Events for the month of December in Barcelona

We have just started the final month of the year, December, but until this end there are a lot of activities, shows and exhibitions that you can not lose. Here are some of them:

El canto del Loco : The well-known band from Madrid will give a concert at the Palau Sant Jordi, on Dec. 23. You will be able to listen to their old songs, and his latest album, a success in the major lists.

Feria de Santa Llucià: It is the oldest fair of the city and there you can buy everything you need to assemble your own Bethlehem and decorate your home this Christmas.

The children in Burundi: The Palau Robert dedicates an exhibition to the plight of children in Burundi through 40 photographs and an audiovisual display in which show the conditions under which these children live.

The best picture of 2007: As every year, the CCCB presents the best photographs of the year in "World Press Photo 08". Images of 59 artists awarded in the most important international competition.

Spamalot: This month ends the adaptation that the Tricicle group had made with the famous work of Monty Python's. Inspired by the Middle Ages, it parodies the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table.

Beauties XIX: Through photographs Joan Marti gives us images of a Barcelona that no longer exists, the Barcelona of the XIX century.

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Montly events in Barcelona

If you are planning a short trip in a weekend, Desigbarcelona offers you cheap apartments in Barcelona. Don’t think it more time and come to Barcelona because November has started full of events in Barcelona. The list is so long, but here there some of the events you can’t miss:

15th Festival of Independent Cinema of Barcelona: This month its celebrates the 15th festival of Independent Cinema where you will be able to see fabulous films that you will not find in commercial cinemas.

Weddings & Weddings: This fair is one of the most important fairs about celebrations. It counts on a nuptial catwalk and the best professionals of the sector.

Simple Plan: The famous Canadian group shows their new record in a live concert where you will listen to their old songs and their new songs.

X Movistar Enduro Indoor of Barcelona: Engines, risk and aventure in a spectacular show. This championship is the most expected. You will have a guaranteed show.

Mamma mia: In this musical you will listen to the famous songs of one of the best groups of music: Abba.

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Barcelona : The Eurogames 2008

The famous city of Barcelona will host a great event which is the Eurogames, a sort of "Olympic Games" for the LGBT (gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual) community, taking place this year from July 24^th-27^th. The games are not something new; they began fourteen years ago; the first edition took place in The Hague in 1992.

We can think that this event is reserved for the gay community but actually the games are a celebration for all people, the purpose of the games is to give the message that another world is possible and sports are unfortunately one of the most homophobic spheres in our society, where most of professional sportsmen are scared of talking openly about their sexuality because they could lost their contracts or ruin their careers.

These games are taking place in Spain and this is particularly important, given that in this country as well as other southern European countries, a lot of prejudice are still running towards homosexuality, an attitude that cannot be tolerated in a modern, equal society.

Competitions will be held by the emblematic Palau Sant Jordi; more than 1500 athletes from many European countries have registered and an audience of nearly 30.000 people is expected to attend the various cultural events, parties, and the gay/lesbian film festival that will take place on the same days.

Barcelona by night

Here is a selection of the most famous night clubs of Barcelona :

If you are keen of R n B ,rap and hip-hop make a round to the CATWALK. You’ll find there chic well dressed peoples, (gays and straights) superb atmosphere to dance all night long!!
The club is on 2 floors: upstairs you can dance on good flows of hip hop and R&B and downstairs it’s all about house party!

Moreover, at the Plaza Real, you can go to the JAMBOREE after 2.00 a.m to listen to some hip-hop music, or you can head toward the upper floor, at the TARANTOS for a quite different music style.

Do not miss to go at RAZZMATAZZ / The Loft (Pamplona, 88), although it’s a little bit far from classics bars areas, it’s really worth it, with several dance floors and differents styles, from the best House to techno music, west indies pop and current pop-rock.

The CLUB NITSA and the SALA APOLLO are places we recommend to you so as to listen best house, trance and techno music (Nou de la Rambla, 113). They are located close to the Raval district, recently improved from its bad reputation, watch out yourself in this zone.

At the MAREMAGNUM, at the end of the Ramblas, in the old port or walking down to the Olympic Port with its innumerable bars where the atmosphere can be as much as techno, salsa, rock or pop. You will see this place tend to get full with young people of divers nationalities during summer, and should you like variety, you can always go doors to doors until you find our style.

Travel trough Catalonia

Catalonia became, in quasi 10 years, one of the first touristical destinations in Europe: a story among the oldest of Europe, a lively (Barcelona), a backcountry brimming with charm to forget the Costa Brava’s crowded playas, with a mind-blowing choice of artistics treasure, going from delicious roman churches to the biggest name of modern art and architecture: Dalí, Miró, Picasso and Gaudí among others.

Barcelona: The capital

Barcelona is well-known for its playas. After the Olympic Port, they enlarge upon several kilometers, along the side of a large wood-walkside. The nearest are at only 20 min by walk from the Barri Gòtic, the Nova Icaria and Bogatell playas, par Bella and the Nova Mar Bella one. All watched over and well-equipped in showers and toilets. Even if there are a lot of people, one cannot trample on someone else! Trains serves everyday, from the Plaza Catalunya, Southern and Northen playas, particularly the most beautifullest one, Castelldelfels and Sitges.
you can also see monuments like the famous Cathedral or the Palau de la música recognized for its out of the common architecture dedicated to classic and contemporary music

Sitges: The Costa Dorada

This seaside station is notorious for the quality of its sea and the beauty of its playas. Tourists as well as Catalans appreciate the fact that the city knew how to protect the genuineness of its architecture far from noted outrageousness urbanizations in other places of the Gold Coast.

