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