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Farmacia Comunale Rome

The Only Team Only-Be, Practical Guide of Rome, Roman

There are Farmacia Comunale stores all over Rome and they´re open 24/7, so whichever your problem may be, they can solve it.

The beginnings of North American hardcore took place in different areas in the United States. California was one of its centres at the beginning of the 80s with bands such as Blag Flag, leading a whole new scene of hardcore punk. However, little is remembered about the two guys from Washington DC who were childhood friends (and still are today) who went to a Ramones concert with some school friends and after being so shocked from the impressive New York band, dressed with jeans and leather jackets, that had no option but to form their own bands. These two guys were Ian McKaye, who would become the singer of Minor Threat and then member of the famous band Fugazi, and the charismatic Henry Rollins, singer of the incredible Black Flag and then of Rollins Band. Little could these pioneers of hardcore punk have imagined that years later a band like Simple Plan would exist and label themselves ´punk´. A band like Simple Plan contributes to the negative references towards punk. The commercial possibilities of rock, with a good producer, lie in good taste and catchy songs without limits. The DIY spirit has certainly been lost in many aspects around the world. The replacement of the true DIY spirit, ´Do It Yourself´, is perhaps preserved on the internet, where DIY now means ´Download It Yourself´. That´s why Neil Young said not long ago that downloading music on the internet is the new way of making radio. If we look back and review the dial of any radio, whether it´s in Rome or in any other city, we´ll see that advertising... read more

Viewpoints in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Have you ever dreamed of being Icarus and seeing a city like Barcelona from the air? It´s a great dream, but reality is somewhat different. However, we can see the cities from high points and we will tell you the secret of how to do it if you´re in Barcelona and have no wings to fly. Heights have a fatal attraction when you travel to a city and that´s due to the desire that we all have of seeing at a single glance everything that surrounds us, even more so if we´re going for a limited time to a place and we want to take back as much visual memories as possible. Barcelona has beautiful places to see panoramically from the air. One of them is the Mirador de Colom, which is a tower with a viewpoint that has in its upper part the statue of Cristopher Columbus pointing towards the Mediterranean. It´s located on the bottom of the Ramblas and it was built by the Council in 1881 to pay tribute to the discoverer of America who arrived by in Europe to the port of Barcelona. From there you can see all of the city´s splendor in the four areas of the city. North we have the Gothic district, the bell towers of La Mercè and Santa María del Mar, the Ramblas and even the beautiful Eixample district. Looking south we can see Montjuïc, to the west we have the Natural Park of Collserola and to the east, following the coast, the Forum. The Torre Agbar is one of the three skyscrapers that Barcelona has and it distinguishes... read more