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Smart Port Barcelona

The Port of Barcelona is the European port that grows most (+ 32% in container traffic in 2017) and also the first on the continent and the Mediterranean in the movement of cruise passengers. With the aim of being even more efficient and continuing to grow in a sustainable manner, the Digital Port project has been launched.

Barcelona has been a pioneer port in the application of new technologies, as demonstrated by the creation in 1999 of the digital platform of the Port Community, Portic. Now, almost two decades later, two key facts converge.

On the one hand, the change in the logistics sector has accelerated and the need for information for quick decision-making is more urgent than ever. On the other hand, the development of new technologies facilitates a much more intelligent management of the infrastructure, which allows to offer agile solutions to the client.

“Nowadays infrastructures have become a commodity, where the decisive factor is good management”, argues the president of the Port of Barcelona, ​​Sixte Cambra. “What sets us apart from the Port of Barcelona and allows us to compete as a port is not just the infrastructure, but the quality, reliability and efficiency of the services we offer,” he adds.

WHAT IS AN INTELLIGENT PORT?

The smart concept does not have a single definition. For the Port of Barcelona, ​​it encompasses six areas (logistics, mobility, environment, economy, social sphere and governance) in which it progresses transversally to consolidate itself as a smart port of reference.

Thus, smart logistics refers to the use of technology to make the entire logistics chain more efficient and predictive.

Smart mobility focuses on the optimization of local and international accessibility and puts the emphasis on intermodality.

Smart environment integrates actions to develop a sustainable management and to minimize pollution.

The creation of employment and the promotion of internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship promoted by the Port of Barcelona contribute to the smart economy, while integration with the city, social cohesion and the cultural and touristic values ​​it generates are related to The smart people concept.

Finally, the Port of Barcelona is also committed to a smart model of governance, with efficient management of public resources and a firm defense of transparency and participation.

In this context, technology and innovation become key elements to provide information in real time, offer new services from the flow of data and digitize processes. “We understand by smart deploying the most advanced technological means (sensors, license plate readers, monitoring stations, video analytics, telecommunications, etc.) to have all the possible information in real time. On the other hand, digitalization consists of taking advantage of all this data to create applications and services aimed at the client, which will allow them to be more efficient and competitive, “says the general deputy director of Organization and Internal Resources of the Port, Catalina Grimalt.

Several of these actions are under development, but many others are already operational, such as the Virtual Gates service or the Port Links project. The first one offers information in real time about the level of activity in all accesses to the port and container terminals, while Port Links is an application that allows to build and compare logistics chains through the Port of Barcelona, ​​offering accurate information based on to the available offer of services (transit times, CO2 emissions of each section, etc.).

Other projects related to business intelligence, e-administration and cybersecurity are in the development phase and will be implemented in the medium term to complete the ambitious Digital Port program.

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MSC Barcelona cruise port terminal

MSC starts the process to build a new cruise terminal in Barcelona

MSC starts the process to build a new cruise terminal in Barcelona

MSC Cruises has requested a concession to build and manage a cruise terminal in the Port of Barcelona that will be designed by the architect Ricardo Bofill and that would come into operation in 2021.

With the project, MSC Cruises seeks to boost its percentage of base-port passengers, those who start and end the cruise in Barcelona and, therefore, make a greater economic contribution to the city.

The company wants many of the cruise passengers who currently only make a stop in one day in the city to become passengers of the base port thanks to the facilities that will offer the new terminal.

The concession request sent to the Port of Barcelona, ​​which is expected to begin the processing of this petition shortly, is about a space located on the Adossat pier and for a term of 30 years.

The Port of Barcelona has six cruise terminals: four at the dock for large ships and two at the World Trade Center for smaller boats, and a seventh one under construction. Barcelona last year received a total of 2.6 million cruise passengers from its facilities and is the first cruise port in Europe and the Mediterranean and fourth world port.

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Cruise ship for swingers in Barcelona

The Azamara Quest, with 343 swinger couples, will arrive this Sunday in Barcelona

Cruise ship for swingers in Barcelona

During this month of August the port of Barcelona will receive 78 cruise ladders, a figure that breaks the idea that the city is full of travelers arriving on tourist ships during the peak season of the summer. As an example, in April 86 cruise ships made stops, in May arrived at 96 and for the next month of September 101 passenger boats, which no regular ferries will visit Barcelona.

Another idea that is also breaking with time is the consideration that cruises are luxury travel, an idea that would come to be equivalent to thinking that a hotel is luxurious by the mere fact of being so and not by its category in stars and the services it offers. In the world of maritime tourism there is something similar to the stars of hotels: there are offers for virtually all pockets according to the shipping company, the time of year, the category of the cabin chosen or the duration of the trip. It will always be easier to find a good deal on a megacruise that takes thousands of passengers on board than on a boutique cruiser, smaller, more exclusive and therefore more expensive.

The maturity of the cruise market has also led to a number of voyages, especially in medium and small vessels, with less than a thousand passengers on board: there are those dedicated to golf, and itineraries are specially designed so that travelers can enjoy the best courses during your trip. There are those who focus especially on gastronomic experiences, giving the possibility to visit celebrated restaurants, organize a special event related to food during the stopovers or one or several celebrities of the kitchen are invited to travel aboard the vessel in question . There are cruisers for music lovers, both classical and jazz, there are trips of marked political tone in which every day a speaker of the Republican American party is invited to give a conference followed by a debate and also trips in which the central point Is a real celebrity or fiction: comedians, television presenters or the heroes of Marvel. There are also cruises whose strong point is the dance and, there are also cruises that focus on the liberal sex as a way of leisure … or life.

On Sunday, four ships will make stops in Barcelona: the huge Norwegian Epic, the even bigger Freedom of the Seas, the newly christened Mein Schiff 5 and the Azamara Quest boutique boat. The first three will be in the dock and the fourth mooring in the dock of Barcelona, ​​next to the World Trade Center. The latter is doing precisely one of these theme trips and its organizers, Luxury Lifestyle Vacations tour operators have called it “Rumba Mediterránea”, although it is not exactly a cruise dedicated to this musical genre of Cuban origin and mother of other genres like the salsa or other more local rumbas, like flamenco or Catalan: the trip is a swinger cruise.

