open in function of arrival of Creuers l'in transit.

Music on the street

Next 26th of August, in the Parc de la Barceloneta at 19:00hs, you can enjoy of the festival of "Music in the street with AMUCBCN: the music somewhere else."

AMUC BCN is the Musicians Association of Street and the Barcelona Metro, and they want to bring the music to all places, so they organize events daily in different parts of the city.

These days, they offer the opportunity to enjoy music in the park, and of course the festival is free. If you don't know where is the Parc of Barcelona located, there you have the exactly adress: Pg Marítim Barceloneta, 15 in Ciutat Vella.

Outdoor cinema

This year the CCCB organizes other days of outdoor cinema to enjoy the cool of the evening.
Like they explain in their website:

"More than ever Gandules 2010 is full of fiction: lost, aimless characters, endless searches, journeys to the unknown... The cinema has often shown labyrinths and has made them explicit. But this cycle drives us through other labyrinths, those that are often unseen: the invisible labyrinths that lock individuals in social circles, or the imaginary ones that create desires and mental escapes. What does it happen when the labyrinth is not an image, but a state?

Lost, lost, lost is a cycle about the desire for movement: get out of a place, escape, change or get transformed, conceive another world. Because what is important may not be to chose the wrong path, but the possibility to start a new one. "


The next 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of August always at 22hs you can enjoy this special plan.
The entrance is free, but with limited capacity, so you have to be there early.

The CCCB is located in Raval area, in Montalegre street number 5.

Eixample is 'hip'

Recently an article in the Dutch fashion-and lifestyle magazine 'red' described with great enthousiasm the neighborhoud "Eixample" in Barcelona. Literally the 'barrio' was described as the hippest of all in Barcelona.

"Eixample" simply means "extension" in the local catalan language. This neighborhoud was designed already some time ago, the late 19th century, by Ildefons Cerdá. The typical octoganal blocks give more visibility and ventilation at the street crossings although these days this is quit succesfully ruined by parkings... Most of the beautiful modernistic buildings were built in the barrio Eixample, absolutely worthwhile to walk through on a sunny day!

MACBA in the night

The MACBA’s nocturnal summer program includes its regular guided tours as well as a series of special activities.
As in every summer, the bar located on the Museum's First Floor terrace will remain open on Museum hours.

The MACBA’s nocturnal summer is open every Thursday and Fridays, from June 25 to September 23, open until midnight, and the price is 5 € (from 8 pm).

Then, we recommend to take some tapas in the neigborhood, full of terraces where you can relax after a warm day in Barcelona.

The MACBA Museum is located in Plaça dels Angels in the Raval area.

Montjuic: The night

The next 3 of July from 20 to 2hs, Montjuic offer the oportunity to enjoy of a great party.



The different spaces will offer you varied activities to enjoy throughout the night.

The "Festival of world music", the "Musical Action Barcelona", the "International jazz festival", the "Festival of guitar" and "San Miguel Primavera Sound" are some of the deals that you can enjoy this magical night.


The best way to arrive is by metro L1 – L3 Espanya. It will be open all the night.

Welcome - Birthday Pack

Would you like a special welcome in our Bed and Breakfast? Would you like to surprise at your partner?. We offer you the possibility to include in your stay an original Welcome gift to start to enjoying your holiday from the first hour.

Welcome pack cost 25,00€ and includes:

* Bottle of red wine of Spain
* 2 glasses
* Chocolate Candy
* Bouquet of fresh flowers

Romantic Pack

We offer something special to surprise your partner. Our Bed & Breakfast offers you the possibility to include in your stay an original gift to make this vacation, unforgettable days.

Romantic pack cost 55,00€ and includes:

* Bottle of red wine of Spain
* 2 glasses
* Chocolate Candy
* A special massage cream or Massage oil with special flavors or Sensual body powder with feather applicator
* A feather duster to awaken the senses
* Satin eye bands to give more mystery
* A very original surprise!

Sant Joan Party

The day of Sant Joan is very ancient festival which celebrates the arrival of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere whose principal rite is a fire.

The purpose of this rite was "give more power to the sun, which from that time, was becoming "weaker"", the days are getting shorter until the winter solstice.

