#now in the far northeast of catalunya

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#lleida in front the valley #pyrenees (aneto directly) behind #2 weeks fly by so fast... #now in the far northeast of catalunya #feels slowly like boring normal middle europe again :/ #no more olive trees

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Catalan leaders removed, Spain asserts control over breakaway region

By William Booth, Washington Post, October 28, 2017

BARCELONA--Spain on Saturday began to assert control over Catalonia, sacking the region’s president, ministers, diplomats and police chiefs and transferring all authority to the central government in Madrid.

But it was an open question as to who was really in charge of the breakaway “Republic of Catalonia” in the hours after a divided Catalan Parliament declared independence.

Catalonia’s secessionist president, Carles Puigdemont, who was cheered by onlookers when he walked the streets of his home town of Girona on Saturday, issued a prerecorded call for citizens to mount “a democratic opposition” to the takeover.

Although some saw the brief statement as an act of resistance--a defiant roar--many of the pro-independence Catalans were disappointed and struggled to understand what he meant.

Barcelona, the capital of the newly declared republic, was placid on Saturday--even a bit dull--as if the population had taken a deep breath and was wondering what comes next.

News crews looking for action, for big demonstrations or clashes, were reduced to filming pigeons flapping around in the Plaça de Catalunya.

After being granted unprecedented powers by the Spanish Senate, the central government, in the early-morning hours Saturday, published lists of Catalan officials, alongside their advisers, who were being fired.

The chief of the Catalan regional police, Josep Lluís Trapero, who is being investigated by Spanish prosecutors for defying legal orders, was among the officially dismissed.

In all, more than 140 Catalans were told they no longer hold positions of power.

The Catalan Parliament was dissolved by order of Spain, and new elections were scheduled for Dec. 21 in the well-to-do region of northeast Spain, riven by emotional divisions between pro-independence sentiment and the desire of those who want to remain in Spain.

Catalonia’s separatist politicians mostly stayed out of sight Saturday, declining requests for media interviews and avoiding public appearances.

Phone calls and emails to Catalan officials went unanswered or were off the record.

One exception was the restrained three-minute statement by the ousted president, Puigdemont, which aired on the region’s public broadcaster but was recorded earlier.

Puigdemont said the people should continue to defend their new republic peacefully and “with a sense of civic responsibility.” He decried Spain’s takeover and called it “a premeditated attack on the majority will of Catalans.”

But he offered nothing about what comes next.

The night before, Puigdemont tweeted: “Catalonia is and will be a land of freedom. At the service of people. In the difficult moments and at the moments of celebration. Now more than ever.”

After a night when a third of the region partied and a third slammed its shutters, people in the street were as divided as ever--between supporters of independence, opponents who view secession as a historic blunder and the many in the middle who aren’t really sure.

Even among those whose hearts felt pride and joy upon hearing a new republic declared, their heads sensed that Catalonia was not really a sovereign state. Far from it.

Many expressed anxiety.

Joaquim Bayo, 87, a retired salesman, said he had already heard nervous jokes about when Spain will send tanks into the Barcelona streets.

“Look, we’re not such revolutionaries. We will have to wait. So, they announced a new republic. Good! If you look at history, we had one republic that lasted three years, one that lasted three days. Let’s see how long this one lasts.”

Bayo said, “Catalans don’t have the tools or the strength to pull this off. The bigger and stronger always wins.

“I saw this during Franco’s time, and I will see it again,” he said, referring to the 40-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco that began during Spain’s civil war and did not end until the general’s death in 1975.

Javier del Valle, 33, a computer engineer, said: “A lot of my family, who don’t believe in independence for Catalonia, think this is all a lot of nonsense. My work mates who are pro-independence, I don’t think they see Catalonia as a new nation, but view the declaration as a symbolic gesture and part of a strategy to achieve a political goal.”

Ricard Valls, 22, is a university student who hopes for an independent Catalan republic someday. But he is doubtful the region’s leaders can pull it off now. “It makes me sad for the people who truly believe this will happen,” he said.

Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, sought a middle ground but still spoke in blunt language.

In a lengthy Facebook post late Friday under the title “not in my name,” Colau said she was disgusted to see the Spanish prime minister applauded by senators for declaring the takeover of Catalonia.

