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About Barcelona

Barcelona from Tibidabo

 

Situation

Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia as well as a city with an essentially Mediterranean culture and history. You can find it on the map, discover its geography and neighbourhoods and find out everything about it detail, from its Roman origins to its centuries-old traditions.

Culture and lifestyle

Barcelona is bubbling all year round. Alternative art galleries, urban sport, festivals, fairs, exhibitions and more fill the calendar with ideas that bring us closer to a culture always hanging on the latest trends, not just personal but also urban, artistic, mobility and even food. Yet Barcelona people have fixed habits and therefore they like to look after and promote there history, preserving buildings and streets, while maintaining their traditions throughout the year. Celebrations like the Festa de la Mercè, literally the "Festival of Our Lady of Mercy", the citys' patroness, is a very good example of this. It is also important to mention the folk festivals in each of the city neighbourhoods, notably those in Sants and Gràcia, where every year they follow the same traditions, with giants, human towers and folk music.

Barcelona faces the sea and, as a result, became a large gateway through which, during the course of its history, knowledge, traditions, customs, new consumer products have passed, in short, an inexhaustible source of wealth, not only from Europe but also all the lands that form the Mediterranean and beyond. Although culturally Barcelonians have fed themselves through this always open window, they are people of habit, with fixed times and hours, as well as a family character. We can therefore assert that their cultural growth has always rested on a formula that is very much their own and difficult to copy: an interesting mix of local traditions and others that have come from outside.

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