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Picus
Picus is a restaurant with a superb design created with the idea of presenting Mediterranean foods but with an innovating and renovating twist.
El Born
El Born is one of the most interesting places in Barcelona with affordable shops, bars and restaurants to enjoy every day.
Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum has real-sized replicas of ships and is situated in a Gothic building which is a work of art in itself.
Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló represents the versatility of Antoni Gaudí, showing us an outstanding building that is part of today´s World Heritage.
Castle of Montjuic
The Castle of Montjuic, built on a mountain of Barcelona, is one of the most ancient fortifications that keeps its creative architecture.
Art is Rubbish: Francisco de Pájaro in Barcelona
Walking through the streets of Barcelona, sooner or later you´ll find some misleading signs printed in the (much) garbage of the city. You will read “Art is rubbish”, on a broken wardrobe door or on a shelf left out on the street, and maybe you´ll ask yourself, whether it is a quick idea of someone passing by or it relates specific content of an artwork, in spite of that, what does the author mean by that phrase? You won’t understand anything until you find other written sings on shelves, and more painted garbage bags in different parts of the city, then you will know that this is a specific project and wondering down the street, you will discover that the author is the Spanish artist Francisco de Pájaro (www.franciscodepajaro.net). Pajaro was born in Zafra, province of Badajoz, in 1970. His career as a painter began as an office decorator when he was just a teenager. In 1994, he joined the School of Arts and Crafts in Merida, where he studied one and half years before leaving his studies and returning to his hometown, where he began devoting himself to painting by following a surrealist and cubist inspiration, taking as references Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso. His first solo exhibition took place in the gallery of the Caja de Ahorros de Badajoz. When his colleague and partner died in a tragic accident, he decided to leave the company “Rotuletto”(dedicated to corporate and interior design) to devote himself to painting full time. He lived in London two years, making two solo exhibitions in separate spaces, and then moved to Barcelona, a...Museum of History of Catalonia
The MHC presents the interesting history of Catalonia and it´s situated in the only building which still stands from the Port Vell, built in 1881.
Las Arenas
Las Arenas is one of the biggest shopping centres in Europe. It has a panoramic view of Barcelona and was built inside an old bullring.
Mitch Epstein in Paris
Until 24 June, the Fundación Henri Cartier-Bresson will be exhibiting the project American Power by the artist, Mitch Epstein. The exhibition is based on a series of photographs in which Epstein explores American landscape and society by means of its relation to the power plants that provide the country’s energy. Mitch Epstein was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1952. He studied in the Rhode Island School of Design as well as Cooper Union in New York, where Garry Winogrand was also a student. Epstein experimented with colour photography and helped in its redefinition, an important development, as in the 70s colour photography was used principally in advertising and was not considered a valid medium in the art world. In the 70s he travelled the length of the USA, conducting a photographic exploration. In 1978 he travelled to India where he worked as cinematographer in various films, such as Salaam Bombay and India Cabaret. He also found time to make a book there: In Pursuit of India. Epstein’s quest to depict cultural behaviour and the workings of society led him to Vietnam in the 90s. There, after a long learning process in which he came to understand the history of the country, its colonial past, its wars and the imposition of a modernity alien to its ancient culture, Epstein finished the book Vietnam: A Book of Changes, which was prefaced by Susan Sontag. His last great work, American Power, won the Prix Pictet photography and environmental sustainability prize in 2011 which was presented to him by Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. The project began as an assignment...