“Were they applauding his failure?” she wrote. “Those who have been incapable of proposing a single solution, incapable of listening or of governing for all, have enacted a coup against democracy today with the annihilation of Catalan self-government.”

But at the same time, the Barcelona mayor said the pro-independence parties in Catalonia were “advancing at a kamikaze pace after their mistaken reading of the results of the Catalan elections. Their speed has been the result of partisan interests, a headlong dash that has been consummated today with a Declaration of Independence in the name of Catalonia that doesn’t have the support of a majority of Catalans.”

In a Europe where change is usually slow and incremental, the fast-moving events in Catalonia were a surprise for a continent riven by waves of populism and nationalism.

Two historic votes--one for independence, one to restore constitutional order--came in dueling sessions of parliaments in Barcelona and Madrid on Friday.

They both can’t hold.

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Every Time I Sing, I Cry

Shaina Joy Machlus

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twitter and instagram are @punimpie

CW: State and police violence, rape, sexual assault

The first time I actually sang, I cried. It was only a few nervous tears, enough to dampen my shirt cuff but not enough to demand the attention of my teacher. Perhaps due to my anxiety, this first class was completed outside of my own body. I watched myself leave my shoes at the heavy door, put on bright pink house slippers, shuffle through the hall and the sparse living room into a sun-soaked balcony enclosed in glass. I saw myself sit down in the wobbly, folding chair, look out onto the gardens and balconies of the other neighbors—my audience. I could hear the tap of a finger on the plastic electronic keyboard; what sounded like Morse code: SOS. There, in Barcelona, swept up in the struggle for Catalan independence, I found my singing voice.

Tap, tap, tap. It was my call to begin, to repeat. When I did not respond, my teacher Romi repeated the same note. Romi was my first and only singing instructor. I probably chose her because I did not know any other singing instructors. Also because her name was Romi and I loved the way she spoke in her thick Argentinian accent about her nontraditional singing method of accessing your inner child: “gritando como una niña.” Classes were 30 minutes twice a week. I always arrived promptly, ready to take my shoes off and begin.

Tap, tap, tap. Now more of a command. I watched myself open my mouth and push out silent air. I remember the thought: “How does one begin when they have no idea where to start?”

Most people have no memory of their initiation into singing. It was something that happened in toddlerhood; in passing. Their odd notes casually floating away with laughter, claps, a chorus of people joining in. That is not to say my childhood was not filled with music. Still, I had the strong feeling I had never personally experienced this milestone. I carried only one true memory of singing. I was driving in an old Volvo station wagon through a particularly lush part of New York State. I rolled down the passenger window beside my then lover who had just confessed to being unfaithful, opened my mouth wide as it could go, filled my lungs with summer air, and tried to let song escape me. The sound I made was so far from my intended aria, I kept quiet ever since. With the acception of the intake of alcohol, which never ceased to persuade me otherwise. Like the time I sang “Single Ladies” and the karaoke bar pretended to be closing in order to keep me from singing again. Or when my microphone was taken away mid-“Say My Name.” (Yes, I do have a Beyonce tattoo, thank you for asking.)

The December before I turned 30, something shifted. While at a very ordinary concert, I decided I could not spend the rest of my ordinary life not knowing what it felt like to sing. To live a life afraid of your own voice is no way to live. The next morning, without thinking, I picked up the phone, unwrapped a crumpled piece of paper with the word “Romi” scribbled on top and dialed the numbers below.

It took me two whole sessions to make any noise at all. Our classes were always the same; Romi would progressively tap a higher and higher note on the keyboard in quick threes: tap, tap, tap. I would repeat the note as best as I could, yelling in short bursts a sound that was halfway between an “ah!” and an “oh!”. To my surprise, creating those noises thawed a space inside of me. A space that was the opposite of where my tears came from—although the two seemed to function in parallel. It was a strange, but not altogether disagreeable feeling to pry myself open and closed simultaneously.

On the morning of October 2, 2017, I pressed the number four apartment button and rode the beautiful but creaky elevator up to Romi’s place. I took my seat beside her and her keyboard. Unlike our first class, I felt glued inside my heavy body. The density I was hauling on this particular morning had less to do with the one hour of sleep I had managed and more with what had come to pass during the previous day that I spent on the streets of Barcelona, from 4 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. 

