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Barcelona’s Diagonal Mar shopping center for sale

Diagonal Mar shopping Mall Barcelona

The real estate fund has Northwood Investors sale Barcelona’s Diagonal Mar shopping center, one of the largest in Catalonia, announced today the expansion newspaper.

The shopping complex would be on sale for a price of between 300 and 500 million euros, and there would be a possible buyer, a Dutch group that also owns centers Glòries and La Maquinista.

Diagonal Mar, located in Barcelona’s 22 @ district, has about 88,000 square meters, including 27,000 square meters owned by Alcampo, and was opened in 2001.

Northwood Investors in 2014 took control of the complex, which was held by Avestus Capital Partners, for a price of about 150 or 160 million euros, bringing the price now order more than double that of two years ago.

The mall has a wide range of shops, restaurants, cafes and cinemas, plus a bowling alley and 4,800 parking spaces.

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New Barça stadium

The project of huge Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei relieves the Foster´s one.

New Barça stadium project

In September 2007 the club presented its previous project for a new Camp Nou. Joan Laporta presided over the club. And Sir Norman Foster was the winner in the contest. The British architect has drafted its proposal from a specification of five pages provided by the club. In its proposal acquired prominence formalism, it resulted in a scaly skin -evocative the roof of Gaudi House Batlló-, with the colors of the Barca shirt and the senyera. It was a time when in Spain built many star architects, sometimes with unbridled expressiveness and budgetary largesse.

This time the club has acted differently: he gave the contestants hundred pages of conditions, from detailing the number of seats to the VIP boxes, through the suggested types of cover for the stadium.

With so extensive specifications Barca sought to achieve the two main objectives of reform -catch up with regard to safety regulations and optimize the performance of the Camp Nou (raising there until additional 50 million euros per year). And, too, it led to the formation of teams of contestants who would represent the local profession, accredited architectural quality, and powerful engineering and architecture, based in the US, Britain, Japan and other countries where their role are dominating the architects, unlike what makes the tradition in Spain. They are engineers, most of them with experience in the construction of large sports facilities, always with very strict criteria for compliance schedule and budget.

Barcelona stadium project

In short, the club has been betting on the Laporta era for the iconic, colorful and stellar signature work, to bet on the Bartomeu time for a work that supports high-capacity engineering and diffuse aesthetic identity.

Who’s who in the team that will design the Camp Nou? What are credited? How will your synergy? What can we expect of the work Nikken Sekkei presented yesterday and Pascual-Ausió?

Nikken Sekkei, formed from a construction company that was born in 1900, is one of the largest engineering and architectural firms in the world, with nearly 2,500 employees, headquartered in Tokyo, and regional offices in the Far East and the Persian Gulf. He has participated in 20,000 projects in 40 countries. Among its sports facilities are the Saitama Super Arena in Chuo-Ko, and the Tokyo Dome. It has built skyscrapers and all kinds of private and public facilities. Its Catalan partners in the club, the study of Joan Pascual and Ramon Ausió, based in Barcelona, has a dozen professionals. In his curriculum apartment blocks dominate, such as 200 that ended in several towers of Barceloneta, twenty years ago; among his most recent works, the Diagonal Zero (Barcelona) hotel or the Electra (Terrassa) school.

This difference in muscle between the two partners winners of contest-and something similar happened in the Palau Blaugrana contest, won by Hok (1,800 employees) and TAC-Barcelona suggests that the club has passed the time of architectural and enters starsystem of engineering. It also suggests the elimination of contestants strong personality among the last fallen Bofill, Ferrater, RCR, Matthew or BIG-. And even the career of one who has served as project manager of the operation Espai Barça, which includes the new Camp Nou.

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Autodesk in Barcelona

The US multinational software Autodesk has introduced its new European sales office in Barcelona

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Technology continues to promote Barcelona and Catalonia. The US multinational Autodesk, a world leader in 3D software, presented on Wednesday its European sales office in Barcelona, a kind of ‘hub’ or sales center that will employ up to 100 people until the mid-year come.

In a meeting with journalists, the vice president of global sales operations and Autodesk, Julie Sockley, and vice president of EMEA sales for the company, Roland Zelles, they have justified the choice of Barcelona as its attractive city, infrastructure and It is offering the ability to recruit talented staff. They have also influenced added that it is a “non-saturated” market of international companies, which believe that will change in the coming years because it believes many multinationals opt for the Catalan city.

