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Through the centuries, PLUS! TOP CHEESE SELLERS, has inspired countless authors – UNMISSABLE STREET discover our selection of the books MUSICIANS, that capture the spirit of the city LOCAL CRAFT BEERS... 4,95€ APR 2016 #017 2 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com Time Out Barcelona in English The Best April 2016

L’Hospitalet is one of the of BCN cities that borders Barcelona. We cross the frontier to discover its secrets and must-visit places p. 22

Features 16. A good read $CTEGNQPCJCUKPURKTGFYTKVGTUHQTEGPVWTKGU 6QOCTM5CPV,QTFKVJKUOQPVJYJGPVTCFKVKQP FKEVCVGUYQOGPIKXGOGPCDQQM CPFKPVWTP get a rose), author David Castillo picks some of his favourite books based in the city. 22. Just next door L’Hospitalet is the second biggest city in %CVCNQPKCCPFKVDNGPFUKORGTEGRVKDN[YKVJ Barcelona. Albert Balanzà takes you on a tour. 26. All about cheese If cheese is your thing, and let’s be honest, YJ[YQWNFPoVKVDG.CWTC%QPFGJCUVJG shops for you. 28. Hear them play Street musicians perform all around the city. Maria Junyent introduces some of our HCXQWTKVGUCPFVGNNU[QWYJGTGVQƁPFVJGO Regulars 30. Shopping & Style 34. Things to Do 42. The Arts 54. Food & Drink 61. LGBT 62. Clubs 64. Getaways $CTEGNQPCoUUVTGGVUCTGƁNNGFYKVJVWPGUVJCPMUVQ With craft beer currently booming, discover 66. BCN Top Ten VJGOWUKEKCPUYJQRGTHQTOQWVFQQTUp. 28 some of the top local varieties p. 58

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Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 3 The BCN_APR 2016 hot list FRIDAY SATURDAY 01 02 Carmen Lapsus Festival Dance Music #ƂCOGPEQVCMGQPC Celebration of classic story. See p. 53 electronica. See p. 46

SUNDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 03 06 08 FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Hotel Tapa Tour Anastacia Football Food and drink Concert The classic confrontation Hotels offer tasty bites to US singer performs at returns. See p. 36 tempt you. See p. 37 L’Auditori. See p. 46

Masterpieces from the Phillips Collection. Major art Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Visiting classical DON’T MISS! exhibition at the CaixaForum. TUE 5. See p. 50 music group in concert at L’Auditori. MON 18. See p. 48

SUNDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY THURSDAY 10 14 16 21 Sara Baras – Voces Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Trofeu Conde Godó Festival D’A Flamenco Classical music Tennis Cinema Dance star brings latest 2QRWNCTYQTMCVJKUVQTKECN Annual contest played on International festival of UJQYSee p. 53 basilica. See p. 47 clay. See p. 38 CWVGWTƁNOSee p. 39

FRIDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY THURSDAY 22 23 23 28 Beergarten Simon Boccanegra Sant Jordi Festival Romà Food and drink Opera Traditions History hosts Plácido Domingo takes A day full of roses and marks its beer festival. See p. 40 the main role. See p. 43 books. See p. 16 classical past. See p. 40

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Jan Fleischer Reading Barcelona

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These big matches date from the 1992 Olympics.

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DO YOU KNOW? On Sant Jordi (April 23), ’s most romantic day, around six million roses are given to lovers, friends and family.

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This artwork is one of Barceloneta’s most famous landmarks.

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The most popular are the classic red roses, but you can also buy white, yellow and blue-and-red (the Barça colours) varieties, among others.

