Barcelona’s Beach Libraries

Two beach libraries are opening in Barcelona for the 6th consecutive year. They can be found at two different points on the city’s shoreline: the Bac de Roda breakwater and the Beach Centre (in the Barceloneta arcade, next to the beach and level with Hospital del Mar). They offer beach and library users the chance to borrow or consult books, magazines and the daily papers for free during the summer months.

The Beach Centre library hours are from 10 am to 7 pm, Mondays to Saturdays, and 11 am to 2 pm on Sundays, whereas the Bac de Roda library is open every weekday from 11 am to 2 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm. The Bac de Roda library will be open until 31 August and the Beach Centre library till 30 September.

The loan service includes 16 newspapers, 18 magazines and 418 short novels, comics, books for children and teenagers and foreign literature.

It is a free service, aimed at all Barcelona beach users, organised by the Environment and Urban Services and Barcelona Libraries for the high season.

Beach Libraries

Source: www.bcn.es

12th International Pyrotechnic Festival

The 12th International Pyrotechnic Festival, taking place over the nights of 25 and 26 September, will see two firework displays from the Valencia and France, which spectators will be able to see from Espigó del Gas, next to the Hospital del Mar.

On 25 September, Focs d’Artifici Europlá will be bringing light and colour from Valencia; and finally, on 26 September, the French ‘Fêtes et Feux’ will be combining fireworks with special effects.

Pyrotechnic Festival by Perrymoon

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