By placing this sales offices in Barcelona, the multinational believes he can make the Catalan capital, which is already leader in mobile technologies, “the new European capital of 3D technologies,” said Autodesk.

Autodesk, which develops software used routinely designers, architects or engineers, and has contracted for this project about 50 people and expects to make another hundred contracts until the middle of next year, although it has not provided investment figures provided to this whole project. Zelles noted that the company is looking for qualified professionals with mastery of some of the languages of the countries to which they will serve, and that “no matter” of that country come from workers.

The Barcelona office will serve “to all countries of the euro zone as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland,” he explained Zelles, so Autodesk looking for a personal profile with extensive sales experience and language skills.

To locate all officers, Autodesk has rented a floor of about 1,200 square meters located in the Sea B building, next to the Diagonal Mar, but does not rule out expanding space in the same building if you need it.

Zelles said that Autodesk, owner of the popular AutoCAD design software, is changing its business model to provide software services also from the cloud.

Growing company

In addition to these 50 people already working in Barcelona and have been contracted for this ‘hub’ European sales, Autodesk has an office in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona) with a score of people and Madrid with seven others.

Autodesk closed fiscal year 2014 with sales of over 2,500 million and more than 2.2 million users worldwide, and Europe accounts for 40% of these sales, he explained Zelles.

Sectors such as architecture, design, construction or the entertainment industry, from film to video games, use Autodesk software to design their ideas before taking them out.

 

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Barcelona launches a new luxury hotel in January-2016

Monument revitalize the space of one of the two buildings of the Hotel Condes de Barcelona

It will host a restaurant of Martin Berasategui and some rooms will cost up to 2,500 euros

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Barcelona will have a new five-star luxury from January. The Hotel Monument revitalize the space until recently occupied one of the two buildings of the Hotel Condes de Barcelona on Passeig de Gràcia, the palace known as Casa Batllo Enric, the closest to the Diagonal Avenue.

Setting part with the aim of becoming “the landmark hotel in Barcelona luxury”, as discussed its general director, Miriam Cortijo, who has emerged as one of its great attractions presence restaurant Oria, the “multiestrellado” chef Martin Berasategui. The chef already has a bistro space at the Hotel Condes de Barcelona four star beachfront Hotel Monument future building.

The new hotel will reduce from 109 to 84 rooms with the aim of extending the useful surface of each -of stay between 24 and 85 square-meters and adapt to the offer of a luxury hotel that will employ about 80 people. Prices for the apartments range between 300 and 2,500 euros. Although it has not disclosed the investment made, the owner of the initial plans provided for a payment of 15 million euros.

Reconciling styles

The space aims to combine modern aesthetics with the legacy of the pre-modernist building designed by Josep Vilaseca, as have highlighted Tote Moreno and Carles Basso, the architects responsible for the renovation, with the collaboration of Oscar Tusquets.

Moreno highlighted the collaboration of Patrimoni for “respecting and valuing” the rich architectural heritage of building space totaling nearly 600 square meters to its nearly 8,000 total meters of surface thanks to the creation of two basements for services that customers receive.

The interior of the hotel will try to give continuity to the environment luxury spaces in which it is located, as discussed responsible for interior design project, Mercè Borrell, who has tried to reconcile the great style and timeless luxury and responding to command to “open the hotel to the city” through the bar and the other “cocketelería” integrated into the ‘lobby’ of the hotel spaces.

The Hotel Monument is the final stage of rehabilitation of a building built in 1896, with clear traces of neo-gothic inspiration and inicipiente Modernism. It was commissioned by the industrialist Enric Batllo to Vilaseca, author of the Arc de Triomphe in Barcelona and close associate of Lluis Domenech i Montaner.

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The house of “Les Punxes” in Barcelona opens to the public next summer

The building by Puig i Cadafalch and Gaudí’s Casa Vicens join the list of jewelry visitables

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It is the only modernist house with three main entrances and facades. Its location in the heart of the Diagonal, almost touching the Passeig de Gràcia, makes, day in day out, in order to lovers of modernism in Barcelona pilgrimage. Along with the house Amatller is one of the great works of the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch in Barcelona. It is popularly known as the home of the six towers “Punxes “shaped tip that crown the terrace, inspired by French Chateau de Pierrefonds.

