Let’s Snow BCN 2016

Skiing, snowboarding, clothing … All the new equipment and ski resorts for the new season will be in Let’s Snow BCN 2016, the great ski and mountain festival that hosts from 11 to 13 November the Poble Espanyol

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After several years of emptiness in this sector, and with the aim of becoming a reference event of the ski and the mountain in the country, Let’s Snow BCN will be a great meeting point for lovers of snow and high mountain but also For the general family audience.

The 42,000 square meters of the Poble Espanyol – an emblematic site located in the heart of Montjuïc and very well connected with the center of Barcelona – give for much. In the large exhibition space you can get discounted ski passes, purchase tourist products and know the latest developments in the world of skiing and snow.
Let’s Snow has the participation of stations such as La Molina, Masella, Vallter 2000, Port Ainé, Espot, Vall de Núria, Boí Taüll, Aramón (mountains of Aragon) and Baqueira Beret, besides Tourism of Switzerland, Tourism of Austria, Tourism La Cerdanya, Les Neiges Catalanes and prestigious brands such as Völk, Head or Fischer, among others.
Three days of activities for all audiences

In addition to the great world of skiing and snowboarding, which will be distributed in different spaces of the site and will include equipment, travel agency stands and specialized stores, attendees of Let’s Snow BCN will be able to enjoy many other proposals: there will be a skating rink Of 120 m2, a gastronomic market with typical mountain products, a chill area with DJ’s (après-ski by Marchica included), an occasional market and outlet, screening of a selection of short films from Skimetraje (short film and ski festival) Snowshoeing in the Pyrenees) … And there will be no lack of participatory activities such as segway, alpine slalom online or roller ski, as well as workshops to learn how to properly maintain ski equipment, cooking workshops and showcookings.

Also note that the climber Ferran Latorre will present CAT14x800, a personal project with which he aims to become the first Catalan to reach the 14 highest tops of the planet, without oxygen. The well-known rider Aymar Navarro, for his part, will present the documentary South Lines.
The little ones will enjoy to the maximum in the adventure zone, where there will be a climbing wall, tirolina, an agility park and slackline. And the main course: the mushing! The children will meet Siberian Husky dogs and will be introduced to the sport of sleds pulled by these animals. They can interact with them, take pictures and even walk on a mountain skate pulled by these dogs, learning to give them the basic orders. The same sensations that are experienced when practicing this sport on the snow … but in this case on land and without leaving the city!
The Vaca Voltaire, a workshop where children will learn how to order cows as they used to, will complete the offer for children; And orienteering races, in which participants must complete a fun time trial route.
All activities are included with the entrance to the festival (except Tapas route). Prices: adults € 6 at the box office and € 5 purchase online. Children € 5 at the box office and € 4 purchase online
A festival with a prize!

One of the many spaces of Let’s Snow BCN 2016 will be presided over by a photocall in which the attendees will be able to make fun photos … but not only that! Hanging up the picture on Instagram with #SAMIZEDSUIZA and #LETSSNOWBCN, will enter the draw for a ski weekend in Switzerland (three hotel nights in Interlaken with a two-day pass and entrance to the Ice Magic ice skating rink for two people).
How to get:
Avinguda de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 13
08038 Barcelona

By public transport:
Metro: Parada Espanya (Line 1 and Line 3)
Train: Ferrocarrils Catalans FGC, Parada Espanya
Bus: Poble Espanyol stop from lines 13, 23 and 150
Tour Bus and Barcelona City Tour: Poble Espanyol
Coordinates: 41.368986, 2.148230
Link to map: Google Maps
Hours:
Inaugural Event Let’s Snow BCN 2016: Friday 10:30 a.m.
Zone Stations for the public: Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 10h a 20h
Holiday après-ski “Marchica-Aramón”: Friday and Saturday from 17: 30h to 21h

More information and advance sale of tickets at   poble español and www.letssnowbcn.com

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Slow food in the Eixample of BCN

Slow food in the Eixample of BCN

The Merchant of L’Eixample has begun strongly his career in the corner of the passage Mercader with Mallorca street. This house converted into a gastronomic restaurant welcomes ( “cuisine of Barcelona ‘claim) with the philosophy’ slow food ‘, the same applies in El Filete Ruso (one of his own boss in the new facility).

The Merchant of L’Eixample, whose bid avoids fancy stuff in the kitchen to highlight the quality of ingredients, have their own garden and ecological product works (try it Kilometer Zero). There are tapas to take at any time of day, plates (attention to the compelling simplicity of squid jigging) and suggestions of the month. Average price, 30 euros.

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BCN Tech City

Tech City signs contract to occupy the office building, which would come into operation in April

BCN Tech City

The BCN Tech City finally signed this Tuesday morning the rental contract offices at Palau de Mar to turn on the “home of entrepreneurs” of Barcelona. The building, with 10,000 m2, is owned by the Port and manages the company Portico de Mar.

“It will be one of the venues of the world’s largest enterprise,” said Miguel Vicente, president of Tech City cluster, which groups 240 members representing more than 300 companies in the digital world, plus 24 transverse partners, from financial to real estate.

The Tech City, which directs Miquel Martí, has negotiated for months to get this iconic location, it becomes an international benchmark in Barcelona’s ecosystem. The Palau de Mar will host connector, Antai-BeRepublic, 101 Startups, m-VenturesBCN, or Genapp Glover. It is expected to become operational in April.

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Evolution of the universe

Exhibition ‘Accelerating Science’ at the CosmoCaixa in BCN

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CosmoCaixa Barcelona presents the exhibition entitled ‘Accelerant science “, where a visual spectacle in which the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present explains offered. A sample produced by the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) with the aim of spreading its research while seeking to raise public awareness of its usefulness.

The viewer will know, from different interactive methods, such as the CERN carried out investigations of the fundamental particles that make up the universe, inviting him to wonder what exactly are these particles and what the various families that compose them are.

The exhibition, already present in different European cities, will run until January 10. Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10-20 h. Also Monday holidays. General admission: 4 euros.

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Iron Maiden perform at the Rock Fest Bcn

The band has announced three dates in Spain in their world tour ‘The Book of Souls’

Iron Maiden in BCN

Iron Maiden have announced three dates in Spain in their 2016 world tour, presenting his latest album, The Book of Souls. The English band will perform at festivals Resurrection Fest and Rock Fest BCN, and will at the same date BarclayCard Center of Madrid, all in July.

The first stop of the tour will be in the Resurrection Fest Viveiro (Lugo, July 9), then it will turn to Madrid (July 13, BarclayCard Center), before participating in the Rock Fest BCN (July 16 in Santa Coloma).

In a statement on the website of the festival, singer Bruce Dickinson commented. “We are delighted to return to Barcelona, ​​and act on Rock Fest Barcelona have not decided the set list that we offer at the concert, but we’d play some new songs from our latest album “. “As long as we do not see, I can assure you that we will include our great classics. I think the show delighted with the thought that we shall be left fans,” he added.

Madrid Tickets go on sale on 16 December (pre-sale will be the band’s website from 14); for other appointments, fertilizers are already on sale.

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Donizetti Opera in Barcelona

The Liceu welcomes the debut of Juan Diego Florez in ‘Lucia di Lammermoor

Juan Diego Flórez at the Liceu in BCN

The Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez debut on December 4 in the role of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, reaching the Liceu with a staging of Damiano Michieletto dominated by a leaning tower of nine meters high, which go up interpreters repeatedly.

Florez shown today very proud to debut in a role that “have interpreted all the great” and recalled that the first thing he saw was the Edgardo Alfredo Kraus in New York, and was “very impressed”.

“I was very young he remember- -HA. Just leave my country and had no money for the cheapest ticket. I was lucky that the security worker was waiting at the door gave me an entry that was left over. I will never forget.”