Sitges is also a place of celebrations (visit our Sitges Guide with the board of local affairs). The calendar of festive activities is full of events such as the Carnival, the era’s car rally, the Corpus of the city celebration and the harvest one; not forgetting internationals festivals like the fantastic movie cinematographic festival in October. Don’t leave Sitges without tasting the Xato a local speciality…

Gerona: The Costa Brava

Gerona is beautiful and quite discreet city. It’s said to be the first ity of Spain due to its life quality. The old districts of Onyar right border are magnifics.
Did ou know it?
The Gerona owes its nickname of “thousands-headquarters city” because it was besieged thirteen times from 1295 to 1809. Later it will be given the title of “three times immortal” to have, on three occasions, resisted to Napoleanian troop.
Capital of North, Gerona is a human scaled society, great to visit, full of surprise and prosperities.
Check travel formalities and necessary information before you leave here because being told two times is worth one time!

Organisation of a journey in Barcelona

The places to visit…

The Barrio Gótico : The Medieval centre of the city and a true labyrinth. Walk around the little streets around the Cathedral. Discover the most old antique dealers, or the feathers and umbrellas' merchants in the street Banys. It is here, where took place the most determining historical events of Barcelona.

Plaça Sant Jaume: the square in which the town council is the regional government headquarters are based.

The Cathedral Santa Creu, is the maximum exponent of the gothic architecture of Catalonia, and also interesting to visit its tropical garden.

Santa Maria del Pi: One of the best loved areas for artists and bohemians is the confluence of the Plaça del Pi, located just off the Ramblas.

El Raval (Old Barrio Chino) is a district almost entirely metamorphosed. Old den for artists, intellectuals, transvestites and prostitutes. There remains an air of bohemian but modernism has installed. Nowadays the district shelters a very large contemporary Museum and Art Galleries.

Palau Güell, or Guell Palace, was the first of many commissions that Antoni Gaudí received from Eusebi Güell.

CCCB is a multidisciplinary institution which organizes exhibitions in particular on urbanism, music, dance, debates and readings.

La Boqueria's market, located in the emblematic Ramblas of the city, is an obliged visit for the tourists and has been converted in one of the symbols of Barcelona today.

Montjuic is a mountain inside the city. You will have access to a splendid sight of Barcelona from all sides. The hillsides are covered with flowers. Exotic trees and giant cactus. The luminous fountains of Gaietà Buïgas create a magic environment. This old district is ideal for a Sunday walk.

El Born (La Ribera) is a small village in the city. Fashionable but very authentic. Violin makers, glass-makers and designers. Pensioners play cards, young people discuss at the edge of the fountains. Strange atmosphere. Don't doubt to go into the little streets to breathe the old Barcelona. Charged with history, witness of the commercial prosperity of XIII century, El Born form with Barrio Gótico the old city.

Barcelona's best sightseeings DON'T MISS IT!!

Barcelona, famous for its interesting architecture, is the capital of the autonomous community of Catalunya. Surrounded by the Mediterranean, it is a very cosmopolitan city, headquarters of the last artistic tendencies, culturally restless and avant-gardist, opened and hospitable, which offers an unbeatable offer on both cultural and distraction plan.

The monuments to see....

"La Barceloneta", small Barcelona is the traditional district of the sailors and the fishermen. It was created in 1753. Mediterranean colors and delicious seafood restaurants are in the menu. Also benefit from the 5 kilometers of beaches as people from Barcelona do at weekends.



The Olympic Port: A splendid giant made of whale bronze (by Fanck Gehry) greets you at the time you walk along the Olympic port. Here people come to stroll, to bathe, lunch. This new district born for the Olympic Games of 1992 is now one of the most visited in the city by the autochthones.


The Plaça Catalunya the Square of Catalonia, the link of Barcelona, where all roads start. From here one can practically go anywhere, by means of taxis, the tourist bus, metro or by some of the most important public bus-routes in the city. Here is where some of the most prestigious shops can be visited, also some of the most modern ones.


The word "Las Ramblas" is the Arabic word for "dry flowers". It is the most animated artery of the city. It is divided in five sections. Rambla Canaletes, Rambla dels Estudis It is also called La Rambla dels Ocells ( Avenue of the Birds) as it is a traditional site of a bird market. Rambla de Sant Josep it is also well-known as the Rambla de les Flors (Rambla of the Flowers). In the 19C this was the only place in Barcelona that flowers were sold. The flower market now stands alongside great kiosks selling all manner of books, magazines and newspaper from Spain and abroad. Rambla dels Caputxins and Rambla de Santa Monica.


You can also discover Antoni Gaudi by visiting this selection of monuments of the genius modernist architect. He was at the forefront of the Art Nouveau movement in Spain. His work in Barcelona led to the creation of some of the city's most notable landmarks. Gaudi was a pioneer in his field using color, texture, and movement in ways never before imagined. His works, both finished and uncompleted, stand as testimony to his genius.