A declared in 1975 National Historic Landmark, starting next summer, it will open to the public house, adding to the list of visitable modernist jewelry, among which also will be from 2017’s first home entity built Antoni Gaudi Barcelona Vicens.

With an investment of three million euros, currently it is carried out an interesting project of rehabilitation to recover and to value the essence of the work of the House of Punxes, a building constructed between 1903 and 1906 commissioned by the Terradas family (until recently erroneously wrote Terrades, and even a plate of the Government in one of its facades perpetuate the error, now corrected by Isabel Artigas art historian, author of the research project). It was to build a single house to bequeath to each of the three daughters Terradas, Angela, Josefa and Rosa, in an irregular and unusual land remaining between Rossello Bruc and Diagonal streets, the result of the recent urbanization of the Eixample . The proposed Puig was an interesting project medieval air that unified the three apartment buildings in a single building block, giving the appearance of a single house.

Current works affect the ground and first floors of the building occupied by the number 420, located at the confluence of the Diagonal and Rossello, the most notorious and photographed by tourists who are en route to the Sagrada Familia. “We are basically doing cleaning of stays to recover the essence and main features of the original building,” says Jaume Falguera, the architect in charge of the work. Downstairs, after eliminating dividing walls and ceilings, the resulting open space revalued the original columns which the architect introduced to replace bearing walls as one of the most outstanding contributions of his time.

Although not yet defined the specific project visit will take place and the items to be exhibited to contextualize the work of Puig i Cadafalch, there are aspects that are already clear, and the ground floor will be mainly for shop and reception bar area.

From here you will be accessed by a staircase of new construction to the first floor, which will follow the route up to the terrace indoor elevators, the most spectacular part of the tour. “We want to prevent visitors from interfering in the daily life of the tenants who are still on the floors,” Fern said. Figure among neighboring Austria sales office or consulate Quebec. This will prevent mass transit visitors through the gates, parts of the building with the facade and terrace of the highest artistic value, and use the original lifts, also cataloged.

Among the illustrious residents who have passed through the house Terradas Figure Eugeni d’Ors, who is said to have spent entire afternoons in the main Punxa, the greatest of all, which now also proposes allowing the visit, although restricted, since it is the one that brings the most spectacular view over Barcelona and on the terrace itself, which are the three houses of the gatekeepers between bunkers which currently house the air conditioning apparatus. They are spaces that, along with the rest of Punxes, will be visited starting next summer and have served until now as offices signature photography, design and art, and even seen some of the most legendary parties of the city famous by a hopeless “vivales” which ended baptized in social networks like Count de les Punxes. But that is another story.

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Barcelona will have its residential skyscrapers in Poblenou

The City Council has given the green light to building 100 meters high and 26 floors located on the Diagonal, between Bilbao and streets Pere IV

Recreation residential skyscraper on Avenida Diagonal, 131

The City Council has given the final green light to residential skyscraper 100 meters high and 26 floors located at Avenida Diagonal 131, corner of the streets Pere IV and Bilbao, which required a building permit last to complete the project.

The property, with 125 homes already sold, is owned by Altamira Santander Bank -the real estate, is being developed by the Catalan promoter Corp, and involves a total investment of over 70 million euros.

This is one of the real estate projects that stood in Barcelona during the housing crisis -the work was interrupted in 2008 by the problems of the developer initially and then was conceived as a 20-story building plus a large overhang.

After it adjudicase Altamira, the design changed to a 26-story project without overhang, but CiU led by the City Council was reluctant to this change, requiring a new license for six additional plants, which include a swimming pool with solarium on deck. Meanwhile Corp has been working on the existing structure of the skyscraper, and has achieved new building permit with the Consistory led by Ada Colau. The promoter is also pending license this year to get a promotion price of 130 homes concerted Can Batllo, of which 82 have already sold.

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Barcelona Agbar Tower celebrates 10 years waiting to become hotel

The uniqueness of the building, visible from almost every geography, it became a place of sightseeing

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He emerged from the Plaza de les Glories ten years ago. A building, the third highest of the city that received all kinds of adjectives and left no one indifferent both its aesthetics and what it represented. The iconic architecture that companies and municipalities coveted at that time to show the power of an economic boom that now after the economic crisis has reneged. The building work of the French architect Jean Nouvel was officially opened to host the offices of Aigües de Barcelona ten years ago today and-if you leave- now aspires to be a luxury hotel.