It has been many years since that time and Flórez has not decided to tackle this role up to now: “It is true that throughout my career I have played harder than this role, but Edgardo requires a specific vocalism for which I now feel prepared, “he said.

The singers represent their roles in a market dominated by a leaning tower suggesting “the distortion of a world that is falling” scenario, he has clarified the artistic director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Christina Scheppelmann.

The soprano Elena Moşuc added that this tower of glass cutting and cold also represents distortion Lucia character she plays a woman who goes mad after facing a hostile environment, which forces her to marry to preserve the power of his family.

The tower is where Lucia shows the situation of women will be isolated and the prison will only death.

During the mad scene, certainly one of the most famous operatic repertoire, soprano is forced to run and climb stairs by a crooked tower, which is especially difficult in the bel canto, a vocal style that needs “of a perfect vocal and breathing techniques, “as pointed Mosuc.

Fortunately for the interpreter, as she has explained, the director has given freedom to move at their own pace in this scene because otherwise reach the end “without breath.”

The soprano who will alternate in the role with Elena , Maria Jose Moreno, ratified the difficulty of the mad scene, but said that “worth” because it “quite shocking”.

The two tenors who play Edgardo Juan Diego Florez and Ismael Jordi, clarified climbing the tower less than her co-stars, which allows them to be “comfortable” and “favoring the bel canto” said Florez.

The work is “a lot of frills and phrases with very colorful requiring filigree work,” stressed Mosuc, and the musical director, Marco Armiliato, is clear that “we must show the singers” and “the orchestra has to support without cover”.

Juan Diego Florez has acknowledged he has had little time to prepare the role and the tests “still had things” we did not know, but trust your “good memory” because, until now, never failed.

Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, is one of the most popular works of bel canto and the debut of Juan Diego Florez “is very attractive to the public,” said Christina Scheppelmann, who has been very satisfied with the pace of ticket sales .

“We already have 75% of capacity sold on average and in some functions arrived at 90%,” he pointed Scheppelman.

The overall figures are also “very good” and that since the start of the season the occupancy rate was 98% on average, depending on the direction of Barcelona opera arena.

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Fashion Barcelona

This weekend we celebrate the second edition of the Ethical Fashion Fest BCN, sustainable fashion festival in Barcelona

BCN Ethical Fashion Fest

The second edition of the Ethical Fashion Fest BCN (BEFF), the sustainable fashion festival in Barcelona, ​​the Catalan capital has become a benchmark for the slow fashion southern Europe, takes place this weekend. Organized by the Association for Sustainable Fashion Barcelona, ​​the event brings together more than 45 fashion brands ethics historic building of the University of Barcelona in 2 days that seeks to encourage another way of fashion.

This year the festival, which encourages and promotes another way to produce and consume fashion is the guest country Argentina. Have also been prepared parades, lectures and screening of audiovisuals. The schedule is Saturday 11.00 to 21.00 and on Sunday from 10.00 to 14.00.

The gateway stores and ephemeral find independent designers, local fashion brands for adults and children, and sustainable fashion boutiques of the capital, both associated and non-associated Sustainable Fashion Barcelona. The talks focus on the environment, the social impact of textile production and healthy lifestyle, among other topics.

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Vintage markets “made in Barcelona”

Lovers of vintage markets, design ‘made in Barcelona’ and music outside, these are your appointments

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Lovers of vintage markets, recycling, design and art made in Barcelona, ​​compulsive hunting opportunity seekers, fans of live music (also in autumn) … These are your appointments weekend:

Surely the name Flea Market tells you something, and On The Garage? Two of the markets second favorite for lovers of vintage clothing hand Barcelona have agreed to a joint appointment marked this weekend to recycling lovers can not miss.

The flea markets are living a second youth in the city with appointments and appointments that regularly crowd the agenda. On the occasion of the celebration of the 6th edition of the R-Festa (with the three 2R “most loved: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle), they have aligned positions to collaborate on a large market that will take place this Sunday (November 22) La Puça de Gràcia.

There are 200 stalls with every imaginable installed on recycling aspects: will quote bicycle repair shops, customization of clothing, repair of computers … all enlivened with DJs and live concerts in small format. Its leitmotiv is clear: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and aims also merge entertainment and recycling at a party that is referenced in Barcelona.

Oh Happy Markets

The TCM2 Mataro building hosting this weekend a meeting in which the originality and talent are cover letter for a wide range of proposals for the whole family. There food tricks appointment, proposals for shopping will find original gifts ahead of Christmas music, craft workshops, fashion and accessories … Oh Happy Markets (Saturday and Sunday, from 10.00 to 22.00. Input 2 euros).

Tilos Market

Another weekend appointments revolves around the design and gourmet cuisine. Tilos Market updates its concept giving space to big names in design and decor, with its particular and special proposals. Boutiques include Passage, Recdi8 or object of desire, all of great style and popularity in Barcelona, ​​show their creations to the public. The appointment is complemented by a gastronomic hand of its 100% organic meats and craftsmanship of Cornelia & Co; oysters accompanied by a glass of white wine from La Belle Huître and tasting good Jamoncito the cut made a selection of top quality hams.

Mary Boone Bar puts the fun note with a selection of cocktails, like the café Buvette prepare its colorful cookies known to occasion. Other culinary offerings that will be part of Tilos Market Home Delicatesssen be known for their packaged or Puyvalin Maison, with a wide range of French products such as cheese or foie.

Influx Festival

Upstairs BCN

On the eve of winter and when many of the terraces of hotels in Barcelona have closed, some are reluctant to stop living outdoor experiences.

The opportunity this weekend is a chamber concert with members of the Metropolitan Orchestra of Barcelona in a private terrace of Ciutat Vella. Upstairs BCN holds open the best roofs of the city to offer quality leisure activities from above. To welcome the Barcelona winter this Sunday November 22 at 12.00 h Upstairs BCN offers the opportunity to enjoy a chamber concert in a private terrace on Plaça Reial, in the central district of Ciutat Vella, with a quintet Aloma string formed by Ruiz and Clara N.Joan (violin), Manuel Esteban (viola), Dimitri Dolganov (cello), Dimitri Yaroslavtsev (bass), members of the Metropolitan Orchestra of Barcelona.

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Caixaforum of Barcelona mutated in Versailles

Le Brun’s drawings made for the Hall of Mirrors at the royal palace come to Barcelona

Charles Le Brun in Caixaforum BCN

Unpacking boxes, bulbs for placing and pictures to hang. This is the material that builds up in the rooms of CaixaForum where November 18th will wear the exhibition ‘Drawing Versailles. Sketches and cartoons by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) ‘.

These days it touches the sample is mounted. And there are the experts removing the packaging of the pieces that arrived last week directly from the Louvre in Paris. They did properly protected as boxes, air conditioning and anti-vibration systems, which are something extremely fragile works of art. The last to come out has done this Thursday from the bowels of his protective shell has emerged a beautiful drawing of Pluto of 131 x 111 cm. Their fate has been a niche embedded in the wall then sealed with glass. The light that illuminates missing. It will dim. Not more than 50 lux. Things of the fragile paper.

Pluto looks and with Hercules, another drawing of the same characteristics presented at the same conditions-under one cover that reproduces the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, space where Le Brun made paintings left from the drawings . Both Pluto and Hercules are fragments of the central part of the composition of the roof, one that shows the episode “The king rules the world ‘with a Louis XIV idealized manning the helm of state surrounded by mythological figures. And other sketches of the same composition, the room also meets the sketches of one of the fragments of the Franco-Dutch War, another reason of Versailles ceiling frescoes. Thursday also were unpacking.

The ceiling of the great room of the official residence of the kings of France is not the only rebuilt in CaixaForum, in the adjoining room you can see part of the staircase of the Ambassadors, the plan to impress and coerce visits Luis XIV Access .

