Posted in Barcelona on Jan 31st, 2012
On the Montjuïc mountainside, Avinguda Marqués de Comillas 6-8, there’s one of the most extraordinary complexes of industrial modernism in Catalonia, the Casaramona factory. This was a project by the architect Puig i Cadafalch, ordered by Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós, a cotton factory owner, who substituted the previous factory that was destroyed by a fire. [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 30th, 2012
A cafe in a magical world of enchanted forests, gnomes and fairies. Are you interested? It seems incredible, walking through the crowded Ramblas, that these very special magic places may exist. It is an essential stop on your visit to Barcelona, which will surely not leave you indifferent. Bosc de les Fades is the name [...]
Posted in Paris on Jan 27th, 2012
Until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘Cézanne et Paris’ will be open at the Musée du Luxembourg. The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Petit Palais and the Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris. it gathers close to 80 works that come from different collections from around the world to [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 27th, 2012
Every country has its own dances and traditions, the way of representing itself on a stage. But further than representing a region, one dance seems to be some sort of conjunction of moments and steps that surpass mere performance. And so, if we realize, history goes through a dance since its very beginning or since [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 26th, 2012
If Real Madrid was declared by FIFA as the best football club of the twentieth century, the XXI century so far seems to clearly belong to Barcelona in a fourth place in the rankings that crowned its rival as the most dominant team of the last century. Indeed, Barcelona has not only raised three European [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 25th, 2012
Barcelona is a city with a lot of History, not only of its political movements of resistance, Franco’s dictatorship or its constant quest for independence, but also because of the unique and individual stories of its inhabitants, common people but with a long list of public figures, artists, politicians, musicians and writers. Those stories are [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 24th, 2012
Until the 4th of March, Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona has opened the exhibition Invisible Fields. Geographies of the radio waves. (‘Campos Invisibles. Geografías de las ondas de radio’ in Spanish). The exhibition addresses the outlook of technique and science from conceptual art, and it’s produced by Plataforma Cero, Centro de Investigación, Producción y Recursos [...]
Posted in Paris on Jan 23rd, 2012
A sweet touching and brilliant scene. You struggle to get together mesmerized by the effect of the lighting rig just as if you were witnessing a story out of a fairy tale. Music combined with warm star dust and a strong wave of applause thunders and you shudder and hear the rumble in your ears [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 23rd, 2012
Petritxol Street is the perfect meeting place for hardened gourmands and art lovers. The street is only two hundred meters long, but on it lies the Sala Parés, famous for hosting the works of such important people as Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol and Pablo Picasso. This famous gallery opened in 1840 and marked the evolution [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Jan 20th, 2012
The Auditori in Barcelona has organized concerts of Dvorák (even though he’ll be accompanied by Brahms and Saint-Saëns) on the 27th, 28th and 29th of January at different times (11am, 7pm and 9pm) to adapt to all possible timetables. Under the direction of Jakub Hrusa, the Barcelona and Catalunya National Symphonic Orchestra (OBC) and the [...]
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