Barcelona classic races

Montmeló recovers the spirit of Montjuïc during a weekend

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A trip to the past to awaken the memories of motor fans. From tomorrow Friday until next Sunday, the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, in Montmeló, will host the seventh edition of the Spirit of Montjuïc. It is a weekend of races and activities carried out with classic vehicles, the same models that were used in the old circuit of the so-called magical mountain of the Catalan capital in the competitions of the 60s and 70s.action mythical machines such as the Chevron B21, the Ferrari 512 or the Porsche 910, among many others.

The event is an ode to nostalgia in which, according to the organization, there are no “closed spaces” and fans can get close to the cars that they admired decades ago in Montjuïc. It is also a time when owners of old vehicles can enjoy the winding layout of Montmeló.

The program is completed with a wide range of activities. For example, a market is organized with vintage clothing and accessories, antiques, pieces for collection vehicles, magazines and vintage vinyl.

There is also an amusement area with merry-go-rounds, bumper cars and a circus like those of before with tribute to TV clowns and Charlie Rivel. Everything is enlivened with a series of musical performances. The organization encourages attending dress period and provides a hairdresser specialized in rockabilly environment.

Seat, which always collaborates with the initiative, will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of model 124 with an exhibition in its tent of 600 m2 2.“You can see the Seat a million, which commemorated when the brand reached that number of cars sold and raffled among employees,” explains the head of Historical Cars Seat, Isidre Lopez. He will also devise pedal vehicles with which children will be racing on board small replicas of vintage cars.

In addition, Seat will exhibit the first official car of rally driver Carlos Sainz, a Seat Panda who drove years before proclaiming himself world champion.

Another brand, Renault, takes the opportunity to organize the Passion Renault Experience and gives away free tickets. “It’s not a place to sell cars, we want to provide a positive experience for visitors to the event,” says Renault’s Communication Director in Spain, Javier Sánchez.

The French brand expects 25,000 attendees at its facilities in Montmeló, who will be able to test their latest news, electric vehicles and drive “competitive sports cars under the tutelage of drivers”. There will also be road safety workshops for children and various activities with the intention of creating a “family atmosphere”.

Finally, during the weekend the Clio Cup will take place, emblematic competition that this year also celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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Barcelona cable car

The air shuttle 85 years flying over the city

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“Savor watching the currency indescribable panorama of the city, the port and the Mediterranean. From the beach to the delightful gardens of Montjuïc in four minutes. ” That was the letter of the launch of the iconic cable car Port of Barcelona in the notice published in La Vanguardia in its Sunday edition of September 13, 1931. Now the iconic red trolleys meet 85, approaching a century life full of all kinds of anecdotes and setbacks.

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The cable car Port, which began serving until two in the morning, was designed by Carles Buigas, author of the Magic Fountain of Montjuic. It construction began in 1928 on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1929 to connect the area of Montjuïc with its maritime section, but was not completed in time for lack of funds. At the end of the Port cable car began to fly over the city in 1931. But this was not the only surprise. In the Civil War interrupted his service, the cables were removed and the towers, especially that of Sant Sebastia, which houses a Mediterranean creative cuisine, became a strategic place in the defense of the port of Barcelona.

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After the war the air shuttle was not at his best and was about to close in the late 50s Indeed, a sad event at that time forced remodeling. A crash of the sixth American fleet crashed leaving several casualties. In 1963 it was reopened and the late 90 underwent another major refurbishment.

During the tour, about 1,300 meters and ten minutes, you can see from the district of Barceloneta, yachts moored in the harbor to the gardens of Montjuïc. This air travel has three stops, the tower of Miramar in Montjuïc, Sant Sebastia Tower in the Barceloneta, and Jaume I, the highest with 101 meters in the port.

Although the cable car you can see another point of view the city, it has been rather an attraction that the locals have turned their backs and tourists are the ones who have enjoyed this medium to fly over the city.

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The Funicular of Montjuïc reopens today

During this time the funicular body has renewed and replaced the hydraulic brake system

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The Funicular of Montjuïc has resumed its service early today after nearly six months of stop, which has carried out an overhaul of the facilities and trains.

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has reported that the technical shutdown, which began on November 2, it was necessary to have passed the funicular 22,500 hours of service since its reopening in 1992.

The funicular, which links the metro station Parallel lines 2 and 3 with the Miramar Avenue in the mountain of Montjuïc, has reopened its doors to the public at 07.30 am this morning and will work from now on your schedule usual until 22.00h.

During these six months stop, among other actions, it has renovated the funicular body and replaced the hydraulic brake system, a renewal in more laborious than expected depth and has lengthened the time of service interruption.

The set-up has also behaved conditioning facilities, PA system, signaling and video system, and the replacement of tractors cables.

The funicular, which was built for the International Exhibition of 1929 and was completely renovated in 1992 for the Olympic Games, has a distance of 758 meters, a maximum slope of 18%, circulates with a frequency of 10 minutes in 2002 he joined the underground network.

