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Check out here the Winner of the first Only Apartments Contest
We already have the winner of our first Facebook contest who will be given 3 free nights in one of our apartments in a destination chosen by him. The raffle was made among all our Facebook pages. To get a winner at random we used the site random.org amongst all the participants. We would like to thank all participants and encourage all the people who have not won to continue to participate in future contests. Thank you very much and happy new year! Let´s go on the high point of our contest. Without further delay, we are happy to announce that the winner is: Chris Boyle from UK The top 5 desired destinations Barcelona Paris Rome Berlin Lisbon We´ve gathered some of the best answers in our contest. Check if there´s yours! Paris – it´s a beautiful city with lots to do and see and a gasto extravaganza to boot! Barcelona to experience the atmosphere and stroll in the sun with lots to see and even more to do i love to go to barcelonabarcelona is the most amazing city. it has everything from the sea to the mountains and all the fabulous places to visit in between. i think you could go there every month and find something different every time. to me it is a very special place and everyone should go there at least once …but that would not be enough Paris, it´s the only place where I feel truly content, beautiful people, beautiful scenery and food to die for! hi there! I would love to visit Portugal because it is...
Bar 68 in Barcelona
In Barcelona´s streets lately there is not anything new. The electro, indie-rocker and psedo hipster waves can no longer offer anything. Look closely; alternatives are becoming less and less while prices getting higher. Tourists, who come to Barcelona to relax, have fun, drink, dance or consume the “recreational” product. When living in Barcelona for a while, it´s easy to discover that people are very concerned of appearance, the “cool”, stylish and culture of the “beautiful” or “nice.” It is clear: if you aren’t “Good-looking”, you´re nobody here. If you don´t have a place where people know you, where you know there will be someone waiting for you, you´re just nobody. So, Barcelona receives thousands of visitors who come to leave everything in the dance floor, flirt, have fun, and are willing to have the unexpected always happens. From the Gothic to the Raval, the areas where there is more action in the center of the Catalan capital, there is a range of bars, nightclubs, restaurants and cafes where you can model the best thing you bought the other day, your new outfit, the dress “vintage” your mom brought you from Berlin. Musically, the city is bulletproof, you´ll find various events and locations that offer mostly the same thing: indie rock for hipsters, heavy metal for old metalheads, soul and garage for people more “arty” and “cool” people and electro for tourists and curious. However, there are other places that are different. Bar 68 is one of these. Recently renovating it really worth going out there any day of the week. Bar 68, in the Raval offers an alternative if...
Joan Miró, the ladder of escape, in Barcelona
Miró said “When I paint a painting, I fall in love with it; a love which rises from slow understanding”. This tireless, poetic, relentless, thorough and perfectionist artist, almost obsessive and never satisfied with what he does, changes and changes again. Contradictory although loyal to his search for the authentic. Born in Barcelona in 1893, he was made by his family to work initially in an office, although he dreamt of being a painter. Differently to another of the most international Spanish painters, Picasso, Miró was much more discreet and searched for anonymity. “Anonymity allows you to reach what is universal” he said. The exhibition has been organized together with the Tate Modern in London and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, and it holds over 150 works by the artist. ´The ladder of escape´ examines his broad career showing his tendency to contemplative isolation and the political commitment of the artist with the dark times he had to live in, to which he obviously wasn´t immune to. In the first rooms there are paintings such as ´Masia´ and ´Paisaje catalán´, which explore the ties with his native Catalonia, especially with Montroig, where his family had a farmhouse. That´s where Miró discovered and began to be aware that he wanted to be a painter, but not only a painter but a Catalan painter. After a first contact with foreign painting, he began with a style a tad ´fauve´ and cubist, but with a tremendous print from his native Catalonia, of the churches and frescos which he came across his country. Before leaving for Paris, he already had the chance to...
Barcelona for Free
When the Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar was about nine or ten years old, disjointed and scattered images, disturbing and fascinating, occasionally visited him (strange colored shapes on slabs or tiles), which his conscious was unable to match with anything he saw before. His mother told him that there was the possibility that the images corresponded to the fact that when he was a child, in Barcelona, where his family accidentally had to go through a brief period of time, his parents used to take him, almost every day, to play with other children at the Parc Güell, which later served as a joke Cortázar proudly told about his early and immense admiration for Gaudí, which had unconsciously begun when he was only two years old. The first time the author of Rayuela returned to Europe as an adult, in 1949, he could not fight the urge to go immediately to Parc Güell, when his ship stopped over in Barcelona, where naturally he found that although the images were envisaged and still amazing beyond words, they didn’t match with those formed in his mind. It wasn’t only a matter of mere optical perspective. One child had a look magical, Cortázar swore that day, that he would not let it get lost, and will continue keeping it inside. This just one of many free things to do in Barcelona. Another may be, every Sunday from 15:00 and the first Sunday of each month, to pay a visit to the seductive Blau Museum of Natural History (http://w3.bcn.es/V65/Home/V65XMLHomeLinkPl/0, 4555.418159056 _1438713694_2, 00.html) whose amazing prehistoric cave architecture and mix of futuristic levitating magic and...
