Dancing Egg in Barcelona

One of the oldest and most beautiful traditions in Barcelona is the Dancing Egg. Documented since 1637, this tradition started at the Cathedral and nowadays has spread to some other patios and courtyards in the city.

On Corpus Christi, the acolytes empty an egg and use wax to fill the hole and add some weight. When placed over a water jet from a fountain, the egg starts turning without falling, and thus dances. Generally, fountains with a dancing egg are also decorated with seasonal flowers and fresh fruits, like cherries, which cover the bowl of the fountain, as well as weaver’s broom and carnations.

Corpus Christi is a Catholic Rite celebrating the tradition and belief in the body and blood of Jesus Christ and his Real Presence in the Eucharist. It was made a feast in 1264 by Pope Urban IV, and Barcelona is listed as the second city to celebrate it with a Procession, since 1320.

Starting today, and until Sunday, Dancing Egg can be seen at 12 locations in Barcelona, being the Cathedral’s Cloister the most famous:

• Cloister of Barcelona Cathedral (7)
• Archdeacon’s House (6)
• Archive of the Crown of Aragon (4)
• Museum Frederic Marès (5)
• Church of Saint Anna (10)
• Royal Academy of Letters (3)
• Ateneu (9)
• Basilica of the of the Immaculate Conception (11)
• Scolopie School (12)
• Monastery of Pedralbes (13)
• School of Saint Camillus (14)
• Church of Saint Jerome in Montbau (15)

Axiom Events: Tax Management at Hotel 1898

Axiom Groupe, leader in event production, communication, e-solutions, and brand positioning delivering business intelligence and strategic information, continues trusting in Hotel 1898 for its meetings and events in Barcelona.

Axiom Groupe comes back to Hotel 1898 with its 22nd financial event Tax Management Excellence, on March 14th & 15th. A key event where you will learn about:

• Excellence Management in Taxes
• Latest development & trends in Transfer Pricing
• Successful Restructuring
• Compliance with Effective EU and Multi-Country Transfer Pricing
• Advanced Transfer Pricing Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Strategies
• Scrutinizing Cross Border Loss Utilization Regimes
• Which strategy is necessary to set up the fiscal control?
• Value in Customs & Transfer Pricing: convergence is it possible?
• Strategy of Transfer pricing
• IT-Tools for International Tax Risk Management and TaxPlanning Working with External Tax Service Providers
• Management of indirect taxes
• Participate in a panel discussion on proper compliance with International Accounting Standards
• Taxation of Dividends and Interest

Speakers panel at this event features International Managers, Directors and Senior LNG from top companies as BNP Paribas, Toyota, Michelin, Shell,…

Behavioural Safety. Axiom Groupe at H1898

Axiom Groupe is a leader in international business meetings, production of conferences and communication, delivering business intelligence and strategic information. Offering e-marketing solutions, best practice conferences, business training, sales incentives, in-house training, first class corporate hospitality and privileged membership services to European executives, Axiom Groupe provides a significant competitive advantage for enterprises.

On February 21st & 22nd the conference on Behavioural Safety Management Excellence will be held at Hotel 1898 Barcelona. A conference with a Panel Key of Speakers from world-wide international companies such as LEGO, L’Oréal, Applus+, Sanofi, and many others, where you will learn:

• Continuous employee engagement
• Leading safe behaviour in plant operations
• Successfully integrating a safety culture after business re-organisations
• Embedding safe behaviour in the DNA through workforce empowerment
• Sustainably reducing the number of accidents
• Creating a sustainable business case for anintegrated safety strategy
• Tools for «leaning» towards a safer manufacturing environment
• Engaging leadership in continuous processsafety and turning accident
• How to get below the accident plateau
• Measuring the success of leadership and culture change
• The role of human behaviour in risk mitigation
• Understanding behavioural safety from thefood industry perspective

Click here for further details on the conference Behavioural Safety Management Excellence.

Free tickets for the concert of Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson

Nunez i Navarro Hotels collaborates with 14th  Festival Mil·leni.

On February 6th, within the Festival Mil·leni concerts, Ian Anderson will perform at the Palau de la Música. Known worldwide for being one of the founders, in 1968, of the band Jethro Tull, Anderson is a Scot singer, composer, flutist and guitarist, born in 1947.

If you want to win one of four free tickets that Núñez i Navarro Hotels is giving for free, you will have to correctly answer the following question:
In which Scottish city was Ian Anderson born?

We wait your answers by email at: newsletter@nnhotels.com before Tuesday, February 5th.
Among all the correct answers received will be drawn 4 individual entries for Ian Anderson concert at the Palau de la Música on February 6, 2013.

The concert is a tribute to the album Thick as a brick, released in 1972 reaching the top of the charts in the United States. The album is characterized by being composed of a single song, divided into two parts, corresponding to each of the faces of the vinyl records of the time.

We hope your participation and wish you good luck to all!

Nunez i Navarro Hotels with the music!

Barcelona hosts the SAP’s Corporate Conference

Barcelona hosts venue for the annual corporate conference held by the German multinational company SAP, established in 1972 and with its headquarters in the German city of Walldorf (Baden-Württemberg), SAP is one of the main suppliers of IT management programmes.

Barcelona was the chosen venue for the company’s conference, which takes place from 21 to 23 January and which is expected to draw in over six thousand people from all over the world. What is more, one of the conference’s central events will be a gala dinner at the Catalan National Art Museum (MNAC).

The event reaffirms Barcelona’s leading role as a host venue for international conferences (it is currently the third most important city in the world when it comes to organising world congresses).