Maybe it is worth mentioning that I had spent the previous four years moving my life in the USA to Barcelona. Like many other Jews, my family had been murdered and chased out of their Eastern European shtetls onto a variety of strange lands, one of which being the occupied territory of the so-called “United States”. Yampol, the thriving shtetl of my family, was burned so extensively to the ground, there is almost zero evidence of it ever having existed. The family history that we could piece together is a scrappy patchwork of survivals and profound attempts to survive. One of my most treasured appliques was that of my great-grandmother, whose name I am endowed with, who died in a plane crash in Malaga, Spain. In a somewhat cinematic turn of events, an audio-visual specialist from Pace University, named Carlton Maloney, happened to be on the same plane as said great-grandmother. Maloney was adding to his series of take-off and landing recordings and as a result there is an audio recording of the entire plane crash. Even before the world-wide-web granted me the possibility of experiencing the crackling booms, screams and ultimate silence of the crash audio, I felt the need to complete the little loop of immigration my family had made. Moving into a tiny room in Barcelona, steeping myself in the streets, the language, the culture felt something like tying a neat bow in my familiar tapestry.  

Four years in Barcelona granted me the ability to live and learn through a series of far-reaching events. Without a doubt the most extraordinary of which took place on that October 1 in 2017, when there was a referendum to determine whether the northeast region of Spain, Catalunya, would succeed and become its own independent country again. Catalunya, once a flourishing autonomous, anarchist country, had been owned by Spain since 1714. The Spanish government in Madrid deemed this new election unconstitutional. Both the President and King of Spain appeared poised and confident on TV, adjusting the knot on their ties while promising to keep all of Spain under the crown by any means necessary. The very next scene on the news showed armored vehicles being deployed by the hundreds from the capitol, they dotted every road leading to Barcelona. From above they looked like armored beetles, topped with Spanish flags and the buzzing of the National police hanging out the windows chanting promises of violence toward the Catalan people into news cameras and other onlookers. 

Back in Catalunya, no one could have imagined the violence that was unleashed by the government against its peacefully gathered citizens waiting to vote. Over 1,000 people were hospitalized because of brutal police beatings. Videos from cell phones surfaced, recording only a fraction of the police violence; a rubber bullet taking out one person’s eye, elderly people being dragged by their arms and feet away from voting polls, a woman having her fingers broken one by one and who was later sexually assaulted, blood stained hallways of the elementary schools that had been used as voting stations. We were forced to elect between watching or experiencing the horror. We gasped, searching for oxygen, unable to exhale. Hardly able to scream in protest.

State-endorsed violence is nothing new, far from it. And although it is entwined in the DNA of both the country my family immigrated from and immigrated to, it felt anew to me. During the day of the referendum time became wildly inefficient; the hours dragged by in a deep-sea manner. We trugged from voting center to voting center, locking arms to form human chains in an effort to protect the tiny white pieces of paper where people had checked “si” or “no” and the idea of revolution they represented. I squeezed my eyes shut as tightly as I squeezed the arms of the strangers on either side of me. We hung on to each second, waiting to see who would be thrown into the prison wagons next. There was an enduring silence throughout every street. People seemed to be holding their collective breath, awaiting the inevitable moment when the armored trucks full of police turned the corner. I had no idea at the time, but I had been waiting to break the silence of that day ever since.

When friends ask me about my singing lessons, most find it amusing that after more than a year, a single word has never passed in song between my two lips. And I get that they do not understand. How could anyone, including myself, know just how far back this silence stretched? In my elementary school, I was the only student who was not invited to be part of the choir. My music teacher, feigning generosity, gave me the silent task of moving the stage curtains back and forth and told me I will be one of those girls who is seen rather than heard. Singing, something that formerly left me feeling deserted, had now become an unexpected oasis. 

