Posted in barcelona on Feb 20th, 2012
Eating seafood is a luxury within everyone’s reach. You just have to know how to prepare them at home and you’ll have a pleasure for all your available senses. Of course, in Barcelona there’s a long list of excellent restaurants where you can sample the best of Mediterranean cuisine and sea products. So, when you [...]
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Posted in barcelona on Feb 9th, 2012
Is any good music made in Barcelona? Good question, difficult answer. Barcelona itself is one of the cities that holds the most international tours of bands of all styles and genres. This large musical traffic undoubtedly produce the appearance of new bands. Here is some things that you have to choose local bands in Barcelona. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in barcelona on Jan 18th, 2012
Spain is one of those countries where, apparently, the outside is more important than the inside. You just have to walk around the streets of Barcelona to see that image is everything. It’s not important how much money you have or your social condition, if you have a job or if you are, like so [...]
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Posted in barcelona on Jan 10th, 2012
What is visiting a city? At Only Apartments we make it clear: We are not tourists, we are travelers. But not everyone is really a traveler, or does not know how to be one, or is not interested, or simply because of time and money, has no choice but to hire travel services to explore [...]
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Posted in barcelona on Jan 9th, 2012
Catalan’s modernism figure, Antoni Gaudí is one of the most representative of architects of the Spanish architecture. The personal character of his designs is very similar to the character of Barcelona, a city, which is essential for any traveler passing through Spain. Gaudí’s architecture has a very unique baroque sensuality, curves that are woven into [...]
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