The paintings that were to dazzle the guests also came from the hand of Le Brun. And his sketches, of course, hang in this room. Everything, from November 18, with an entry to the exhibition refers to Versailles. Also in the assembly process, as no.

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The Mobile World Centre in BCN creates a School of Entrepreneurship

It will provide training in areas such as development of business ideas, identifying opportunities and business plan development

Mobile World Centre Barcelona

The Mobile World Centre (MWCentre), driven by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona and Telefonica will launch a school for entrepreneurs with free weekly training from November 18, announced Monday its promoters said in a joint statement.

Entrepreneurs School will provide every Wednesday afternoon workshops, conferences and training sessions focused on the development of business ideas, identifying opportunities, developing the business plan and information about developments or legislative reforms.

The courses are aimed at entrepreneurs and business people who have a viable project for the creation or expansion of business, and in each of the courses may participate up to 20 people.

Attendees are selected according to their concerns, interests and ability to compromise with the demands of the program to “achieve a high utilization of the sessions.”

The initiative comes after the first year of operation of the School of MWCentre, aimed at the general public and has already trained 3,500 people in technology in 420 courses explained.

For the first year of the School of MWCentre, also free and open access to all citizens, has offered activities in various areas: conferences and informative talks on trends and developments; monographic workshops with resolution of questions and debate; and management of devices and applications guided by an expert.

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The brotherhood of beer

Mikkeller, one of the most prestigious craft beers in the world, opens in BCN

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Thomas Rohde has not exactly look of a big beer drinker. Although the gasket 40, her belly is a plain. Front profile, sitting. Nothing, not an abdominal fold. Then he explains that makes triathlons, who has run several Iron Man, and of course that’s impossible that fits any residue that emparente with Homer Simpson. But the cloth known as a sage. “In fact, beer is a good recovery. It has protein, minerals … And was invented to kill bacteria from dirty water. ”

Rohde was born in Denmark and has spent 15 years in Barcelona. He works as a business consultant and has now been put into a business after tomorrow opens its doors in the city (Calle Valencia, 202). Expanding of handcrafted beers, Mikkeller lands, one of the most valued brands in the world, which produces Mikkel Borg Bjergsø. It has recruited as partners in this Viking voyage to own Thomas Rohde and Jacob Alsing, aspiring to follow in the footsteps of Alan Simonsen, Michael Laudrup and chain stores gossip various Tiger, perhaps along with shortbread and chair Jacobsen The roof of knowledge of contemporary world for the average Danish Catalan.

The three -Mikkel, Thomas and Jacob have been friends since childhood but have followed very different paths. Alsing, for example, was an army officer in Afghanistan and even served for a few months. The beer has gathered, is a sacred liquid in Denmark, a country where Carlsberg, a brewer, is the fourth most powerful company, it rubs shoulders with the banks (and certainly is much nicer). “Share, family, help, that’s all very Danish”, says Rohde.

Hundreds of varieties

Mikkel is a “master” of hops, barley, aromas and imaginative preparations. It has developed hundreds of varieties and some exceptional creations can cost one hundred euros. For some potions distributes select the two best restaurants in the world, El Celler de Can Roca and Noma, whose menus for specialty beers has conceived. But, says Rohde, ‘do not panic’ in the local Eixample prices will be “fit for every budget.”

Mathematician and physicist by training, Mikkel has a personal history with their point of bitterness. Evil Twin, besides being a Korean horror film, a song by Arctic Monkeys and other Eminem, is the brewer Jeppe Jarnit Bjergsø: evil twin. Jeppe and Mikkel brothers are identical twins and, to put it mildly and not digress, long a beer together, a “cainismo “the Danish press has stretched often does not take. Jeppe, as his clone, is obsessed with this drink, but everyone is on his own. Mikkel lives in Copenhagen, Jeppe in Brooklyn.

In a report published in The New York Times on these two ill-assorted geniuses, Jeppe recounted a revealing anecdote: “We were born two minutes apart. I was supposed to check out, but it was misplaced and had to perform a caesarean, so he ran out first. I like to say that my brother gave me problems even before birth. ” Its high sense of competitiveness was kindled during his childhood years when they went to athletes and fought races as if they were living. And adults, Mikkel opened its first brewery in the basement of Copenhagen. Some time later, Jeppe was established with an identical business next door.

Mikkel will spend these days in Barcelona, ​​assisting in the birth of her new baby (already seven other bars all over the world). For the opening on Friday, his friend Thomas throws a hook or Abdul Jabbar: “There will be 500 free beers!”.

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Barcelona will be home to entrepreneurs

Tech City cluster drives a large area of activity that should be operational in February

Barcelona Tech City

Barcelona years boiling in digital entrepreneurship issues. But London and Berlin as European leaders in technology venture capital, entrepreneurs themselves were the first and second generation of digital businesses created in Barcelona who saw the need to join forces to gain visibility and international importance. Thus was born in 2012 Ecommerce & Tech Barcelona, ​​a cluster renamed Barcelona Tech City, which is now about to get what will be his first major milestone: a corporate headquarters that will be both a great campus where they will live up to half hundred companies, an activity center, coworking space and meeting point for national and international actors when they are in town. A likeness of the Factory of Berlin, the Google Campus in London or Boston CIC. A place where a young entrepreneur to be in the bar with a colleague to compare ideas, or match the elevator with a renowned innovator or senior investor. A place in which these contacts happen and be fruitful and become an international reference.

The idea of ​​Bcn Tech City is that this “home of entrepreneurs” Barcelona will be operational before the celebration of the upcoming Mobile World Congress (late February 2016). And if anything goes wrong (even the last remaining sign contracts) will be located in Palau de Mar. It is a landmark building, built in 1881 as a port warehouse, and in recent years, until 2012, had housed the Department Social Welfare. There are the Museu d’Historia de Catalunya and several dining options. And some technology companies: Holaluz, Tiendeo, letgo and PGI-BIS Engineering Structures.

Palau de Mar has 10,000 m2, of which 7,500 would manage Tech City. The building is owned by the Port of Barcelona, ​​which in its board last September agreed to extend five years, until 2024, granting the company Portico Mar, who was authorized “to reform of the building to implant companies in the field digital and technology “, according to the Port.

Sources close to the cluster recognize that the project for a new headquarters began a year and a half, and in finding alternative location have been studied as a building in Poblenou, or Casc Antic, but the Palau de Mar It is the preferred option. In this bet, the Bcn Tech City has the support of institutions, mainly the Generalitat (Accio), the City Council (through Barcelona Activa) and the Port.

The “house of entrepreneurs” is intended as a complementary figure to existing initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, as Barcelona Activa, or incubators or accelerators. In fact, close sources said that probably some of the big city such as accelerators or Conector- SeedRocket could be transferred to Palau de Mar. “The need for this large space exists, and is a model that works well in other cities” recognize. While in Barcelona Activa, for example, companies can be from birth to age three, the Palau de Mar will host companies that already have some traction, and the rotation should be the result of evolutions own businesses.

BCN Tech City, chaired Miguel Vicente (founder of Letsbonus, Antai, Wallapop) and directs Miquel Martí, is a nonprofit association that represents most of the digital and technological ecosystem: entrepreneurs, investors, corporations or institutions. In 2014 the sector in Barcelona billed 6,000 million euros, three times in 2012, and these companies employ about 10,000 people.

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Carles Abellan opened the first restaurant with his name in Barcelona city

Finally closed its starry Comerç 24

Carles-Abellan in fron of the new restaurant in BCN

Almost a year after temporarily close the Comerç 24, the creative tapas restaurant with which got a star in the Michelin Guide 2008, the chef Carles Abellan finally decided to close it and prepare for the opening by early 2016, La Carles Abellan bar, in Barceloneta.