“If you ever wanted to sail the Mediterranean … why not embark on an unforgettable week with more than 300 couples sharing their same lifestyle?”, Indicates in catalog and the tour operator’s website to potential customers, Which in an overwhelming majority are Americans, as LaVanguardia is one of its leaders in Luxury Lifestyle Vacations from the Mexican delegation, where it serves the entire Spanish-speaking market of the company. It is one of the few pieces of information he reveals, because without being asked, he says: “We are very discreet with revealing who our travelers are and what they do in their free time. We are reserved and a high quality company, as our name indicates “, concludes the employee of the travel tour operator for clients with liberal minds, not in the political-economic sense of the term (or maybe yes) but in the philosophy of life sexual or affective.

In addition to preparing trips to liberal resorts in Mexico and southern France, the company has specialized in chartering boats to organize cruises for couples swingers, renting ships as big as the Independence of The Seas, with capacity for 3,600 passengers or The Norwegian Pearl, where they can travel up to 2,830 cruise passengers. For the Mediterranean cruise, a smaller vessel, the Azamara Quest, of 181 meters in length and capacity for 686 people (343 pairs) has been chosen by a crew of 410 professionals.

The cruise is apparently a conventional voyage that departed last August 5 from Civitavecchia, the port of Rome and has continued through Livorno, Monaco and Saint Tropez.

Today, August 9, you will spend the day in Cap d’Agde, one of the world’s free sex emporiums, just three hours away from Barcelona by car, and after a day at sea will make its last stop in Ibiza, At the end of the trip in Barcelona next Sunday. The policy on board is “optional clothing” in the outer areas of the ship and some interior rooms have been enabled as huge relaxation areas for the interaction of those who go beyond having fun with their partner, which is the ultimate goal of this trip , With themed nights of marked erotic tone. After disembarking on Sunday, the tour operator proposes to continue a couple of days more enjoying the experience in Barcelona, in this case changing the vessel Azamara Quest by the hotel Melià Barcelona Sarrià from where the travelers will return to their cities of origin in the United States, Canada and some other European country, ending their thematic sea vacations.

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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.

Plane crash

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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Regent Seven Seas Explorer in Barcelona

The world’s most luxurious cruise stops in Barcelona

Regent Seven Seas Explorer Barcelona

In the South Terminal Dock World Trade Center -nothing to do with the big quantity of Adossat– cruise passengers, a private chauffeur leaves walk from ‘Regent Seven Seas Explorer‘ two tourists with powerful aspect. Smile. Not for less. He confesses that throughout his career he had never taken such a juicy tip as he gave recently an American cruise passengers of the same company: 2,500 euros after take to a party in the south of France, at the expense of their free hours. The joy of billfold is typical of luxury cruise ships that dock in Barcelona, a market segment which is rarely discussed but moves million euros in the city. They are the most searched for hotels, tour operators and customer services. The ‘Explorer’, which has docked around the city Friday, blunts in the Champions League seaworthy. Opened last July by the princes of Monaco, it has emerged as the most luxurious cruise ship in the world.

The elite vacation at sea is not measured in size or number of attractions on board, but in service and emotions. Many giant supercruises from less than a thousand euros per week and Barcelona are frequent passenger-art, modern, full of restaurants and entertainment but popular and overcrowded and hyperactivity. The glamor on board, however, results in terms of space, top gastronomy, comfort and exclusivity.

They are usually small format, although the new vessel is medium in size but with the highest ratio of space per passenger in the world (other ships carrying 56,000 tons travelers even triple) and carries a crew member for every 1.3 passengers. A deployment to sweeten the lives of their 750 guests, who usually pay 4,000 to 5,000 euros per week, except for specific offers, account Carme Bigas, commercial director of Star Class-A world cruise, representative in Spain of this and most shipping high-end.

The visit of the new ship, which has other siblings who also flock to the city, is more than just one day. If in 2013, as reported by the newspaper, the port hosted 120 scales luxury categories (companies like Regent Seven Seas, SeaDream Yacht Club, Silversea, Crystal, Cunard, Seabourn Hapag-Lloyd or …) and -a degree below- Upper Premium or Premium (Azamara, Celebrity, Holland America, Oceania, Paul Gauguin, Princess and other …), this year the figure will rise to 191 scales. They moved more than 383,000 cruise passengers, as part of the more than 2.6 million passengers expected in the Catalan capital, sources said Port of Barcelona.

76 ELITIST SCALES

In the most elite segment will be 76 stopovers and 62,000 passengers. A ‘silent’ human flow because being smaller boats do not perceive their landings in the bustle of the port, and because most tours or hire private assistance. Some perform a scale of hours, others spend the night in the port, and often begin or end route in the city, which means customers spend several nights in the city. In the case of Regent, which is the only one with an integral whole with no added charges included (premium drinks, all especializades restaurants, gratuities, taxes, various excursions, fitness classes, culinary workshops, wifi all the way …) the package may include up to three nights of overnight stays, explains Gabriella Fonzo, director of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

What do the luxury passengers calling at Barcelona? Friday, those of the ‘Explorer’ had free tours of 3 to 7.5 hours by Gòtic routes, jewelry Gaudi, local icons or bodegas Torres or Jean Leon. But there were also private options to go with the chef of the ship Santa Caterina market and the Boqueria, and finish devouring a menu of two Michelin stars in the Àbac restaurant.

On the way back, and heading to the scale of Ibiza (Saturday) or the Italian coast have time to soak in the infinity pool that looks out over the stern (apart from the solarium), to relax in their loungers-(with hood included), watch the sunset from the Observation lounge with a drink, consult the 24 hours library and video library, take cooking classes in his 18 seasons with stove practices, contemplate 2,500 artworks on board (also Picasso and Chagall), participate in an outdoor barbecue in a casual meal at the grill by the pool, get a massage (treatments are not included), do yoga, listening to live music in the Meridian Lounge, sing karaoke or loose on the dance floor of the Explorer Lounge, see their own theater productions or without further and possibly the best, contemplate the sea from the balcony of the suite (from 28 square meters), with the plus a stocked minibar and liquor one demande.

