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OFFICIAL GUIDE OF BCN VISITBARCELONA.COM ENGLISH EDITION! ENGLISH FORGET THE COLD! Try the city’s favourite winter drink, dipping FEB chocolate 2016 HOT STUFF! PLUS! #015 Stay warm in Barcelona RELAXING SPA SESSIONS, with inviting AMAZING MODERNISTA BUILDINGS, SUCCULENT bars, comfort SEAFOOD... food and cosy clothes 2 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com Time Out Barcelona English Edition The Best February 2016 Casa Lleó i Morera is just one incredible example of of BCN Barcelona’s modernista architecture p. 34 Features 14. Keep out the cold *ot chocolate inXiting bars Catalan comfort food s Ye haXe eXerything you need to stay Yarm in Barcelona this month. 20. Take it easy MarÉa ,osÅ Góme\ and Maria ,unyent Ɓght off the competition to take on the difƁcult task of checking out the best spas in toYn. 24. The best of the rest Barcelona’s top sights are Yorld-famous s the Sagrada Família and the Camp Nou need no introduction. Erica Aspas introduces us to ten other spots that deserve to be seen. 28. The guru from Peru Gastón Acurio has revolutionised the gastronomy of his home country. Ricard Martín speaks to him about his Barcelona restaurant and ambitions for the future. Regulars 30. Shopping & Style 34. Things to Do 42. The Arts 54. Food & Drink 61. LGBT 62. Clubs 64. Getaways MARIA DIAS Track doYn fancy footYear at Les Chausseurs one SaXour the ƂaXours of the sea Yith our 66. BCN Top Ten of Barcelona’s hottest shoe shops p. 30 recommendations for great seafood p. 58 8ia Laietana 20 1a planta ^ 08003 Barcelona ^ T. 3 310 3 43 redaccio"timeout.cat Printer LitograƁa RosÅs Publisher Eduard 8oltas ^ Finance manager ,udit Sans ^ Business manager Mabel Mas ^ Editor-in-chief Andreu Gomila ^ Deputy editor *annah 2ennell ^ Features & web Distribution S.A.D.E.U. editor María ,osÅ Góme\ ^ Art director Diego 2iccininno ^ Design Laura Fabregat Anna Mateu Mur ^ Picture editor Maria Dias ^ Writers ,an Fleischer Maria ,unyent ,osep Legal deposit B-26040-2014 Lambies Ricard Martín Marta SalicrÖ EugÄnia Sendra ^ Catalan website Manuel 2Åre\ ^ Spanish website Erica Aspas ^ English website Jan Fleischer ^ Contributors ISSN 2385-5142 Our cover Marcelo Aparicio Laia Beltran Javier Bl½nSue\ ®scar Broc Ada Castells Irene Fern½nde\ Ivan GimÅne\ Maria Gorgues Eul¼lia Iglesias Ricard Mas Iv½n Moreno Abby IRISNEGRO Narishkin Martí Sales Carla Tramullas Montse 8irgili ^ Translator Nick Chapman ^ Advertising T. 3 25 54 00 ^ Mercedes Arconada marconada"timeout.cat ^ Carme Mingo cmingo"timeout.cat ^ Marketing Clara Narvión cnarvion"timeout.cat ^ Advertising designer :avi Laborda ^ Published by 80 MÉS 4 Publicacions Time Out Barcelona English edition Published under the authority and Yith the collaboration of Time Out International Ltd London U-. The name and logo of Time Out are used under licence from Time Out Group Ltd 251 Tottenham Court Road London 91T AB U- 44 0 20 813 3000. ^ All rights reserved throughout the world. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Time Out Group Ltd. © Copyright Time Out Group Ltd 2016 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 3 The BCN_FEB 2016 hot list MONDAY THURSDAY 01 04 Mamma Mia! Barbarians Musical theatre Dance Abba’s hit shoY in ShoY by the *ofesh Spanish. See p. 53 Shechter Co. See p. 53 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 05 06 0 Ellie Goulding Carnival Indoor Trial & Enduro Concert Traditions Sport The English singer The city’s last party Motorcyclists shoY off performs. See p. 47 before Lent. See p. 36 their skills. See p. 37 Calçot season. Try this local vegetable grilled and Roger Hodgson. Supertramp frontman visits Barcelona DON’T MISS! dipped in sauce. visitbarcelona.com/restaurants as part of the Festival Mil·lenni. FRI 26. See p. 49 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY TUESDAY 12 13 14 16 Santa Eulàlia Emergència Eros Ramazzotti Vienna Symphony Orchestra Traditions Music festival Concert Classical music Celebration of the city’s Independent music at Italian pop star plays his Conductor Adam Fischer co-patron. See p. 37 the CCCB. See p. 37 hits. See p. 47 takes the lead. See p. 47 THURSDAY FRIDAY WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 18 1 24 28 Hiroshi Sugimoto Glen Hansard Lang Lang FC Barcelona vs. Sevilla Exhibition Concert Classical music Football NeY shoY of Japanese Irish musician tours his