This is a local one hundred square meters at number 19 of the Passeig Joan de Borbó, which will have a terrace where the bar will be the linchpin. Abellan wants to pay tribute to the stews of Barceloneta, some of which have disappeared. “There will be three or four chefs Guisen well and will work against the client will be zarzuelas, lobster stew, bullit of fish, rice, and probably incorporate some dishes of the lagoon, such as those prepared with eel;. And a section Very simple dishes made with garden produce. ”

Account chef looking for waiters with years of occupation. “I liked the initiative that once drove Kim Diaz to hire over fifty years to one of its local, because I think that experience is a great value in this profession not often not taken sufficiently into account.”

In the first establishment who puts his name, retold as a partner with Javier Cotorruelo (Coto), who opened the Suculent and Suculent The taverna in the Raval. Abellan, who has been one of the great defenders of quality tapas in Barcelona, ​​does not want to give up the tapas, which identifies some stores, but explains that this time give more prominence to stews. The offer of the new bar will therefore be very different from the Tapas 24 (which a few months ago opened new premises at the Camp Nou) or Suculent saucers. “I knew I wanted to go for the Barceloneta and the products of its market, I buy for years but unfortunately can no longer myself down every evening.” That it’s a neighborhood known, which has good friends like Gabriel Fort, El Vaso de Oro, or as Quim Marques, of El Suquet de l’Almirall, and where he owns La Guingueta, facing the sea. Therefore it is no stranger degradation of some of the restaurants in Joan de Borbó. He has attended the phenomenon as an expression La Vanguardia in an interview last June, the transfer of some local life, which have been handed over to Pakistani and continue announcing and traditional, with the same name, and a disastrous deal. “Not that I want to help raise the gastronomic level of the neighborhood, or anything, but I’m excited to put my two cents in a part of town where you have to live historic houses such as La Cova Smoked or so others, others that they are opened. ”

Besides having raised the bar tops, paid tribute Abellán in Suculent, economic menus served in the past in Barcelona’s old taverns, and restaurant Bravo is exploring old cookbooks to recover history cuisine in town. Now is the turn of the dishes from the sea. To return to the city simple and other dishes for special occasions such as zarzuela.

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The best music documentary at the In-Edit in BCN

The festival Beefeater In-Edit 2015 arrived in Barcelona from 29th October to 8th November, with almost fifty films ready to be devoured by lovers of musical theater | This year, the documentary on cult figures such as electronic duo Daft Punk, punk jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

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The festival Beefeater In-Edit 2015 arrived in Barcelona from 29th October to 8th November with nearly fifty music documentaries. This year include films about cult figures such as electronic duo Daft Punk, punk jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Other artists who star in the documentaries this year are The Jam, John Cage, Wilko Johnson, Nina Simone, James Brown, Kurt Cobain and Sparks, plus REM, Backstreet Boys, Bunbury, Dusminguet and Elliott Murphy.

The program also includes films dedicated to labels like Dischord Records and Disc BCore and other issues such as the electronic scene of Berlin during the Cold War, the metal festival Wacken Open Air and the origins of punk in Washington during the eighties.

The director honored this year is Britain’s Tony Palmer. In the festival will screen some of his most outstanding music documentaries (on The Beatles, Leonard Cohen and Maria Callas). In addition, Palmer will give a master class at the Palau de la Música.

7Although the festival has a core Barcelona, ​​also screened films Bilbao from 28 to 31 October; Madrid, from 6 to 8 November, and Valencia, from 13 to 15 November. In addition, 80% of the programming will be available online.

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Mercat de Mercats (BCN) have to Peruvian cuisine as guest of honor at the 6th edition

From Friday 23th to Sunday October 25th at “Avinguda de la Catedral”stands the locals gather markets

Mercat de Mercats Barcelona

Peruvian cuisine is one of the protagonists of the Mercat de Mercats which comes as a guest country. From Friday 23th to Sunday 25th October at “Avinguda Catedral” host of this gastronomic shows that become the center of Barcelona in a street market where the locals market stallholders, restaurant owners and Catalan food and wine producers are concentrated.

During this 6th edition emphasis on Peruvian cuisine and inexhaustible pantry products from its vast geography will. Peru is one of the latest kitchens that have come to Barcelona as restaurants and great public success.

In the food fair they have scheduled a series of activities in classrooms and Gourmet Tasting, including presentations on the Lima ceviche or cause, among others, led by internationally renowned chefs as Victor Gutierrez (1 Michelin star and 2 suns Repsol), Jorge Muñoz (1 Michelin star) or Acurio and some members of his gang of “tiger’s milk”.

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200 exhibitors at the fair culinary Degusta

The Barcelona Degusta kicks off 2015 with a significant presence of organic products and fair trade

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Square Universe of Fira de Barcelona has become these days, a space for trucks kitchen on wheels, also known as food trucks. There are about twenty and offer all kinds of food and drinks. A few meters away, the urban gardens welcome a food festival, Barcelona Degusta , ​​which aims to be a meeting point for lovers of gastronomy.

There are 186 exhibitors brimming over with all types of food, from cheese to meats, nuts and organic bread. Catalan products with denomination of origin and the rest of Spain, moreover, can be tasted.

Besides discover and taste new products also can participate. The fair organized by 90 different activities, and for all ages, some of which are headed by Michelin starred chefs like Joan Roca or Ada Parellada.

Kitchen with food waste
In addition to showing the latest culinary Barcelona Degusta reserve a space for awareness on the use of food. Some NGOs such as Action Against Hunger and Oxfam Intermón have a presence there and put everyone quality products such as sugar, coffee or chocolate, made in other countries and in the best conditions.

BCN & CAKE: The sweetest part of the festival

The Barcelona Degusta has added to its range BCN & CAKE exhibition, fair cakes and pastries considered one of the most important events in southern Europe. Thus the offer is extended in exhibitions chocolates, cakes and sweets.

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The awakening of the Casa Batllo in BCN

On the occasion of the festival La Merce, the facade will be lit with a spectacular audiovisual 3D projection

Mapping of Casa-Batllo

Casa Batllo, one of the most emblematic buildings of Gaudi in Barcelona celebrates its tenth anniversary as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. For this reason, during the festival of La Merce, its facade is illuminated with an audiovisual / mapping projection, and a performance in which the participation of more than 20,000 people are expected. A spectacle of light, music and color that will show the hidden legends in different corners of the cover: the yawns, masks, water, bones and dragon.

The screening will take place today September 23th, it will last 30 minutes and two passes are made: at 21:00 and 22:30. Also, before each screening, a gesture, attendees ‘awaken the Dragon’ now sleeping under the roof through the synchronization of their smartphones, in a spectacular telematics unprecedented.

This act can be followed via streaming http://mapping.casabatllo.cat/.

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90 activities and 10 Michelin stars at Barcelona Degusta

The food festival will be held from 24th to 27th September at the Fira Montjuïc participants known as Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda Christian Escribà

Barcelona-Degusta-2015

The Barcelona Degusta food festival offers more than 90 activities to try and buy the best food production. Among the activities you can find lectures, workshops, tastings, stories or films.

Festival categoriacom participating chefs Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda, Fermin Puig, Nandu Jubany or Ada Parellada and master bakers as Christian Escribà or David Pallàs.

Children are also players in the area Taste Kids, designed so they know the food and experience there. Also, chocolate lovers and crafts can enjoy the sweet BCN & CAKE, the international fair of confectionery creative, this year joins Barcelona Degusta.

The agenda also includes the activities planned living outdoors that are held in place in the universe of the fairgrounds. In addition to a picnic area and an urban garden, settles a dining area caravans presenting the latest trends in cuisine street.

Barcelona Degusta also has a large market in the best national food production, with a special role of handcrafted creations.

