B-Travel Barcelona

The show will have this year a more experiential staging

B-Travel Barcelona

B-Travel, which last year took over the International Tourism Show in Catalonia of Fira de Barcelona, in its second edition adds destinations and companies offering travel experiences. This year will bring together the supply of all regions and more than 50 countries and regions worldwide.

In addition, in order to inspire the visitor when choosing your trip, the event, to be held from 15 to 17 April in the Montjuïc exhibition center, will feature a more careful commissioning and setting new scene areas.

Visit the next edition of B-Travel is a journey of emotions worldwide. The public will find proposals for tourism experiences that offer all the autonomous communities such as Madrid, Valencia, Aragon, Catalonia, the Canary Islands, Murcia, Extremadura, Balearic Islands, Andalucia, Castilla León, Galicia, Cantabria and the Basque Country, adding this year Asturias, La Rioja and Castilla La Mancha.

Internationally, the show will present the offer of more than 50 countries and regions with special presence of destinations in Europe (Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, Poland), Asia (Cambodia, India, Thailand and China), America ( US, Canada and Latin American countries like the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Cuba and Peru), Middle East and Israel, north Africa (Tunisia and Morocco) and Arctic areas.

It will also feature the presence of more than 70 travel agencies specializing in tours and experiences around the globe; major shipping companies and agencies such as Royal Caribbean Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, Hurtigruten and Grimaldi; hotels and tourism products and services as Open Camp, the first park of sports experiences.

He also highlighted the presence in this issue of major carriers such as Vueling, Renfe, Air China, Singapore Airlines, Aeroflot and Aerolineas Argentinas.

More experiential spaces

The aim of this edition has been renovating the Look & Feel of the room, so they have launched several actions to “land the new model of fair, more focused on presenting the offer of exhibitors from the emotions that can live destination, “explains exhibition director Marta Serra.

“The call of 2015 served to launch the new brand and this year we started to apply in situ conceptual change through a more careful staging intensely alive for the visitor his journey, from the time you access the site. A makeover that we hope to implemented in future editions as destinations and companies positioned their offer according to the experience they offer, “he says.

In this sense, the entrance to the hall will be set with a sensory tunnel where images are projected travel experiences, smells and sounds that feel transported the audience to unique places will be heard.

Some stands, exhibition spaces and cuisine will also have a special look, with details that make reference to different countries and cultures of the world, a central stage where tastings of typical products, demonstrations of folklore and performances, as well as take place will be created photocall where attendees can take a picture and share on social networks.

In addition, personalized based on the experience you are looking for the visitor and the lounge includes five areas routes set up: B-Happy (trips with family and friends, romantic getaways, wellness, etc); B-Culture (proposals related to art, history and culture as the film, musical or photographic tourism); B-Special (with the offer of new luxury tourism, shopping, unique experiences); B-Adventure (sports tourism, rural, mountain biking, sailing, etc.); and B-Delicious (eno-gastronomic routes).

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Urban Art Barcelona

The side wall of the civic center in the neighborhood of Sant Marti in Barcelona, serves as canvas for the last giant face of urban artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada

Urban Art Barcelona

The last Rodríguez-Gerada is the giant face of a woman, or the face of a giant woman reflected in a side wall of Sant Martí Civic Centre: 280 square meters of urban art with the inherent power not go unnoticed. By size, but not alone as almost all the works of the Identity series, which launched in Barcelona installed around -three decades has, more or less, Panorama is not just giant, mostly it’s content. “Instead of the huge picture of a movie star or a politician with a big smile, I draw someone from the neighborhood, the community. Drawing one of us. ” It has done in other neighborhoods like Raval, Horta and Born, and other cities such as Buenos Aires, Monterrey and Paris, and although one of the faces that draws Rodríguez-Gerada has ingredients of privilege, the choice of characters less driven the search for someone brainy representative -what think a newcomer to the world Rodríguez-Gerada- and quota criteria and magnificent as smell or chance. It could be you. It could be your son. It could be your neighbor.

“Instead of the huge picture of a movie star or a politician with a big smile, I draw someone from the neighborhood, the community, drawing one of us,” explains the artist
“It’s an artistic lottery. I get to see people go down the street and pick a person that I like.

I wonder if they identify with the place, if you have a sense of belonging … “Rodríguez-Gerada try not to repeat age or sex, and those are the only criteria beyond the pleasure of simply going out in search of the next face. Thus exposed his methods, who is the woman who squints from the wall of the civic center? Where do you live and what you do? It could be the neighborhood baker, the butcher, could be a teacher. It would, in fact, if Panorama was not an anomaly within the series. But Panorama, for once, is not just one person. Panorama is not a woman.

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada born in Cuba 49 years ago but raised in the US, where he emigrated with his family in the 70s in the world of street art becomes a kind of old fox, a veteran with stories in tow as two or three times that stopped him in his day the police of New York, at the time I was going down the street to denounce altering billboards manipulative power of advertising. “With find some surprises included as police chief who understand the background of what I was doing and let me go; but they were the exception. ” In Barcelona he gained notoriety with the immense Obama drew on the grounds of the Forum in November 2008, on the eve of elections that upheld the first black US president, even in the environment of local urban artists was already a recognized character.

