Wine Tourism Hotel in Barcelona

The Arrey Hotels Group will open a four star hotel in Can Balcells this summer and draw up its own cellar in the old Cavas Signat

Arrey Alella hotel-room

The Arrey Hotels Group, with a presence in Brazil and Spain, will open this summer a new four-star hotel with 37 rooms (Maresme). Arrey Alella Hotel has been built in the tower Can Balcells, former seat of Cavas Signat. The establishment preserve and enhance the connection of the municipality with the world of wine and cava, betting and offering wine tourism as an area of economic revitalization for the city and its surroundings. The hotel has an investment of 4.5 million euros and the creation of 15 new jobs, employed in the territory, with the collaboration of service occupation Alella City Council.

“It is a special product,” said Manuel Arrey, which reveals how the design and construction “that manages the PROPI group” has sought to keep the details that will make the establishment a unique and themed place, with a marked enological character that will even draw his own digs in the ancient cellars Signat found in the building. “We will develop cava brut quality reserve under the brand Maria Oliver”

The Hotel Arrey Alella wanted to pay his own tribute to the wine heritage of the area: the architectural project has remained underground cellars stores, where private events and activities open to the public that serve to promote the wines of the region can be made. In addition to conserving and rehabilitating the underground storage of old Bodegas Signat, three meeting rooms of the hotel are named after some of the most famous grape varieties of the appellation: Merlot, Grenache and Cabernet.

Arrey Alella hotel Barcelona

Ideal location

Amenities at the hotel include restaurant, with its own and open to the public gastronomic proposal; the garden, a leisure also available event rooms, bright and minimalist design while retailer. The -Executive customers, couples or families, can access the pool and terrace overlooking the sea. Its location allows to enjoy a purely Mediterranean setting, surrounded by vineyards and just over 2 kilometers from the beach of Masnou. 20km from Barcelona and 35km from the airport of El Prat, which for Manuel Arrey is an ideal location, “beyond a hotel in the center of Barcelona or Madrid.”

The rehabilitation and restoration have become the old manor house in the central enclosure, respecting the design of the original structure: in the past, Can Balcells was known by alellenses as “China House” by the shape of their roofs , reminiscent of oriental pagodas temples. Surrounded by gardens on the ground floor of the tower are the reception and Can Balcells restaurant offers a selection of typical products of Mediterranean cuisine. On the upper floors the bedrooms and suites are distributed: a total of 9 rooms, some with terrace. Besides the main building, the rehabilitation project has also included the construction of an annex building with other 18 rooms on two floors, all with views of the garden and the manor house. Around the restored tower extends garden, swimming pool and private parking for hotel guests. The terrace and garden, available for private celebrations or corporate events are also open to the public: a space outdoors, in a quiet environment where dinner or a drink with friends.

The Hotel Arrey Alella is the second establishment of Arrey Hotels Group in Spain. In 2014, the hotel group acquired the Hotel Palacio Carvajal Giron Plasencia, a hotel built in a Renaissance palace s hotel. XVII in the historic city center. The Hotel Palacio Carvajal-Giron has received the award for Best Hotel Extremadura in Tourism Awards 2016 granted by the Newspaper of Extremadura. The Arrey Hotels Group was founded in 1980 by its President and Director: Oliver D. Manuel Arrey, a native of Manlleu in the Osona (Barcelona). After more than three decades of business activity focused on Brazil, the group has decided to diversify its business with new projects in Spain and Guinea-Bissau. The total turnover of Arrey Group is estimated at 60 million euros and has a human capital of 1,000 employees distributed in three business sectors: hotels; industries, distribution and services, and the promotion and construction of buildings.

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Barcelona airport-El Prat-Joan Miró

La Caixa joins the voices calling for the airport to be named Artist

Barcelona airport-El Prat-Joan Miró

The Barcelona airport-El Prat added to its name the name of Joan Miró if you get unanimous political, social and economic level agreement. Is the prerequisite that the Ministry of Public Works put to modify the name of any airport in the Aena network integrated. In this case, they would have to submit a joint proposal municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the social partners. With the support of all, the proposal would be moved, where appropriate, to the Minister of Public Works (now occupied, acting, Ana Pastor), the rise to the Cabinet for approval with subsequent publication in the State official newsletter.

