Barcelona Travel Guide
6/10/2008 at 3:45 PM
Tags: Music Travel, Music Festivals, Sonar Festival, M.I.A. (all tags)
Blow open the doors of this museum: Barcelona's Sónar Festival is around the corner! Held June 19-21 this year, the show encompasses concerts from acts as diverse as Matmos, Goldfrapp, M.I.A. and Justice, plus street fairs, film screenings and special events sponsored by the Barcelona Center of Contemporary Culture and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
There's a catch, though: During the fest, Sónar parties in the city by day and some kilometers distant by night in the Fira Barcelona. If you'd rather sightsee during the day, each section is ticketed separately (€30 [$46] for each day, €40-€48 by night), and transportation is included in the night tickets.
Oh, and as you can see in the photo, night events go on into the daylight in true Spanish style.
Related Stories:
· Sónar Festival [Official Site]
· Music Festivals coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: aqueousimages]
by egw
5/01/2008 at 10:00 AM
Tags: Clubs, Nightlife, Night Clubs (all tags)
Barcelona's nightlife is notoriously hot and there is something to satisfy even the most professional partiers. But there are so many events happening simultaneously you can easily get overwhelmed and find yourself where many young travelers do: Running the Las Ramblas strip and eventually sharing pints with other foreigners at the the Old City's Travel Bar, a pub-ish backpacker den that should be avoided at all costs--unless you need to take advantage of its free WiFi.
Instead, we went in search of BCN's funkier side and sussed out two eclectic parties that kept us groovin' way too late (on a Wednesday, no less).
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by CourtScott
8/14/2007 at 3:30 PM
Tags: Live Music, Music Venues, Barcelona-Music-Venues (all tags)
Barcelona Music Venues Map
Usually when we head to a concert, it's for the music. But at The Palau de la Musica Catalana, you don't have to love opera or the orchestra to enjoy the show. This place is more about the venue.
Barcelona's most famous music hall was constructed between 1905 and 1908 for the Catalan Choral Society's 184 singers and 1,358 members. In 1997 it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it's been recognized by Barcelona City Council as an architectural treasure. (We think it's pretty nice, too.)
So what if Hootie has never played here, or if The Pumpkins prefer San Fran? The Palau has hosted world-famous orchestras like the Berlin and Israel Philharmonic, as well as local Spanish guitar acts, too. And hey, even we like to enjoy some high-brow culture from time to time.
Related Stories:
· The Palau de la Musica Catalana [Official Site]
· Live Music coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: xip]
by jnaw
6/13/2007 at 8:54 AM
Tags: Movie Set Travel, Celeb Travel (all tags)
Just because you're in love doesn't mean you have to be exclusive. Director Woody Allen, after a long affair with the Big Apple, packed himself and his children off to Barcelona this week to start working on his new movie, which will be set in the Catalan city and co-stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. (Those two haven't shared screen time since 1992's "Jamón, jamón," in which he seduces her beneath a statue of a giant bull. Is there anything more Spanish?)
Allen had set nearly all of his movies until the 1990s in New York City, when he occasionally considered other American cities (such as Hollywood in "Celebrity"). But after 2005's "Match Point," set mostly in the tony Belgravia neighborhood of London, got stellar reviews, Allen made his next two movies (2006's "Scoop" and the forthcoming "Cassandra's Dream," starring Ewan McGregor) across the pond. Thus proving you're never too old to start traveling overseas. But will his new movie focus on romantic Barcelona, a la 2003's "L'auberge Espagnole," or the gothic Barcelona of this year's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"?
Related Stories:
· Barcelona Travel [Jaunted]
· Hotels in Barcelona [HotelChatter]
[Photo: marble2]
by egw
3/20/2007 at 9:15 AM
Tags: Architecture, Sightseeing (all tags)
If you get to Barcelona and become obsessed with the still unfinished La Sagrada Familia temple--and it's not hard to be quite taken with a half-finished church that has massive multicolored fruit attached to its towers--then the next step is to head out to another Antoni Gaudi site, the Park Güell and the matching museum and house of the architect himself.
