Commentaire sur Hôtel Soho Barcelone

Nous avons séjourné au Soho Hotel de Barcelone pendant 5 jours, nous étions un petit groupe de 11 personnes.

A l’unanimité nous pouvons dire que l’hôtel Soho est très bien:

- Il est bien situé
- Il est très propre
- Les chambres sont belles, spacieuses, bien décorées
- Le personnel est très chaleureux et parle français pour la plupart
- Le petit déjeuner est très bien
Bref nous l’avons trouvé PARFAIT

SERAINCOURT, Novembre 2010.

Free GOOD wi-fi. Hotel Europark Barcelona

Also stayed at Europark for 6 nights. Was a little concerned about location as it seemed a little out on map but could not have been more wrong. Superb place perfect spot. Metros close by, 2 stops to heart of Gothic area, but out of it in evening which I preferred. Good selection of restaurants and bars all round.
Hotel very clean and cool, rooms a little small but clean and quiet air con. Speaker in bathrooom for TV quite useful. Free GOOD wi-fi.
A couple of minor negatives on terrace pool. No drinks an offer, a small bar up there would be a goldmine, there was 6 to 10 hot people up there most late afternoons and the off of some cooling drinks would surely have been taken up. Also whatever possessed them to paint pool black? I know it goes with general theme of hotel but it doesn’t work. All those looking at photos who have not been rest assured it is a clean cool pool not the dirty swamp it looks like.
Minor and cosmetic points on the whole 5 out of 5.

Peter_c, Sept’2010.

Barcelona Modernista Fair and Street Trade Festival

Once again the neighbourhood spring festival in the “Dreta” or right side of Eixample will be offering visitors a journey to the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, when Barcelona was at the height of its prosperity and Modernisme its avant-garde movement.

From 28 to 30 May, from Aragó street to Avinguda Diagonal, Girona street will be holding the sixth Modernista Fair, Modernista Market and Street Trade Festival.

Children’s games, shows, workshops, a large marquee containing vintage cars, exhibitions, a talk, silent movies, puppet shows and a mini-train, in a period atmosphere with lots of surprises, will be taking place over several days in this stretch of Ildefons Cerdà’s expansion district, the Eixample.

Then, throughout the weekend, you will be able to visit some eighty stands of every kind, ranging from craft products and food prepared according to natural processes, children’s workshops for handkerchief printing and preparing badges with Modernista motifs, demonstrations of old buildings and lots more, all designed to recreate a highly representative historical era in our country.

Last year, the Hotel Europark located Aragó street with Girona street (Gaudí Modernist route), and was visited by a group of friends of Terrassa by reason of the Barcelona Modernista Fair, dressed up for the occasion. This year, they will repeat!

Hospital de Sant Pau: 600 years improving Barcelona

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau dates back to 1401 when six hospitals in the city merged, forming the Hospital de la Santa Creu. With the growth of the city and the advances in medicine in the 19th century, the centre was unable to meet the demands of the time and construction of a new building was proposed. The original 15th century buildings, located near Hotel 1898, now house a design school and a library. The new buildings were erected outside the ancient city, on the new ‘Eixample’ and near the Sagrada Familia grounds.

Thanks to the legacy of Pau Gil, a banker, on January 15, 1902 the first stone of the new building was laid. “Sant Pau” was added to the old hospital’s name to honour the wishes of its benefactor. The genious architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner was commissioned with the project. Domènech i Montaner is also known for his work at Palau de la Música Catalana. Over the years, the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau has become the most significant public building in Catalan modernisme. On 1997, the building was acknowledged as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Recently, Hospital de Sant Pau has been seen in Woody Allen’s movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona and pictured as scenario in Batman‘s Barcelona adventure.

After one century serving the city, the modernist pavilions needed a major update, and a new building will now host all the health services. The modernist pavilions will be fully restored and soon to be used as a permanent seat for the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, together with other cultural activities.

More inf@:  Hospital de Sant Pau website   ..::.. Tourist information about Hospital de Sant Pau

Barcelona pays tribute to the Eixample – Ildefons Cerdà.

This year, Barcelona commemorates the 150th anniversary of the expansion of this urban layout through a city redevelopment plan designed by the engineer Ildefons Cerdà, which is still considered a superlative example, of town planning throught the world and its studied at the top universities. Barcelona’s largest and most densely populated neighbourhood, known as the Eixample, was built over a century and a half ago and encapsulates the very life and heartbeat of the city.

When planes fly over the city, the first thing passengers see from their windows is the unmistakeable outline of the 420 symmetrically aligned residential blocks that make up the Eixample. the buildings resemble squares with openings in the centre which contain gardens and public squares. Some of the most important include the former water towerm the Torre de les Aigües, the Casa Elizalde and Palau Robert. The district is well-served by public transport and was designed so that people could get from the sea to the mountains and from one side of the city to the other conveniently and at enviable speed.

Barcelona in determined to pull out all the stops to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its major urban expansion and pays tribute to all the things that make the Eixample the very epicentre og the city. The events of Cerdà Year will commence on 11th June and the programme of activities will include a series of exhibitions. From 4th November 2009 to 7th February 2010, at the magnificient medieval royal shipyards, the Drassanes, you’ll be able to find out why Ildefons Cerdà’s Eixample has become a shining example of modern urban planning which remains valid today. The calendar also includes and exhibition about Barcelona’s urban development between 1853 and 1897, when it became a major metropolis, which will be on show at the Museum d’ Història de la Ciutat from December 2009 to March 2010. And the CCCB will be hosting a third exhibition about the Eixample as an urban reality, from 14th October 2009 to 24th February 2010.

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