The uniqueness of the building, visible from almost all the geography of the city, quickly became a place of pilgrimage for tourists. The Barcelona, ​​meanwhile, have devoted all kinds of adjectives: howitzer, geyser, suppository, dildo or cucumber, among others. However, major obstacles beyond its aesthetic singularity, always came by his controversial integration with what was then the knot Glóries now a place in transformation.

They rained criticism from a sector considered that the tower 142 meters high was an example of the architecture of solitude. So said the architect Manuel de Solà-Morales, who judged that the building represented an isolated, insolent and uncooperative architecture with its environment. But solitude did not last long and after one year proliferated other iconic buildings in their environment to give substance to the territorial limit of 22 @ and the Eixample. Chipperfield towers or Ferrater in the new Diagonal, Fermin Vazquez Els Encants, Dhub MBM or are some of them. Undoubtedly, the construction bothered to Nouvel, who always considered that the tower should shine alone, was the neighboring hotel Silken work of Juli Capella.

Future use that arises now for the tower must solve issues related to interior design, which is largely influenced by the 4,500 windows pierce the facade and the nucleus of vertical communications that travel up and down around the center of the building. Inconveniences have had much to do with the limited success to rent space inside.

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Week of the Terraces of Barcelona extends the range with 250 activities

Haute cuisine, live music, ‘showcookings’ Zumba workshops and swing, ham and sushi tasting or magic shows, among the free activities that offer 60 hotels in the Catalan capital for ten days

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Zumba, swing or yoga, but also cocktails and cooking workshops, or blind tastings, pairings and show cooking. These are some of the free activities are scheduled hotels participating in this year’s Week of the Terraces of Barcelona. This 2015 edition includes a proposal -the fifth- dialing character -the gastronomic cuisine is the new imam and music, although there are cultural activities and others who think family audiences. They will be sixty outdoor spaces located on the roofs of the best hotels in the capital-the same number as last year which opened these days the public their roofs with a total of 254 free activities -54 more than last year so that everyone who wants to come can have a good time drinking, eating and enjoying something attractive view down over the city. The heat may not yet be fully seated on the agenda, the good news is that the initiative will be in place until June 14th, so even set us days of sunshine on the horizon to visit them.

A trailer with a fashion that came from the United States, with mythical rooftops like the Hotel Gansevoort, that of The Roosevelt Hotel or the 230 Fifth-, for some years, the terraces of hotels in Barcelona have become spaces essential during the summer months. The previous four editions of the Week of the Terraces were visited by over 70,000 people. The Barcelona Hotel Association and the City Council of the initiative -the drivers expect at least the quote from this year to reach that figure.

Undoubtedly, one of the sensations in terms terraces this summer will be the brand new Hotel The Serras. The roof of the first five-star luxury hotel located on the seafront of Barcelona, ​​hosts the prime gastronomic chef Els Tinars Marc Gascon, who is also present in the gastrobar hotel, informal, street and on the terrace located at the entrance, on the same side of the Passeig Colón. The spectacular views over the harbour and the Gothic Quarter profile offered by the hotel may enjoy these days with tapas like spicy bravas by The Informal or lighthearted creations but with his own style bikini Michelin as Iberian ham and cheese Tou del  til-lers or burger 100% organic beef, onion, cheese, mustard.

And it is that not all hotels can boast a letter signed by a Michelin star chef. It is also the case of the Majestic Hotel & Spa, located in the busy Passeig de Gràcia, which organizes a showcoocking with Nandu Jubany and David Romero for which you must book (writing to this email address) (June 9th from 19:00 to 20:00). The hotel has also scheduled a class of Aqua Yoga (June 13th from 12.00 to 13.00) and will feature the music of a DJ to accompany attendees every day of the week from 20.00. On 5th June, also at 20 am, will perform DJ and music producer from Detroit Johan Beltran, composer of the themes of the famous TV show Oprah Winfrey The Next Chapter and songwriter for a series of HBO as Six feet under.