The good life on board luxury cruise has one of its magnets on the tablecloths. Here in international version (Compass Rose), or specialized French, meat or Asian cuisine with a VIP area for those staying at higher levels. Special mention millionaires guests palatial Regent Suite of 412 square meters, about 10,000 euros a day for two people, including up to the antidote of the extra kilos (personal trainer) and transfers. If you move the cabin …

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We offer a ride of an hour and half by Barcelona city without leaving the car. Our chauffeur will guide you through Barcelona and show you the most relevant sites in a comfortable way, especially fresh. Be seduced by the air conditioning of our minivans Mercedes and enjoy the moment. Take the best photos from the best view. Book our Mini city tour in Barcelona of an hour and a half, and let yourself go. We pick you up at your cruise terminal and will return to leave on the same cruise. If you prefer to end up in another part of the city, just tell the chauffeur at the time of start. Please book at least 4 hours in advance. American Express-Visa-MasterCard. WhatsApp +34639317573. Easy booking: Name, cruise ship name, credit card info, pick up time & date. Yelp & TripAdvisor. Price of Mini city tour in Barcelona with Mercedes minivan, and up to 7 passengers 150 euros. (the price is NOT per person, is all over the vehicle) One of the best things to do in the cruise port of Barcelona. Chauffeur english spoken.

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Cruise record in Barcelona

The port city yesterday received more than 27,000 tourists

Harmony of the Seas cruise in Barcelona

Nearly 65,000 cruise passengers have made stops this weekend at the Port of Barcelona will mark and its record of the year. Between Friday and Sunday scale have made the city a total of 16 cruises. Specifically seven on Friday, four on Saturday and five Sunday.

In all cases it is tourist ships of great capacity, but Sunday was the day of the year a greater number of cruise passengers, more than 27.9000 concentrated. Sunday had three of the largest cruise ships in the world with lengths over 300 meters, Harmony of the Seas,  Norwegian Epic, and Brittania.

During summer every Sunday, Barcelona will receive more than 20,000 cruise passengers, a figure that the first two Saturdays of August also exceeded. The day we receive more tourists cruise port in the Catalan capital will be Sunday, September 11, when it is expected the arrival of 28,110 passengers. Once you have spent the summer in October still high numbers of cruise passengers will remain.

The Port of Barcelona is Europe’s leading cruise tourism. More than two million passengers embarking or disembarking every year since the Barcelona terminal.

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Hermitage in Barcelona

The Hermitage of Barcelona will open in 2019 and will exhibit masterpieces

Hermitage Barcelona. Virtual Image

Four years after the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, announced as part of a pre-election trip to Moscow to Barcelona would have a permanent seat of the Hermitage Museum in Sant Petersburg, the promoters of the project, the company Barcelona Culture Development, which manages the designer Ujo Pallares, made yesterday its first public presentation of the project. They did it in the Casa Llotja de Mar, before a broad representation of business, cultural and political world Barcelona to announce that, discarded other venues, such as the building of the Customs, they have finally decided to build a building new plant and 15,000 square meters an area of the Port of Barcelona, near the Hotel W. The laying of the foundation stone is scheduled for later this year and its inauguration will be in 2019.

Ujo Pallares, who was accompanied by Jorge Wagensberg, director and head of the museum conception of future equipment, was presented as an “entrepreneur, a Barcelona that admires and loves this city,” he found in his Russian partner Valery Yaroslavskiy complicity and energy to make a success of a project that seemed impossible. “But nothing is impossible but things that have never been done,” Pallares said. The promoter of the project, which since the time it was learned has aroused great suspicion in the cultural sector, said that the Barcelona subsede the Hermitage is an initiative 100% private, which will cost 38 million euros and, for funding, is looking for a local partner after the departure of the Andorran sicav of MoraBanc.

Barcelona Culture Development has asked the Port Authority of Barcelona, where land, a concession for a period of fifty years by the same who signed the agreement with the Hermitage of Sant Petersburg ublican. The Port frowns construction of the new equipment in the Marina Sailing, where a marina for small boats will be built, but to give its approval requires that previously the City requalify the land for cultural uses (they are currently planned for commercial use ).

Jorge Wagensberg stressed that the museum will not be a franchise of the Hermitage, although it will draw on a fund of more than three million pieces, but a museum that does not yet exist in the world that combines art and science, and in which parts Russian museum (paintings, furniture, parts, objects, tools, scientific objects …) will serve to illustrate a story about the human condition. However, he added, which he will have a Hermitage room where permanently one or two masterpieces of the Russian Museum will be exhibited, for “the work of the month”.

The event was not attended neither the culture councilor Jaume Collboni nor the Minister Santi Vila. Instead, Commissioner of Culture of the City Berta Sureda, pointed at the end of the presentation that the City Council “We welcome any new cultural initiative, but at the moment we are listening and, once all aspects of the project known, we must make a deep in everything that involves “analysis. For its part, the director of Patrimoni of the Generalitat Jusep Boya said it “is a project that has a cultural vocation, very clearly, and also a commercial dimension. I think that even uses the name museum is in the tradition of the great private schools, of which there are other examples in the city. That said, I welcome the approach of Jorge Wagensberg, that original way to approach one of the most important collections in the world. We must wait to see how this materializes. What we have heard is a first approximation, but input the Govern de la Generalitat sees these INITIATIVES, like others who have gone out, sympathetically. Now, our intention is to place ourselves in the support and strengthening of public institutions. ”

Both Ujo Palllarés as Wagensberg wanted to make clear that this was not a project designed for tourists and cruise passengers, “although not close the door to anyone” and the latter fought against the idea of an elitist space aphorism: “Stop the elite it can be done in two ways: by killing all those inside or enter inviting everyone out. ”

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How Antonio Gaudi died?

The Catalan architect, key figure of modernism and one of the pioneers of the avant-garde of the twentieth century, is hit by a tram.Lying on the sidewalk, his unkempt appearance condemns him. He died three days later.

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Barcelona, June 7, five past six p.m.. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet is about to cross the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes at the intersection between the streets Girona and Bailén. Leaning on his cane with rubber pad, delivered to their artistic dreams, cross the street slowly. A tram which runs from line 30 runs over him. The artist receives a terrible impact on the ribs and temple. Critically injured, he is lying on the ground unconscious.

His worn clothes, fastened with safety pins instead of buttons and dusty shoes that cover their wrapped in strips of cloth feet, give a poor appearance.

Most passersby, taking him for a beggar because of his unkempt appearance, denied their help. Only two of them are offered to assist him: Antonio Roig, managing the port, and Antonio Noria. They are trying unsuccessfully to arrest four taxis; the first three refuse to transport the wounded, fearful that the blood staining the upholstery of their vehicles. The fourth not even stop to see the body lying on the sidewalk.

Where he died Gaudí

A policeman approaches the tumult surrounding the artist and imposing his authority, requires a taxi to take him. To ensure that it will be properly cared for, he rises to the vehicle. The officer ordered the old man to move to the nearby dispensary Round San Pedro, 37.

