Barcelona, the chocolate and why in this city we love cocoa
Barcelona, the chocolate and why in this city we love cocoa Today we want to show you the sweetest face of the city through the history, the places and anecdotes about Barcelona's relationship with chocolate, the holy seed of the old Aztecs and Mayas. In order to...
The 22@: the coolest district in Barcelona
This is called the 22@ and this is defined as the innovation district. Is this really a cultural and technological pole? The area has been under big changes but there is a lot to do and, more important, a lot to show to people. Today, we introduce you the coolest...
Barcelona underground I: the 90th aniversary of the first subway line
Barcelona underground I: the 90th aniversary of the first subway line Everything started during the happy 20's. There were two companies who decided to build a public transportation in Barcelona. It had to be big, quick and not expensive, in order to overtake the old...
The Station of France or knocking on Barcelona’s doors
“The Station of France was the laic cathedral when God was to run away.” Josele Sangüesa, musician and writer Even if the first railway line started to operate in Barcelona in 1848, the city had to wait until 1929 to have an station fitting its category, like Paris or...
A very cold beer, please
Today we would like to invite you to taste the particular relationship between Barcelona and the beer. Even if the city has not an original local tradition, Barcelona has several brands associated to its history, a lot of beer-shops and bars appreciated by experts...
The Tiny Barcelonas: today, la Barceloneta
Barcelona doesn't exist. Do not panic! I mean there isn't just one Barcelona. Better, isn't it? Barcelona is a transformer city, with the capacity to show a different face to each guest. It can be a big metropolis and at the same time be the home of neighborhoods...
Barcelona rhymes with mona
Lent brings us fasting and penitence but when you taste a big piece of Mona, it means that privations have already finished. The Mona is the main Eastern cake and its origin might be Arabian (mouna) or Greek (“muniquíes”). It is claimed as original by several regions...
The Set Portes restaurant: the history on a tablecloth
Let's start with the popular wisdom: there are eight doors instead of seven in this building promoted by the millionaire Josep Xifré i Cases in the Isabel II avenue. We are in Barcelona, circa 1830, nearby the harbor when this successful businessman decides to locate...
The Quatre Gats. Santiago Rusiñol and his friends have fun
If when somebody asks you if there were many people somewhere and you say "Bah, we were just four cats" that might look as a negative answer. This is just the opposite if we talk about the Quatre Gats, the tavern which became the heart of the modernist bohemians for...
Barcelona by streetcar
Back in 1899, the first electric streercars start to go in Berlin. All the main cities in Barcelona will soon use this new way of public transportation. Barcelona was not an exception and in 1907 all the streetcars were electric and until 1929 they live they golden...