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The biggest events of the Mercè 2015 BCN

The festival fills the city of Barcelona from 18th to 24th September with a dense program of activities

Piromusical Mercè-2015-BCN

The 2015 Mercè arrives in Barcelona on Friday 18th and filled with culture, tradition and party the Catalan capital until Thursday September 24th, with a comprehensive program that includes more than 500 events for all tastes and ages. The Barcelona festival, which this year has a budget of 3.1 million euros will again attract thousands of people to acts so ingrained as cercaviles of popular culture or Piromusical, but also offer new features and surprises, as an airplane become art scene in the Ciutadella or a constellation of tango exhibitions arrivals directly from Buenos Aires, which is the guest city this year. Andreu Buenafuente will be responsible for giving the go-ahead with the opening, while the poster for this edition is the work of Irish painter Sean Scully, based in Barcelona.

The musical program of BAM and Mercè Music concerts offer far-reaching as the Forum consolidated nights or return to the stage Mediterràniament Bogatell Beach, which opened last year. Besides the Mostra d’Associacions held two decades with its own program of activities, among which there will be a special concert program LaVanguardia.com acustik on Sunday 20th September. No shortage of popular concerts in front of the former factory of Estrella Damm, like the top artists that will bring the Reina Maria Cristina avenue three leading radio stations. In addition, Montjuïc Castle will host an intense weekend of circus and the Parc de la Ciutadella revelation-the scene in recent years, with a huge public-assistance proposals strengthen the programming day and night. The Palauet Albéniz reopen doors to the public-just that many museums of the city and be surrounded by family shows and dance esbarts. Nor they will fail acts that have so faithful as year after year enjoy the day castellera Day Merce this time without municipal authorities in precedente- Mass, the videomapping on the facade of the town hall and massive public sporting events as the Cursa de la Merce and swim across the harbor.
Not to be missed in the program of events, this selection of the biggest events summarizes the main highlights and news from the celebrations of the Mercè 2015.

Proclamation and tap Start

Friday 18 at 19h in the Town Hall of Barcelona, ​​by Andreu Buenafuente. Simultaneously and to 21h, the main groups of popular culture and will travel Ciutat Vella festive elements in the Toc d’Inici. At the point of departure, the Palau de la Virreina (Rambla 99) the Guild of Bakers and distributed platform Panàtics pa amb oli picnic. It will also open the festival the recovered ringing bells of all the churches of the Gòtic neighborhood. From the roof consistorial fireworks will be launched.

Popular culture

– Days Adifolk: International Folklore Festival will fill the whip Moll Sunday 24 20. Closing Thursday at 20: 15h at Sant Jaume square.
– Mostra Gegants Drassanes (Saturday 19th, 18h, La Rambla) and XXII Mostra Balls of Gegants (Thursday 24, 11h, Plaza Sant Jaume)
– Moixiganga (Sat 19, 16: 30h, Place de la Mercè)
– ‘Matí bastoner’ (Sunday 20th, 10h, Sant Jaume to Portal de l’Angel)
– Falcons (Sun 20, 10: 30h, Avenue of the Cathedral Plaza Sant Jaume)
– 65th contest sardanas (Sunday 20th, 11h, Cathedral)
– Doubles casteller: colles invited Xiquets Valls Jove and Minyons Terrassa near Barcelona Castellers in castellera Festa (Sunday 20th, 12h, Sant Jaume square); while local hold a National Day of the patron saint’s day (Thursday 24th, 12: 30h, Sant Jaume)
– Seguici of Mercy with historical figures (Thursday 24, 12, Merce Sant Jaume)
– Children and adult Correfoc (Sun 20, 18: 30h and 20: 30h, Via Laietana), preceded by the Tabalada Infernal, the Ceptrotada and Porta de l’Infern
– The Great Cavalcade of Mercy (Thursday 24, 18h, Pelai Sant Jaume)
Mappings
– Retrats of Barcelona on the facade of the City (Friday 18 to Thursday 24, every night)
– Awakening Dragon Casa Batllo (Wednesday 23, 21h and 22: 30h, Passeig de Gràcia 43)

Concerts

– Free Spirits Big Band & The Petit de Cal Eril + Sisa, Portet i Oliver: Friday 18 from 22: 30h on Avenida de la Catedral
– Maria del Mar Bonet: Saturday 19, at 00: 30h in the Avenue de la Catedral
– Concert acustik Vanguard: Obeses, Pepet i Marieta and Owls: Sunday 20, from 21h in the Plaza Catalunya
– Concert RAC105: Coriola Blaumut and Saturday 19 at 21h in Plaza Catalunya
– The Malaga: Sunday 20 at 22: 30h at Sant Jaume Square
– The Gossa Deaf and Aspencat: Friday 18, starting at 23: 59h, Esplanada stage at the Forum
– Mishima and Delorean: Saturday 19, from 23: 30h, stage platform at the Forum
– Joan Dausà, Friends of the Arts, Els Catarres and Oques Grasses: miércoles23, at 21, Mediterràniament stage in Bogatell

Beach

– OBC and Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu: Tuesday 22 at 22: 15h and Thursday 24 at 20: 30h, respectively, in the Cathedral Avenue
– Miquel Abras and Macaco: Friday 18 from 23: 30h on Avenida Reina Maria Cristina
– Enric Verdaguer, Projecte Mut, Els Pets and Gertrudis: Saturday from 19 to 21h in the Avenue Reina Maria Cristina
– Hall Effect and Maldita Nerea: Sunday 20 from 21h in the Avenue Reina Maria Cristina
– Nuria Graham: Saturday 19 at 22: 30h at the Joan Coromines Square
– Metz and Vetiver: Friday 19 and Saturday 19, respectively, at 00: 45h in the Plaza dels Angels
– Jupiter Lion, Nueva Vulcano and Los Punsetes: Saturday 19 from 21: 30h on stage at the Forum Amfiteatre
– Ocellot, Senior i Cor Brutal and Crystal Fighters: Saturday from 19 to 19h before the former Estrella Damm Factory
– ‘BAM Family’ with Joan Colomo, Maria Rodés, The Free Fall Band … Thursday December 24 to 18 hours in the Plaza dels Angels

Open doors

– Palauet Albéniz: free admission on Saturday 19 and Sunday November 20 to 21h, with lots of shows and entertainment for family audiences, as cercavila of Always Drinking (Saturday, 20: 30h), and Sardana dance esbarts (during both days), the tiny Punk Cinema Caravan (12-15h and 17-21h) and Mumusic Circus (13: 30h and 17: 30h both days), plus the cuisine of food-trucks of Van Van.
– Numerous cultural venues provide free access to their permanent collections on the day of the patron saint, Thursday 24: Picasso museums, Blau Maritim, MNAC, Can Framis, of Design, of Cultures of Mon, Archaeology, MUHBA (different locations) , History of Catalunya, MACBA, Olympic, Music, MEAM and Frederic Marès and the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes and the Botanical Jardi.

