Barcelona will have its residential skyscrapers in Poblenou

The City Council has given the green light to building 100 meters high and 26 floors located on the Diagonal, between Bilbao and streets Pere IV

Recreation residential skyscraper on Avenida Diagonal, 131

The City Council has given the final green light to residential skyscraper 100 meters high and 26 floors located at Avenida Diagonal 131, corner of the streets Pere IV and Bilbao, which required a building permit last to complete the project.

The property, with 125 homes already sold, is owned by Altamira Santander Bank -the real estate, is being developed by the Catalan promoter Corp, and involves a total investment of over 70 million euros.

This is one of the real estate projects that stood in Barcelona during the housing crisis -the work was interrupted in 2008 by the problems of the developer initially and then was conceived as a 20-story building plus a large overhang.

After it adjudicase Altamira, the design changed to a 26-story project without overhang, but CiU led by the City Council was reluctant to this change, requiring a new license for six additional plants, which include a swimming pool with solarium on deck. Meanwhile Corp has been working on the existing structure of the skyscraper, and has achieved new building permit with the Consistory led by Ada Colau. The promoter is also pending license this year to get a promotion price of 130 homes concerted Can Batllo, of which 82 have already sold.

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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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