Barcelona and Unesco

The candidacy to enter the Creative Cities Network has achieved international endorsement for editorial capital, the footprint of great writers and Sant Jordi

Barcelona literary city by Unesco

Literary Barcelona City has been declared by UNESCO to be selected its bid to become a member of the Creative Cities Network as a City of Literature, according to Europa Press sources of the City of Barcelona.

The nomination was made official last July, and the project was developed with the complicity of the Promotion Council of the bid, comprising more than 50 organizations and institutions linked to literature in the city. La Vanguardia called for the submission of this application, for editorial relevance of Barcelona and the impact they have had in it great writers like Cervantes or García Márquez.

This project showed the strength and solidity of the publishing capital of the city, the large number of projects around books and reading and will project them internationally. The nomination was supported by the main associations of authors, editors, translators, librarians and Catalan illustrators, along with the National Commission for Unesco and the major cities that currently make up the network, created in 2004.

International Meeting

Among the highlights of this project it is that Barcelona an international meeting place of authors and writers with the other cities of the network, as well as international conferences and meetings on the future of the publishing industry to claim the capital of Barcelona.

It also seeks to promote innovation in projects promoting reading, particularly among young and new formats to bring literature to wider audiences, and promote the exchange of best practices among cities to expand the literary experience in urban spaces, as well as consolidate Barcelona as the global benchmark city in celebration of April 23 as World Book Day Unesco.

Burgos, also selected

The city of Burgos has also been nominated by UNESCO, in this case in the Food category. The two municipalities become part of the selection of 47 cities in 33 countries-including three Spanish: Granada in the literary category, Seville and Bilbao in music in design- who commit to “collaborate and develop partnerships to promote creativity and cultural industries, share best practices, strengthen participation in cultural life and integrate culture in their plans for economic and social development.”

“The Creative Cities Network is a huge potential to emphasize the value of culture as an accelerator of sustainable development,” he said in a statement the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. The sustainable development program for 2030, adopted by the international community in September 2015, highlights the importance of culture and creativity as key drivers of sustainable urban development and in 2015 the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and celebrates promoting diversity of cultural expressions. The next annual meeting of the Creative Cities Network will be held in September 2016 in Ostersund (Sweden).

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Free wifi at subway station at Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona

It is the first network of Rodalies de Catalunya with this service, which can be used for 15 minutes

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Renfe has launched on Monday a free Wi-Fi in Plaça Catalunya station. It is providing wireless, part of the plan to modernize services Rodalies de Catalunya and after this premiere will be extended to more stations.

According to the rail operator, with this service, “each user can use all your devices either from a single connection, thus improving usability, speed and convenience of access to the service.” From Monday Plaça Catalunya Station WLAN will connect via fiber over 100 Mb on seven access points, an ADSL connection in technical spaces with routers and powerful antennas to ensure the arrival of connection and points Hotspot service as a source of wireless.

The connection will be free and will last 15 minutes, both from the hall and from the station platforms. The first time you use it a traveler must register in Renfe.com portal, which will provide a unique username and password as client Renfe. The next time you use this wireless only need to register using this data.

Every day, more than 66,000 people travel with Rodalies de Catalunya to or from Plaça Catalunya, from any of the three lines (R1 R3 and R4) serving the station, as well as regional services of the R12 line. In addition, the station holds exchanger with lines L1 and L3 and the Railways of the Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC).

Also in Madrid and AVE trains

This pilot test in Barcelona is also performed at the station Getafe Centro (Madrid). After these first two experiences will extend the service to 20 stations across Spain over the next six years.

In parallel, the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, presented on Monday at Atocha (Madrid) the first prize AVE train WIFI connectivity and the pilot of the digital content platform and design services to travelers in the first phase will serve 89 trains and 20 suburban stations. This is the project ‘access and +’, which will develop, operate and maintain Telefónica. It also includes a specific plan to generate revenue for both Renfe to Telefónica, through a customizable mobile application that provides information and entertainment content to travelers during the journey AVE. Among other options, will offer movies, series, TV channels, books, newspapers and magazines, marketplace, sports, games and courses.

The project provides that in November the installation of the technological solution that enables connectivity on board all trains begin the model s-100 currently in service covers the AVE Madrid-Seville corridor. It is provided the gear for a train approximately every month. From 2017 they will begin to equip other models train (s103, s-s-102 and 112) to complete the current fleet Renfe AVE within four years.

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Vueling reinforces the business passenger routes from Barcelona

The airline increased by 14% the number of seats to national and international destinations

Vueling airplane Barcelona

Vueling has strengthened during the past two years its business routes between Barcelona and other domestic and international destinations with new frequencies, which meant an increase of 14% in the supply of seats.

Business routes that make up the top ten are linking Barcelona with Madrid, Bilbao, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Malaga, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Milan, the airline reported Monday in a statement.

The addition to the fleet of five Airbus A321s, with 40 more seats than the A320, has also increased the number of places available in these routes increased demand, especially during the winter season.

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