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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