Secret Restaurants in Barcelona
According to social anthropologists, all human groups create microworlds in their habitable spaces, among them, those secret places which joins couples and which generally look to differentiate themselves from the rest or escape power and its ability to co-opt uniformity. Maybe because of that, Barcelona is a city full of secret places, since we have to remember that this city has distinguished itself for being one of the cradles of anarchism in Spain and being culturally open to all avant-gardes, even to present ones. So, down to the point, let´s tell you how to get to know Barcelona and understand its culture and history from those secret worlds which attract us like a magnet. One of these places with a whiff of clandestinity is ´Tintorería Dontell´. Behind rows of hung clothes there´s an enigmatic door which takes us to the best guarded secret by its owners, the restaurant. Founded in 1909, it´s located on Carrer Aribau. It´s a place of prestige and its visitors play with this wonderful clandestine complicity. You can take your clothes to be washed, but disappear in the back shop and see its complete and special services. To their Mediterranean cuisine they add private concerts, secret wine tastings and other activities. To access this place there are two ways: one is that you integrate as a member in the clandestine network and that has privileges in discounts, and the other is to go as a normal citizen with your clothes to the dry cleaners and go to the restaurant through the secret door. From Monday to Thursday you can order a complete ´lavado´ (menu) for...
To be our fan has its perks. We are raffling off 3 nights on one of our apartments, you decide where
What city would you like to go to? Participate in our first competition on Facebook until December 31st, 2011. To be Only-apartments fan has its perks. We want to thank you for your trust and raffle off 3 days and 3 nights whichever city in which we have apartments (there are more than 200 to choose from). You pick which one you like best. What do I have to do to participate? Look for our page on Facebook (become fan) and click on the tab “Promotion” or follow this link. Once running the application for the promotion you will be asked to answer the question: Where you love to travel to and why? Everyone that has completed the previous two steps enter the raffle for 3 nights in one of our Apartments. The city you select when winning doesn’t have to be the one of your answer to the question (keep in mind that transportation is not included). How is the winner selected? To select a winner we will enter the number of participants in random.org to pick the winning number. When will I find out whether I won? On January 2nd, 2012 we will inform you all over Facebook and Twitter as well as over our blog Only-apartments.com/news who the winner is. You have time until December 31st to participate. Good luck! (^_^)/ Miss Moci apartments in Barcelona Translated...
Matinee New Year Party in Barcelona
Everything is ready, and only a few days are missing to live the most exciting night of the year. Tickets are on sale and the clock has begun its countdown. The Matinée Winter Barcelona 2012 Festival is here! There are several ways to start the new year and to live a New Year´s Eve, but if you want to do it in style and experience a night that will stick in your mind for life, a celebration of Matinée group is what you are looking fo. Matinée Group is no baby in the the subject of clubbing. The group has a tour of festivals across and throughout the world, in cities such as Milan, New York, Las Vegas or Rio de Janeiro. Their festivals are crowded and are very original. Other events they have organized are :La Leche! Festival, Matinee Summer Festival Circuit and of course, several editions of the Matinée Winter Festival. This year the festival has changed its old location and will take place in a luxurious setting. The Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona will host the orgy of the year, which will deploy no more and no less than 500 000 watts of sound and 800.000 watts light to accommodate over 120 artists and performances that will have you dancing , screaming and having fun non stop all night long. Thousands of people will be attending giving everything they have until the sun comes out The deejays of the Matinée All Stars will play the best mixes of all musical styles. Inside the Palau Sant Jordi´s the music sounds of Jose Luis Soler, Jonathan Gonzalez, Flavio...
The Convent de Sant Agusti in Barcelona
The Convent de Sant Agustí, also known as Sant Agustí Vell, is a unique space from the fourteenth century, which now is used as a district activity center and a bar. It is located in the Ciutat Vella, particularly in the area of ??the Riviera (between Santa Caterina and Sant Pere, next to the Borne neighbourhood). The main axis, both physical and functional is the charming Gothic cloister where we find the two main entrances to the enclosure, the main street in Commerce Street number 36 and a back entrance in the square of the Academy and Tantarantana Street, which has built annexed building for the center´s activities. The convent has seven centuries of history behind it as the first stone was laid in 1349 and continued until the eighteenth century building. The pumps of 1714 and the construction of the Military Citadel in 1716 affected the convent so that part of the building had to be moved into the Hospital street (in the Raval) and is what is now known as Sant Agustí Nou (new) . Since its inauguration by the community of Augustinian friars, it has always been very close to the guilds of the city, especially to the tanners, as their walled settlement was near the Rec Comtal, through which water passed and was used to work skin and leather. Proof of this is the altarpiece (1436-1486) that the same guild commissioned the painter Jaume Huguet for the missing altar of the church which today can be seen partially in the MNAC and the Museum Marés. Between 1738 and 1748 restoration works led by Pere Bertran...
Stores for pets in Barcelona
Are you one of those who believe that man´s best friend is his dog? Let me tell you that there are many others that go with you on that feeling, but also it is the same case for your cat, parrot, hamster or even snake, because nowadays pets are the best companions for men and women, especially in the time of uncertainty and impersonality we live in, where many prefer to share life with those who only have expressions of gratitude and love. For this good friend, a whole thriving industry has been created, and Barcelona offers the best for your consented buddy and we´re going to tell you all about it. Mister Guau Center is a place where you can find everything for your pet, it does ot matter if you have a turtle, fish, reptile, bird, dog, cat or whoever you have as roommate or travel companion. It has 15 thousand products to offer, among which are food containers, combing gloves, sticks for parrots, beautiful clothes, toys, food and even a cute umbrella for your dog. For your first purchase on line, there is a 10% discount on products and if you need a veterinarian, Mr. Guau is the best specialist. Acqua Natura is the ideal place to get a pet, if you are thinking of joining the exclusive club of animal lovers or you think that yours is too lonely and needs company. It specializes in dogs, cats and lizards. If you want one and still not feel prepared to take responsibility for a pet, Aqua Natura will advise on what type of partner that fits...Promotions
