MEDIEVAL DINNER IN THE HISTORY AND LEGENDARY NIGHTS

Requesens palace offers a menu inspired on the typical Catalan food of the XIV and XV centuries on Fridays and Saturdays

Sternalia company proposes to relive the nights in the medieval Barcelona. This company is also responsible for the “Dinners with stars” at the Fabra observatory. This time, though, they swapped the stars for medieval history and the observatory for a palace. It belonged to The Requesens and was built in the 13th century. It was sheltered by the roman wall and so they decided to use one of its towers.  

 

It’s a very complete activity: there’s a guided tour of the Gòtic neighbourhood, a dinner with a medieval-like diet and a speech about the lifestyle the citizens had in that era. The meeting point is the Requesens palace which currently is the headquarters of the institution that takes care of the Catalan history and culture.

  

This trip to the past starts at the palace just before the sunset. It is located next to Sant Just square and even though it starts at 8pm you must be there a quarter before to check. Right after that begins a tour about 50 minutes long for the streets and backstreets that surround the palace to find out the essence of the medieval Barcelona. During August the tour focuses on some mysteries hidden in these buildings: Alchemy, witches and lost souls or Christian and profane legends. From September onwards up until December, the visitors will be able to feel like the medieval people that lived in those buildings and will learn what they used to do to survive the difficult medieval nights.

 

After the stroll, it’s time to have dinner at the Tinellet of the Palace. Even though it may be hard to believe, the Catalan medieval food was quite refined. Some people, such as the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis, considered it the number one in the Christian world. The medieval food taste has a starter, a second plate and desert. You better experience it than hear about it. 

 

The day will end up with a speech named “The medieval city: walls, towers, burgs and streets” (until de first of September) or “”Marginalized people in the Middle Ages” (from the 7th to the 15th of September).

You can book calling at 93 327 01 25 (from Monday to Friday: from 9h to 21h), at 628 468 539 (Saturdays and Sundays from 10h to 14h) or sending an email to  info@raconsinsolits.com.

SALON NAUTICO PORT VELL

A new edition of the Barcelona International Boat Show is back this September, the benchmark event for professionals in the nautical sector in Spain and for sailing enthusiasts. It will be featuring all the latest innovations and sporting and recreational ideas for enjoying this massive nautical festival.

To the end of the month from 26th to 30th Septembre, will take place the Barcelona International Boat Show, the most important event on boats run by professionals and fans of the sport, which is celebrated each year in the city. 
The living room of Port Vell (Metro Barceloneta, line 4) is a very attractive event open to families and professinals, sporting activities, and introductory workshop to navigation for children. The cost of entry is 12€ ( 6€ registration on the webpage on the event). 

FIESTAS DE LA MERCE 2012

The popular  La Mercé Festival in Barcelona will start on September 21st 2012. This festival marks the closure of summer and it’s an special time for visiting the city, as it has amazing activities you can enjoy, in a time when the weather continues to be perfect in the city.

This yearLa mercé festival in Barcelonais going to start on a friday, and the party will last for 3 whole days,  ash the festival finishes on Monday 24th. 

La Mercè is the festival of festivals, where, in just a few days there are hundreds of activities like these:

• Barcelona Acció Musical (Barcelona Musical Action): to hear new sounds
• Barcelona Street Arts: artists performing amongst the public
• Festival of tradition: human castles, bigheads, giants and all the festive beasts of the city, accompanied by guests of the Mediterranean
• Festival of the sky: acrobatic meeting of jets, balloons, ultra lights, etc.
• The Fire Festival: all kinds of sparks from the musical fireworks to the Fire Run...

With a long etcetera of more than 500 activities to everyone’s taste.
La Mercè is the festival of a thousand faces.

BARCELONA OPEN SABADELL CONDE DE GODO 2012

The historic Barcelona tournement celebrates the 60th edition in 2012. Staged at Real Club de Tennis Barcelona ( Calle Bosch i Gimpera, 5-13) - 1899, the oldest Spanish tennis Club, the Barcelona open sabadell, trofeo Conde de Godo, will celebrate its 60 anniversary in 2012. f you want to enjoy tennis in Barcelona, you need to come to the catalan capital between the 21 and the 29 of April 2012. Some of the best tennis players will be present at the tournament. Spaniards have won the last nine editions, with Rafael Nadal lifting the trophy six times in the past seven years. The tennis tournament of the ATP in Barcelona will count with the participation of great tennis players such as Rafael Nadal, Any Murray, David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez, Janko Tipsarevic,etc. More information in http://www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com/

ALIMENTARIA 26-29 MARCH 2012

Alimentaria is one of the most important food and drinks trade shows in the world. This fact is recognised by the major international operators in food and drink manufacturing, distribution and trade. This is a benchmark event whose success derives from highly specialised offerings, innovation and a tireless commitment to the show's international focus.

26-29 March 2012, Alimentaria will once again become an international business centre for all professionals with ties to the food and drinks industry.

More than 140,000 international operators from the food and drinks industry visit the show to meet with suppliers, network and find new products to entice their customers.

Alimentaria Barcelona the most important International Food and Drinks Exhibition in Spain and one of the world’s premier shows.
The event’s division into sectors, its innovative, creative and dynamic atmosphere, its professional spirit and its international prominence represent the keys to its success.

Not only is Alimentaria a huge international market, but it is also a venue for dialogue, exchange, information and knowledge, as well as a place to spot trends. Top experts, the most authoritative voices, acknowledged and proven reliability are the common features of the broad spectrum of activities, forums, conferences and workshops scheduled during the show. Alimentaria also offers your company the opportunity to take part in all of these to achieve maximum visibility and recognition.


                                                             

PICASSO EXHIBITION-A COLLAGE BEFORE A COLLAGE

Pablo Picasso invented collage as an artistic technique around the spring of 1912. But long before this, in Barcelona in March 1899, he made a drawing in which he glued a technically reproduced image: the portrait of an actress. We now know that this piece is a picture card from a matchbox, which were very popular in the late nineteenth century.

From the peculiarity of the work, this small exhibition explores the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the popular illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.

The exhibion " A collage before Collage. Picasso 1899" revolves around this work and the reasons which led the young the young Picasso to stick a printed image on on of his painting. The exhibition invites us to explore the interest of Picasso in serial copies and it will also contextualize the obsession of cutting  and pasting which was a pastime of the society at that time.

Place: Museu Picasso | Montcada, 15-23 08003 Barcelona 

Web site: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/ca/exposicions/encurs.html

Opening time: Tuesday through Sunday (including holidays) 10 am to 8 pm.

ZURICH MARATO DE BARCELONA

The marathon of Barcelona 2012 will take place on March 25th 2012. Barcelona will have more than 15.000 runners in this new edition of the Barcelona’s marathon.
The race start at 8.30am in Avingunda Maria Cristina  (Plaza Espanya) and it is expected that the first runner will end at 10:40 am. The time limit for finishing the marathon is 6 hours.

If you really like sports or real challenge, participating in the marathon of Barcelona 2012 is a great opportunity to visit us.