Dog beach Barcelona

Barcelona City Council enables 1,200 square meters on the beach of Llevant as pilot only during the bathing season

Dog beach Barcelona

Barcelona City Council created this summer as a pilot a space dog beach at the beach of Llevant of the city, which will have 1,200 square meters and can be used by the dogs in full bathing season test, when the presence of prohibited these animals in the other beaches. It would be released this June and be operational until the last Sunday in September, when the season ends.

This was announced on Friday the deputy mayor of Ecology, Urban and Mobility, Janet Sanz, in a press conference which announced that new spaces to walk the dogs and enjoy your free time with them will be created.

Proximity Playgrounds

The council provides for two types of spaces for dogs: large playgrounds and areas differentiated by sharing slots. Each district will have at least a recreation area over 700 m2 and each district, at least one area with schedules sharing. In both cases, within these spaces may be loose dogs, except dangerous breeds.

In the recreation areas will be urban for the rest of pet owners (chairs, benches, fountains, litter bins) furniture and for the animals to jump, play and exercise (fences, games, vegetation). Thus, the council has defined a catalog of items that will be accompanied by a Statement for design, implementation and maintenance inspired by the recommendations of the report worked with the College of Veterinarians of Barcelona (BVOCs).

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Urban Art Barcelona

The side wall of the civic center in the neighborhood of Sant Marti in Barcelona, serves as canvas for the last giant face of urban artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada

Urban Art Barcelona

The last Rodríguez-Gerada is the giant face of a woman, or the face of a giant woman reflected in a side wall of Sant Martí Civic Centre: 280 square meters of urban art with the inherent power not go unnoticed. By size, but not alone as almost all the works of the Identity series, which launched in Barcelona installed around -three decades has, more or less, Panorama is not just giant, mostly it’s content. “Instead of the huge picture of a movie star or a politician with a big smile, I draw someone from the neighborhood, the community. Drawing one of us. ” It has done in other neighborhoods like Raval, Horta and Born, and other cities such as Buenos Aires, Monterrey and Paris, and although one of the faces that draws Rodríguez-Gerada has ingredients of privilege, the choice of characters less driven the search for someone brainy representative -what think a newcomer to the world Rodríguez-Gerada- and quota criteria and magnificent as smell or chance. It could be you. It could be your son. It could be your neighbor.

“Instead of the huge picture of a movie star or a politician with a big smile, I draw someone from the neighborhood, the community, drawing one of us,” explains the artist
“It’s an artistic lottery. I get to see people go down the street and pick a person that I like.

I wonder if they identify with the place, if you have a sense of belonging … “Rodríguez-Gerada try not to repeat age or sex, and those are the only criteria beyond the pleasure of simply going out in search of the next face. Thus exposed his methods, who is the woman who squints from the wall of the civic center? Where do you live and what you do? It could be the neighborhood baker, the butcher, could be a teacher. It would, in fact, if Panorama was not an anomaly within the series. But Panorama, for once, is not just one person. Panorama is not a woman.

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada born in Cuba 49 years ago but raised in the US, where he emigrated with his family in the 70s in the world of street art becomes a kind of old fox, a veteran with stories in tow as two or three times that stopped him in his day the police of New York, at the time I was going down the street to denounce altering billboards manipulative power of advertising. “With find some surprises included as police chief who understand the background of what I was doing and let me go; but they were the exception. ” In Barcelona he gained notoriety with the immense Obama drew on the grounds of the Forum in November 2008, on the eve of elections that upheld the first black US president, even in the environment of local urban artists was already a recognized character.

Windswept

The works in the series are not giants identities because. “The great thing only works if you have an intrinsic power behind”, explains Rodríguez-Gerada. In addition to size, are among others the common denominator of being drawn in charcoal, which gives them an ephemeral component, dramatic in a way, part of the speech of the artist. “I like the poetry that is in the fact that they are gradually swept away by wind and rain.” But Panorama is different. Panorama, which ended in December and a neighbor not heard yet discovered in wonder these days is made with paint and will last much longer than their peers series, and yes it is not one, there are several women: two work at the Civic Center (Naomi Poncela, mouth, and Chus Ruiz, chin), the third is a user (Montse Noto, eye) and the fourth is used bingo (Luisa Hernandez, nose). In short, a puzzle neighbors. “It’s not just a portrait. It’s a job I like people stopped to look and to think about the effort behind. What it means, too. Unfortunately, it touches urban art people are accustomed to instant, fast, the Banksy. I want to make an impact, but also want the work hold a calm look. So this time I used paint. ”

The character is the work; they are the protagonists. So in the photo the artist is behind, in the background, half hidden under his hood.