Fireworks

– Festival fireworks on the beach of Barceloneta: Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 22h, with the help of the Balearic pyrotechnics Jordà and Argentina Cadenaci.
– Piromusical Thursday at 22h 24 on Avenida Reina Maria Cristina

Ciutadella Park

– Airplane Navecultural: an old passenger ship converted into exhibition space, visited Friday 18 to Thursday 24 next to the Glorieta.
– Wandering Orquestra: Funeral and humorous orchestra, on 19, 20 and 24. Traveling.
– Tango: different areas of the park allow to approach the Argentine dance par excellence, through projections 360, displays and acrobatics.
– Full Dome Done: surround projections animation, video art and music, from Friday 18 to Thursday 24.
– Origin, Thomas Noone Dance and Dance Conservatory of the Institut del Teatre: Saturday 19 to Thursday 24, around the plane Navecultural.
– Interval of the Central del Circ: own show of the center of Barcelona’s creation, which includes street musicians and acrobats, from Monday 21 to Thursday 24
– Urban Dance with Brodas Bros (Saturday 19 to Thursday 24) and Merce HOP 2015 (Thursday 24) in the scenario Urbà
– Vintage Park Attractions Antigua i Barbuda (Friday 18 to Thursday 24) and Gourmet Corner Marketplace Van Van
– Narcissus Franc Aleu and Joan Bofill: audiovisual and participatory show Friday 18 to Thursday 24.
Circus Montjuïc Castle
– Combinat of circ: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, with six different companies
– Baljaeju National Circus Pyongyang: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20

Trade shows

– Mostra de vins i caves: Saturday 19 to Thursday 24 on Paseo Lluís Companys
– 64th Book Fair Ocasió d’Antic i Modern: September 18 to October 4 at Passeig de Gràcia
– 20th Mostra ‘Associations of Barcelona: from Friday 18 to Thursday November 24 to 19h in Plaza Catalunya, with its own program of performances, exhibitions, workshops and children’s gymnastics, among many other proposals.

And also…

– Gran Milonga in the Mercat de les Flors: masterclass for novice and professional display on Thursday from 24 to 18h. Free but you must pre-book entry.
– Thai Night in the modernist Sant Pau (Wednesday 23, 18 to 21h), free entrance with prior reservation.

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Promising young dance form in Barcelona

The BCN City Ballet Project provides an opportunity for young dancers to work around the concept of a show

Promising young dance in Barcelona

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It is the second time that the International Dance Competition City of Barcelona provides some of the participants special prize BCN City Ballet Project. “In the event there are grants and stays in big companies but we thought it was time to do something in the city, so this project was born,” said Georgina Rigola, director of the project and the event.

The dancers and artists chosen by the jury come to Barcelona where they work for 3 months in the conception of a show from the beginning to the estrena.Un process that helps them prepare for the professional world through the cultural exchange with students from around the world and through master classes and international choreographers.

This year, part six dancers between 16 and 21 years old from Argentina, Cuba and Italy. “The contest, with this scholarship, opens the door of a very good way to move forward not only in the sense of dance, but learn things about the profession, such as resistance or trials,” said Joaquina Butter participant BCN City Ballet Project.

The show, which uses the language of contemporary dance, classical and Spanish premiere during the Feast of Mercé and then undertake a tour of theaters in Catalonia, New York, Italy and Ireland.

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‘Hotels amb DO’ program wine tastings and workshops in 26 hotels in Barcelona

This year a “maridaje”for two people between participants and an invitation to the Mostra de Vins i Caves of Catalonia will be drawn

Hotels with DO BCN

One year more, the Barcelona Hotel Association of Barcelona and the Catalan Institute of the Vinya i Vi (Incavi) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government organizes the fourth edition of the shows ‘Hotels amb DO’, an initiative in which They will be offered from 14th to 20th September wine tasting with denomination of origin in 26 hotels of the Catalan capital.

The aim of the initiative is to disseminate wine appellations of Catalan origin in the unique spaces that offer the hotels participating -of Grand Luxury, 5 star, 4 star superior and 4 star–, he stressed the union on Tuesday statement.
In this edition, 52 workshops and specialized courses are given, all taught by professionals Incavi and the Escola Superior d’Hostaleria Barcelona (ESHOB), space raffle a “maridaje” for two people between the participants, who will also receive an invitation to the Mostra de Vins i Caves of Catalonia, to be held from 19th to 24th September in the Passeig Lluís Companys in Barcelona.

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Beer and pastry shine off the kitchen in Barcelona Tastes

From 24th to 27th September the Fira de Barcelona celebrates the fifth edition of the show, conceived as a large food market

Barcelona Degusta 5ª Feria Gastronómico popular

Beer and pastry shine, next to the kitchen, in Barcelona Degusta, the popular food festival from 24 to 27 September will be held in Fira de Barcelona and in this fifth edition is designed as a large open gourmet market lovers of good food and drink.

The chef Carles Abellan and Carles Gaig today presented the news of the event, which is expected between 25,000 and 30,000 attendees to coincide with the feast of the Merce, and has provided nearly a hundred of activities including lectures, workshops, tastings, tastings, storytelling, film and even outdoor concerts.

The presentation of the event, which will also feature a great product sales space in which 200 companies offer their best specialties, has been held at the Enjoy Eduard Xatruch chefs, Oriol Castro and Mateu Casañas restaurant, which will also be in this Barcelona Degusta presenting some proposals desserts.

In this gastronomic market beer lovers can taste under the Taste Beer Festival to 300 different brands in the world of this drink that has become everything a boom in Spain, where more than 500 craft beers are brewed and especially in Catalonia, where they live 200 brands and some 70 microbreweries.

For the sweet tooth in the space BCN & CAKE there will be exhibition areas, courses and competitions sugar flowers, cakes 3D cakes celebration, decorating cupcakes and all sorts of creative modeled by some of the most prestigious pastry chefs like Christian Escribà (Pastry Escribà) and chocolate masters as David Pallàs, plus international Cake Designers.

Great chef Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca), Carme Ruscalleda (Sant Pau), Fermi Puig, Nandu Jubany (Can Jubany), Carles Gaig (Restaurant Gaig), Carles Abellan (Bravo) and Ada Parellada (Semproniana), among others which make ten Michelin star, will give lectures and workshops that show some of the secrets of his cuisine.

Ruscalleda discuss how to combine cheeses, Nandu Jubany, sweet and savory dishes of rice, Sergio and Javier Torres (Dos Cielos) will star in a ‘show cooking’ on the kitchen with vegetables, Joan Roca presented snacks and cosmopolitan snacks, Carles Abellan try to Barcelona stews and Carles Gaig taught how to prepare macaroni cannelloni and holidays.

For children it has also prepared the space Taste Kids, to begin to learn, enjoy and experiment with food, and give free rein to their imagination; and storytelling, films related to food and gastronomy, workshops processing fruits and cookies, clowns and magicians.

In addition, a picnic area, an urban orchard, a concert area, and space for more than 20 food trucks, which present the latest trends in urban and street food, with a varied cuisine with crepes, sandwiches will be installed, tortillas, croquettes, dairy, sushi or hot dogs, among other proposals.

For those who love new experiences, “Dinners in the sky” (Dinner in the sky) is also served in a platform 50 meters high where they can eat the proposals of chef Xavi Pellicer and enjoy a unique banquet.

The organizers remarked that Barcelona Degusta wants to be like the Salone Internazionale del Gusto in Turin, held every year in this Italian city, which is an international benchmark.

Barcelona Degusta will also accommodate other culinary cultures with demonstrations of traditional Cantonese cuisine in Hong Kong, workshop Okonomiyaki, the best known variety of Japanese omelette, and traditional Mexican tacos.

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A week dedicated to the design in BCN

Until June 14th, Barcelona Design Week becomes Barcelona in its design, innovation and creativity

Barcelona Design Week

Conferences, exhibitions, workshops, presentations and circuits are some of the activities included in the program of the 10th edition of the Barcelona Design Week. Designed for professionals and citizens interested in the creative industries, the meeting aims to create business opportunities, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and approach design to the general public.

Headquartered in Barcelona Design Hub building, among the novelties of this year is the exhibition “Timeless Massimo Vignelli,” a collective tribute to the work of Vignelli made a selection of posters created by renowned graphic designers International. Also, for the first time, carried out the OFF BDW, which includes more than 30 multidisciplinary activities organized by organizations, companies and establishments of the city; the Food Event Design, Ecodesign or Day.

Unlike previous years, in which there was a guest country to mark the 10th anniversary of the BDW has invited 10 weeks of design from other countries will share their experiences with the public and actively participate in various events.

