New Barcelona Christmas web page

You can now consult the Christmas web page and discover all the activities taking place in the city over the festivities. This web page will let you discover which route the Three Wise Men will be taking through the city on Twelfth Night, where the various venues and illuminated giant pasta shells are and how various popular figures will be celebrating Christmas.

This Christmas, the city is brighter than ever and even more packed with activities. To stop you missing out on any of them, the web page offers you a city map where you can find the main events going on, district by district.

In addition, the web page will let you download a Christmas street map highlighting the areas where the giant illuminated Christmas pasta shells have been installed and where street concerts and Christmas fairs are taking place.

How do some of the country’s most famous faces experience Christmas? The Christmas web page lets you see and hear Raquel Sans, who confirms she still beats the Christmas log, the Tió, to “poop” gifts, or read Ferran Adrià’s culinary suggestion for the Catalan Christmas stew Escudella i carn d’olla and the views of FC Barcelona player, Leo Messi, for whom Christmas is a time for getting together with the family.

The web page will also give you information on the various solidarity campaigns that are being launched for Christmas, on children’s activities like the Children’s Fair and on classic Christmas sports events like the Nose Race, the first swim of the new year and the Christmas walk.

Christmas in Barcelona with U232 Hotel

Christmas time is here. Come to Barcelona and do your Christmas Shopping, enjoying the advantages that the Barcelona Shopping Line card offers in the most amazing shops featuring the latest trends in the Barri Gotic, along Diagonal Avenue, close to the modernist buildings, in el Raval or in La Roca Village Outlet Shopping. Combine your Christmas gifts with museums, architecture, art, design and fun.

Get an special and exclusive attention in all Barcelona shops with your Barcelona Shopping Line card.

The pack includes:

• Accommodation in a standard room for 1-2 people.
• Welcome drink in the U232 Bar.
• Free entrances for the Casino de Barcelona.
• Barcelona Shopping Line card.

Book now your package or visit U232 Hotel website to find out more about us.

Frozen Rates at Hotel Soho Barcelona

Hotel Soho Barcelona announces that the weather forecast for December and January is -20º.

Save 20% on all reservations staying a minimum of 4 nights.

Rates will be dropping down to discount levels never seen before in the city, so take advantage of this offer for your Christmas shopping or to enjoy our incredible January sales.

Book now your stay at Hotel Soho Barcelona. But don’t worry, despite our frozen rates, Barcelona’s mild winter temperatures will be waiting for you!

Hotel Soho Barcelona exclusive design leaves a distinctive mark on Barcelona’s hotel landscape with its cosmopolitan, minimalist, and imminently urbane character. The Gothic neighborhood and the Cathedral are just some of Barcelona’s most emblematic places well within walking distance from the hotel. Guests can also easily walk to the Picasso Museum, the MACBA, and the CCCB, as well as other tourist hot-spots, including the La Boqueria Market, the Liceu Theatre, the Palau de la Música, Plaza Catalunya and Paseo de Gracia.

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Giant Christmas pasta shells will light up Barcelona

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.

Source: www.bcn.es  |  NN Hotels: www.nnhotels.com

Happy 2009 !!!

Núñez i Navarro Hotels wishes a Happy New Year 2009 to all our customers and blog readers.
Thank you for all this time you have shared with us, and we invite you to continue discovering the best of Barcelona together with our nine magnificent hotels and our blog.

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Barcelona fills with the magic of Christmas fairs

Caganers, Christmas trees, decorations, candles, moss and lots of other items. You can breathe Christmas in every corner of Barcelona at the Christmas fairs and markets.

There are all kinds, from the traditional Fira de Santa Llúcia, in front of the Cathedral until 22 December, to the Fira de Reis de la Gran Via, from 19 December.

Each neighbourhood has its own fair.

For the less traditional among you, there is also the option of going to the Fira de Joves Creadors, Avinguda Diagonal/Gandesa, where they sell designer items. You could also visit Art-Directe, in the Jardins de Clara Campoamor, in Les Corts.

Have a good time at the fairs and happy Christmas!

More inf@ www.bcn.es

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Christmas at the city markets

Municipal markets in Barcelona are getting dressed up for the Christmas period, to give better service to the shopper along with the festive atmosphere.

Many markets will have visits from the Three Kings from the Orient, their entourage and Father Christmas, as well as lotteries, gifts and discount vouchers along with many other surprises.

High quality goods will also be on sale, with more products available, along with advice on cooking and other information for the shopper.

Barcelona markets will be open longer hours from 4 December, with most staying open until 8.30 in the evening.

More inf@ : www.bcn.cat

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Children & Youth Festival 2008

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.

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

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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