Barcelona classic races

Montmeló recovers the spirit of Montjuïc during a weekend

Barcelona classic races

A trip to the past to awaken the memories of motor fans. From tomorrow Friday until next Sunday, the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, in Montmeló, will host the seventh edition of the Spirit of Montjuïc. It is a weekend of races and activities carried out with classic vehicles, the same models that were used in the old circuit of the so-called magical mountain of the Catalan capital in the competitions of the 60s and 70s.action mythical machines such as the Chevron B21, the Ferrari 512 or the Porsche 910, among many others.

The event is an ode to nostalgia in which, according to the organization, there are no “closed spaces” and fans can get close to the cars that they admired decades ago in Montjuïc. It is also a time when owners of old vehicles can enjoy the winding layout of Montmeló.

The program is completed with a wide range of activities. For example, a market is organized with vintage clothing and accessories, antiques, pieces for collection vehicles, magazines and vintage vinyl.

There is also an amusement area with merry-go-rounds, bumper cars and a circus like those of before with tribute to TV clowns and Charlie Rivel. Everything is enlivened with a series of musical performances. The organization encourages attending dress period and provides a hairdresser specialized in rockabilly environment.

Seat, which always collaborates with the initiative, will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of model 124 with an exhibition in its tent of 600 m2 2.“You can see the Seat a million, which commemorated when the brand reached that number of cars sold and raffled among employees,” explains the head of Historical Cars Seat, Isidre Lopez. He will also devise pedal vehicles with which children will be racing on board small replicas of vintage cars.

In addition, Seat will exhibit the first official car of rally driver Carlos Sainz, a Seat Panda who drove years before proclaiming himself world champion.

Another brand, Renault, takes the opportunity to organize the Passion Renault Experience and gives away free tickets. “It’s not a place to sell cars, we want to provide a positive experience for visitors to the event,” says Renault’s Communication Director in Spain, Javier Sánchez.

The French brand expects 25,000 attendees at its facilities in Montmeló, who will be able to test their latest news, electric vehicles and drive “competitive sports cars under the tutelage of drivers”. There will also be road safety workshops for children and various activities with the intention of creating a “family atmosphere”.

Finally, during the weekend the Clio Cup will take place, emblematic competition that this year also celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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Art management center in Barcelona

Artur Ramon from art gallery to art management center

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Artur Ramon Art, historic art gallery and antiques, will close next October local street of La Palla and will reopen at the end of the year or early 2017, in a space of 660 m2en Street Bailèn, ground and floor, old textile manufacturing and be accessed only by appointment. But beyond the change of location, it is “a change of business model with which we reposition ourselves and face the growth in the international market. We will no longer be a gallery open to the public exhibitions, and we will become a center of art management, “explains Artur Ramon, third generation of the family.

The gallery owner Ramon have documented activity since 1911 in Reus, and in the 20s the great-grandfather moved to Sitges. The current business grandfather started it in 1942 in Barcelona, and in 1989 expanded to father Artur Ramon gallery. “Fifteen years ago we started thinking about internationalization, it means to be in the best fairs: TEFAF Maastricht and the Paris Motor Show.” To take this step, Ramon explains, “we were coming generalist tradition, and we specialize in drawings.”

In this model change, Artur Ramon Art is inspired by what already works in London or New York, where there are “art management centers which also offer added value study, assessment or consultancy. We are not only dedicated to buy and sell standard product: there is a cultural, patrimonial background. A work study, valuation, now did tangentially, and we want to become part of our core business “. In parallel, he wants to focus his collection in a higher market segment: “In the coming years we plan to invest between 1.5 and 2 million pieces of quality to grow.”

The company, headed by Artur Ramon and his sons Artur and Mònica, employs seven people. Currently, drawing and painting and represent 80% of the business, which in the last year was about
2 million euros. 70% of sales are made to international customers, mainly collectors or museums ( “this year we sold two drawings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Fine Arts, Boston”).

His forecast is that “in four years we could double the volume of sales, not the number of operations”; currently, about 50 transactions performed
per year.

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Mas Pla-Ravetllat, the new cultural jewel of Barcelona

The estate of Dr. Pla, in the Guinardó, finally opens to the public with an initial selection of its exclusive collection of antiques

 

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Barcelona gains a new cultural center on Saturday with the opening to the public of Mas Ravetllat-Pla, a huge estate of Guinardó untill now unexplored by the locals. Located opposite the new hospital of Sant Pau, battered contains 3.3 hectares of vegetation will become public park in the next few years and a double entry palace was home laboratory and Nuria Pla (1916-2011), pioneer pharmaceutical and collecting in Catalonia. The premiere awakens a huge buzz in the neighborhood, since for decades all kinds of shady circulated rumors about the past and future of this great land.

The property houses a valuable collection of antiques -more than 850 pieces- and staged as an exhibition open center dedicated to art and science. It was built in 1928 the architect Adolf Florensa noucentista for example, which built the Cambo House Laietana and restored Tinell Salo, the Drassanes and the cloister of the Cathedral-and it was always for private use. The Pla Ramon Armengol, Nuria Pla sole heir and current manager of the property, Foundation plans to allocate part of the collection rooms, bring other House Museum and recover or recreate the medical library and veterinary-pharmaceutical laboratory of the century custody today the Faculty of Medicine of the UB. The building is listed and needed major rehabilitation, in which the foundation has spent more than a million euros.

The first public open space in the exhibition hall on the ground floor. It will show an anthology of furniture eighty diverse aesthetics and function, which reveal how the Catalan and Spanish bourgeoisie of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries lived. It can be visited free -Tuesday three days a week and Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning, always in groups of 10 people maximum and prior through the web of the foundation reserves. It is expected that about 500 people come every month for visits, but if demand increases could be extended opening hours. Antique furniture expert guides formed by the Estudi del Moble recognized association, explained to the audience the artistic value and curiosities of each object: secret compartments for jewelry, optical games with mirrors, hidden in desks, materials imported from overseas theaters … The stories can have a piece of furniture!