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Barcelona... just a click away Find more than 200 suggestions VQUWKVCYKFGTCPIGQHVCUVGU MANÉ ESPINOSA / AJUNTAMENT DE SANT CUGAT MANÉ ESPINOSA / AJUNTAMENT Spring means culture, nature and shopping Come and discover the ENQKUVGTUKP'WTQRG;QW many charms of Sant can also enjoy shopping CugatsCVQYPNQECVGF for vintage items at LWUVOKPWVGUCYC[HTQO /GTECPVKEVJGVQYPoU Barcelona. Take an e-bike famous second-hand trail through the hilltop market, and visit the RCTMQH%QNNUGTQNCVJCVYKNN only museum in Europe take you to Sant Cugat’s dedicated to Marilyn ninth-century Benedictine Monroe. OQPCUVGT[YJKEJJCUQPG Buy your tickets at: of the most beautiful tickets.visitbarcelona.com Barcelona is a vibrant, NKMGVJG5GIYC[YJKEJEQXGTDQVJ cosmopolitan city that offers the city centre and the lesser- XKUKVQTUCYGCNVJQHFKHHGTGPV MPQYPPGKIJDQWTJQQFU RTQFWEVUCPFUGTXKEGU;QWYKNN gastronomic excursions; SANT JORDI: BOOKS, STORIES AND LEGENDS DGUWTRTKUGFCVYJCV[QWECPƁPF panoramic hop-on hop-off bus YJGP[QWXKUKVVJGVKEMGVU tours or themed routes through XKUKVDCTEGNQPCEQOYGDUKVGCPF URGEKƁEFKUVTKEVUEQQMKPI the Turisme de Barcelona Tourist YQTMUJQRUYKPGCPFEJQEQNCVG Information Points around the city. VCUVKPIQTETCHVYQTMUJQRUHQT 6JGTGCTGOCP[YC[UVQXKUKV the little ones; visits to historic $CTEGNQPCsKPVJGEQORCP[QH buildings like the Palau de la HTKGPFUQTYKVJ[QWTHCOKN[QT Música, or to museums, taking RCTVPGTsCPFCOWNVKVWFGQH advantage of the ArTicket or reasons to come here: the $CTEGNQPCOWNVKVKEMGVUYKVJHTGG culture, cuisine, music, art... transport and discounts; and Whether you’re planning to DCD[UKVVKPIUGTXKEGUYJGGNEJCKT UGGVJGDGUVMPQYPCVVTCEVKQPU pram and pushchair hire, in BCN, a city of books Legends of the Gothic or you’re looking for a truly addition to the standard left- 8KUKVVJGUGVVKPIUHQTVYQPQXGNU &KUEQXGTJQYRGQRNGNKXGFKP special experience, at tickets. luggage services and airport that have captivated thousands. OGFKGXCN$CTEGNQPCYKVJC XKUKVDCTEGNQPCEQO[QWYKNNƁPF transfers. Literary trails take you through the YCNMKPIVQWTQHVJGJKFFGP more than 200 suggestions to There are many Barcelonas to magical Barcelona of The Shadow EQTPGTUCPFPCTTQYUVTGGVUQHVJG UWKVCYKFGTCPIGQHVCUVGU GZRNQTG9JKEJQPGKU[QWTU! of the Wind and the fantastical city Barri Gòtic. And after the tour, ;QWoTGJGTGVQUGG$CTEGNQPC Discover the full range of of The Cathedral of the Sea. enjoy tapas in a traditional bar. DWVJQYYKNN[QWIGVCTQWPF! possibilities on offer by visiting *GTGCTGLWUVCHGYKFGCU6JGTG tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Buy your tickets at tickets.visitbarcelona.com are guided tours on foot, by DKE[ENGQTYKVJURGEKCNXGJKENGU tickets.visitbarcelona.com

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Half day in Montserrat Basílica de la Sagrada Família Take a short trip from Barcelona to this Discover Barcelona’s iconic temple and nearby mythical landmark enjoy its unique architecture Head to this rugged mountain to see its main attraction, the Virgin of Visit the Sagrada Família on a 90-minute skip-the-line tour. Learn all about /QPVUGTTCV6JGPVCMGCYCNMVQGPLQ[VJGCOC\KPIXKGYUQTXKUKVVJGCTV the UNESCO-listed cathedral and its creator, Antoni Gaudí. After exploring museum. Enjoy personal attention on this limited-size group tour. the monument, visit the on-site Sagrada Família Museum.

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Barcelona is a city of many layers, communities and styles. Novels have emerged out of its streets, bars and people that capture the spirit of not only the place but also a generation, an era, a historic moment in time. To coincide with this month’s Sant Jordi Day, when the streets fill with books and roses to be exchanged between friends and lovers (traditionally women give a book to men and in turn receive a rose), we present a tiny selection of our favourite books where Barcelona features as one of the key characters. By David Castillo

