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 [...]
Posted in barcelona on Sep 13th, 2011
Barcelona is a city of contrasts, which offers a wide variety of spaces and possibilities, either from the center of the city and to the sides, with neighborhoods as Gracia, Poble Sec, Gothic, Born and of course, the Eixample, just minutes away from the oldest area of Barcelona, also known as Ciutat Vella. So, all [...]
Posted in barcelona on Sep 9th, 2011
In his admirable and perhaps not well understood book Modelo de espaldas, Samoan writer Albert Hanover wrote his book in exactly seventy-three pages, which is the number of names of God according to the Kabbalah, including the secret name which gives access to the real world and true life and according to Hanover, can also [...]
Posted in barcelona on Jun 27th, 2011
It is appropriate that in the first room of the Torres-García exhibition in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña (The National Museum of Catalan Art: http://www.mnac.cat/index.jsp?lan=002) we come face to face with two great paintings made by this Hispano-Uruguayan artist in the last years of his life. One of these, Arte constructivo universal, is, [...]
Posted in barcelona on Feb 19th, 2009
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. He was born [...]
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