The logbook will record center cursory examination of the wounded: ‘trauma at the height of the right ear and commotion of the patient, who calls himself Antonio Gaudi … It seems that the artist is appreciated regained lucidity for a brief moment, long enough to provide their identity, so far unknown data because the artist was undocumented. In their pockets not wearing more than the book of the Gospels, a rosary, a handkerchief and the little key from his desk.

The doctor on duty, to the serious condition of the injured, ordered his transfer to Hospital after administering a spasmodic.

Finally the fate wants Gaudí is transferred to the Hospital de la Santa Creu, but it’s too late. The next day is recognized by the chaplain of the Sagrada Familia, Mosen Gil Parés, good friend.

Gaudí died three days later, he has 73 years.

The coffin covers much of the city. The funeral procession is multitudinous, the chapel is visited by hundreds of locals. The turmoil generated is such that hardly contain urban agglomerations.

The authorities prohibit sending crowns, but this does not prevent the florists of the Rambla, the Boqueria vendors and neighbors throw flowers as the coffin.

The shops are closed and trams are forced to interrupt their journeys by the crowds that add to duel.

The revered architect is buried in the chapel of Carmen, in the first niche of the crypt of the Sagrada Familia, the only part of the temple which was built next to the Nativity facade.

Funeral ceremonies are officiated by the most prominent members of the clergy: Gil Pares, and the chaplain of the Güell family, Ricardo Persina.

Telegrams of condolence from King Alfonso XIII, the bishops of Mallorca and Avila and the mitred abbot of Montserrat, who granted indulgences to those who perform some act of piety in memory of the deceased are received.

The majestic burial bears witness to the prestige that the architect has acquired among his fellow citizens. Known as the hermit of the Sagrada Familia, Gaudí then is a very popular and much-admired character. A man who despite his haggard appearance has managed to earn the respect and affection of his fellow citizens.

His masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, called ‘the cathedral of the poor’, their only vital goal remains unfinished. Since 1915 he had given exclusively to erect forty years working feverishly in the atoning temple, begging to finance its construction even to sleep multiple times in a small cubicle on premises.

At his death, its construction is in the hands of architects and artists.

Antoni Gaudí, universal architect, fought for his ideals, died as a poor, was buried like a king and has passed into history as one of the cornerstones of modernism and one of the great masters of contemporary architecture.

His tombstone reads:

Antonio Gaudi i Cornet (A.C.S.)

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One Ocean Port Vell de Barcelona

A yacht of 540 million euros in the luxury marina

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The luxury marina One Ocean Port Vell in Barcelona hosts these days one of the most luxurious megayachts in the world. This is the Dilbar, owned by Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov. This is an impressive vessel 157 meters long which cost about 540 million euros.

Usmanov is one of the richest men in Russia and is contained in the lists of Forbes magazine as one of the top hundred personal fortunes in the world, with assets of over 12,000 million euros. The origin of their wealth is in the ownership of mines and is the largest shareholder of London soccer club Arsenal.

The Dilbar is among the five largest yachts in the world. The presence of this ship in the port of Barcelona coincides with that of another giant of the seas, the Harmony of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world that has established in the Catalan capital base in the Mediterranean.

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Harmony of the Seas in Barcelona

The world’s largest cruise ship will arrive in Barcelona on Sunday for its inauguration

Harmony of the Seas-Barcelona

The cruise records (larger tonnage, passenger capacity and variety of attractions and gastronomy on board) and lines up heading to Barcelona, where he will land on Sunday morning to start their regular routes with the Catalan capital as homeport throughout the summer. The Harmony of the Seas will make a total of 22 departures from the port of Barcelona, with mostly international passage that half the world will come to embark on the new proposal of Royal Caribbean.

In theory, the Harmony is part of the series comprising two other brothers carving, Oasis and Allure of the Seas, which already were shooting in Barcelona the past two summers to note that the Mediterranean market was mature enough to Brand, for the first time in history, a boat of these characteristics and dimensions in a port in southern Europe. However, the shipping company has injected only a few centimeters wide, involving 1,700 tons (holds 227,000) to label rigorously with the claim of “largest in the world.” With 362 meters long, aboard fit between 5,479 and 6,780 passengers (depending on whether the occupation of some of the cabins is double or triple) and about 2,100 crew members, currently 77 nationalities.
But beyond the mega measures, the gigantic ship causes enormous excitement among cruise addicts by the myriad attractions that make it a sort of thematic city. Like his brothers, he is the first cruise crossed by a park-avenue full of greenery and open air, and that looks balconies overlooking these ‘avenues’ and or not only the sea good interior without a view, as is common in the sector. Even the interiors feature here with a virtual balcony on the wall to see what would be watching live from the side.

EXPECTATION

Harmony, built during 32 months in France, is performing a pre-inaugural route from Southampton (United Kingdom) to position itself in Barcelona, it is formally opened on Sunday (with a day and a half of navigation) and start their summer itineraries from the city, in seven days that will take you from Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, La Spezia, Rome and Naples. In the fall he will go to start routes through the Caribbean.

Your navigation these days, with more than 8,000 people on board, mostly British, has led him to spend a few hours Wednesday of scale in Vigo, which has caused real commotion. So will on Friday in Malaga, where you will receive both the port authority as municipal and tourism representatives. In Barcelona the Port will give the first scale plate, but the council has not planned no participation. While other ports of national cruise try to gain market share, the Barcelona’s questions the numerical success of the sector in the city and is currently studying whether it should limit its growth to avoid saturation or apply a new tourist rate even though not spend the night in the city.

To achieve even harder and tempt those who have tried other boats XXL, the Harmony launches novelties like the Ultimate Abyss, the highest aboard slide more than 40 meters long and passes through 10 of 18 covers; the Splashaway Bay, an interactive children’s water park and a trio of slides water. Dreamworks also offers expirience for family holidays … as well as known in the Aquatheater shipping with water acrobatics show open, and a more conventional theater where they can be seen as Grease Broadway productions.

The vast offer to be lost (literally) on board includes 20 restaurants (from the most creative cuisine to fast food) and incorporated into this series robots waiters Bionic Bar and smart bracelets to open the cabins and make any reservation of activities on the high seas.