Aena sources avoided I comment on a hypothetical change of name and make it clear that they are responsible for “managing airports without having authority over his name.”

The consensus requested by the Spanish Government to study and approve the name change is the same as appealing the Generalitat. A few days ago the Ministry of Culture defended the “maximum territorial agreement and consensus”, the Minister of Land, Josep Rull, described it this week in El Prat as “a debate country.” Rull avoided assessing the proposal to put the name of Joan Miró to the airport after attending precisely the christening ceremony of a bridge in El Prat de Llobregat. In this case the name chosen was that of Nelson Mandela.

As small-scale example of what is required for the airport was approved unanimously at the meeting of spokesmen of the City of El Prat and later transferred to the Generalitat. Nevertheless, the mayor, Lluís Tejedor, would not pronounce on a hypothetical renaming of the airport, which managed to add the place-name of El Prat in 2011 after years of claims.

Currently there are three airports in the Aena network with names of personalities: Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suárez, Seve Ballesteros-Santander and Federico Garcia Lorca Granada-Jaen. The first to have a proper name was to Granada-Jaen, which joined the poet in June 2006. Barajas added the name of the former prime minister between 1976 and 1981 in March 2014, a few days after his death, and that of Santander, popularly known as airport Parayas in the area in which it is located, at the bottom of the bay of Santander, was named golfer in April 2015. they are the only cases with names of cultural personalities or policies in Spain, where it is common to add to bet toponymy of the municipality in which the airport is located, as it happens since 2011 with Barcelona-El Prat, or recognized geographical area, as happens in Malaga-Costa del sun and Girona-Costa Brava.

La Caixa, whose corporate logo is precisely Joan Miró, shown favor of the idea launched from these pages for the name of the painter joins the airport of El Prat. The colorful image of the star announces to the bank since the seventies.

But not all the proposed changes have been successful. A few years ago, the city of Tarragona and the Chamber of Commerce of the city proposed that the airport be renamed Reus Tarragona-Reus. They sent the request but failed because the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Reus also sent their messages to the contrary. In the absence of consensus, the option was rejected. Another element to consider is the cost associated with the renaming of the airport. For Barajas, Adolfo Suarez added the official denomination behaved an investment of around half a million euros.

It seems easier to name a personality to a specific terminal or airport equipment. This was done in Malaga airport, where a new terminal was opened and named it Terminal 2 Pablo Ruiz Picasso. El Prat proper names have been put to lounges in Terminal 1. Just Joan Miró names one. Pau Casals is the name of another, while a third room is called Colomer, referring to Mari Pepa Colomer, the first Spanish female driver.

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International Airport Barcelona El Prat-2015

Barcelona Airport (El Prat) closed its best year ever with 39.7 million passengers

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El Prat airport has no roof and closed the best year in its history. The data released today by Aena passenger traffic over 2015 proves it. The thrust of tourism in the Catalan capital, the establishment of new airlines and new routes have allowed in recent years the number of passengers grows steadily.

So, last year closed with 39,711,276 passengers, representing an increase of 5.7% compared to August 2014, with more than four million passengers, was the best stretch of the annual assembly.

The main increase occurred in the segment of international traffic, with 6.7% more. The largest increase occurred in the Latin American market with 21.7%; followed by the Middle East with 19.5%, and North America, with 10%.

Meanwhile, domestic traffic closed with growth of 3.2%. Aena has stressed that all markets grew in number of passengers during 2015, except in countries outside the European Union and Schengen, because of the decline of the Russian market.

Parallel to the increase in the number of passengers also increased the volume of operations at the airport, with a total of 288,878 movements, 1.8% more than in 2014. As for freight traffic during 2015, the airport recorded goods transported 117,219, 14.1% more than in 2014.

International Freight outside the European Union ended the year with an increase of 25.6%; load within the European Union grew by 3.5%, while domestic cargo fell 4.3%.
Exports increased by 18.4% and imports grew by 10.1%, with Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and the United States the main countries with which load connections are established from El Prat.

 

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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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