Between supply this year also highlights the Hotel Claris -the oldest of the city terrace, Granados 83 Hotel and the Hotel Bagués, Derby Hotels Collection, offering participating eminently gastronomic activities. In this edition, the Claris Hotel in a workshop-pairing of bread and ham hand Turris and Iberian Reserve will be offered. A magical combination of two products that are part of our food culture. The two experts have sought combinations of flavors, textures and new sensations with three ham and three types of bread. (June 10th, 18:00. Upon reservation on tel. 93 487 62 62. Limited seating). At Hotel Granados, however, the marriage goes cocktail and Gin & Tapas. The hotel team mixologists teach attendees some tricks to prepare combined with a personalized cover appetizer accompaniment. (The 5th, 11th and 12th June, from 19.00 to 20.00). And the Hotel Bagués offers showcooking of tartars by its executive chef. Attendees will enjoy a masterclass on how to develop a good steak or tuna tartar. (5th and June 12th, from 19.00 to 19.45).

Other interesting gastronomic activities during the week will be the show cooking rice in OJ Reial Hotel, run by chef Pere Moreno, La Cuina del DO (5th and June 10th, from 19.00 to 20.00); free cheese tasting and champagne at the Silken Gran Hotel Havana (9th June 19.00); the show cooking paella in the Neri Hotel (June 9th, 19.30- 21.00) and the Hotel Villa Emilia Barcelona (June 9, 21.30)

The chill of the Grand Hotel Central Barcelona, ​​with panoramic neighbor Borne and the skyline of the city and an infinity pool that has been on the cover of magazines and books most prestigious travel the world, is one of the terraces that never fail views this appointment. New for this week’s terraces, the hotel has scheduled a session #livedj Wednesday from 20.00.

But maybe you are interested take a look at your card deck this year, includes new features like creamy rigatonis with walnuts, fresh tomato salad and tuna belly, or a delicious cod with romesco Tiradito. His fantastic desserts the signature also the chef Mey Hofmann.

On the terrace of the Hotel Hilton Diagonal Mar, which this year opened its space PuroBeach will have free tasting of Arab tapas (June 5th, from 20 to 20.45), meeting DJ (for 15-21 hours) and tasting combined with Vodka Beluga and Sloane’s Gin (June 8th, 18 to 19.30).

More music terraces

Music is an essential part of the environment on a terrace. Considering the musical taste you can set an agenda for what to terrace visit every day. The Florida Hotel has thought a good selection of live music to accompany some of the culinary offerings created specifically for this week-given Smoked salmon with creamy red pepper honey, mustard and cheese and gorgonzola croquette with mayonnaise of garrapiñados- peanuts. The proceedings shall be borne by MIMA musical project formed by Mati Pando (vocals) and Miguel Aranda (guitar) that offer a personal and sensitive interpretation of music and more southerly, Andalusian and Latin songs. (5th and 11th June 21.30 to 23.30 hours).

Live music is also protagonist of the Port Vell H10 terrace with a bossanova session (June 5th, from 19.00 to 20.30). Hotel Miramar Barcelona also been prepared on the terrace of its historic facade a live performance. In this case, it will be a DJ with gramophone and a unique repertoire for the occasion that will cover the building’s history with samples of different musical genres, (June 5th, from 20:00 to 23:00 hours). They have also scheduled a late merger between Brazilian music and Japanese cuisine (Brazilian duo performance + free sushi station) (June 12th, from 20.00 to 23.00 hours).

The terrace of the Hotel Duquesa de Cardona, a few minutes walk from the Ramblas, the Gothic Quarter and the Born also has provided a planning of activities tune this week, as gintonics workshops, mojitos and vodkatonics, but accompanied by 80s music by a DJ. Your letter terrace signature chef Santi Olivella, and this year it has special weight in the oven BBQ Josper creations. Among the specialties that shine in your letter is the Iberian pork marinated in soy and vermouth with cous-cous micro greens and royal foie gras, brioche bread and red fruits, also they offer a wide selection of tapas and a bikini. Josep Maria Gotarda, the legendary cocktail Ideal Cocktail Bar, offers a menu of signature cocktails. As in previous years, this summer will pass through its Live the roof sessions Maya artists like Coke, Mr Chinarro, Carlos Sadness, Enric Motefusco and The Postal Service.