Circuit Design Poblenou

One of the activities designed to bring the citizens Circuit Design is the Poblenou. Participants of these routes have the opportunity to delve into the study of some of the designers and architects of the neighborhood, as Salasstudio and 4-id to discover the creative potential of the city.

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The Futtoc, sport revolution in the streets of BCN

This discipline that mixes football and table tennis expands in Catalunya | Barcelona players like Neymar and Xavi Hernandez have pleaded sport buffs helps improve technique

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-of Toc- touch football in Catalan. That is the ‘etymological’ Futtoc origin, a sport that was born in Barcelona almost a decade ago, but in recent years is growing and is expanding Catalonia and other regions, even internationally.

This discipline is a mix between football and table tennis and have a clear urban vocation, considering that one of the objectives of its promoters is to “encourage the kids play in the street, as before, something that has been lost with the advent of new technologies, “said Ildefonso Fernandez, creator of Futtoc with Joan Cano. We are talking about a dynamic, fun sport and allows, in turn, that football players can improve their technique. So much so that as emblems Neymar Barca and Xavi Hernandez have become true fans of this practice and even have a game table in their respective houses. “Since playing Neymar scores the most goals this, ‘says Cano.

The Futtoc combines football and table tennis but, of course, has its peculiarities. Use an oval table very similar to tennis and players, over the network, they are to passing a soccer ball made of a lighter material. You can play alone or in pairs, it is governed by rules very similar to table tennis -in terms of score and saque- and the ball can move to the opponent’s court with any part of the body except hands as in football. Participants also can climb up the table to finish with greater determination. All this makes the Futtoc is a “very funny, explosive and suitable for all ages” sport.

Outdoor Activities

He was born and about eight years ago, on the street, and it has not lost this vocation. “Toto [Ildefonso] and I are friends since childhood. Many days we would Montjuïc to play football and we used a fence of which there are in the works to spend, as an exercise to improve the technique with the ball. One day he disappeared and That’s when we started to do the same with a pingpong table and saw that aguantábamos the ball, “explains Joan Cano. “That could be a feasible idea if you changed the design of the table and contacted a company of Mataro, which is that still made today,” he adds. Thus Futtoc originated in Catalonia, a sport that is already present in the city of Barcelona Montjuïc and Glòries–in and at some points Maresme and Girona Bages and, as a novelty, just landed on the Costa Dorada . Outside Catalonia and tables were installed in Cantabria and Valencia and even can be found in the United States, Argentina, Dubai and Japan.

Its proponents emphasize the benefits offered Futtoc and, above all, the fact of practicing sport outdoors. “We were and are a football fans and we went out to play in the street. It has almost lost because many prefer to play consoles and stay home. Interact and socialize has been on the back burner and would like to contribute even modestly to change this habit generating interest among young people, “says Cano. “For us it is most important and therefore we call us and where there is interest”, says Ildefonso Fernandez, for whom the Futtoc is “enjoy, share and compete wanting the ball”. And is that regardless of the outreach activities and expansion, from the International Association collaborate with different foundations to boost social action through sport on the street, to assist the social integration of young people and they see it “an alternative the most negative dynamics linked disadvantaged neighborhoods. ”

International expansion

The practice is growing and has several projects in the pipeline. One of the challenges is to have a lighter and cheaper table which currently manufactures, fiberglass and designed to be exposed in public, for which it is subjected to a corrosion-resistant treatment to acts vandalism. “We look for something that you can take to the beach or to place it so that Futtoc practice more accessible and convenient,” explains Joan Cano, recalling that reach new municipalities remains the priority. “Happy to go where they call us,” he adds.

The launch of these new low cost tables is scheduled for later this year and already have several orders for the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, UK and France. During 2016 they expect to submit the approved model Futtoc ball.

First incursión to Costa Daurada

The last Futtoc remarkable achievement has been to reach the Costa Daurada, specifically Vandellòs Hospitalet de l’Infant. The Tarragona town has bought two tables installed in front of the skatepark and next to the multisports court is in the Playa del Arenal. On May 9th the two creators of sports participated in a conference to publicize it and was “a great success of participation,” said the Councillor for Sports, Pilar Morales. “Four years we work for sports destination and do not stop to look for things to promote physical activity, especially outdoors ago,” he says, adding that the will of the council is to expand the number of tables “if we hope arouses interest and we detect among boys and girls who tried it the other day. ” In addition, the City Council has installed four table tennis tables in different areas of the municipality.

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Ten cocktail bars in Barcelona to enjoy a good “gintonic”

From known glories of the Catalan cocktail bar with bartenders who know how to do almost everything, to new parents the rise of the most stylish combined

Good gintonic in Barcelona

Great glories of the Catalan cocktail bar with bartenders who know how to do almost everything new parents the rise of the most stylish combination, we propose a brief overview of some of the best temples in Barcelona drinking gintonic. Ask the familiar mixture of gin and tonic in a bar it may appear to be too easy to put it to the waiter, but no. Make a gintonic sublime goes beyond putting in a shot glass suggested proportions of gin and tonic -: 1, 1: 2, 1: 3 and 2: 3, it requires skill learned in thousands of night hours after the bar. The process of preparing cocktails and long drinks has become an art that draws attention of clients -the first became known barmans, then bartenders and now mixologos-.

The history of gintonic and this already knows many people- is closely linked to the quinine -the main component of tónica- popularized as a cure for malaria during the nineteenth century after the time- -miraculous healing by the Countess of Chinchon , wife of the viceroy Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, by the “cinchona” bark. Hence, to put some gin to mask the bitter taste of this natural alkaloid as possible and prescribe medicine had only a small step and a lucrative business. But it will not go into this historical and medical matters which give for another article and have bypass alarmist speeches aimed at nostalgic old lost glories (we would have liked to include in these lines to the now defunct Tirzah, who lowered his blind victim of last year’s Lease Act …). We are left with are the best and that follow, some of the best gintonics of Barcelona.

1. Dry Martini

Dry Martini letter letter is fantastic and the place is an institution, you know. In the Dry Martini cocktail are specialists in which they are named, but the tonic also do wonders. Javier de las Muelas available at your local gintonics transformed into gimmicky and fantastic inventions.. You find cinnamon, blueberry, coffee, currant … colonizing the old cocktail par excellence. The classic, made with a twist of lemon peel so sirvem and do so in an elegant glass of cider cut glass, house brand. Try the Gimlet foxtrot Guinevere, lime syrup and tónica- or Jacobschhhh Tonic, with a spoonful of green tea Japanese quince gold dust and deshidratado-. It is considered the third best gin in the world bar and a reason.

Dry Martini. Aribau street, 162-166.

2. Gimlet

The Gimlet is the starting point of the wheels as lord of the country cocktails. Gimlet was born in 1979 at Rec and then moved to the upper Diagonal, in Santaló. You can try a ginronic to rub perfection, free of frills. They served in glass of cider (height, width and fine) also carved by hand: about seven large ice rocks without holes or cracks, treated water by osmosis, which ensures that the ice will not melt and helps maintain the temperature and taste combined. It seems basic, but how many times have we seen floating ice in a huge glass ball spoiling an excellent drink. The cocktail that names the place is also a bestseller is worth asking: 2/3 1/3 gin and lime syrup. this cocktail was famous for being the favorite of Philip Marlowe, the detective created by Raymond Chandler in 1934 that gave Humphrey Bogart skin on the edge of the abyss.

Gimlet. Street Santaló, 46.

2. Milano Cocktail Bar

Its location, in the basement of a cafe, an underground bar reminded during Prohibition by deprivation than the 40s of last century. Next to the Ronda Universitat offers live jazz every night and have the option to accompany the drink with a simple menu with snacks, tapas, burgers and steak tartar a house that has a certain reputation. Since 2013 he is at the controls of the local Yanaida Prado, experienced bartender (former L ‘Parnasse) has achieved several awards in recent years, as Chartreuse Experience, Origins by Schweppes. The tonic of Milano is served in glass of cider with lemon twist and bar has quickly become a classic.
Milano Cocktail Bar. Ronda Universitat, 35.