The Casa Museu Gaudi (like so many of Gaudi's ideas, the website's not finished yet: English is on its way, but you'll need some Spanish skills for now) lies entirely within the zany lines and colors of the park, and Gaudi actually lived there from 1906 until he was hit by a Barcelona tram and died in 1926. Inside the house you can see various Gaudi memorabilia, including some of his furniture and drawings. Most of the sofas look far too strangely-shaped to be comfortable, but they'll certainly keep your interest more than Ikea junk. You can't miss the rose-pink building at the bottom of the gardens. You can miss your step while you're ogling at the weirded out furniture inside.
[Photo: Peter Gasston]
Related Stories:
· Unfinished, But Not Unloved [Jaunted]
· Barcelona on a Budget [Jaunted]
by amandak
12/04/2006 at 9:26 AM
Tags: Amazing-Race-10, Amazing Race Maps, Barcelona, Reality Shows (all tags)
Click Here To Go Straight To Chasing Racers Map
Chasing Racers is back, with a brand new Amazing Race 10 mashup. This map will update the morning after every new episode. Send along tips, rumors, gossip, locations and spoilers to our map editors, become a member and comment on the stories below, and add to the Jaunted-Flickr photo pool to get in on the fray. Enjoy.When we last left our intrepid racers, they were bedded down with some Bedouins just off the Road to Marrakech...literally. The models, Tyler and James, are off first admiring the Moroccan sunrise and plotting the demise of DuKat. Rob and Kimberly bounce back from their flat tire, while Bama gets sweet, sweet karmic revenge on DuKat, who yielded them. Will Rob and Kimberly pull it together? Will Lyn and Karlyn sass their way through the rest of the race? Will Dustin and Kandice succumb to bad karma after their botched yield? Will Tyler and James finally get busy? Answers, and more snarky comments, after the jump!
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by Todd
10/09/2006 at 11:31 AM
Tags: Frugal Traveler, New York Times, Barcelona, Matt Gross (all tags)
Yesterday's Times turned on the bore with its shocking exposes of wine tours, walking tours, and--gasp!--archictecture. Matt Gross, the "Frugal Traveler," a.k.a. that guy you're still jealous of, provided some respite from the yawn-fest, however, with his Barcelona report.
Gross stayed at Hostal Gat Raval, a surprisingly hip hostel in Barcelona's "equivalent of Manhattan's East Village." At €42 a night, he got shared showers, a "functional and clean" room with a mini-balcony, and choice people watching outside the joint. He escaped the crowds, at Irati, a tapas bar, and by checking out La Boqueria in the wee hours of the morning before regular market swarms arrive. He also describes a sublime experience at Inopia, a restaurant run by Albert Adrià, brother of El Bulli superchef Ferran.
The total for his weekend in the city? €341.10, including lodging, transportation, food, and shopping. Not bad, and it actually sounds like a trip we might want to repeat ourselves.
[Photo:
misarco]
Related Stories:·
Footloose in Spain's Capital of Style, Barcelona [NYT]
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Hostal Gat Raval Reviews [TripAdvisor]
by djk
10/09/2006 at 9:09 AM
Tags: Art, Museums, Barcelona, Gift Shops (all tags)
Pablo Picasso is an important artist. Important enough to not only have his paintings exhibited the world over, but to have not one but at least three large museums devoted to him. We favor Barcelona's
Museu Picasso over the Paris and Malaga versions. It's home to a massive collection of Picasso works, including a large part of his early work donated by the great painter himself.
It's not only ogling the masterpieces of his Blue Period (clearly inspired by over-ordering in that one color, we suppose) or trying to interpret the shapes and colors of cubism that keeps us happy at Museu Picasso. Even the gift shop has been designed with care, and you can buy more than just the standard art gallery books, prints and postcards: the curators have gifts designed "to invade our everyday life" and assure us "that you will be giving an original present, which has personality." Now that's what you can bring back to annoying Aunty Jo--a gift with personality that'll invade her life. Picasso's perfect.
[Photo:
Micke-fi]
by amandak
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