The day after the referendum was sunny, I remember exactly what the sky looked like from the window of Romi’s balcony. The clouds hung lightly in cotton ball form against a neon-blue sky. Seagulls, farther from the sea than I had ever before seen, looked gigantic flying next to the bevy of ubiquitous pigeons. That was the day I cried. My tears were massive, heavy enough to form a cavern within my chest. Romi did not pause for a moment except to pass me tissues. Something miraculous happened in that little room. The more I cried, the louder my voice became, the deeper the space inside me opened up. I was like a balloon being inflated. I did not judge the noises that came from my mouth because I knew they told a story that was impossible to tell otherwise. I heard perfect notes and I felt grateful to finally understand the expansiveness of song.

We live between the notes of everyday life; some are beautiful like the popping of potatoes and onions being fried to make tortilla, others intensely painful like rubber bullets whizzing by into a crowd of people, and many are barely audible unless listened to very carefully, like the moment the wind shifts to carry salty sea air from the Mediterranean. I hear them all as song now. And I sing in response.

6 months later, on April 26, 2018, five men, including a police officer, who brutally gang-raped an 18 year-old girl in Pamplona, Spain, were tried and sentenced. The men took videos and photos of themselves penetrating the woman orally, vaginally, and anally, then stole her phone and left her half naked on the stairs. The court used the videos and photos to determine that lying still with one’s eyes closed and remaining silent constitutes as consent. None of the men were charged with rape, instead the Spanish court system convicted them of minor crimes that barely warrant jail time. Although I did not have one scheduled, I asked if I could come by for an impromptu singing class. From the folding chair, I watched an older woman hang her laundry, a cat balance across a fence, marvelled at the spectacular garden that was always empty. Romi tapped on a key and I screamed the note, letting it exit from the top of my head and make an arc downwards, landing right in front of where my two watery eyes meet, so I could watch it bloom.

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La Masia: Sergi Rosanas

Mateu Morey has long been seen as the most promising right-back in La Masia, but after losing almost an entire season to an injury, another young Spaniard playing the same position has seen his stock rise remarkably due to some impressive performances in the UEFA Youth League. It's much easier for young talents to make a name for themselves if they score goals, but Sergi Rosanas has had a few showings this season that help buck that trend.

Sergi Rosanas Moragas was born January 29, 2001 and was raised in Caberera de Mar, Spain. He started with youth clubs on the coast northeast of Barcelona at Cabrera de Mar and Vilassar before getting brought to La Masia at the Benjamín B level. A number of injuries in his preteen years could have sidetracked his career permaturely, but the right-back persevered and with the support of the likes of Carles Alena, Dani Morer and Marc Cucurella, with whom he traveled to and from the academy with in a taxi, he didn't get discouraged. Another important figure for the talent has been Xavi Franquesa, who first coached Rosanas at Benjamín B and again at Cadet A in 2016-17.

He is a versatile player in every sense, both physically and mentally. Aside from dealing with the adversity of his injuries, his attitude has long stood out and he has often been named a captain on many of the sides he has been a part of. He is capable of leading as a centre-back, but he is much more comfortable at right-back and that is where he should be expected to make it as a professional. Sometimes it takes a name to make a name and the name attached to Sergi Rosanas so far is Ruud van Nisterlooy. van Nistelrooy, the coach of the PSV U-19s, was impressed by Rosanas and congratulated the player personally after the match. While UEFA promotes the mingling of teams for a quick bite after games, the gesture should not be taken as any less flattering. While Rosanas Moragas is making his name as a footballer at the club, currently at Juvenil A, it's not the first time that the name Moragas has appeared at the club. His great-grandfather Emili Moragas was one of the team's doctors prior to the war and help found the Mutua Esportiva de Catalunya. It must be quite a feeling for Sergi to visit the museum and see a bust of his great-grandfather for his contributions to this legendary club that he now finds himself a part of. This season, he has been the primary back-up right-back for Barcelona's UEFA Youth League campaign behind regular captain Guillem Jaime. Rosanas got the start and went the full 90 minutes in that 2-1 win over PSV in September and has since come off the bench in the three of the last four matches. This showing comes off last season's UEFA Youth League campaign where he got a winner's medal for making the bench twice and starting against Sporting CP in the group stage. With only eight teams remaining, it should be expected that Jaime will continue as the starter, but don't be surprised if Denis Silva puts faith in Rosanas either.