Music is also the theme of the Good Afternoon sessions Pulitzer and its vermouths weekends. The Hotel Pulitzer offer several direct and DJ these days. These Charming Evenings (June 5th, 19.00 22.00); DJ + DJ Lynnetic Vermouth (June 6th, 12.00 16.00) sessions; DJ Borja (June 11th, 19-22h), DJ Moomba (June 13th, from 12.00 to 16.00). In his letter His club offering gourmet sandwiches Sandwich with grilled chicken, crispy bacon, marinated tomato, melted Mahon cheese, lettuce comes in onion focaccia, with gluten-free options and dishes to share among them, the chips home, humus or nachos with guacamole-.

The DJ session will be an important part of the bet the cosmopolitan Pool B-Bar B-Hotel. Located on the eighth floor will host a session of DJ Robert Martex with the best music of the 80’s DJ Mr Zorton (electronic & house) (June 11th, 19:30 – 23:00 and 12th June, 19.30 – 23.00 hours, respectively) with free admission. In cuisine offer various packs with a selection of tapas and drinks, such as blind covers (pairing blind) hand Torres: tasting includes 6 tapas + 6 towers wines in a very special way. (June 10th, 19.00) (12 euros / person).

Versions of classic rock, soul and pop of all time will be the stars on the terrace of the renovated Hotel Granvia, between Gran Vía and Paseo de Gracia. They offer within a block of the Eixample a musical performance by the group Rumore TRIO, consisting of Vanessa Grillone (voice), Jb Ibanez (acoustic guitar) and Stefano Ferri (piano / keyboard). Among its cuisine include the focaccia with eggplant, tomato and goat cheese or chicken focaccia to accompany a glass of wine, soda or beer, with an affordable price of 7.75 euros. Rockabilly sound will star in the terrace of Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel on 12th June (21.00) with the formation The Modern Poppers.

In the exclusive and privileged Isabela H1898 The music will be available on request. By day 10, the hotel will feature a DJ encouraged the night from 19 ha 21 h, while the 9th will feature performances Acoustic group Guiri and the presence of four musicians (vocals, guitar, violin , bass) that animate the evening and attend to the musical demands of the most demanding. On the tables will triumph top star presented during this week: the crispy prawns with tamarind sauce. And of course, including cocktails, will win the ‘Flor de Isabela’ is the house special.

The cultural and historical part

The week of the terraces is the time to enjoy a guided tour through the bowels of the hotel Fonda Spain tour. The hotel management, located in a modernist building designed by the architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner walk Rambla, program special tours these days for attendees (5,6,9, 12th and 13th June, 18.30. Subject to the tel: 935 500 000). Another outstanding cultural activities this week will be homage to Catalonia Ramblas Barcelona Loop Festival, an international video art event held on site hotel, projecting the film Twin Tastes & Tongues within the framework Loop in Progress. In addition to projecting outdoors this road work between Barcelona and Shanghai commodity market, visitors to La Terraza del Pelai have the opportunity to get free tickets to visit the Loop Barcelona festival on 5th and 6th June.

Terraces with children

If we go to the terraces with children, the best views are roofs that have interesting activities planned for them. For example, H10 Art Gallery, which will offer a workshop to create themselves a gastronomic menu from a base ingredient (June 13th, from 11.30 to 13.30); Also roofs Ohla hotel, where they can see a performance of synchronized swimming (June 12, 20.30), and the Eixample Catalonia 1864 (June 11th, 19.30 and 21.00). The terrace of Duquesa de Cardona will also be fun because you can paint aprons (June 6th, from 10.00 to 21.00 hours) or ride puzzles (June 14th, from 17.00 to 20.00 hours). A place to visit family key these days and take a good memory is the beautiful terrace of the Mandarin Oriental, which has been prepared in the Mimosa garden a performance by a magician open to all public (8, 9th and 10th June 18.30 19.30). This hotel’s garden, filled with dozens of native trees such as oleander, oak or olive trees, also has a stake of scoundrels claiming tapas classics like bleeding, red summer or rebujito but in its own way this year totaling tapas bars are honors and corners of our country. (From 13.00 to 23.00 hours).

Photo contest via Instagram

Another novelty of the event this year is a contest via Instagram. Those attending the activities taking a picture from one of the terraces to illustrate a special moment and share in the social network with the hashtag # SetmanaTerrasses15. The contest will have two categories: the first should illustrate a terrace either space, their views or their environment; and the second should have the Torres wines, sponsors of the event, as protagonists. Prizes will be one night in a double room in the Hotel Miramar Barcelona and one day in the Universe Torres, respectively.
We recommend confirming the schedule of activities on the website of Mes que Hotels.

