Burberry to offload 250 jobs in Catalonia

A meeting will take place later today in Barcelona between representatives of the UGT trades union and the directors of Burberry after the company revealed that it was shedding 250 jobs in the region. A few years ago, the company closed its main British factory and is now producing in China, with another UK plant expected [...]
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Bread and Butter Trade Fair Barcelona

Barcelona will once again host on 21st, 22nd and 23rd January the most important trade fair for street fashion and urban informal wear worldwide. Wednesday will open the season of autumn and winter with Bread & Butter and thousands of visitors from around the world will flock to the city to not miss out on [...]

Alternative music in Barcelona

You already know this feeling: you wake up in the morning and you can´t get up from your lovely warm bed without music, you want to take a shower, but you can´t do it without switching on the radio, you drink a coffee to start the new day while you are listening to your favourite [...]
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10 reasons to visit the charming city of Barcelona

Ever since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympic Games it has become one of the most visited cities and a very popular tourist destination. Barcelona received huge sums of money from the European community and this helped with the infrastructure of the city and got it moving for the first time in years. Below I’ve noted [...]

Barcelona: a big capital that can also be a small town

What happens when we first hear the words Barcelona? Surely we think of words like Gaudi, Sagrada Familia, the beach, paella, tapas and sun. But we also think about tourists, traffic, garbage, and we’ll surely think of a big city. The fact that Barcelona is the largest city in Catalonia, with over 1.6 million inhabitants, [...]

Berlin film festival 2009

Berlin is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city and as such, every year (since 1951) it celebrates one of the most important film festivals in the world: The Berlin International Film Festival, this year being its 59th edition. More than 19,000 film professionals from 120 different countries will gather in the German capital next February (5th [...]