16 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 01 CITY IN WORDS ‘THE MARGIN’ André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Translated by R. Howard Like the main character of The Margin, WHERE TO André Pieyre de Mandiargues arrived in The Gray Barcelona intending to kill himself. He Notebook didn’t do it, but instead wrote a novel Josep Pla BUY BOOKS that won the 1967 Prix Goncourt prize NYRB Classics and sold 150,000 copies in a matter of €12 By Hannah Pennell days. The book chronicles three frenetic days on the city’s sleazy underside, a descent into a nightmarish Barrio Chino (today the La Central Raval), with extraordinary descriptions One of a small chain of three of C/Escudellers, Plaça del Duc de Barcelona bookshops (and with Medinaceli and the bar Los Cuernos, a Confessions three more in Madrid), this branch gem of home-grown Catalan kitsch. Jaume Cabré is an aesthetically pleasing venue The novel wasn’t translated into Arcadia Books with a wide range of books, Spanish at the time because of the €15 including a small but eclectic author’s habit of referring to Franco as and nihilistic journey through the Barrio selection of English tomes. It also the ‘Fuhrúnculo’, a made-up Chino. The Catalan poet and playwright JCUCNQXGN[ECHÅQPVJGƁTUVƂQQT combination of Führer and furúnculo, YCUVJGƁTUVVQRGPVJGITGCV$CTEGNQPC Mallorca, 237. Spanish for ‘a boil’, and of describing novel with this tale of the vicissitudes M: Diagonal (L3, L5). VJGTGFCPF[GNNQYQHVJG5RCPKUJƂCI of a young bourgeois cynic, decadent www.lacentral.com as the colours of blood and excrement. and penniless, who lives on the edge, These touches made the book a using all the tricks at his disposal. Laie sought-after prize for Spaniards who Uncertain Glory These days he’d join a political party. Laie is one of the top bookshops in crossed the border to Perpignan in Joan Sales Frederic de Lloberola, who rises at half town among the literati and those search of uncensored culture. When MacLehose Press past four in the afternoon and often looking for the latest in literary Joan Oliver’s Catalan translation €14 doesn’t remember where he went to publications from Catalonia, Spain appeared, Mandiargues sent him a DGFKUQPGQHVJGƁEVKQPCNEJCTCEVGTU and abroad. They have an letter assuring him that he ‘felt at home that best illustrates the disasters KOOGPUGEQNNGEVKQPQHƁEVKQP among the Catalan people’. Eminent surrounding Barcelona’s Universal (including local and foreign literary critics Joan de Sagarra and Lluís Exposition of 1929. Modern, effective magazines) and works on Permanyer both considered it the best and readable, Private Life has philosophy, history and social novel ever written about the city. withstood the passage of time better sciences, art and architecture. VJCPVJGEKV[KVFGUETKDGUDCVVGTGFƁTUV %KPGRJKNGUCPFOWUKECƁEKQPCFQU by the bombs of the Civil War and then can also satisfy their cravings. 02 by rampant property speculation. Pau Claris, 85. ‘PRIVATE LIFE’ Josep Pla advised the younger novelist M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). Josep Maria de Sagarra. Translated by Terenci Moix that if he wanted to write www.laie.es Mary Ann Newman well in Catalan, he should immerse In 1932, Josep Maria de Sagarra shut himself in Sagarra’s work. A treasure. Hibernian Books himself up in Barcelona’s most Originally opened as a second- celebrated literary club, the Ateneu, to hand bookshop in English in 2004 deliver himself of Private Life, a wild 03 (the owners shipped over some ‘THE THIEF’S JOURNAL’ 30,000 books from Dublin), they Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard soon moved to bigger premises Frechtman and have started selling a small It’s unlikely that anyone will ever write a selection of new books alongside novel about abjection as devastating their main stock. as Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal. , 17. French literature had already gone M: Fontana (L3). beyond the picaresque with portraits of www.hibernian-books.com desperate youth by the likes of Albertine Sarrazine, or the epic La Casa del Llibre adventures in French Guiana of the The branch in convict Papillon. Genet, however, is one of the largest bookshops outdid them – not in terms of his (including a good English-language exploits, but in the angle and the section) in the city, with an open, perspective on perversion that his airy ambience and spaces for autobiographical narrator provides. presentations and activities. Genet’s idealisation of evil and the life Rambla de Catalunya, 37. of the drifter brought him to M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2, L3, L4). Barcelona’s Barrio Chino in around www.casadellibro.com 1933, and he writes about it from within. Pursuing a pimp, whom he

