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Mónica Boixeda
Casa Milà, popularly known as “La Pedrera”, is a building built by Gaudí between 1906 and 1910, in a main avenue in the city of Barcelona. The Milà family ordered to the architect the construction of this building that, since 1984, is considered part of the World Heritage by UNESCO. The façade is of stone and it has a wavy shape and it represents the continuous movement of the sea, the same as the interior decoration of the building, where one can find cut columns, sculptures and big stairways that reminisce about marine life with a futuristic and fantastic syle. La Pedrera is an immense building that has rooms of 1323 sq metres that surround the two big circular gardens that are also decorated with coloured ceramics and melted irons. On the windows, for example, you can see different vegetable shapes which were made with forged iron. Gaudí revolutionized 20th century architecture and it can be seen in each and every one of his works, which are currently museums or national monuments. In Casa Milà, cultural activities take place and there are guided tours where you can visit the mansion and a few of its patios. To visit this magnificent work by the great architect Gaudí, rent apartments in Barcelona and go out and explore and enjoy the city and it´s floral...
Mónica Boixeda
The city of Barcelona has a special charm because of its old history, modern architecture, the art that you can breathe in the streets, but also for its food and it´s in the Mercado de la Boquería where one can enjoy the city in its essence: trying the different fruits and vegetables of the season, buying the necessary herbs to cook that night and discovering never-ending flavours and aromas which you won´t ever forget. La Boquería is situated on Rambla 91, and it offers thousands of stalls which are specialized in a different branch of gastronomy. For example, there are the stalls for poultry, game, eggs, legumes and cereals and the olives and preserved food, to name some. But La Boquería is not only a food market but it´s also a meeting place for all Spanish people because inside they feel like at home because the smells go back to their childhood and the colours and flavours are so delicious that they go back time and time again. And the same happens with the tourists that have an obliged visit to La Boquería when they visit Barcelona. The market of La Boquería is an open space open to the whole community that invites everyone who passes through the city to go and visit it. For this you only have to rent apartments in Barcelona and just eat and feel dishes and exquisite...
Mónica Boixeda
According to the legend spread by the writer himself, when he was 17, Javier Marías went to Paris with the intention of spending the summer in a house owned by his uncle, the acclaimed cult director Jesús Franco, to write a totally imagined novel set in America. Taking advantage of the fact that his uncle was out of town, and living off a diet which basically consisted of bread and mustard, Marías developed a specific work discipline. He divided the day into three parts: during the morning, he stayed at the house (which was on 15, Freycinet) and wrote his book, in what he explains as a trance-like state, taking up in a room with a white piano, and cupboards full of erotic magazines. Later, when the cinemas opened, he spent his afternoons going from one movie house to another, having a special preference for the Cinémathèque de Henri Langlois, where he would immerse himself in American films from the 1930s, 40s and 50s – which provided the sole source of inspiration for his novel. Then finally, at night time, he would hang out in the terraces of Champs-Élysées with his guitar, playing covers of Bob Dylan songs in the hope that passers by would take pity and chuck him a few coins. The literary result of this time sojourn in Paris was Los dominios del lobo, a brilliant novel which was a celebrations – of the pleasure of story-telling through a tapestry of different stories, generations and classes. Curiously, since then, Marías´ work has appeared to go increasingly in the opposite direction, and today, he is known throughout...
Mónica Boixeda
From May6 to May 8 the Final Four will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. With a capacity of more than 16 000 people this is one of the greatest venues where this fierce competition already took place in 1998 and 2003. The way to the final 4 is long and hard, it begins in the fall at the beginning of the season and goes through different phases where the less strong teams are being eliminated quickly. After the initial league phase where the first four teams of each group qualifies, it goes on to another league of four more reduced groups where the first two qualify. The last 8 make up the quarter finals in which a system of “best of 5” play begins. From there the last 4 result, that will compete for the European cup in the semifinals and finals on one intense weekend. The big surprise this year is that although the competition is held in their city and they were one of the favorites to go all the way, Regal Barcelona, the reigning champion from last year didn’t make it to the Final Four. The got eliminated in the previous round by the Greeks of Panathinaikos. But this was not the only surprise. After having lost by an embarrassing 48 points (89 – 41) in the first game, Montepaschi de Siena ended up winning the next 3 eliminating the mighty Olympiakos. Maccabi Tel Aviv did the same. After starting of 0:1 against Caja Laboral Vitoria, they were able to avoid elimination. However, the Israeli holiday Yom Hazikaron on May 8 (Day...
Mónica Boixeda
The band Ojos de Brujo will play next Friday May 6 at 21:00 pm at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona, to celebrate ten years on stages worldwide. On this occasion the band will be accompanied by more than 20 artists that will reinterpret all their greatest hits and the huge number of songs produced over the years. Along with celebrating the career of Ojos de Brujo, the concert aims to highlight the group being finalist at the Best Fusion Album in the 2011 Music Awards with her album Corriente Vital-10años. The awards will be on May 18 at the Arteria Coliseum in Madrid. Ojos de Brujo was born in Barcelona in 1996. In those years, Barcelona was experiencing music jam sessions and Ramon Jimenez, who was playing flamenco guitar, met Juanlu, bassist, and they began to give shape to an interesting mixture of sounds with the flavor and passion of flamenco. From a clear notion of what they wanted and what they did not as a musical concept his first album was born, Vengue, edited in Belgium, Germany, Italy and France. Since then they developed a work of collaboration with various musicians, though the group was stabilized by Ramón Jiménez, Juanlu, Marina, Xavi Turull, Panko, Sergio Ramos and Maxwell Wright. In 2002, with the second album, Bari, the group launched an ambitious company creating the seal La Fábrica de Colores to produce their own projects, the most experimental one and focused on social and environmental issues. This second album is going to mean the internationalization of the group with promotional tours around the world. In 2006 their third album...
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