Children’s Festival

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The 52th edition Festival for Children comes loaded with fun for children of the family. The Montjuïc Fira de Barcelona will find more than 100 activities of all kinds. As a novelty, this year the festival expands the range of more traditional activities such as theater, puppets and magic, and release a large circus stilt walkers, trapeze artists and strongmen. In addition, they promote activities related to new technologies, such as robotics workshops, promoted concepts such as ecology, recycling and the environment. Healthy habits are also very present, as well as sports activities. In this edition, even you can make a kayak tour in a pool!

Another great new feature of the festival is the Peppa Pig theme park in which recreates the world of the characters of the famous cartoon series. “One day with Peppa the festival” can be seen from 27 to 30 December and 2 January 4.

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The XD Young Fest is an ideal space for boys and girls between 10 and 14 years. In this space there is entertainment to sell and experiences related to multimedia technology, urban dances, 3D, sports and graffiti, among many others. From young people can develop apps and get into the world of robotics to perform concerts and electronic music sessions.

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New Year’s Eve in Barcelona

Light, music and fireworks for New Year’s Eve party in Barcelona

New Year’s Eve in Barcelona

The City Council and Tourism of Barcelona will keep the essence of the New Year’s Eve show that since the 2014 has been held at the Maria Cristina avenue of Montjuïc. The main change will be the disappearance of the main protagonist of the previous New Year’s Eves, Being Millennium Fura dels Baus.

The New Year’s Eve party will be a spectacle of light, color and music that will use the framework of the Magic Fountain, the replica of the four columns of Puig i Cadafalch and the backdrop of the National Palace, home of the MNAC. It will begin at 21:30 pm with music, animation and interactive games with mobile phones of the audience, but the show itself will start at 23:30 and end ten minutes after the bell.

The assembly of the party was commissioned to Focus producer and theater group Els Comediants. It will cost 517,000 euros, the same budget as last year. In the coming days it will seek private sponsorship to finance part of the soiree, which will include the 2016 video card made by entities in the neighborhoods of the city. Also performing groups of drummers and devils.

The bells will be projected on a big screen, while the quarter will be reflected in the columns, symbolizing the four stripes of the Catalan flag.

For years the idea of ​​the City is to hold a competition between artistic groups in the city to be the ones who define the content of the New Year’s Eve Party.

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Winter season comes, to the Magic Fountains in Barcelona

The Magic fountains adapts to winter time and untill  March 27th will show Friday and Saturday from 19h to 21h

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The Magic Fountain and little fountains at Maria Cristina begin work this week in winter time. From October 30th until  March 27th-2016, the fountain offers the traditional choreography of light, color, music and water, Fridays and Saturdays between 19 pm and 21pm, with choreography start at 19h, 19: 30h, 20h and 20: 30h.

For the autumn – winter 2015-2016 Magic Fountain starts his shows with the legendary “Barcelona” starring Freddy Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, sound and choreography combine the great successes of the 2000s and this decade, remix classical, Spanish classical music, children’s music, selection of soundtracks for movies and traditional closure • show the Song of the flag. Also continue programming additions in recent seasons remix Catalan groups, the piece “City between two blue” Friends of the Arts released on the occasion of the World Swimming Championships and the Tricentenary of Music premiered on September 11 of last year.
Special program for the International Jazz Festival

Until 9th December , can continue to enjoy the jazz program built to mark the 47 Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, ​​in sessions of 20 hours with approximately 20 minutes devoted to artists such illegal famous as Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra.

2.5 million visitors each year

This emblematic installation of water the city receives around 2.5 million visitors a year and is an icon of the city recognized worldwide. It has a specific website, available in Catalan, Spanish and English, where you can view information such as the origins and history of the source, the trajectory and evolution since its opening in 1929, updated data on the operation, and schedules current information.

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Harnessing protagonist at “Slow food”

Tomorrow saturday the Three Chimneys Park will host the third edition of the Slow Food Barcelona thirty producers

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With a clear message against food waste and use comes the third edition of the Slow Food Earth Markets Barcelona. On Saturday 10th October at the Three Chimneys Park Poble Sec 30 are grouped producers, tastings and children’s areas.

The aim is to raise awareness of the problem of food waste, both environmental and economic. A fixed data the importance of actions around this concept: 260,000 tons of food are thrown in good condition every year in Catalonia.

In addition producers can sample culinary creations with the element of exploitation at the heart of their creations. A cookery workshop with surplus products from the market; an information and host volunteers for meal exceeded 18th October Poble Sec and a stand traveling on preventing food wastage close an intense morning. It also becomes incorporated space Slow Kids Magic with his van.

This will be the third market of the Earth (which will return on November 14th and December 12th), including an international network of markets for farmers, based on local foods of good quality, seasonal, obtained with traditional processes environmentally friendly and work the land, and have a fair price both for purchase and for those who produce them.

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The store of “Capgrossos” (Big Heads)

In Rauric street, 6 in Barcelona there is ‘El Ingenio’, a shop where you can find historical articles for parties like big heads craft stand

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El Ingenio is a business that was born in 1838 thanks to the family climbed, which was founded as a workshop party. A few years later, namely in 1924, Cardona Homs they take care of the establishment and became a reference in the sector in the city.

In El Ingenio can find all kinds of items for parties, magic, juggling and circus. But there is one item that stands out above the rest and makes this one: are tadpoles. The shelves of this store are full of these products so popular in Catalonia. Dragons, eagles, demons, and even different characters in Groux Marx receive clients who enter. Tadpoles and there are many different sizes.

Rosa Cardona, manager of El Ingenio, approximately 50 years working in this shop in the street Rauric guarded by a tadpole Pablo Picasso. Right at the entrance, you can also see old photographs and Rose still has some of the first catalogs were published.

100% handmade tadpoles

Behind the visible part of the store is the workshop, a workshop where he works Mr. Agustín. Far from the modern machinery used today in El Ingenio still make all the heads of completely handmade. Generally use their own molds and even if the process reaches a specific order varies. Then, create the prototype with chalk, then make it with cardboard. In this workshop we still keep molds and parts, more than 150 years ago, have become true relics.

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The magic square of 33 and the false Masonic myth of Gaudí

Before crossing the door of the Passion of the Sagrada Familia´s sculpted a numerological riddle.

Visitors to the Sagrada Familia are just before crossing the door of the Passion with a numerological riddle, one of the many secrets hidden in the most unlikely corners of Barcelona. To the left of the entrance a square formed by 16 cells can be observed. Each contains a number. If one were entertained, verify that the sum of the horizontal rows is 33. Also added when vertical. And the diagonals. And the four central squares and corners. Almost any combination totaling 33. Why?

The puzzle is based on a cryptogram known as magic square. There are many works of art scattered around the world. Not always have 16 boxes and do not always add up to 33. Some are larger and smaller, but always adding the same number. No longer a mathematical game resulting from the application of a formula. But then inevitably Antoni Gaudí stories, urban legends and mysteries that allegedly relate to secret societies, in the case of the Sagrada Família, arise. And among them, which is always the talk of the Masons. And always someone relates the magic square with 33 degrees of Freemasonry Mason and a past course of Gaudí.

Great script for a novel or film, but the explanation is, as usual, much simpler. First, the magic square of the Sagrada Família was not the work of Gaudí, Josep Maria Subirachs but, creator of the sculpture of the Passion Facade. He invented the magic square and in no time he came inspired by any Masonic symbol. Just 33 is just the age when Jesus Christ died on the cross.

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