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The fashion for ‘bike cafés’ comes to Barcelona

The rise of urban cycling brings up new businesses related to cycling | The space model, imported from London and Berlin, can enjoy a coffee while the bursting of a tire repairs

bike cafes BARCELONA

The fever for two wheels is making emerge new business concepts related to cycling. Handlebars, leather saddles and pedals are beginning to go beyond the conventional stores and repair shops use to live among coffee cups and viewings of the Tour de France. It is the definition of the cycle hasty -bici cafes in the Spanish- version, a multipurpose spaces where you can sip a cappuccino while the bursting of a tire is repaired. Barcelona opened the first one and a half ago and since then the number of spaces that join the coffee culture and the cycling is increasing in the wake of European cities like London, Berlin or Amsterdam cafes where the cycle are more consolidated.

Fabrizio Pastorello, Italian and passionate restaurateur bike, put a stain on the doors of your business, a cafe in the heart of Gracia which runs for thirteen months. This peculiar contraption, a sort of self-service using those in need is part of the philosophy of a room in which, with the cup of coffee, facilitate the toolbox. “Cycling is allowed to enter and make repairs if it comes,” Pastorello, owner of Biciocio explains. Fixed clientele lover of two wheels, at your local bike rides and other related activities to meet the demands of a public that is growing every year are organized.

A 5% increase in 5 years

According to the European Metropolitan Transport Authorities, Barcelona between 2008 and 2013 increased by 5% the number of people moving around the city either on foot or by bike. It is representing 57.4% of all trips, a figure well above cities like Madrid, which has seen 0.1% back using the bike in the same period. It is located in a modest 33.5%. “Fifteen years ago only a handful of people on a daily basis using the bike. Today, only needs a look to check that cyclists are booming, “says Mark Scrancher, owner of The Bike Club Barcelona, ​​the first bike cafe that opened in Barcelona. It was in March 2013.

Scrancher defines its business as a “destination for cyclists” where you can eat something, taste a good coffee – “The Best of Barcelona” apostilla- and tune the bike. Of course, buy sports clothing and accessories. The restaurant, which is open to all public -cyclists or not, has also shop and workshop with specialized mechanics annex in the bicycle repair, a service that is held by customers and responding to their new demands, according Scrancher. “Ten years ago, cyclists using the bike only on weekends. If they had to make some arrangement, they left the bike in the workshop on Monday and collected at the end of the week. Now the routine has changed: if a wheel punch want to have it about that evening or the next day as much because they need to go to work or university, “he says behind the bar.

Sustainable and efficient vehicle

Berta Quintanilla enters the room with the bike under his arm looking for exactly that: solve a small gap on the handlebars.

Seven years is a regular user of the bicycle, with which it is done every morning to work. He also noticed that the passion for two wheels is increasing in Barcelona, ​​a circumstance that bike users and owners of cafes attributed to increased environmental awareness and savings in your pocket. “The bike is comfortable, economical and sustainable. Hence it has grown daily use, “says Albert Garcia, a member of Friends of the bikes. According to him, “when the bike is tested you not want to drop” although “not yet have a complete network of cycle paths” in Barcelona.

With the increase of urban cycling, bike cafés are condemned to take root in the city, according Scrancher. “In Australia, New Zealand, the United States and in other European cities like London or Berlin on business for years to work. Here, it is matter of time before more spaces of these characteristics begin to appear, “he explains. “People rent the bike two days next week and are looking to buy one,” he adds and concludes: “Four months ago a customer spends every week thanking us here. He says having a bicycle has changed her life. ” He is 85 years old.

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