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European Championship Powerboat-Badalona

Badalona hosts a European Championship high-speed vessels

European Championship Powerboat-Badalona

From Friday to Sunday, the Port of Badalona hosts the European Championships Endurance mode Motonáutica of Class B, for four categories (Promotion, Production Boat, S2 and S1). This mode groups arising from the construction vessels in series of not more than 8 meters.

To accommodate all kinds of speedboats, the regulation provides propulsion with one or two outboard engines or interiors, establishing different categories depending on the installed power, to allow the victory to craft different powers.

Thus there is the Promotion class, reserved for vessels with no more than 150 horsepower, but there is also a category called S1 which easily surpass 400 horses.

This is the third time that a competition of its kind in Badalona is celebrated after vied in 2012 and 2014 world championships on the same stage.

The best places to see the tests are the steps of the seawall of the port and the dock Petroleum. The quetx Ciutat Badalona scheduled on Saturday May 28 two exits to follow the evidence closely. Reservations can be made online at this site.

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Pier 01 Barcelona

The new headquarters of Bcn Tech City will house a thousand employees in digital companies

Pier 01 Barcelona

After months of negotiations and works, Barcelona entrepreneurs have their headquarters about. The building of Palau de Mar, owned by the Port, and after a remodeling of 3.5 million euros, starts to receive their new tenants, under the umbrella of the Barcelona Tech City, the cluster that brings together most digital business the city. It will house about seventy companies, new or growing, which will add about one thousand employees. It will be one of the “houses of entrepreneurs” largest in Europe, said yesterday its president, Miguel Vicente.

The building of the late XIX, called Pier 01, “among other things because there may be more than one: we demand to fill at least two more,” says Vicente. “It will be a must for foreign investors, and net-working center for entrepreneurs.” In the twin History Museum building, 10,000 m2, and were based Holaluz, letgo and Tiendeo. Just installed Byhours, next week will Antai-BeRepublic-BeAgency group, and then Nuclio, mVentures, Connector, Napptilus, Geenapp, 101Startups, LetMeSpace, Ikomobi, CapitalCell and the cluster, which directs Miquel Martí. Industrial aesthetics and casual decor follow the style of Silicon Valley; the views are unbeatable.

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Tech City signs contract to occupy the office building, which would come into operation in April

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The BCN Tech City finally signed this Tuesday morning the rental contract offices at Palau de Mar to turn on the “home of entrepreneurs” of Barcelona. The building, with 10,000 m2, is owned by the Port and manages the company Portico de Mar.

“It will be one of the venues of the world’s largest enterprise,” said Miguel Vicente, president of Tech City cluster, which groups 240 members representing more than 300 companies in the digital world, plus 24 transverse partners, from financial to real estate.

The Tech City, which directs Miquel Martí, has negotiated for months to get this iconic location, it becomes an international benchmark in Barcelona’s ecosystem. The Palau de Mar will host connector, Antai-BeRepublic, 101 Startups, m-VenturesBCN, or Genapp Glover. It is expected to become operational in April.

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Barcelona receives 2.5 million cruise passengers in 2015, up 7%

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The total traffic at the Port of Barcelona reached 47 million tons of goods in 2015, 1.5% more than the previous year, while the number of cruise passengers totaled 2.5 million, up 7%, It said today the port.

In 2015, the Port of Barcelona recorded positive results in the main indicators of traffic, with record numbers of vehicles in transport and transmission lines or highways short distance from the sea.

Container traffic reached 2,000,000 TEUs, equivalent to 20-foot containers, 4% more than last year, with export containers increased by 6.5% and import by 9%.

During 2015, export containers exceeded by 52% the highest figures achieved during the period before the economic crisis.

Moreover, these figures show a change in what concerns the composition of foreign trade because in 2008 imports represented 54% of international trade and exports accounted for 46%, while export containers are today 58% and imports 42%.

The port recorded during 2015 a record in terms of transported cars, with a total of 881,893 passenger cars, 18% more than the previous year.

Another historical record is registered goods transported by sea motorways shipping lines or short distance, connecting Barcelona with various destinations in Italy and North Africa, which recorded a growth of 21.5% over 2015.

The Port of Barcelona has had more than 3.7 million passengers in 2015, up 7%, while cruise passengers were 2,540,000 people, an increase of 7% also.

Cruisers that have grown have been the “turnaround” that start and end their itinerary in the Catalan capital, which have increased 11%.

 

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Amazon next to the airport of El Prat de Llobregat

Amazon will invest $ 100 million in its logistics center in El Prat

Amazon next to the airport of El Prat de Llobregat

The Minister of Enterprise & employment, Felip Puig, advanced Tuesday that Amazon will invest around 100 million euros in its logistics center in El Prat de Llobregat, including the cost of land and investment in the construction of ships, technology and internal facilities.

The minister said on Catalunya Radio, plans e-commerce giant, which on Monday was awarded a plot of 150,000 square meters owned by the Catalan Land Institute in El Prat, near the port and airport of Barcelona, which provides lift its large logistics center of reference in southern Europe.

Although the Amazon multinational has prevented advance their plans for the land of El Prat, for which he paid 30 million euros, Puig explained the great figures of the project and added that the logistics center should be in place “after summer 2017 “. The minister also said he expects the final agreement for the sale of the plot to close within a month, and that the works, that will last “a year and a half,” starting soon.

Amazon’s offer is subject to conditions, including approval of planning and construction licenses and corresponding arrival of the metro line 9 to the area, but the minister was assumed that these conditions will be met and considered the investment is “safe” but appealed in any case keep “some understanding”. the introduction of Amazon, said the minister, it will generate “more than 1,500 direct jobs and even more indirect.”

Moreover, the minister accused the Spanish government of “filter” in March last year, Amazon plans in El Prat in order to “hamper” this investment, “not to bear fruit.” “Surely tried to convince them that this operation could make near Madrid,” he added the minister, who recalled that the group already has a logistics center in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) and recently announced its expansion, for which she will pass 32,000 square meters to 75,000 square meters, well below the 210,000 meters that have the center of El Prat, which will make it the largest group of the peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe.

Against the optimism of the Catalan government and the city of El Prat, the general secretaries of CCOO and UGT de Catalunya, Joan Carles Gallego and Josep Maria Alvarez, were critical of Amazon.

Gallego said that Amazon does not distinguish “to be champion” in terms of quality work, which has insisted that be vigilant in ensuring the quality of employment generated by the new center, which will create jobs both direct and indirect .