+ info SAP

Núñez i Navarro Hotels wins a World Hospitality Industry Awards 2012

During the international fair Hostelco, taking place these days in Barcelona, were held the World Hospitality Industry Awards 2012. These awards recognize the efforts of professionals in the hospitality sector two key areas: the hotel management and its most innovative products.

Participants include domestic and international chains such as Marriott, Hotusa, Paradores, Starwood, Iberostar, NH, Room Mate, Axel, Hospes and Confortel. Núñez i Navarro Hotels has been honored with the award: “Profitability. To the best strategies to maximize the return hospitality ” in the category Excellence and Intelligence.

We would like to thank the jury for its evaluation, the entire team for their work and effort and also to our customers, who every day reward us with their loyalty and recognition.

Núñez i Navarro Hotels currently has nine properties in Barcelona and a total of 905 rooms. During the past 15 years the company has built a strong and varied hotel that stands as one of the best in town. Under the online brand nnhotels.com, has developed a product line that is at the base and one of its distinctive features, location, all facilities enjoy a strategic location in Barcelona, tourist spots around the city or nerve.

Secondly, it should be noted, as befits a real estate company, the value of the buildings owned by Núñez i Navarro Group, some historical as the H1898, others more contemporary style as B-Hotel or Soho and finally a range of services perfectly adapted to the product and the different targets.

Business Intelligence with AXIOM GROUPE at Hotel 1898

Axiom Groupe is a leader in international business meetings, production of conferences and communication, delivering business intelligence and strategic information. Offering e-marketing solutions, best practice conferences, business training, sales incentives, in-house training, first class corporate hospitality and privileged membership services to European executives, Axiom Groupe provides a significant competitive advantage for enterprises.

Two major events will be held simultaneously at Hotel 1898 Barcelona on September:

Working Capital Management Excellence 2012: Optimizing Cash Position & Cutting Cost.
A conference about integrating working capital management, working capital optimization & strategy, cash flow optimizing, maximizing cash flow through operational improvement and optimizing operating capital. Key speakers of the event would come from Lafarge, Vueling, Pfizer, TNT or Barclays, among other companies. Sponsored by Barcelona City Hall and with the support of Georgetown University and ESADE, the conference includes a final networking cocktail and an optional dinner.

Shared Services Centers: Excellence in performance.
An event about management services, savings for an internal SSC, global business services, workforce transformation, business partnering, innovative back office stratgies to lower operating costs and planning processes. Key speakers of the conference woud come from EMI, DHL, Solvay, British Telecom, Novartis or Siemens, among other companies. Sponsored by Barcelona City Hall and with the support of Georgetown University and ESADE, the conference includes a final networking cocktail and an optional dinner.

5th Montjuïc at Night: Free Cultural Activities in Barcelona

For one night, on 14 July, you will be able to have a taste of the varied programme offered by the city’s 18 music festivals. For example, Cruïlla BCN, the Mil·lenni Festival, the Barcelona Blues Festival or Ciutat Flamenco.

We are talking about the 5th Montjuïc at Night, a free cultural activities with fifty concerts at ten venues will take place from 8 pm to 4 am, A whole host of styles of music will Montjuïc more magic than ever during on a night.

Montjuïc at Night‘s musical offering is even more varied and invites its visitors to come and discover the music on offer at such festivals as BAM, Sónar, Gràcia Territori Sonor, Primavera Sound and Barnasants, and many more.

The Montjuïc at Night performances include The Pinker Tones‘ electronic pop, Maria del Mar Bonet‘s songs, Brighton 64‘s pop rock and Flamenco Lab Taller de Músics’ flamenco. This open night is also a good opportunity for gauging the Barcelona scene, with concerts from Pegasvus, Manos de Topo, Sidonie, Dani Nel·lo and Guillamino.

In addition, the mountain’s museums and art centres will stay open to the public until 1 am. You will be able to visit exhibitions in places like the Miró Foundation, the CaixaForum, the Catalan National Art Museum, the Catalan Archaeology Museum and the Olympic Museum.

[Montjuïc at Night]

Hong Kong Film Week

Alex Law, Freddie Wong, Ann Hui, Derek Wong and Clement Cheng, Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun, Barbara Wong, and Ivy Ho. These are the directors behind the seven films featured in Hong Kong Film Week, which is into its seventh edition this year.

For another year, Casa Àsia is inviting you to enjoy the finest cinema hailing from the Chinese city. This year’s screenings will look at topics like everyday life, interpersonal relationships and affection, and local conflicts in a global world. Titles such as All About Love by Ann Hui insist on these and other aspects just like The Drunkard or La Comédie Humaine, where the sense of humour and satire are mixed with the anthropological and social analysis. This annual date allows us to show the audience some of the most relevant productions of cinematographic industry as productive as the one in Hong Kong.

The screenings will be held at Cinemes Méliès. Please visit Casa Àsia website to find detailed information on screenings and dates.

Barcelona Opportunity Week

The second edition of the Barcelona Opportunity Week, until 5 February, is seeing 20% more restaurants, hotels, markets, florists’ and cultural venues joining in and offering discounts. This year’s initiative includes offers on flights to visit the city, although a good many of the discounts are aimed at Barcelona’s own residents.

Michelin-starred restaurants with 35-euro menus, bouquets of flowers for 11 euros, half-price theatre tickets and special rates at hotels are just some of the offers in Barcelona Opportunity Week.

Last year more than 15.000 people took part in this week of discounts, there were 600 overnight stays and over 20.000 euros were collected through charity contributions.

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