Pianist plays Mo\art and Messi and friends at the photographer. See p. 50 latest album. See p. 48 Rachmaninoff. See p. 43 Camp Nou. See p. 40 PACE GALLERY PACE 4 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 5 People of Barcelona Samantha de Siena BCN: Musician 38 years old TOP SECRET By Begoña García You’re from London, the capital of pop, but you’ve chosen to live in Barcelona. _Among the I came to live in Barcelona for a month and it inspired me. city’s various There’s a creative ambience Yith animal landmarks musicians from all over the Yorld Yhereas in London everything is so is the giant owl competitive and stressful. I that stands atop studied psychology but music has alYays been my biggest love and a building at it’s here that I’ve made tYo the crossroads records. between Pg. Perhaps living in a new place, Sant Joan and Av. among strangers, made you less inhibited about creating music? Diagonal. Absolutely. 9hat’s more I feel at _Another is the home Yith the Mediterranean culture. I’m half Italian. splendid mosaic butterƂ y croYning So that’s your real name, not a stage name? the modernista ;es my father is called Gino de MARIA DIAS Casa Fajol building Siena he comes from Calabria and Ye speak to each other in Italian. atmospheres and he knoYs hoY to at LlanÃa 20. And my mother is Anglo-Irish. I interpret others’ ideas Yhile have a real sense of this mix Yhich thinking about their songs. _Farmàcia Guinart, also exists in Barcelona – here Gran de Sant there are Brits Italians Catalans... With the effect that the process And Yhen you’re in a neY situation is less stressful? Andreu, 306 (Sant it’s easier to meet foreigners in ;es because for me music isn’t a Andreu), still has your day-to-day life. In London I business – I have my York as a alYays Yent round Yith my long- AN OBJECT – FLOOR TILES coach – and I don’t Yant to feel the modernista term friends and I didn’t meet The ones in old buildings with the pressure of having to earn tiles and decor it anybody from other places. special borders. She bemoans the money. If you depend Ɓ nancially on way they’re covered by parquet. music you have to change it to had when it opened Your music isn’t very British or please audiences’ tastes. NoY I in 1896. very poppy. Yant to do a more intimate project I’m not really into pop. The music I based on recordings by my father _Until 12 line like isn’t from just one genre. Yho’s a singer and gave me my 4 of the metro had Instead it’s music that makes you love of music. I’m thinking about feel something that has soul. My doing an LP. a station betYeen father used to play the music of the Barceloneta Rat Pack and I love ja\\ as Yell as What do they say in London blues folk Italian music African... about the music you make and Jaume I the PLACE OF ORIGIN – in Barcelona? Correos stop. It Yas Music from an earlier time? LONDON That you can tell it’s made here ;es I identify mostly Yith that – Bob She grew up in East Sheen next to that it’s inƂ uenced by the city’s close to the main Dylan Ella Fit\gerald Billie *oliday. Richmond Park, one of the city’s liberal atmosphere. Over there PO correos means largest green spaces. people have a positive impression But you’ve worked with of Barcelona and its Suality of life. npost ofƁ ce’ . experimental producer Suso Saiz. ;es he creates Ɓ lm-like suggestive –Jordi Bianciotto 6 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com I love BCN Palau Reial de Pedralbes Av. Diagonal 686 What am I Head to Les Corts for this urban oasis with its palace, gardens and doing here? the odd Gaudí treasure. Jan Fleischer Barcelona dream date 9e can’t really complain about Yinter here in Barcelona. As I Yrite this in late January it’s 16 degrees under bright sunny skies. But there are still dark days and of course 16 isn’t 25 so naturally my mind turns to thoughts of hibernating on overstuffed sofa cushions or a feather bed under Yarm blankets and Yith the company of a good book or a guilty- pleasure TV series. And my body folloYs. If you’re feeling the same but you’re determined to get out every day and enjoy the city the good neYs is that there are plenty of Yays you can do a bit of both. This issue of the maga\ine describes my perfect date Yith Barcelona – comfort food dipping chocolate cosy bars spas... Sure there’s also loads of active stuff you can do if that’s your thing but if I have to go out I’m doing it as comfortably as possible.