Alvarez warned that “these businesses require little skilled labor and low wages work”, and said that in times of economic crisis and high unemployment it seems that anything goes and you do not mind the quality of jobs. UGT leader questioned logistic centers should be located in the environment in the metropolitan area of the Catalan capital, which has said it can become a “fudge unsorted”.

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Circus in Barcelona

The Raluy Circus brings his new show ‘Altius’ to Port Vell

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The Circus Raluy landed once again in Barcelona, ​​since last Friday until February 14, to offer his new show, which this time will Altius, a ‘cry for perfection, beauty and admiration share “.

According announced Friday in a statement the organizers, the show features three high-level international numbers: Pasha flown (Belarus), the clown Bobylevi (Russia) and the troupe of jugglers and acrobats Alexandros (Romania). The circus, which is claimed as a “traveling museum” with carriages of the nineteenth and twentieth century, combines classic proposals and families mark Raluy betting saga with innovative high artistic content.

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Raluy has also confirmed the creation of a second company under the same name and philosophy of classical circus, produce and exhibit own shows with artistic freedom. As of May 2016, because there will be two circuses Raluy. The lifelong, led by two of the brothers, and again, led by the daughters of a third brother, Kerry and Louisa.

“The family has grown a lot and everything is logistically complicated”, have argued today. With this commitment, the members of the company will have more opportunities to express themselves, especially young people, will rebound Raluy “many more places” of Catalonia and more often, either the old or the new tent.

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Port of Barcelona has two new lighthouses

Light towers complex tasks improves identification at the entrance to the pier

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The Port of Barcelona has set up two new twin headlights in bocanas access to the site to improve the complex tasks of identification at the entrance to the pier, to the large presence of lights docks and esplanades. The initiative to improve port infrastructure and gives signals in line with the intense activity of one of Europe’s ports to greater trade volume.

Light towers, which represented an outlay of 570,000 euros, have a height of 14 meters and are equipped with individual visitables lanterns 2.2 meters, holding inside the lighting equipment and optical rotation for up to generating over 80,000 candles of light intensity, which allows the light beam reaches 10 nm. The ability of the above markers were limited to 3,600 candles.

The headlamps feature light rotation systems and solar power. The light is based on LED technology and reduces energy consumption, supplied by a solar panel of 500 watts per light. The ends of the dams of both towers stand out even above the minimum requirements in regard to recognition distance.

The Port of Barcelona has its own network of ckn based Automatic Identification System (AIS acronym) that covers the entire territory under its jurisdiction seasons: the sea Barcelona from the coast of Vilanova up France. In this way, it takes control of all lighthouses, beacons and buoys for navigation located on the coast of Barcelona and Girona.

Among the available technology, also has a differential GPS receiver that displays data from real-time positioning marine and maritime radar transponders assets in the header of each entry bocanas port that can identify any boat equipped with radar .

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Barcelona will be home to entrepreneurs

Tech City cluster drives a large area of activity that should be operational in February

Barcelona Tech City

Barcelona years boiling in digital entrepreneurship issues. But London and Berlin as European leaders in technology venture capital, entrepreneurs themselves were the first and second generation of digital businesses created in Barcelona who saw the need to join forces to gain visibility and international importance. Thus was born in 2012 Ecommerce & Tech Barcelona, ​​a cluster renamed Barcelona Tech City, which is now about to get what will be his first major milestone: a corporate headquarters that will be both a great campus where they will live up to half hundred companies, an activity center, coworking space and meeting point for national and international actors when they are in town. A likeness of the Factory of Berlin, the Google Campus in London or Boston CIC. A place where a young entrepreneur to be in the bar with a colleague to compare ideas, or match the elevator with a renowned innovator or senior investor. A place in which these contacts happen and be fruitful and become an international reference.

The idea of ​​Bcn Tech City is that this “home of entrepreneurs” Barcelona will be operational before the celebration of the upcoming Mobile World Congress (late February 2016). And if anything goes wrong (even the last remaining sign contracts) will be located in Palau de Mar. It is a landmark building, built in 1881 as a port warehouse, and in recent years, until 2012, had housed the Department Social Welfare. There are the Museu d’Historia de Catalunya and several dining options. And some technology companies: Holaluz, Tiendeo, letgo and PGI-BIS Engineering Structures.

Palau de Mar has 10,000 m2, of which 7,500 would manage Tech City. The building is owned by the Port of Barcelona, ​​which in its board last September agreed to extend five years, until 2024, granting the company Portico Mar, who was authorized “to reform of the building to implant companies in the field digital and technology “, according to the Port.

Sources close to the cluster recognize that the project for a new headquarters began a year and a half, and in finding alternative location have been studied as a building in Poblenou, or Casc Antic, but the Palau de Mar It is the preferred option. In this bet, the Bcn Tech City has the support of institutions, mainly the Generalitat (Accio), the City Council (through Barcelona Activa) and the Port.

The “house of entrepreneurs” is intended as a complementary figure to existing initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, as Barcelona Activa, or incubators or accelerators. In fact, close sources said that probably some of the big city such as accelerators or Conector- SeedRocket could be transferred to Palau de Mar. “The need for this large space exists, and is a model that works well in other cities” recognize. While in Barcelona Activa, for example, companies can be from birth to age three, the Palau de Mar will host companies that already have some traction, and the rotation should be the result of evolutions own businesses.

BCN Tech City, chaired Miguel Vicente (founder of Letsbonus, Antai, Wallapop) and directs Miquel Martí, is a nonprofit association that represents most of the digital and technological ecosystem: entrepreneurs, investors, corporations or institutions. In 2014 the sector in Barcelona billed 6,000 million euros, three times in 2012, and these companies employ about 10,000 people.

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The port of Barcelona restored the historic building of 1907

Rehabilitate the original work of the engineer Julio Valdes will cost 11 million and 21 months

The eclectic style building of the Portal de la Pau will host an information center

Port of Barcelona building

The imposing historic seat of the managing body of the port in the Portal de la Pau, now almost obsolete and deteriorated by the passage of time four years after the transfer of the offices of the Port Authority of Barcelona (APB) makes the nearby World Trade Center will return to the architectural and urban life. The APB approved yesterday tender the complete restoration of the building, and 1907 by the engineer of roads, canals and ports Julio Valdés, to become, according to another plan yet to be defined, a center of outreach port multipurpose spaces.

