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The Barcelona rooftop terrace hotel week

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The city of Barcelona never stops surprising with new cultural activities. From 3rd to 7th may, 36 Barcelona terraces hotels will become stages that will hold different cultural events such as; live music concerts, conferences, expositions, magic shows… A unique opportunity to see the city from a different point of view while enjoying cultural activities. Every hotel will serve a natural Mediterranean juice specially created for this event. Do not miss the chance, this week you will get to the top…of Barcelona! Contact us for more information regarding the hotels and cultural activities. The...

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23rd April – Sant Jordi’s day in Barcelona

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«La Diada de Sant Jordi» is Saint George’s Day in Barcelona and Catalunya.  St. George is the patron saint of Catalonia and he is celebrated on 23rd April every year to commerate his death on that day in the year 303. In 2011 Sant Jordi’s day is during Easter week in Barcelona. St. George’s day is the most romantic day of the year in Barcelona and Catalunya, and is celebrated with a Catalan tradition similar to Valentine’s day, but inspired by the legend of St. George. St George slew the dragon, saved the lovely princess and gave her a red rose plucked from a rose bush that...

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Food & Art in la Pedrera

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The well-known Gaudi’s building la Pedrera holds an exposition combining art and food – El arte de comer: La naturaleza muerta de Ferran Adrià The food and gastronomy have always been a source of inspiration for many artists, and this 130 works exposition is the best proof. The exposition is divided into four parts: The first one shows the progress of still life from the baroque period till the avant-garde. The second one, and the most surprising, is the contemporary art. Visitors can discover here different works such as a meat-made chair, a huge saucepan full of mussels, or...

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Johann Strauss – New Year’s concert at Palau de la Musica Catalana

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The outstanding Strauss Festival Orchestra will offer the traditional New Year’s concert at the Palau de la Musica Catalana with the best Johann Strauss waltz and polkas. The Strauss Festival Orchestra has had great success at the different European auditoriums such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Leipzing Gewandhaus, Berlin Philarmonie or the Hamburg Musikhalle. The Orchestra consists of great qualified professional teachers and soloists that keep the typical Viennese artistic expressions. The Palau de la Musica was opened on February 9th 1908 and is one of the most representative Catalan...

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Five “Goyas” in Barcelona

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A private foundation exposes five oil paintings of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828). It is not easy to gaze at Goya’s works in Catalonia, but fortunately, from 10th November until 13th February 2011, it will be possible to see five of Goya’s oil paintings at the De Luca Giordano a Goya exhibition, at the Godia Foundation in Barcelona. This exhibition is based on the XVIII century, from Baroque to Romanticism. Apart from the five Goyas, there are also 18 pieces from the artists Giordano, Tiepolo, Mengs, Meléndez, Bayeu, and Giaquinto. The last time there was an...

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Dalí and Walt Disney – Dali’s Theatre-Museum

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The Dalí Theatre-museum presents an exposition that shows the collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney working together on a short movie. Although is hard to believe, these two visionaries worked together for a while in 1946, the project was a short movie called Fate. Dali’s job was to create several drawings for the movie. Fate was inspired by a Mexican song of the artist Armando Dominguez. The song emphasize the fact that how we wait for the fate to appear in our lives while the time just goes by. The exposition shows 27 drawings and different pictures of Dalí during the...

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