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When the summer season comes, Barcelona overflows with outdoor music and performances to suit all tastes.

Sant Jordi's Day (Saint George’s Day) is one of the most special dates of the year in Barcelona.

There is no doubt that Barcelona is a world-class sporting venue.

If you're looking for ways to surprise your partner for Valentine's Day, why not treat them to a romantic city break in Barcelona?

Barcelona is bustling with atmosphere during Christmas and New Year's Eve, when the streets are dressed in beautiful lights and people go out to do shopping or have a chocolate with churros.

After a long hiatus, the legendary Catalan singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat is touring stages all over the world with an emotional farewell tour in which fans can listen to the best songs of his career.

In addition to being located in a historical building, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is home to a great variety of collections of Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance art.

One of the most important festivals of the year in Barcelona is back. La Mercè 2022 will take place from the 23rd to the 26th of September and will be packed with music, shows, workshops, tradition, and lots of culture.

One of the events marked in red on the calendar of motor lovers in 2022 is the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Spain, which is held every year at the Montmeló circuit, officially Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Barcelona is one of the reference cities in the world of music, with a wide range of concerts and musicals of international recognition.

What are the most important trade fairs to be held in Barcelona in 2022?

Do you want to start this 2022 celebrating the best Valentine's Day? Here you have the best plans to do as a couple in the city of Barcelona.

It's time to celebrate all the good things of this year 2021 and to dream of the year to come, of reunions with family and friends, of disconnection and surprises. If you are thinking of spending New Year's Eve in Barcelona, we reveal everything you need to know to make the most of it.

Barcelona is a real box of surprises! The city is continuously offering its citizens, visitors, and tourists immersive experiences they have never witnessed before.

Are you looking for a good plan for the weekend in Barcelona? Palo Alto Market will surprise you with its exhibiting brands, food trucks and live music in a really cool space.

The Mobile World Congress is one of the most important mobile and technology events in the world. It has been held since 1987 and year after year attracts companies, developers and investors from all over the world in search of collaboration. Its magnitude is such that in 2019 it represented around 500 million euros in revenue in Barcelona, registering more than 100,000 attendees.

Do you want to seize the spring break and the good weather of Barcelona’s Easter? Here you will find all the information you need, whether you are looking for an escape of your routine, or if you really want to bring out your spiritual and religious side.

The seventh art in front of the sky.

Barcelona’s Picasso Museum owns more than four thousand works by the great 20th century artist whose multiple disciplines spanned far more than painting alone. He was also a sculptor, ceramicist, engraver, and stage designer. And, he was a prolific writer from a young age, which forms the basis of the museum’s latest exhibition. Barcelona’s Picasso Museum owns more than four thousand works by the great 20th century artist whose multiple disciplines spanned far more than painting alone. He was also a sculptor, ceramicist, engraver, and stage designer. And, he was a prolific writer from a young age, which forms the basis of the museum’s latest exhibition.

Quantum is an exhibition currently running at the CCCB that anyone with even a passing interest in the nature of the physical world that surrounds us will find fascinating.

Film buffs visiting Barcelona are in luck this spring.

The next edition of the Maratón de Barcelona, or the Zurich Marató de Barcelona as it’s officially knownwill be held on March 10, 2019, and it will be its 41st edition. 

Engines will be roaring once again at the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya because the 2018 Monster Energy MotoGP Grand Prix of Catalonia takes place there from 15th to 17th June. 

TOTEM is the latest creation of the amazing Cirque du Soleil and it is a journey into the evolution of mankind.

One more year, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, better known as Circuit de Montmeló, is ready to host the fifth race of one of the biggest shows in the world, the Formula 1.

Primavera Sound is one of the most famous music festivals in the world, and quite right too. 

Sónar, the electronic and advanced music festival, is an established perennial on the Barcelona festival calendar.

Music and festivals fill Barcelona when the summer comes. The action usually takes place outdoors and at night, when the heat is not that intense and you feel like going out and enjoying an artist "al fresco".

080 is Barcelona’s premier fashion event during which over five days the city becomes the setting for catwalk shows, product launches, business networking, parties and associated activities as well as capturing the attention of the fashion media both in Spain and internationally.

Traditionally the month of August is when local Barcelona residents take their holidays, the soaring temperatures and saturated humidity levels make work impossible so almost all businesses shut down, many restaurants included, and everyone generally accepts that nothing will happen till the end of the month.

La Mercè is Barcelona’s biggest, boldest street festival with religious roots that date back to the 12th century.

Nobody nowadays can have failed to notice the number of people engaged with their mobile phones on city streets, public transport, restaurants and bars and indeed anywhere else where people gather around the world. From social media to internet browsing, from shopping online to GPS the mobile phone in your hand is a true source of wonder and many people ask themselves how did we ever live without it? For the last number of years Barcelona has hosted the most important global event where technology companies from around the globe present their latest products for mobile phones, the Mobile World Congress which takes place annually the last week of February or beginning of March. MWC exhibitors represent some of the most successful companies on the planet.

Christmas in Barcelona is a magical time that is filled with traditions, both old and new, and an atmosphere unmatched anywhere else in the world.