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It’s the fifth edition of the Busker’s Festival Barcelona and although it’s already started you can still enjoy 3 more days of this wonderful street festival down in Barceloneta, near the port. Artists from all over the place flock to Barcelona once a year to take part, enjoy the music and make new friends at the [...]

Citygrove has agreed to buy three sites in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville, if planning permission is given. The total cost of the sites is around €26m and they will be let to Travelodge. Citygrove, based in the UK and Spain, is developing schemes in both countries one of which is a shopping centre in the [...]

Primark Diagonal Mar opens at last Primark opens today in Barcelona’s Diagonal Mar and this will be Primark’s first store in Catalonia. Diagonal Mar opened in 2001 and is the biggest retail centre in this region of Spain and one of the biggest in the country. No value was placed on the contract. Quinlan Private is led [...]

Get your ears in tune because this year’s Sónar is going to be full of the best names in Electronic music as some new proposals from lesser well known bands. The 16th Festival of advanced music and multimedia art of Barcelona has a date: 18th 19th and 20th June 2009 Read the rest of this post [...]

Everybody knows Barcelona as a cosmopolitan city for all kinds of tourists: whether for families, youth or old people; whether for Gaudí fans, museum lovers or people who just want to have a good time; or maybe for people who want to enjoy the Catalan sun on the beach, or taste the delicious Mediterranean food. Read [...]

Below are some of the best Outlet stores in Barcelona and its surrounding areas. Shoes TASCON – Avda. Diagonal, 251 Telf: 93-244 40 21 Hours: Mon-Fri from 13:30 to 19:30 Saturdays from 10?00 a 14?00 – Closed from 27th Feb till beginning of April. MUXART Diagonal Mar Shopping Centre LA ROCA VILLAGE ( La Roca del Vallès [...]

Do you love shopping? Do you particular like all the top labels? With the current crisis, acquiring articles from major brands is turning out less accessible for many of us. Their high prices are an impediment, despite the quality. But as the saying goes, “buying cheap is buying expensive.” The so-called white label articles are [...]

Primavera Sound 2009 lineup Thursday 28th of May My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Phoenix, Squarepusher, The Vaselines, Spectrum, Andrew Bird, Jay Reatard, Lightning Bolt, The Bats, Marnie Stern, Dead Meadow, Ponytail, Ebony Bones, Wooden Shjips, The Bug, Bowerbirds, Joe Crepúsculo y Los Destructores, Wavves, The Tallest Man On Earth, Women, Magik [...]

Antoni Gaudi is one of the greatest figures in the history of Spanish and Catalan architecture. Seen as the genius of the Modernist movement (Art Nouveau), his work was not only a product of the social context of the time, but also of his own personality and devotion to the Catalan culture. Read more about Antoni [...]

Jose Antonio Maldonado, 64, presented daily weather bulletins on the national network TVE for 22 years, but he took early retirement last year after the simple operation to improve his looks went wrong. The operation known as blepharoplasty, should have been a simple one to remove droopy skin around the eyes making him look younger, but [...]