Wedding in Barcelona!

Fashion grows married, unique buildings in Barcelona

Wedding in Barcelona at Batlló house

Replace the altar, the plenary hall of a municipality or a farmhouse for jewels of the architectural heritage of Barcelona is an alternative that provide more and more couples wanting to celebrate yes I want in singular environments. Weddings spaces first division – the likes of Casa Batllo, Palau Requesens or Convalescència House, among others – does not seem to be exclusive to Mittal, the Indian family in December 2013 paid for that closed the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) where he was to hold a lavish wedding. Dedicated to event management businesses offer the most unique places in the Catalan capital to join some contracting parties that rather than overflowing love, must have deep pockets.

“Fashion goes back ten or fifteen years ago when wealthy couples riding weddings in special places. Over time, the trend has been extrapolated and now there are many other seeking to distance himself from the wedding of friends and family who have come and prioritize the stage: a palace or a museum rented by the hour, “explains Josep Carreras, owner and director of Catering Services Sensacions. The company specializes in celebrations of all kinds – not just weddings, also corporate events, private parties, etc. – Arranging up to sixty different locations in Barcelona, as stated in their website. Most are private, but in the extensive catalog there is also room for a few publicly owned.

Getting married in the MACBA

One of the public spaces that publicizes the caterer for the wedding is the MACBA. Gemma Romaguera, responsible for Space Management and Concessions museum explains that in recent years have held a couple of weddings petit committee in the Convent dels Angels. The space accommodates 180 people and reaches rent 6,500 euros per day. “Who can rent a space of this kind usually do weddings with many more guests than a hundred, so often not held by capacity issues,” he says.

One reason, of capacity, which would explain that of the 1,500 requests that the museum received last year for renting space, only 2% correspond to the holding of bonds. The other, that space is occupied 60% of the year with exhibitions and sometimes the decision of the couple is incompatible with the activity of cultural facilities. “We receive requests from individuals who want to marry and ask for the MACBA. For us, weddings and other celebrations are extra income, but can not interfere in the calendar of the museum. Links often are incompatible with the space due to its characteristics, “he says.

Singular, but with limitations

The number of weddings organized in this museum is anecdotal when compared with those made in other private spaces are also offered for it. Sternalia is another company that organizes events in three places as emblematic as the Monastery of Poblet, the Observatori Fabra and Palau Requesens. Although his goal is not weddings, in the latter each year an average of six or seven, some issues, such as the two that have managed set in the Middle Ages are mounted. The limitation mark the economic capacity of the contracting parties, unlike other places such as Observatori Fabra, where other restrictions also exist.

In the case of astronomical equipment at the foot of Tibidabo, the leisure activity from June to October focuses on ‘Els sopars amb estrelles’ impossible can be held marriages in that period, which coincides, indeed with high wedding season in question. Another handicap is dancing after the banquet, which can not be performed at the Observatory, as happens to the enclosure Convalescència House Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Although sometimes, that impediment is not an obstacle for the couple. According to sources of equipment, which depends on the Foundation of the UAB, have organized a few ceremonies in the Aula Magna, “most emblematic place.” Rent costs 1,022 euros excluding VAT.

Foreign customers

“In the end, as in a conventional wedding, the total cost varies depending on the number of guests,” says César Blasco, commercial director of Sternalia. “We mounted weddings to 60 euros per guest and others, however, they not exceed 14 people, have left more than 200, “he adds. The client of this type of celebrations generally meets two premises: it is financially solvent and seeks a different wedding.

Couples “do not look for a hotel like the W or Arts, because in America have to choose, say those responsible for Sternalia. If expressly traveling to Barcelona with the whole family to marry want to do it in a special enclave, “Blasco said. According to him, it is common also find future marriages of diverse backgrounds seeking a “neutral” to get married and “Barcelona is a good destination”. Although insists its purpose is not to position “as a company that organizes weddings,” he acknowledges regularly receiving requests for budget treats in special places, which shows that there is demand. “Couples take precedence space and away from the typical wedding.”

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Barcelona 85 days without rain

Barcelona, within walking distance of its record without rain

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Drought threatens the city of Barcelona, ​​that today even its record (1928) of days without rain or rain less than a liter per square meter. If it does not rain tomorrow, the Catalan capital will have covered its longest dry spell since systematic records began in 1914, according to data series Fabra Observatory, situated at the foot of Tibidabo.

Since November 4, it has hardly rained in Barcelona. If you consider all the water falling in these 85 days, the sum yields just 1.5 l / m2, a negligible amount. It has been exceeded, so the previous record of 70 days with less precipitation per liter per square meter, which dates from 2007, when the last major drought was conceived. You have to go back to 1928 to find a similar situation. Then, there was a dry period between May 22 and August 14. And a curiosity: “If you count the days without rain or with less than or equal to one liter per square meter rains, the dry spell is the continuation of 1928, which would total 108 days,” says Alfons Puertas meteorologist Fabra Observatory.

All this comes after a year with very few rainfall. Last year, in Barcelona, ​​only they fell 345.8l / m2, considerably less than the previous driest, according to the historical series, which was 1937 (401.8 liters) year. Another highlight more record: 2015 was the warmest year (16,6 ° C, tied with 2006).

This lack of rain has not resulted in the image of very dry trees or plants or agonizing situation. Luck for vegetation, unlike what occurred with previous records, is now drought occurs in winter when the plants need less water. “In winter, the life cycle of plants is slowed. There is so much evaporation and water loss and summer, “explains Alfons doors.
The weatherman says that there is a trend towards a decrease in rainfall in Barcelona. “We found a great irregularity, no clear trend in the last century,” says Gates. Instead, it is obvious that heating in Barcelona, ​​as confirmed by records from the eighties of the last century.

The shortage of rainfall has not resulted so far in a lack of water reserves to supply in the region of Barcelona and Girona, as reservoirs of the Ter and Llobregat are at 71.9% of its maximum capacity. However, the decline in its level is becoming worrying. “The water reserves in the reservoirs are down 20 points from last year. Autumn shot failed and now we played in the spring, “says Ignacio Escudero, CEO of Aguas de Barcelona, ​​to remember the contributions of rainfall occur mainly in autumn and spring, and the ability to the inland basins to store resources is very limited.

Experts believe that in the region Barcelona a drought occurs every five years. They have earned water resources through the desalination of El Prat, but there is still a structural deficit of water.

In Barcelona, ​​they now consume 104 liters a day per person. “We are the European city, with Copenhagen and Brussels, which consume less water,” Escudero added. Since 2007 consumption has been reduced by 20% (about 55 hm3al year, almost equivalent to the ability to produce drinking water from desalination of El Prat). And what is due this reduction? “The 70 percent is due to a reduction in demand; a more rational use of water is made with taps, cisterns or more adapted appliances, and 30% was achieved through improved management, including control of leaks, “Escudero said.

Experience shows that the locals, when they reduce their consumption after a drought, maintain those habits.

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