Windswept

The works in the series are not giants identities because. “The great thing only works if you have an intrinsic power behind”, explains Rodríguez-Gerada. In addition to size, are among others the common denominator of being drawn in charcoal, which gives them an ephemeral component, dramatic in a way, part of the speech of the artist. “I like the poetry that is in the fact that they are gradually swept away by wind and rain.” But Panorama is different. Panorama, which ended in December and a neighbor not heard yet discovered in wonder these days is made with paint and will last much longer than their peers series, and yes it is not one, there are several women: two work at the Civic Center (Naomi Poncela, mouth, and Chus Ruiz, chin), the third is a user (Montse Noto, eye) and the fourth is used bingo (Luisa Hernandez, nose). In short, a puzzle neighbors. “It’s not just a portrait. It’s a job I like people stopped to look and to think about the effort behind. What it means, too. Unfortunately, it touches urban art people are accustomed to instant, fast, the Banksy. I want to make an impact, but also want the work hold a calm look. So this time I used paint. ”

The character is the work; they are the protagonists. So in the photo the artist is behind, in the background, half hidden under his hood.

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Sitges (Bacardí Museum)

History of Bacardi in Sitges

Sitges-Bacardi Museum

Bacardi is the largest spirits brand in the world that is private and family owned. It was founded 1862 in Santiago de Cuba as a rum distillery and today it owns over 200 brands and labels. Little people know that the story of Bacardi actually starts in Spain long before that.

In 1814, Facundo Bacardí Massó was born in Sitges. Son of a bricklayers’ family, he emigrated to Cuba in 1830 when he was 16 years old, following his older brother. In 1844, Bacardi married Amalia Moreau, a wealthy French lady. After a few months, he opened his own mercantile shop. The couple had 6 children, whom played important roles in the history of the company.  After an earthquake hit Santiago in 1852 and a cholera epidemic followed it, the family returned to Sitges to escape the poor conditions.

Upon their return to Cuba, the business went bankrupt and Bacardi started attempting distilling rum. Rum was considered to be a cheap, low quality drink, and Bacardi developed a unique process with a type of yeast for fermentation, then filtering through charcoal and aging in white oak barrels, which made the final product transparent and fine, being the first white colored rum in the world. Mrs. Amalia spotted bats in the distillery one day and suggested it became the brands symbol. There were many bats that were scared away with a buzz. The fruit bats were attracted to the smell of the molasses. The bat figure was fundamental for Bacardi’s brand recognition since back then most people in Cuba couldn’t read or write.

 

When the Cuban Ward of Independence started, Bacardi’s eldest son was arrested several times for joining the rebels. While the women of the family were exiled in Kingston, Jamaica, the company was run by Emilio’s brothers Jose and Facundo. After the end of the Cuban war, today’s popular drinks Daiquiri and Cuba Libre were both invented using Bacardi Rum. Under the management of Bacardi’s son Facundo M. Bacardi, the company started its first international expansion opening a bottling plant in Barcelona in 1910.

Today, Sitges is home to the Casa Bacardi, a museum that tells more about the Heritage of the brand and the process. Besides that, at the museum there is a lounge bar for Bacardi’s products tasting, a terrace and a bartender school.

Sitges is located 30km south of Barcelona and easily accessible by train. Casa Bacardi is located at the Plaça Ajuntament, right on the city center.

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Il Divo will perform in Barcelona

Carlos, Urs, David and Sebastian also performed in Madrid, Bilbao and La Coruna during the month of June 2016

Il Divo Barcelona

Il Divo tour “Amor & Pasion Tour” stop in Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Bilbao and A Coruña during the month of June 2016, said today the promoter Doctor Music.

Carlos, Urs, David and Sebastian will present live the songs from his new greatest hits album on June 5 at the Auditorium of the Barcelona Forum, June 6 in the Barclaycard Center (The Ring) in Madrid, June 8 BEC Bizkaia Arena in Bilbao and 10 of the same month in the Coliseum of A Coruna.

“Love and Passion” is the title of this tour and the seventh studio album by Il Divo, which includes twelve songs spanning a century of traditional tangos, boleros and classic mambo warm.

The flavors and rhythms of Spain and Cuba, Argentina and Mexico are the basis of this tour, which will perform “A woman I loved” by Julio Iglesias; “If I’m going to lose,” Gloria Estefan; or the Latin version of “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven.

Assembled by Simon Cowell in 2003, Il Divo (Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard, Carlos Marin and David Miller) debuted in 2004 and has since sold 30 million copies and won 50 1 and 160 gold and platinum discs in more than 33 countries.

Il Divo has released six albums to date. After their self-titled debut, they followed by “Ancora” (2005), “Always” (2006), “The Promise” (2008), “Wicked Game” (2011) and “A Musical Affair” (2013), with the best classics Broadway and the West End.

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