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The Migdia Baluard Barcelona

A panoramic balcony you can admire a large piece of the defensive wall of the sixteenth century, found in 2006 and during years only visible from a parking lot

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The archaeological site of the Baluard of Migdia, a defensive structure of the city of Barcelona built in the sixteenth century, can at last be admired unhindered. It was one of the most important stages of the siege of 1714 and yet lived Tercentenary celebration jailed after the glass wall of an underground car park.

Barcelona City Council has completed this March, the second phase of development of the former grounds of Renfe, right next to the station in France, where the remains surfaced to build a public housing development in 2006. From now neighbors and tourists can observe the whole bulwark from a panoramic balcony and some may even come to see it in detail from the old moat through a gateway restricted access. It has an independent standard lighting, which highlighted the wreckage at dusk ornamental lighting. The assembly comprises a large portion of the rampart and wall, along with a counterscarp of the early eighteenth century, an auxiliary channel Rec Comtal after 1735 and a second pipeline crossing diagonally the pit.

For years, this historical heritage of the city could only be admired from inside the parking lot of one of the blocks of flats of the square, which aroused much criticism from neighbors and cultural activists. The fortification was sandwiched between concrete blocks and be open pit was a hotbed of dirt and degradation. To amend this “donut” inherited, in the words of Jaume Ciurana “exteniente mayor”, the council amended in 2014 the development project planned. The recently concluded intervention, which cost two million euros, meets with a balcony and a walkway visibility and access to the wall.

In addition to ‘liberate’ defenses and water management structures, archaeologists have been able to study remains of pottery and amphorae III AD associated with the location century here the line of the Roman coastline and an important layer of black mud probably linked to the existence of a navigable gap between the ninth century and the first half of the XV. They have also been documented remains of the breakwater of the port of Barcelona in the fifteenth century stone -built Montjuïc a medieval ship -trasladado Underwater Archaeology Center in Girona- and traces of railway infrastructure nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The intervention, which includes paving and urbanizing with banks and wooded space between blocks of public and private housing surrounding the pit, can win a public space and facilitates the walk way between the neighborhoods of Barceloneta and Born and to the France station. In all the works they have covered an area of ​​almost 8,000 m2 between Plaza de Pau Vila and Aiguader Street Doctor. A third and final phase of works riveted the urbanization of the square and the archaeological work, with a budget of almost 650,000 euros plus VAT.

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Children’s Festival

Emotions for children and youth

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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

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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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Huawei joins the “Open Camp” Montjuic

The Asian company signed an agreement with the sports theme park to provide their technological equipment

Huawei joins the “Open Camp” Montjuic

Open Camp, the theme park dedicated to the sport due to open in June 2016 in Montjuïc, continues to add partners. The latter has been the technology multinational Huawei. The Asian company has signed an agreement with Open Camp to provide the “communications equipment and processes voice and data requires the park,” according to a statement on Open Camp.

Among Huawei technology is tested in Montjuïc “IP telephony voice services closed circuit television IP, IT systems company, Internet access for customers and other support systems exploitation.”

The agreement, signed Tuesday morning at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, ​​also states that the Asian company will work in the “test new features or applications” of the park. Huawei also inform the Open Camp “news of its product portfolio and improved maintenance of the equipment installed in the park.”

The vice president of Huawei Enterprise in Spain, Li Xiaoke, emphasizes that the agreement “strengthens the strategy” of the company in “sporting environments,” while the CEO of Open Camp, Paco Medina, said that with the incorporation of the technology company “the park becomes more global.”

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The Montjuïc cable car in Barcelona stops for 4 months

There will be tasks of updating and overall of the funicular and TMB a special bus meter last work

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The Montjuïc funicular has exceeded 22,500 operating hours and it must perform extraordinary maintenance, as stipulated regulations cableway. For about four months, we will conduct a thorough review.

Moreover, after 23 years of service, we will work to update and modernization of rolling stock, including the renewal of body and substitution of hydraulic brakes and electric drive trains. Also completely change the system of command and control, will prepare the infrastructure of the facility and will be replaced both the upper and lower tractor cable as the cable counterweight.

The Montjuïc funicular was built for the International Exhibition of 1929 and was reopened in 1992 Olympic Games. In 2002 he joined the underground network currently connects the station with Parallel Avenue Miramar.

Alternative transportation

To move between Parallel and Montjuïc Park duration of the work, TMB recommends using the special bus service will be enabled. This will work with the same timetable as the funicular railway: from 7.30 to 20.00 on jobs and 9.00 to 20.00 on weekends and holidays.

It is also advisable to use the regular lines 55 and 150. Line 55 (Parc de Montjuïc – Pl. Catalan) up to Montjuic from the street Lleida has terminal next to the upper station of the funicular. Moreover, the line also reaches 150 Miramar and works every day of the week from 7 to 21 hours. The route, stops and schedules are available on the website of TMB.

