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Giant Christmas pasta shells will light up Barcelona
November 3, 2009 by admin
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Galet lighting
No Father Christmases, sledges or stockings hanging from the chimney. This Christmas season, the city’s lights and decorations will be making more reference than ever before to its own traditions, reflecting Barcelona’s Christmas myths and customs.
Which is why the Galet de Nadal or ‘Christmas Pasta Shell’ will be this year’s most iconic Christmas feature, with 26 city locations chosen to display and light up two-metre-high reproductions of this typical Christmas pasta.
Galets were located at Ciutat Vella: Virreina, Rambla (final monument Colon), Rambla Raval, Portal de l’Àngel, Plaça Pau Vila); Eixample : Aragó (mercat Concepció), Rambla Catalunya / Provença; Rambla Catalunya (Gran Via), Plaça Goya, Avda. Gaudi – Provença; Sant Montjuïc: Paral•lel / Plaça Ocellets, Passeig Zona Franca / Plaça La Marina de Sants (mercat); Les Corts: Plaça M. Cristina / Avinguda Diagonal; Avinguda Pedralbes / Bisbe Català; Sarrià – Sant Gervasi: Plaça Kennedy, Dr. Fleming (Ronda Mitre); Gràcia: Plaça Joanic /Pi Maragall, Plaça Lesseps (banda muntanya); Horta Guinardó: Plaça Nen de la Rutlla (Av. Mare de Deu de Montserrat), Jardins Pedro Muñoz Seca / Pg. Vall d’Hebron; Nou Barris: Ronda de Dalt / Via Júlia, Rio Janeiro / Pg. Valldaura; Sant Andreu : Plaça del Congrés (Felip II), Plaça Ferran Reyes (Meridiana); Sant Martí: Rambla Poble Nou / Pujades, Meridiana / Aragó
It is about getting back to the idea we have of our own Christmas, while boosting cultural activities in every district. In line with the return to Barcelona traditions, the theme of the lights in Gràcia’s commercial centre will be Christmas trades and it will be Christmas food on the Ronda Sant Pau, Urgell and Gran Via.
In addition, this year will see the streets of 21 commercial centres provided with warmer and more sustainable lighting, with double the number of LEDS, and streets which have never been lit up before will be decorated with lights to give a boost to Christmas shopping.
Giant Christmas pasta shells will light up Barcelona's festive season
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Barnasants: the songwriters and folk music that sounds this winter in Barcelona
January 12, 2009 by admin
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Sixty concertes, twenty performances and twelve international artists. The XIV edition of Barnasants, the Song Festival of Barcelona offers a complete and diverse program, that mixes both emerging creators with consolidated artists.
From January 15th to march 22nd, concerts and performances will be held at Cotxeres de Sants, Luz de Gas, Harlem Jazz Club and Palau de la Música.
The festival has the aim to promote the songwriters and folk music in Catalunya, as well as to become a sharing experience between artists and musicians from all over the world.
More inf@ www.barnasants.com
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Children & Youth Festival 2008
December 12, 2008 by admin
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Let your imagination take wings and get ready for an explosion of colour and fun at the Festival de la Infancia (Children & Youth Festival). You can enjoy a huge range of musical performances, workshops, handicrafts and sports activities for all the family at what will be one of the most exiting editions ever.
Visit the Children & Youth Festival between 27 December 2008 and 4 January 2009 and you’ll be the star of the show. Let your creativity and imagination run riot; learn how to look after for the environment and be more altruistic.
You’ll find hundreds of recreational, sporting, musical and educational ideas.
More Inf@: www.festivalinfancia.com
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Visit the nativity scene in Plaça Sant Jaume.
December 10, 2008 by admin
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The nativity scene in Plaça Sant Jaume is for all to enjoy. The different scenes combine tradition and modernity.
There is the star to guide the shepherds to the birth in Bethlehem. In the main scene, there are the traditional characters – the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, and the child Jesus – alongside the animals and rather exotic vegetation with cactus and palm trees.
More inf@: www.bcn.es
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Barcelona launches sustainable Christmas lighting
December 3, 2008 by admin
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The City Council is launching a new kind of Christmas lighting with four trees using solar energy captured during daylight with the help of a photovoltaic panel and two more that will work interactively, lit by human traction, in other words, two static bikes which, when they are being pedaled, operate a multi-coloured lighting system.
The Christmas trees made of six steel structures nearly twelve metres high and 5 in diameter are designed to transmit a message of sustainability and efficiency through one of the traditional features of Christmas.
More inf@ : www.bcn.es
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