The building is included in the catalog of architectural heritage and rose in a bold and eclectic style genuine. The result was a harmonious allegedly also recharged and especially symmetric mixture of neo-Gothic elements, neorománics, neoclassical and even orientalists, reminiscent of the Central palaces.

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The restoration comes in competition with a significant initial cost of 11 million, according to the size of the property is 50 meters long and 20 wide. Equally remarkable it is the scheduled execution time 21 months since March 2016 when it is estimated that the plan will be awarded and will start the works. The project also includes redeveloping APB as a new public space the rear solar, located at the beginning of the Bosch i Alsina wharf or whip and used until now as parking.

The restoration will affect many elements of the facade and its ocher color, characteristic of many classical buildings. But especially it will act on the inside, to restore the 1907 distribution of a single floor and vault culminating with the main room.

This cover was removed by adding a second plant in the great reform of 1940, when after the war heavily damaged the property by repeated bombings against civilians and the own port of the Italian fascist aviation repaired supporting the Franco’s troops, which eventually took the capital in 1939.

The building of the Portal de la Pau opened in 1907 as the ferry terminal passenger liner ships. His customs and postal services on the ground floor and the World Palace Restaurant on the floor. Those functions were transferred in 1911 to the great International Maritime Estació located where today is the World Trade Center. Seven years later, in 1918, the building became definitely be the headquarters of the Board of Port d’Obres, infrastructure manager.

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The Boat Show returns to Barcelona in a climate of recovery in the sector

The event, which will have 260 exhibitors and more than a hundred new features, will be held from 14th to 18th October in the Port Vell

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The Spanish marine industry hopes that the LIV International Boat Show of Barcelona confirmed the “turnaround” experienced by the sector in 2014, after several years of crisis, with good attendance data.

This edition, to be held from Wednesday 14th to Sunday October 18th at Pier of Spain and the whip of the Port Vell, will feature 260 exhibitors -a 4% more than in 2014, 130 new products and a total of 670 boats with an area of ​​54,000 square meters more-2000, explained on Monday at a press conference the president of the show, Luis Conde.

Conde expects the number of attendees is “around 55,000” and exceeding 54,000 last year, and is optimistic by as lounges have worked Genova (Italy) and Cannes (France), held in dates very close to Barcelona, ​​and has highlighted that 16% of the exhibitors are foreign.

The President has welcomed the experience of the previous edition of the fair is delayed a few weeks to avoid overlapping with Genova, which this year has been postponed a few weeks, and says he will not have an impact on Barcelona.
Positive data

The secretary general of the National Association of Marine (ANEN), Carlos Sanlorenzo, stressed that the sector “finally recorded positive data” and that between January and September 4,150 pleasure boats were enrolled, 10.5% more than the same period last year, which had an increase of 12.8%.

Sanlorenzo explained that the sector has undergone a period of stagnation, but registrations are still 65% below those of 2006. For him, the recovery takes hold in the rent increases by 37.4% and it increased by 56 % in 2014 due to a change in consumer habits “it is changing the concept of ownership by sharing”. For lengths, boats are the fastest growing between 12 and 16 meters passing of 85-104 registrations (22%), although the most numerous are still the less than eight meters which increased by 10% to a total 3,725.

By provinces, the Balearic Islands lead the standings with 677 vessels (16.32% increase), followed by Barcelona 465 (10.98% more), and Madrid that gets third place (20.8%) at the expense of Cadiz with 302.
More than a hundred new features

Of the total of 130 innovations, new models are 80 boats and 50 engines electronic accessories and art. In addition, the show will feature a conference in which participate the secretary general of the International Maritime Industries Association (ICOMIA its acronym in English), Udo Kleinitz; export director of the Association of Marine US, Julie Balzano, and general secretary of the Association of Nautical Colombia (Asonautica).

Looking to the average consumer, holding the Nautical Night Friday, October 15th, in which you can visit the lounge at night with musical entertainment and Havana, and the promotion of a group of exhibitors who regale buyers highlights vessels between 4.5 and 6 meters long with a free course navigation.

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A church is a garden

Santi Moix painting 1

Santi Moix, the Catalan painter born in Barcelona in 1960, has spent many summers in Saurí (Pallars Sobirà), so when the villagers, during the festival, asked him if he would intervene Romanesque church, he said yes. Although he did not think that things come to port. But it came. Thus, the New York based artist got down to work. The immediate goal: to marry contemporary art with a church of the twelfth century to recover. The long-term objective “intervene ancient churches in the area that take years to reopen closed and create a route to attract public” he says.

When started thinking about the project, had very clear that wanted to work full of “color and energy ‘as far as possible from the” darkness and sadness “that sometimes evoke these places. And an intervention that would allow parishioners “feel good, let go and seek his inner world without imposing images.” In short, “a decoration full of flowers and nature that made reference to the environment where it is located.” The result Moix defined as “a cave of colors” and as “a church that is a garden”. All sprinkled with texts by J. V. Foix and Cavafy.

Santi Moix painting 2

First he thought of projecting images and grow fungi to draw space. But the Centre de Restauració Bens Mobles de Catalunya suggested to paint al fresco. “The technique of techniques” that Moix had never used but now passionately defends “A very sophisticated technique that allows great freedom gesture that puts you in your place: the correction is not possible.”

Porcelain flower

The suggestion fresco painting was the only one received. For the rest he has had complete freedom, both by locals as the Bishop of Urgell. “I told them I would not make saints or virgins, but nature and light. And they were very receptive “he says.

Santi Moix painting 3

Although there are some religious reference as the four evangelists and feet of Christ. For the last stage of the project, when there is funding left the representation of the resurrection: “A large flower in the apse in layers of petals made from porcelain and ceramic scatter light and color. Something very complicated technically, “he explains.

For now, he made like and attracts curious. “Every day I receive visits and I have to convince to return to the last minute. Since the walls make me time. ” And the cool does not support or corrections or delays.

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One in four foreign tourists landed in Catalunya this August

The month closed with 9.2 million international visitors in aggregate Spain, 2.3 in Catalonia

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With 2.3 million tourists, Catalonia has led this past August arrivals of foreign visitors, according to data from the Survey of Tourist Movements in Frontera (Frontur), released today by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. Some data that stands out above all the strong growth of the US market (+ 25%) resulted from the appreciation of the dollar, a tourist who has Barcelona as its main city of destination and as a base for cruises in the Mediterranean port. It also highlights the likely collapse of the Russian market, 34.2% less than in the same month last year, as well as the role that slowly acquiring the Asian markets.