The player renewed his contract over the summer for a deal until 2021 with two years of a club option. If the last few seasons are any indication, Rosanas can continue his rise from surprising afterthought to key cog in Barcelona's youth teams. The Spanish FA is already taking notice of his potential as he has already made appearances for the Spain U-17s and most recently the U-18s in November.

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Barcelona Travel Guide – Tips for Visiting Barcelona

Barcelona Travel Guide

Barcelona seems to find its way onto most people’s itineraries… and for good reason. It has a vibrant food scene, a plethora of unique historic architecture, great Mediterranean weather, beautiful beaches, and arguably the best nightlife in Europe. This Barcelona travel guide will help you plan your trip and hopefully give you some tips for getting the most out of your time in the city.

15 Best Things to Do in Barcelona

Las Ramblas

Never mind a lot of sailors shun this chain of promenades that runs out of Plaça de Catalunya down for the Columbus Monument at the shore. If you are a tourist it’s some of the activities you need to do. In summer you’re going to be under the color of the tall plane trees along with shuffling throughout the audiences that pass alive landscapes, street actors, bird-sellers and blossom stands. Periodically you’ll grab the whiff of waffles (gofres) being chucked. Upon getting into the water you are able to keep moving across the planks to pay a stop by to the Maremagnum mall or Barcelona’s Aquarium.

Sagrada Família

This is really where to start your experience through Barcelona and the dreamlike works of Antoni Gaudí. His little basilica is really actually just a job of scale and ambition that’s still just approximately three-quarters whole longer than the usual 140 years later Gaudí first became involved. If its spires are finished it will probably be the greatest church construction on earth, and scarcely looks like any spiritual arrangement you have observed on your own life. The Sagrada Família joins several architectural fashions, for example, Catalan Modernism, Art Nouveau, and Spanish Late-Gothic, however Gaudí’s masterpiece defies these sorts of definitions once you appear openmouthed at the ceiling of the nave.

Casa Batlló

Still another of Antoni Gaudí’s very postcard-friendly creations, this flat block was not generated from scratch however, had been a re-model undertaken at the beginning of the 20th century. You won’t have to own seen Barcelona to comprehend that the building’s roof, the tiles which would be the improvement of a fantastic dragon. Like most of his work that the interior and beyond Casa Batlló has that sinuous caliber, together with few lines that are straight, along with also fantastic focus to detail. Simply take the mushroom-shaped fireplace onto the noble floor, which enjoys a comfy grotto was designed for visitors to heat in cold temperatures.

Quadrat d’Or

Even the Quadrat d’Or (Quadrant of Gold) is also now a place of the Eixample district famous because of the Modernist architecture. Inside this region, the unique avant-garde buildings were motivated by the work of Antoni Gaudí and assembled in the late 19th and early 20th century.” The principal road through it’s the Passeig p Gràcia. Various architects left their own mark on the neighborhood, and the outcome is a form of this Modernist design. A veritable open-air memorial, the more Quadrat d’Or delivers beautiful surprises every stage along the method. Visitors find interesting information on ceramic art, stained glass windows, wrought iron ironwork, decorative reliefs, wrought iron, and figurines.

  Casa Milà

Also called La Pedrera, since the leading part of the building looks somewhat as the surface of a quarry,” CA-SA Milà has been performed in 1912 and is still just another symbolic Gaudí construction. It’s just one of the of Catalan philosophical works to be UNESCO recorded and has been the final Gaudí construction on Passeig p Gràcia. Architects will love the modern creations here, for instance, self-supporting stone facade and underground carpark. It was intended for its industrialist Pere Milà I Camps to function as the home, together with apartments for rent to the top floors. The coherence involving the plan of this construction along with CA-SA Milà’s decor is a true joy to watch, which is all from an occasion when Gaudí was on very top of his match.

  City Beaches

Barcelona’s beachfront boardwalk goes for kilometers. It is going to have a fantastic hour for from Barceloneta to Diagonal Mar in your foot, however it is really a walk that actually makes it possible to recognize that exactly the city. Even the western-most shores such as Sant Sebastià are more and more pliable, but are all also endorsed by Barceloneta’s tight lattice of stylish shops and pubs with terraces and outside seats. Since you proceed over the shore following the Olympic Port you are going to come across a little more room and more Barcelona locals. At length, only up from Platja de Llevant may be your new and massive entry Mar mall, re-vitalising a former industrial portion of the metropolis.