3. Boca Chica

Boca Chica is also pure luxury bartender. This stunning cocktail restaurant, Boca Grande is one of the most chic overnight stops in Barcelona. It has the elegant, refined and spacious interior seal Lazaro Rosa-Violán. The ticket is somewhat higher than in other bars in town but their drinks alcohol claim a difficult emotion to forget. Classic tonic for your use the handy slice of cucumber but also can take risks and decantaros for Infusion, the tonic tea served with a lamp of Aladdin, awarded as the best of Spain in 2014.

Boca Chica. Carrer de la Concepció, 12.

4. Ideal Cocktail Bar

It was in 1931 when Antonio Gotarda founded the Ideal importing ideas from some of the best cocktail bars in other European cities: An interior of wing chairs upholstered in blood red and dark wood walls, a pioneer as they come. In the beginning was eventually place to visit for some of the personalities of world cinema linked to the Metro Goldwin Mayer but in the late 50s was “modernized” adding to its walls pictures of restless artists of the time as the Catalan painter of the moment Vives Fierro and heterogeneous Carlos Pazos in a new British interior that still remains today. The Ideal was ethyl shelter Pla, fond of whiskey and dry martini with a drop of angostura, and Montalban, defender of malt whiskey. José María Gotarda, grandson of the founder and expert traveled barman, maintains the level of demand for a place with so much history and tradition that has always touted Ideal. Gotarda stands out with one of the most comprehensive offers on the market gins: You can choose between 40 different references to make the tonic to the client.

Ideal Cocktail Bar. Carrer d’Aribau, 89.

6. Mutis

The Mutis is a secret club of Barcelona designed by Kim Diaz (owner of Bar Mut) but in reality is not so secret for some years … Since the magazine Drink’s International chose as the best bar in Europe what and how 17th best cocktails in the world. So now few people know that this place exists and presentation .. what else we have to give more? In recent years, Mutis has become so important things such as place of filing in Europe and shaker off of a drink that will sound much and has already placed as a defendant in bars distillates country cooking -whether Mexican, so fashionable, or not mescal. It opened in 2009 and can enjoy music (jazz, soul and funk) live every night, that, of maravilosamente executed gintónics and as tragic as impossible combinations.
Mutis. Pau Claris, 192.

7. Boadas

Boadas opened doors in 1933 but long before Miguel gave his name to this famous local cocktail of Barcelona spent years training as a bartender in a unique bar in Havana called El Floridita. One of the gintonics house is served with a slice of grapefruit, Schweppes, pink pepper and a vaporized concentrated red fruit. Another creations mix in a shaker the same portion of gin and sweet vermouth, three parts of Curacao and Amer Picon and a dash of Angostura bitters with three ice cubes. The drink is adorned with a sprig of mint and a touch of lemon peel.

Boadas. Carrer de Francisco Giner, 47.

8. Bobby Gin

Bobby Gin is the perfect representative of the new cocktail bars in Barcelona. Many are surprised that this small place of Grace opened its doors three years ago -in 2011- June to penalties. A baby named Robert Gallower, Bobby for friends, whom her grandmother pacifier dipped in gin Premium drag a legend surrounding who would become one of the best bartenders in New York and is the inspiration for the name this local. Human and professional qualities are enough to start being new benchmark for cocktails in the Catalan capital. Manel and Oscar Alcaraz Forés are the brains behind the business, which have located behind the bar and rightly one of the bartenders star of today, Alberto Pizarro, winner of the national final of the World Class Competition 2011. One of their latest creations was a gin and tonic inspired by Sant Jordi in Catalan combining gin, steam rose petals, orange sanguinia, which provides a slight red hue, tone and pink pepper, designed to extol the notes of the most aromatic gins its spicy and intense touch, and vanilla. If this does not convince you, the letter of Bobby Gin will find a good selection to choose from.

Bobby Gin. Carrer de Francisco Giner, 47

9. Negroni

Negroni is a classic cocktail with over twenty years of history-the nineties in Florence-but also gives its name to a famous cocktails in the neighborhood of Raval. The stained glass of the entrance, the minimalist interior design and black dress code of their bartenders give an idea of ​​the seriousness of the matter and outline an aesthetic fleeing vintage woody other products. Among its shelves crammed with bottles of gin about 15 references enable an ideal tonic. Of course, you have to explain to the barman what about you like to try because they have a letter. Your Negroni-of course the classic Moscow Mule and Whisky Collins are unavoidable seal of the house.

Negroni. Carrer de Joaquín Costa, 46.

10. Slow

Slow is that kind of cocktail that provides uniqueness, personality, fantasy and rock and roll chic for the discerning public. Francesc Brateau is one of the most recognized bartenders in Spain and his hands-and his Barra- have passed many of the new stars of the cocktail that should this man a world. The Eixample not be as chic if it were not for clubs like Slow in a medium tempo that moves between the cocktail bar in, French boite and longed hall style to the former Paloma. Three rooms, in which one can feel equally at home out of the work-the famos afterwork- with a drink before going to dinner or in the morning talking to the seductive bar their entry. They have over sixty brands premium gins and tonic to fifteen, advised, to design the most seductive palate gin and tonic. And if the gin tonic is too basic, it mixes with your Madame Butterfly vodka and traditional Japanese-sake can leave blank mind for quite a while. Because the small pleasures of life enjoy better slowly.

Slow C / Paris, 186.

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Beauty & aesthetics at STS to Barcelona

The largest trade show of personal aesthetics is consolidated in this third edition which will feature renowned industry professionals

STS Beauty Barcelona 2015

For the third consecutive year the Fair Professional Personal Image, Beauty and Life Quality Beauty STS Barcelona back together teachers, professionals and talents from the world of beauty to the International Convention Centre in Barcelona on 7th, 8th and 9th February .

More than 300 confirmed exhibitors, 18 performances in Fashion Beauty BCN Days Llongueras 14 papers between Congress and Aesthetic workshops, master classes, the second International Championship Nail and Body Make Passes are some novelty for this edition.

Visitors will find several presentations on the first day of the fair, as on February 7th inaugurated the new stage of the BCN Fashion Beauty Kadu Professional presentation and show your special Global Creative Director “Alexey Osipchuk “from Russia, followed by the most anticipated feature of the night: the” Legends & Talents “. A unique event in style, amazing couples where one integrated creative Legend and Talent, will work together to help raise funds for the fight against childhood cancer on behalf of the children of San Juan de Dios Hospital in Barcelona.

LLONGUERAS Days

STS Beauty Barcelona back to share with the Conference agenda Llongueras since the 8th and 9th of February spectacular international shows will meet in the auditorium of the Forum with performances by: Llongueras and Revlon, Schwarzkopf, J-7 and L ‘Sassoon with Wella and L’Oreal. An event that, next to the Runway Beauty Barcelona, complements the wide range of events with the best hairdresser.
training programs

Lovers of the salon also has a training program to complete your visit. Master Classes with Master Luis Romero who directed the Special Course “Waves in Water and Collected” next Participatory Course “Arctic Light” Pivot Point.

The training options in this 3rd edition also extend to the field of aesthetics. Aesthetic Congress has organized a series of workshops and a dynamic that add to the program of activities for this sector. All this accompanied by the Open Classroom of Aesthetics, a space dedicated to exhibiting companies so that they can share their latest products and services.

2nd international championship polish and makeup body passes

After the success of the first call, the STS Beauty Barcelona held the second International Championship of Beauty Nails STS Barcelona with the incorporation of Stiletto Laif as new category of competition, which responds to the recent fashion movements regarding nail art. The themes that inspire the creations of these designs will be the exotic countries like Japan and China.

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