The Japanese tourists and Chinese, but Taiwanese and Korean, whose extremely high costs in credit card and begin to compute from the top of the statistics shopping Barcelona Tourism form the new core markets from foreign tourists Emerging they are presenting the significant growth in relative terms. According to data from Frontur, in so far this year, Asian countries grew by 37.7%, 22.1% taking into account only the month of August. However, Britain and France continue to make themselves nearly 50% of tourists who visit in summer.

Despite its tourist leadership, Catalonia was the only autonomous region that has experienced a setback, namely 3% compared to last year’s figures. A fall can be attributed mainly to declines in major markets such as Russia, Italy and the UK. However, in cumulative terms, between January and August Catalunya, with 12.1 million tourists, it also ranks as the top destination for foreign tourists who have visited the state.

Overall, they visited Spain in August 9.2 million international tourists, 1.6% more than during the same month in 2014, sealing the best tourism History Month, and surpassing the record high reached in August last year . So far this year, Spain received more than 47.2 million foreign tourists, 4.1% more than in the same period in 2014, representing an increase of 1.8 million additional visitors.

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The Port of Barcelona awarded best cruise destination and origin

The Port of Barcelona has been honored by the publication Cruise Insight as the best turnaround port operations and a better experience for passengers destination

The award of the publication Cruise Insight into account the views of top executives of the world cruise companies and assesses the ability to efficiently perform several operations simultaneously start and end of the trip, as well as the level of service terminals Public and private cruises.

By passenger volume, the port of Barcelona holds the fourth position as a world cruise port and only precede the three major ports of the State of Florida (Miami, Port Everglades and Port Canaveral).

The award, for the best experience for passengers independent destination (passengers who choose to explore the destination without any organized trip) recognizes not only the attractiveness of Barcelona and the proximity of the terminal to the city center but also of resources development that the city offers to visitors.

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The new VIP Passeig de Gràcia, visits will be tailor-made

The association of luxury shops will be present for the first time at FITUR fair to attract new customers in emerging markets with high purchasing power

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Be a VIP on Passeig de Gràcia will be getting a desired goal for many tourists who have shopping trip among its priorities.

The Friends Association Passeig de Gràcia has created a new card, the Welcome Card Vip, whose beneficiary is entitled to the best care, hospitality and discounts at over 100 shops, hotels and restaurants as well as options to skip the queues at the places of cultural interest. A card only available tourist affluent part of a marketing plan with which the luxury shops ride more if possible seek to increase the flow of tourists and visitors this commercial artery.

The association will participate for the first time from today in the new edition of FITUR tourism fair that takes place in Madrid, particularly in the Shopping Desk No. 7 Hall 8 of IFEMA, where it is planned that some agreements with major are closed travel agencies luxury markets such as Russian, Chinese, Arabic or Mexican. Markets that are already customers of Passeig de Gràcia but now can design source your shopping experience: shops prefer to visit without the toll fees, passes new exclusive collections, tastings and snacks to taste, personalized attention and their own language … it’s “experience packages” that the association is closing directly with the main agencies of luxury, which will also manage the Welcome Card Vip, will distribute personalized and with an expiration date among its best customers.

“The Russian likes shopping, but also the culture. For the Chinese, the very high purchasing power, is trendy, fashionable and trendy. Not interested almost nothing or very little gastronomy. They come with the shopping list for them and their family and seeking the ultimate in fashion and accessories, “explained officials of the association, which also suggest the Mexican as emerging luxury market whose main demand is to have a personalized and differential.

The new shares of the Friends Association Passeig de Gràcia part of the marketing plan from 2015 which is also the new web APP and ride and bus The ShopPink Bus, shuttle transportation service which facilitates the connection type passenger major cruise from the Port of Barcelona to the promenade and its environment.

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Trias Mayor welcomes patterns Barcelona World Race

Boaters receive the scientist to fulfill the mission of Unesco equipment | Sailboat of  brothers Bruno & Willy Garcia competes with the sponsorship of the “We Are Water” Foundation

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The mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, has given an official welcome at sixteen sailors from nine different countries that next December 31st will be starting in the third edition of the Barcelona World Race, a race around the world yacht with two crew .

During the ceremony, the floating dock installed on the Portal de la Pau, opposite the statue of Columbus, where eight are moored yachts participating in the regatta, the mayor and the director of Ocean Sciences Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Luis Valdés, they handed to mariners of scientific material carried on board during the circumnavigation 24,000 miles to meet mandated by the Commission for Unesco mission.

Each yacht will leave at sea, on a planned route point, Argos beacon to collect and send data via satellite to measure ocean temperature and salinity to depths of 2,000 meters. It is the first time you performed a scientific program of its kind in the framework of an ocean racer experts greatly appreciate the opportunity to obtain information from the seas of the southern hemisphere around Antarctica, where just browsing and, therefore still are unknown for this purpose areas.

The official delegation, which also part Maite Fandos, fourth deputy mayor and president of the FNOB (FNOB), organizer of the test, and Sixte Cambra, president of the Port of Barcelona, as well as representatives from various agencies scientists such as the Institute of Marine Sciences, the Higher Council for Scientific Research, the Chemical Institute of Sarria and Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, made a tour boat boat to greet the teams.

The mayor said at the end in his speech that “Barcelona is a city that lives facing the sea and offers great value to sailing events, both the Barcelona World Race, which now the third edition is organized, as Count Trophy Godo or Puig Classic Sailing Regatta “. Trias thanked the sponsors that make possible sporting competitions and also stressed the economic aspect that these events mean for the city and for many companies.

Maite Fandos, meanwhile, praised that also the Barcelona World Race also provides other values, such as the educational aspect, in which more than 28,000 students from many schools involved, and social, with several projects in collaboration with Caritas, for example.

The third edition of the Barcelona World Race has eight participating teams: Hugo Boss (Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes), Gaes (Anna Corbella and Gerard Marín), Cheminées Poujoulat (Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam), Spirit of Hungary (Nandor Fa and Conrad Colman), Neutrogena (Guillermo Altadill and José Muñoz), Renault Captur (Sébastien Audigane and Jörg Riechers), One Planet One Ocean & Pharmaton (Aleix Gelabert and Dídac Costa) and finally, We Are Water (Bruno García and García Willy ). We Are Water Foundation, the company Roca, and returns to the BWR having sponsored the second edition sailboat Mumbrú Jaume and Cali Sanmartí.

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