  Park Güell

Roundoff your Gaudí experience having a vacation for the particular garden complex on Carmel Hill. Many make the day at the component of Gràcia for anyone magnificent panoramas over Barcelona from the park’s key terrace. You have observed such serpentine benches along with their mosaics on postcards as well as in pictures. Elsewhere you can find colonnades, sculptures and fountains, all from the architect’s distinguishing style. In the event that you still have not had enough Gaudí you are able to input his House-Museum, where he lived in 1906 to 1926, using furniture and decorative items created with his display.

  Barcelona City History Museum

The Annals Museum Keeps a Couple of Roman Websites around the Northeast Peninsula, like the temple of Augustus and the Funeral Way on Plaça de la Vila de Madrid. However, Plaça del Rei is the place it is possible to easily observe Barcelona’s ancient history in layers that are detailed. You’ll require a elevator down to where in fact the remnants of a garum mill, laundries, pawn stores and portions of early Barcino’s walls are typical observable. The website is large, covering 4,000 square yards, that you’ll explore via paths that are elevated. Since you climb through the memorial construction you’ll step of progress through time and input the vaults of the Palau Reial Major, chair of this medieval Dukes of Barcelona.

Montjuïc

This Metropolis district Has Been Built for the 1929 International Exhibition and Contains several High-profile Temples Such as the National Museum of Catalan Art, the Museum of Archaeology and the Ethnology Museum. Of the art museum is very advocated, and also the perspectives of this city out of the steps are magnificent. This, and built for that display was that the Magic Fountain, that places light and music shows half-hour on the weekends. That is seen through the night of course. At the top of this mountain is your 17thcentury fortress, that saw activity from the Catalan Revolt at the 1600s and throughout the Civil War at the late-1930s, after that, it had been a prison.

Fundació Joan Miró

Fundació Joan Miró Exactly like Gaudí, Joan Miró has been a quintessentially Catalonian performer, and a trip for his memorial provides you with a much far more vibrant picture of Barcelona’s soul and design. The Fundació Joan Miró was founded by the artist at the 60 s to inspire contemporary artwork in Barcelona, also Miró worked closely with the architect Josep Lluís Sert around the memorial building’s design. What this means is there exists stability between your place and also the task inside that you won’t find often. Within there exists a sizable selection of this artist’s job, for example, paintings, paintings, and drawing. Additionally, there are temporary exhibitions of 20th and 21st-century art, and all types of educational and collaborative endeavors going on.

Gràcia

In the event that you wonder exactly what life is like from the tiny towns of Catalonia afterward, the trip to Gràcia can be ways to learn. This area was not part of Barcelona before the 20th century, also as a result of the design of tapered roads and little squares, even is like another location. It’s really a new, fashionable and cosmopolitan area with musicians and students, therefore there exists a great number of pubs, cafes and separate shops available. If you visit Gràcia throughout the Festa Major at August that the area has been transformed whilst the occupants bond to decorate different roads in creative tactics to function as greatest from the locality.

Palau de la Música Catalana

This turn of the century concert-hall is still another bit of Barcelona’s UNESCO-listed tradition. It was built with Gaudí’s modern, Lluís Domènech I Montaner for its Orfeó Català, a Barcelona choral society. It was at the same period when commissions and investment by wealthy Aztec industrialists were serving a generation of musicians and designers to generate a brand fresh awareness of identity. The hallway is actually really just a sublime place for opera, symphonies and folk music, so take a good peek at the program once you want your journey.

Plaça de Catalunya

This is actually the ideal meeting point from the metropolis. It is right in the Bottom of the posh Passeig p Gràcia and at the top of Las Ramblas. If you should be awaiting friends in the day for dinner or planning for a buying trip daily NOW here at the Ciutat Vella or even Eixample may well undoubtedly be greater than a couple of minutes by walking using this expansive square. Barcelona’s flagship division of El Corte Inglés is here, of course, if you are a newcomer into the town and desire to go oriented you might go inside to get a map.