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Barcelona plans its first commercial street where pay with bitcoins

A group of users of electronic currency works to implement in the Ciutat Vella in Barcelona, the model launched in Serrano Street in Madrid.

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Create in Barcelona “Carrer” bitcoin. This is the aim of a group of lovers of digital currency users who want to launch an initiative to get the highest number of trades in the same area adopt this new form of payment. The drivers do not reveal what street in the Catalan capital has put the focus, but admit that the chosen Ciutat Vella district is the combination of three elements that can be key to meet the challenge. “It’s a central location with great commercial and very touristy concentration,” says one of its promoters, Borja Rossell, who is also CEO of BTCpoint, developer ATMs bitcoins.

Contact round the shops begin in the coming days. The promoters want to avoid the franchise and concentrate on small businesses that may be more susceptible to adopt electronic currency. According Rossell, cost-free for merchants since “there are many applications that allow purchases with bitcoins”. “Just a mobile or tablet,” he adds.

The volunteer group -are 15- have set a goal to have 20 to 30 business concentrates on a street or area – “less than 500 meters away from each others, qualifies Rossell” – which allow to operate with bitcoins Mobile World Congress to be held next March. A good showcase to gain followers, considering that those days Barcelona becomes the global epicenter of technology and innovation universe where the virtual currency part.

If successful, it will be the second time that the congress is used to publicize this new currency. In the last edition was installed provisionally an ATM bitcoins in the Diagonal Mar Shopping Centre decline since the council come to appreciate this initiative to “not be a legal tender and not being regulated”.

Discreet host

The action is a replica of the bitcoin community project that has developed in Madrid on Calle Serrano, known as the ‘Golden Mile’, which already can buy bitcoins in a few places. “Actually, the idea of the United States and the countries of northern Europe where more experience here in this type of action,” admits Rossell. The figures speak for themselves. According to the web coinmap.org in the Catalan capital there are only twenty merchants that accept bitcoins and, from a month ago, a single point where buy and sell -in FabCafé Barcelona within MOB- coworking space, an amount well below cities like London or New York, where the phenomenon of criptomoneda is more advanced.

For Alex Puig, technological and entrepreneurial expert bitcoins, the explanation to the discrete popularity in Spain and Catalunya lies in the “fear” and the need for us to “someone to give us explanations, protect us.” And the bitcoin, encrypted, global and volatile currency are beyond the control of banks, states and international organizations. “It’s an ingrained cultural issue and so the development of bitcoins, which is not regulated by anyone, is slower than elsewhere,” he says. According to him, the pulse of this digital currency could be taken to a hypothetical independence of Catalonia. “It recurrent think in a new country could adopt the 2.0 bitcoin as currency, but that would depend on the degree of confidence that had”.

Currency ‘at risk’

The bitcoins have on economic and political context your greatest ally. Your quote, for example, skyrocketed during the playpen of Cyprus last year.

Proponents see it as a real alternative and response to management that the troika has made the crisis. In recent times, with the emergence of new political parties Bitcoins We can have a circle, but is almost inactivo- has been speculated that the use of bitcoins extends leveraging the political situation, but Juan Ramón Rallo, Doctor of Economics and Director of the Instituto Juan de Mariana, is categorical in this regard: “the bitcoin has no ideology and if you have it would have a liberal pedigree”.

There where many see a solution, others are simply “a risk”. “Since its inception in 2009, there have been ups and downs and not really know why. Maybe is good, but can lead to speculators and speculation, and the absence of regulation, to make illegal transactions easier, “says Professor of Financial Economics at the UPF, Oriol Amat. According to him, their characteristics are very similar to other financial experiences that have ended badly, referring to the scandal of Philatelic Forum in 2006 left 500,000 affected by the scam of the seals. The European Banking Authority (EBA) a year ago and warned of the dangers associated with virtual currencies. Bitcoin is one of them, although there are more than a hundred.

“It is paradoxical alert when banks are being more interested in knowing how bitcoins work and adapt its operation to the protocols themselves,” says Puig. “For me the big mystery is the current financial system is very opaque and it is very difficult to access,” he concludes.

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