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Awesome images of Gaudí in video
The program “30 minutes” presents for the first time ever, a film by Antoni Gaudí made a year before his death. So far only had to record a few pictures of the architect, but had never seen the image of Gaudí moving.
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.
The 2016-2017 season and all activities will take place in the Poble Nou, in the building that housed the Justice i Peace Cooperative
Beckett Theater Barcelona
Sala Beckett will bid farewell to its headquarters in Gràcia with a series of 27 dramatic readings of the most memorable works of history, because for the 2016-2017 season and all activity will take place in the Poble Nou, in the building that housed Justice i Peace cooperative.
As reported by Efe a spokesman for the theater, readings farewell space in which for 27 years has been the Sala Beckett will be held between February 29 and April 20. Each work will be read by the same actors who debuted for eight weeks and the different artistic teams that make up the history of Beckett were reunited to say goodbye to the local de Gràcia, along with viewers.
To choose the works have been contacted with creators, workers and spectators who have passed through the room to find out what shows recalled especially. Until now, designers like Xavier Albertí, Merce Arànega, Sergi Belbel, Josep M. Benet i Jornet, Oriol Broggi, Laura Conejero, Pep Cruz, Cunillé, Miriam Iscla, Julio Manrique, Pau Miró, Alex and Luis Soler Rigola have already confirmed his participation in dismissal.
In addition to panel discussions and readings parallel activities on different themes of contemporary theater and about the past and future of the Sala Beckett they will be organized.
Places like hiking center, a shop, a cafe or a civic center containing the remains of the Roman colony of Barcino
The Bàrcino´s hidden wall
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The Roman fort, built between the IV centuries BC and AD is still visible on the walls more unexpected. The old Barcino is still visible in the streets of the city, but it is also inside some buildings. A small tour of Old Town makes time travel possible, up to 2,000 years ago, when Barcelona was a small Roman colony and strengthened through a wall that endures despite the years.
Street Avignon Ramblers Association Ethnography and Folklore (AEEF) is the only place in which you can enter the wall between the fortress built in the first century BC to delimit the city and built in the fourth century AD more robust defense. In the Middle Ages it was common to make openings in the wall and remove the debris that filled the space between the two walls to expand housing.
Thus, through the AEEF can access the inside of the towers 52 and 53 of the fortification and even sat with them, because there are tables, chairs and a fireplace. One of the club members, Alfred Llorea, began to crush the wall in 1957 because he suspected would find the wall. The works were finished in 1987, and currently the site can be visited on weekdays (except Thursdays) from 19 to 21 hours, making a reservation.
Call street clothes shop with a sign invited to see the Roman walls. Inside the venue, just between testers and hanger, you can admire a majestic tower section. Even you can see a piece of spine, evidence that the construction of the wall pieces often took advantage of other buildings. A few feet away, on the street of New Bathrooms, cafe modernist Farm also retains a wall in the dining room at the time.
The Mercer Hotel Barcelona, located in the Lledó, has the privilege of being able to enforce them meetings in a Roman tower, number 28. It is very well preserved, and often becomes a dining room. The restaurant and bar area are also flanked by the wall of the fourth century AD, and the library is based on the old walkway, linking all the towers. In fact, it is still visible very clearly the entrance to the tower number 29.
The Civic Center Courtyard Lemon Street Regomir hides some remains unbeatable.
Due to an expansion of the center, public baths of Barcino were revealed. The sailors and travelers they could bathe before entering the city, which acceded to the Sea Gate, also visible from the center of the exhibition hall, the Hall of Ruins. It was a step back for pedestrians has been restored as it was. Other remains have undergone changes throughout history, such as the adjacent section of the wall, where you can clearly see a fireplace. The space is managed by the Barcelona City History Museum and can be visited with the accompaniment of a volunteer who also offers historical information.