Monestir de Pedralbes

An excellent model of Catalan Gothic structure, the Monestir de Pedralbes convent is located in a scenic little park known as the Jardines Reina Elisenda. This manicured backyard is full of indigenous trees, palms, cypresses, and shady trees. Queen Elisenda de Montcada set the convent at 1326 for its Order of Saint Clare. The complex includes a stunning Gothic church, a calm three-story cloister, and also tranquil convent structures. Visitors love relaxing at the calm atmosphere and researching living and work of 14th-century nuns. Yet another highlight of a call could be that your Monastery Museum, that displays a superb collection of ancient art from the 14th century in addition to after religious art generated throughout the 20thcentury.

Camp Nou

As Modernista buildings have been must-see attractions for design fans, Camp Nou can be a must-see for most football fans. Home of this FC Barcelona, the 99,354-seat arena may be the greatest in Europe and 2nd largest on earth. Attend a match here or choose the lively excursion and see the museum. Camp Nou was among the places to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

  What to eat in Barcelona

Global food is very good in Barcelona, especially when it has to do with Japanese-style noodle pubs, which are very popular in the previous ten decades. Still another fad is pintxos, Basque-style pub snacks by which yummy such things as croquettes and fish have been served on a parcel of bread stored with a toothpick (pinch). For an on average Catalan bite, there is Pa amb tomàquet, bucolic bread covered in a mixture of tomato pulp and acrylic. This regularly functions as a base for sausage or even bocatas. Take a peek at the available food tours at Barcelona.

Tip:

Take a look at the tours provided by Barcelona City Tellers, they offer a free walking trip! A fantastic way to start your trip since you’ll discover more about the metropolis also also certainly are certain to get a lot of hints which matters you can complete and avert throughout your stay.

Tapas, Seafood Paella, and Cava

Spain is famed due to their tapas. Tapas are essentially miniature elements of only dishes which are thought to be snacked in bars/restaurants, but a whole good deal of folks make out a meal of sampling multiple forms of tapas. They could vary from simple to lavish, but they are normally reasonably priced. In a few areas of Spain (mainly Granada and Madrid), the tapas are now actually free so long as you are buying alcohol, however that really is becoming pretty infrequent and also you also may not think it is substantially in Barcelona.

Seafood paella (and fish generally ) is remarkably well known in Barcelona considering that the town is on the shore. But remember, since there are certainly always plenty of places selling quite lousy seafood paella.

Cava, and it is just really actually a sparkling wine such as Champagne, could as well be the state beverage of Barcelona. However, think about sangria? That is really a specialization of southern Spain plus it has just served as tourists request this… also it has infrequently made well in Barcelona.

When to visit Bacelona

The very common time to go to Barcelona is at summer time however that means a lot of individuals and caked 85+ degree weather. (on the other hand, that really is very good shore weather.) Winters are mild and also the temperatures average from the mid-50s — it is when you’ve come across the smallest number of people. Late spring and early autumn bring amazing weather and fewer crowds in the summertime, therefore people are the very ideal days to see.

Practical Barcelona Travel Tips

Most city-run museums are free on Sundays from 3-8pm.

Catalán may be the most important language spoken in Barcelona, however, Spanish is also spoken by almost everybody.

Whenever you can, purchase tickets online. Attractions usually bring enormous crowds and even huger lines, and so that the savviest visitors buy their tickets ahead of time.

Walking is the ideal method to learn more about the city. Fortunately, Barcelona is a very walkable city. They’re anywhere.

Each Metro stop has free wi-fi, also you can find totally free wifi from lots of parts of the town, therefore getting online isn’t difficult.

Avoid eating in any restaurant on Las Ramblas. There may be one or two exceptions, however, 99% of this time you are going to be overpaying for poor food.

Wish to visit an FC Barcelona soccer match but can not find a ticket? Head to www.fcbarcelona.com and you can find season ticket holders selling their tickets.

Summers at Barcelona can get hot, and winters tend to be rainy — however, the weather is fantastic throughout the spring and autumn.

Lots of restaurants close around 2-4pm and don’t open back up to 8 pm.

Barcelona Travel Guide – Tips for Visiting Barcelona

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