“A lot of antique pieces brought to this house, but Mrs Pla examined them carefully and buy only the truly exceptional,” says the lawyer Juan Ramon Ferrero, who runs the foundation and enforces the will of the owner very detailed. “I just wanted 100% original furniture: a single shooter that was spare and rejected them,” he says. For more than six decades enriched the collection with many different objects -Fitted, sculptures, chairs, mirrors, jewelry … – but the highlights were always sections of Spanish baroque table and cabinet or desk Salamanca, considered the most comprehensive in the world. In any international museum they would be in armored windows, but in the Ravetllat-Pla can be enjoyed just a few feet away.

Particularly noteworthy desk 1609 ivory and ebony, which can be admired in the video that accompanies this article. It represents the triumph of Felipe III through a detailed world map, recorded eight cities and all the portraits of the dynasty of Naples. “As it should be only 5 or 6 in the world,” says Miguel Angel Alarcia, Spanish antique furniture expert and adviser to the foundation. They also highlight the decorated cabinets with drawers and mirrors surprise, adds Monica Piera, president of Estudi del Moble and collaborator of the museum: “They were decorative objects for display, but with a component of scientific experimentation that has now completely lost in modern furniture “.

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New Barcelona Encants attract foreign visitors

The flavor of a old market and modern facilities are called to decentralize tourism in Barcelona.

The three young Americans gaping walk among the stalls of Encants. The eyes of the twenties in New York, Boston, and a small town in Oregon become magnified among promotional exaggerated cries of vendors, lots of antiques scattered on the ground, cover mirrors reflecting his astonishment … “No, I never saw anything like it-Sydney match, Meghan and Katie in the United States can find the free markets, where people go to sell their things, which is no longer missing … or maybe some farmers fairs . But I never saw anything like it so big, so organized and on top in such a modern building, so … so … European. “”And so alive.” “Yes, the place gives off a lot of energy.”

Shy but significantly foreigners, tourists, show themselves increasingly by new Encants, at least much more than they did on the old site. The City wants all the Glories serve to decentralize tourism in the city. “The increasingly touristy come mainly to watch and take pictures explains José Manuel Jiménez with his daughter. They are one of the families of the fastest-Encants … Before, the old, very few came, and always very scared, either clinging to their backpacks, fearful that robbed them at any time … Now are shocked, shocked, and get to photograph everything, people, vendors, building … Come two Moroccan discussing the price of a lot and marvel. But it takes a lot into the game, and what they say buy buy very little. “

The three Americans are part of a group of twenty students from IES Abroad Language, a center that organizes about three months stay in Barcelona. This is an exercise class. Gifts must be made between them. But the budget is two euros per gift, so that they are forced to haggle with the stallholders, to talk with them.

“Markets are everywhere explains Professor Ana Zaragoza, but the dimensions, modernity, the organization and especially the lives of Encants impress them a lot. Everyone knows the typical places of Barcelona, Rambla, Park Güell the Sagrada Família, but Encants provide them the opportunity to see the locals in their everyday lives, in their real life, and this makes them live a cultural experience that much appreciated. “The Councillor of Commerce, Raimond Blasi, explains that the new equipment is one of the pieces called reduce tourist pressure on the city center. Now they are taking the first steps to promote it. With caution. Nobody wants to die of success, no one wants the locals end up being a minority among other typical posts and corner of the city becoming an impersonal finish Laminated park, repeatable in any other big city.

All Glories area is increasing. The offer is completed by the Dhub, the Agbar Tower, the Auditorium, the National Theatre, Can Framis, the Glories shopping center … The problem are the drawbacks of works. Tour operators grouped in the Catalan employers Acave that it is still early to come up with new tours and packages, the works raise much uncertainty. Meanwhile the Encants be the typical recommended to do for free, add check. “We do not have statistics on the presence of tourists in the Encants, although we know that is increasing Blasi explains. Understand the new market can serve to decentralize tourism in Barcelona and will promote for it, but carefully. The encants can not lose their essence, are designed so that the locals buy and sell. “

” Tourists expect as the water May Pintorofiu explained in one of the most legendary shopping Encants . Van coming, slowly growing … What happens is that virtually opened in October and the new tourist season is yet to start . yet, at Christmas they noticed much , finding a different gift . “

The story illustrates the transformation Pintorofiu Encants . The Pintorofiu was one of the most famous old market stallholders . It was not called that. Are you a painter , artist , genius , figure … He personified what sold : a refrigerator , a chest or head stuffed boar. His articles were unique . Also insisted on talking all words ending in ofiu.Dalí could frequented the store. Once Gala became infatuated with a snake skin . Dalí was already enshrined . The Pintorofiu wanted to give a good price and was offended when Dalí began to dribble . Then all proud, Gala told him I caressed skin … And then it was Dali who was offended . The artist took a paper and drew a picture . And Pintorofiu folded twice and put it in the portfolio. No more was heard of that Dalí. Nobody knows what happened to that drawing. Now the position of Pintorofiu , hand their heirs, the original store is handmade gifts, sunglasses wooden frame , antique photo books , laminated hand drawn …

“Barcelona-say we love Cintia and Claudio, a bolognese partner while snooping shelves. Encants And being a surprise. The hotel was recommended. Had never seen a market with such high ceilings.”

Webs and Barcelona Tourism brochures include it for months among the attractions of the city. The tourist bus stops and next to Encants. Soon, very near a tourist information office will open. The hotel receptionists recommend visiting. Foreign journals compare it to the Flea Market Paris and Camden Town