Symbolically, the fire also has a function "cleansing" in people watching him. Previously also loosed the dogs to drive the evil spirits.

In Barcelona, you can enjoy of this party in some corner in the street, where the people prepare a fire with all the old thing in the house. Or you can go to the beach, to wait for the dawn while enjoing the fire, the music, the drinks and the friends!

Sonar time!!!

Every year in Barcelona during 3 days, takes places the Sónar, the advanced music and multimedia art festival.

More than 75.000 persons will enjoy the selection of artistic programme which combines the electronica headlines with the hundreds of emerging artists and DJ's.

The Sonar runs the next 18th of June until 20th of June in Fira Gran Via 2, in CCCB and MACBA. The best to arrive is with metro and buses. check here for more details.

You can check the progam here.

Enjoy this mega event as much as our city!!

Colonia Guell

The Colònia Güell was first set up in 1890 on the initiative of Eusebi Güell, a businessman, at his Can Soler de la Torre estate, in the municipality of Santa Coloma de Cervelló, where he moved his textile busines from Sants, now part of Barcelona.

Social conflicts in Barcelona at that time led him to set up the new factory equipped with the latest technology- outside the city on a model industrial estate, with the workers’ houses alongside the factory, forming an urban complex with its own character, and social and economic life, supervised by the company.

Unlike the majority of industrial estate owners in Catalonia, Eusebi Güell improved social conditions for is workers and sponsored cultural activities. He provided cultural and religious amenities at the Colònia Güell, which were built in the current Modernista style by various architects whomhe commissioned, notably Antoni Gaudí, who was responsible for the church.

The talent of master builders is also displayed on many buildings, which is particularly evident in the variety of cornices and details on the facades.

Parking near our Bed and Breakfasts

Barcelona, like every cosmopolita and touristic city, can be expensive and difficult to park your car. Anyway, if you decide to come by car, there are some points to keep in mind:

- If your car is registered abroad, it is more a target for thieves. In this case we advise you not to leave valuable stuff inside de car, and drive with the doors closed (locked), including trunk.

- Even when parking, be sure not to leave anything that might be interesting to the thieves (or help to assume there many things of interesting inside (for exemple your support to your GPS)

- The best is to park your car at public parking (to relax and enjoy your holiday and not be thinking about the security of your car all the time). Just a 50 meteres to our Bed and Breakfasts you can find a public parking. can cost around 24-25€/day. You can check the places and prices here: www.bsmsa.cat/mobilitat/index.php/bsm-car-parks/bsm-car-parks/network-map

- If you want to park in the street, you can do it for free in some streets of Barcelona from Friday at 20-22hs (depending of the street) to Monday at 7-8 hs. be sure to check the signs before to leave your car.

- If you park in a area where it is not permitted, you will likely receive a fine or have your car towed away. This can cost around 170€!! If this happens to you, you'll find a yellow or green triangular sticker in the same place when you parked you car with the phone number when you can call to find out where you car is it.

- The passenger of the cruises of Pullmantur or Costa Crucero have a discount on the cost of the parking in the "Litoral" and "Biomédica" parkings. You have to show the identification to prove you are a passenger.

The night of the museums

One year more Barcelona celebrate "The Night of the Museums", a chance to discover it in a very special way.

Next saturday 15 of May between 19hs to 01hs all this museum are free:

- Arts Santa Mònica

- Caixaforum

- CCCB

- Centre Cultural Metropolitá Tecla Sala

- Cosmocaixa

- Disseny Hub Barcelona

- Espai Cultural Caja Madrid

- Fundació AD

- Fundació Antoni Tàpies

- Fundació Arranz-Bravo

- Fundació Foto Colectania

- Fundació Joan Miró

- Fundació Suñol

- Jardí Botanic de barcelona

- La Capella

- La Pedrera

- La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge

- Museu Agbar de les Aigües

- MACBA

- Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí de Barcelona

- Museu Can Tinturé

- Museu d'Arqueología de Catalunya

- Museu de badalona

- Museu de Ceràmica "La Rajoleta"

- Museu de Cienciès Naturals de Barcelona

- MUHBA Plaça del rei

- MUHBA Monestir de Pedralbes

- Museu d'Història de Catalunya

- Museu d'Història de L'Hospitalet

- Museu de la Música de Barcelona

- Museu Egipci de Barcelona

- Museu Etnològic de Barcelona

- Museu Frederic Marès

- Museu Marítim de Barcelona

- MNAC

- Museu Olímpic i del Esport

- Museu Picasso

Thursday free entrance in Joan Miro Museum

The Joan Miró Foundation was the first public institution in Barcelona to focus on contemporary art. Now they have included 17 new original works on paper, which come from the trust of the Miró family. To celebrate the new works they also offer free visits every Thursday afternoon.