The other cable transport Montjuïc Cable Car, will save the annual technical review by the end of January.

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Rally Catalunya can decide the runner

With the World decided, the Finn Jari-Matti Latvala has everything going for it

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 The Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada will tomorrow kick off their 51st World Championship with the strong, after the victory of Frenchman Sebastien Ogier (Volkswagen), but the fight still alive to decide the runner. Jari-Matti Latvala (Volkswagen) Finnish has everything going for it to take second place overall in the penultimate round of the championship.

The Nordic pilot, who was the fastest in the race held a few weeks ago in France, add 160 points, 34 more than the Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen (Volkswagen), so it could achieve in Catalunya his second runner-up in the top category of rally world.

Lattvala, however, not have it easy to repeat the victory in the French round. With the Constructors also decided, following the landslide hierarchy shown by the cars of Volskswagen Motorsport Ogier try climbing on top of the podium for the third time in Spain. In fact, rivals the three-time world champion will look to end the French supremacy, since from the rally held on the roads of the Costa Daurada just won Ogier, twice, and Loeb, eight.

For its part, the Spanish Dani Sordo (Hyundai), tenth overall with 62 points, will have another shot at redemption in the home rally after a somewhat irregular season in which his best result was a third place in Germany.

More exciting category WRC2 is expected in the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah, nine points ahead of the Finn Esapekka Lappi, it is one of the favorites to take the test and give an almost definitive step to repeat the title achieved in 2014.

The 51 edition of the rally, the twenty-fifth as FIA world championship will start tomorrow with the classic car exhibition in Barcelona, ​​just before they do the fifteen racers WRC category in the special urban test that will pass through the Montjuïc mountain.

With a tour which has enhanced the difficulty, more sections were added and reduced assists, the Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada with the participation of 84 drivers, representing a record registered among all categories although only fifteen units correspond to WRC. In this edition they will travel 1280.72 kilometers, of which 331.24 will be speed, spread over twenty special tests, seven of them totally new. A new born with the aim to further enhance the strength, speed, leaving a second term, and thereby increase competition between the teams.

The Friday October 23th will be the longest of the race with the running of the special section of Terra Alta, 35.68 kilometers, which will have asphalt roads and land surface changes up to five hours.

In Saturday’s stage near Salou eight sections and ending with the traditional special which will run along the waterfront of the city of Tarragona they will be made.

The last day will have three special which will be given two runs to score 76.40 kilometers, including Duesaigües section, with the section of Riudecanyes, which will give extra points to the three fastest drivers.

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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

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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 ‘Esser of Mil·leni’ of the Fura dels Baus bounce back year to Barcelona

The show during the Strokes wants to position the Catalan capital as an international and innovative

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The ‘Esser of Mil·leni’ La Fura dels Baus, a structure of 15 meters, this year will be the star of the show to be held at the Maria Cristina Avenue and Fonts de Montjuïc to dismiss the year and give the welcome to 2015.

As reported Tuesday at a press conference the Deputy Mayor of Economy of the City of Barcelona, Sònia Recasens, the forecast is repeating similar to last year’s figures, when first held this flashy show, which aims to consolidate and internationally position the Catalan capital.

Last year 70,000 people attended the event, and for this edition numbers “slightly higher” expected considering it is no longer a novelty, according to Recasens, who has said that screens are placed in the Maria Cristina avenue to ensure that all the public can clearly see the show. The budget will be around 450,000 euros and Recasens noted that are still looking for sponsors, but stressed that the collaborating institutions “remain behind” as in the first edition.

In the assembly of La Fura dels Baus also participate musician Santi Arisa with his group of drummers and singer Ginesa Ortega, and will again starring castellers Sants. The artistic director of La Fura dels Baus, Carlus Padrissa, explained that the show will incorporate references to famous people Catalan, Ramon Llull as the 700th anniversary of his death, and has advanced to the “castellers” will make a ‘castell’ words in tribute .

He highlighted that it will seek the cooperation of the public to symbolize the heartbeat of ‘Esser of Mil·leni’ with the light of their mobile phones. Like last year, TV3 broadcast the event, and the president of the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media, Brauli Duart, and the first deputy mayor of Barcelona, Joaquim Forn, have signed an agreement with the Catalan public television is also committed to making the broadcast of the show next year.

Family celebration

Recasens stressed that this is a family celebration, for both tourists and locals, and explained that the show will start at 23.30 and finish after midnight chimes, although from 21.00 a repertoire of music will be offered 60, 70 and 80 to encourage the wait.

President of Tourism of Barcelona, Joan Gaspart, explained that the agency has sent information about the event over 16,000 tour operators and travel agencies with whom they have regular contact to promote it among tourists, and predicted that many of the who attended last year, they repeated.

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