English
When 114 years ago the owner of a modest tavern between Chinatown and the Poble Sec decided to sell his business, he could hardly imagine that it would soon become the mythical El Molino, the most glittering cabaret of the Parallel, one of the Babylonian streets of Europe´s Belle Epoque, riddled with many theaters, cinemas, cabarets, dance halls, vaudeville shows, cafes and even circuses, this area was known as the Broadway of Barcelona.
We talked before about fate, in order to respect a strange fatality astrological-geomantic rate saved as a chest of gold in the name of the street, as the course of this long avenue broad and scrupulously coincides with the parallel 41-º 22´34 land “north. It is perhaps this sense of destiny that has made the street and el Molino overcame decently during the terrible years of Francoist repression after the Civil War (at the end of which, it has been said, peace did not come, but victory) than among other grotesque acts officially took off the red color from El Molino (originally called the Moulin Rouge because of the celebrated cabaret in Montmartre, General Franco forced the room to give the epithet in the name of their particular crusade against communism and in defense of Christian Western civilization for which, to paraphrase Unamuno, can not be said too often that he use civilized methods, or Western, even less so Christians).
As fate made that the aura of Parallel did not disappear completely when starting from the late sixties, it began to massively imposing other forms of entertainment today and live a sort of renaissance with the opening, among other things, new theaters, new cutting-edge culinary bet Ferran Adria and, particularly emblematic, the reopening of El Molino (http://www.elmolinobcn.com/), the blades of the façade were illuminated by LED lights throughout the serving as a flag at night the street, on the 13th of October 2010 after thirteen years of closure that plunged the neighborhood into a sad feeling that felt grief beyond words.
The current schedule is clearly committed to restore the atmosphere of the Berlin cabaret of the Weimar Republic through the Burlesque, a genre revived in recent years by the hand, and the body of fascinating characters such as Dita von Teese.
The vintage touch with certain Gaudi dyes of the playfulness, the garter belt, corset, the transformer and acrobatics are the star every night at El Molino, mixing lunchtime with classic disco music, Caribbean, tango and flamenco at the famed vaudeville The Molino Lunch Show.
The decay times of crisis and presided over by omens and apocalyptic feelings are fertile ground for playful and vibrant cabaret hedonism. See for yourself dropping by El Molino when renting apartments in Barcelona
Translated by: Hans