Miró's works can also be seen in public places, like the Parc Joan Miró near Plaça Espanya, and in museums and galleries around the world.

The Joan Miró Museum is located in the Parc of Montjuic. You can arrive there by bus (number 50, 55 and 193 from Plaça Espanya), or by Funicular from the Paral·lel metro station.

The opening times are:

• Tuesday to Saturday from 10hs to 19hs (October to June) or 10hs to 20hs (July to September)
• Thursday 10hs to 21:30hs,
• Sunday and holidays 10hs to 14:30hs

Entrence fee is 8,50€

Feria de Abril en Barcelona

From 23th of April to 2nd of May, in the Forum we celebrate the Feria de Abril.

The Feria de Abril is a festival open to all who want to enjoy a living space. it's a popular event for all who want to remember at all the Catalans their origins Andaluz and Flamenco.

The Feria de Abril will opne with the "Grup Cal Bolavà de Calafell", who will dance and play the castanets. This set consists of 40 women from diverse communities and even countries like Sweden and Holland.

The entrance to the booth are free, visitors taking the opportunity to see performances by arts groups and shows.

The schedule is:

Friday 23th april from 18:00 to 4:15hs

Every day from 18:00 to 2:00hs

Saturday from 10:00 to 4:15hs

Sunday 25th April from 10:00 to 2:00hs

Friday 30th April from 10:00 to 4:15hs

Sunday 2nd May from 10:00 to 22:00hs

You can arrive by:

-Metro line 4 (yellow), the stop is call "Maresme-Forum"

-Bus, line 7, 36, 41, 43 y 141

-Special bus from Plaça Catalunya to Forum (from 22hs to 5:30hs)

In this festival you can enjoy of the

Sant Jordi a Barcelona the 24th of April

Like every year in Catalunya, and of course in Barcelona as well, the famous feast of Sant Jordi will be held on 23 and 24 of April. The city will be full of books and flowers. Tradition says that the men should give the women a rose and the woman a book to the men.

Some history:

Sant Jordi, knight and martyr, is the hero of a great history situated around the Montblanc.

A fierce and terrible monster was reacvhing the outskirts Montblanc, which had the powers to walk, fly and swing and to kill all breating beings.

The people thought that if they'd offer this monster each day a living person, it would not ruin right and left at will. Every day they picked at random a persom amongst all residents of the town, and that person would be delivered to the beast. This went on for a while and the monster was satisfied.

One day the fate wanted it to be the daugther of the king to be offered to the monster. There were citizens who volunteered to replace her, but the king was inexorable and severe, and with a heart full of grief he told his people that his daughter was also a resident of the town and would thus serve to offer to the beast. And so the princess was to be sacrified.

The girl was out the town and started walking toward the monster's lair. After some walking a young knight riding a white horse and golden armor presented himself to her. The princess told him to flee quickly since there was a fierce beast that wanted to eat all. The gentleman told her not to fea, as he had come for the purpose to fight the monster, kill him and liberate the princess -and all the citizens of Montblanc of this faith.

When the beast came, the princess was terrified though the knight felt stronger than ever, especially as he was defending this princess. The knight launced his spade and badly hurt the monster, bleeding him slowly and painfully to a miserable death. The knight, whos name was Jordi, tied the beast by the neck with a rope and returned with the princess and his prey to Montblanc. The king, so happy with the return of his daughter, offered the knight the hand of his daughter but Knight Jordi replied that he did not deserve such honor.

Then, Knight Jordi mysteriously disappeared, just he had appeared. Since then he lives in the heart of all Catalan people as Sant Jordi.