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 17 adored right down to his REVOLUTIONARY BARCELONA expectorations, begging in the port and (HOMAGE TO CATALONIA) passing through the worst dives in the city. Published in 1949, this is one of those books that leaves an indelible impression because of the way it blurs the lines between beauty and pain. The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 04 Picador ‘NADA’ €8 Carmen Laforet. Translated by Edith Grossman If only for the opening description of arriving at Barcelona’s Estació de França at midnight, Nada is a novel that sticks in the memory, as indissolubly linked to Barcelona as its main Lost Luggage character, the alter ego of the author, Jordi Puntí Carmen Laforet. Perhaps her traumatic Short Books Ltd relationship with the city was what €9 inspired a story so tender, and at the same time so tense. Laforet was born in Barcelona in 1921, but when she was two she and her family moved to the Canary Islands. She returned at the age of 18 to study philosophy and literature, before moving again to Madrid, where she wrote Nada. The Bartleby & Co. PQXGNYQPJGTVJGƁTUVGXGT0CFCNRTK\G Enrique Vila- in 1944, and made her a celebrity, even Matas when she retired from public life to Vintage spend time with her family. Her €9 protagonist is as a perplexed as the city itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, and her descriptions of Plaça Universitat, C/Aribau and the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar, still blackened D[VJGƁTGQHCTGNGIGPFCT[ A masterpiece. 05 ‘A BROKEN MIRROR’ Mercè Rodoreda. Translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer Rodoreda’s A Broken Mirror lends itself story writer, published A Broken Mirror to multiple readings, with family SANT JORDI FUN in 1974, it crowned a career that dynasties, a chronicle of the decline of includes classics such as In Diamond Barcelona’s middle classes, a bitter Square (1962) and Camellia Street depiction of the Civil War, and even an Get into the spirit of Sant Jordi with (1966). undercurrent of mystery and Gothic a literary tour to some of the spots romance, in a novel still under- mentioned in two of the most appreciated in Catalonia. Its dual popular recent books set in 06 nature, combining intimate interiority, Barcelona. The Shadow of the Wind ‘HOMAGE TO CATALONIA’ the multifaceted vision of different and The Cathedral of the Sea have characters from different perspectives, been read by millions, and Nobody has described the events of and abrupt shifts in its conception of Barcelona Turisme offers tours to the better than itself as a novel, make this one of the visit the places that inspired their George Orwell, who fought in it, was great works of Catalan literature, an respective authors. Check out shot through the neck on the Aragon almost unsurpassable achievement. visitbarcelona.com for details. On front, and, on his return to Barcelona, Her account of the Valldaura Farriols the day of Sant Jordi itself, Sat 23, witnessed the clashes between the family and their mansion at the top of Casa Batlló will be decorated with anarchists of the CNT and the Stalinist C/Balmes, in Sant Gervasi, exercises a fabulous vertical rose garden – EQOOWPKUVUQHVJG257%VJG7PKƁGF a hypnotic power, ranging from the head to Pg. de Gràcia, 43, to see it. Socialist Party of Catalonia. Orwell’s most melodramatic realism to fantasy, For more details of what’s book received a mixed reception (and which Gabriel García Márquez himself happening that day, visit sold badly) in pre-war Britain because it CEMPQYNGFIGFCUCPKPƂWGPEG9JGP www.barcelona.cat/santjordi. was boycotted by the orthodox left, Rodoreda, a talented poet and short- but it has become a classic thanks to

18 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com its condemnation of the Soviets. PANORAMIC VIEW OF BARCELONA FROM Translated into Catalan in 1969 by CARMEL’S C/ DE LA GRAN VISTA Ramon Folch i Camarasa, it was (SI TE DICEN QUE CAÍ) republished in 1996 with a prologue by Teresa Pàmies, a former leader in the PSUC who ends up agreeing with her one-time adversary’s account. Some The Eternal will recall the photo of the gangling Philistine Orwell towering over the other recruits Ödon von Horváth at the Lenin barracks near Plaça Melville House Espanya, but it’s his descriptions of La €14.45 Rambla during the tragic events of May 1937 that are truly unforgettable. The book was a key source for Ken Loach’s ƁNO Land and Freedom (1995).

07 No Word from ‘SI TE DICEN QUE CAÍ’ Juan Marsé. (‘If They Tell You I Fell’, Eduardo Mendoza not available in translation) Telegram Books Si te dicen que caí could be the most €8.13 extraordinary novel ever written about Barcelona. Juan Marsé offers us an THE RAVAL, AKA BARRIO CHINO expressionist memoir of childhood, in (TATTOO) which Hollywood stars and extreme poverty coexist in the lives of a troupe of deprived local children not even +UKFTG0QPGNNVJGITGCVƁPFGUKÄENG Marks of painter of Barcelona’s marginalised Identity classes, could have done justice to. Juan Goytisolo From the tunnels under the Hospital de Serpent’s Tail Sant Pau, where the novel begins, to €11.40 the post–Civil War landscapes of Guinardó, and Gràcia, Marsé creates a fresco of the period, populated by veteran anarchists and prostitutes, which works both as an evocation of the past and a compelling narrative in its own right. Published in Mexico during the Franco dictatorship, it was immediately banned in Spain. The censor’s report was damning: after pointing out a number of attacks on the Spanish regime, it says, ‘This is the story of a group of children who eke out ƁTUVUVGRKUENGCTƁPFVJGVCVVQQCTVKUV RTQNKƁECPFDTKNNKCPVECTGGTOCMKPIJKU an existence in the post-war period, And in Carvalho’s Barcelona there are OCTMHTQOJKUXGT[ƁTUVYQTMUKPYJKEJ ending up as Red gunmen, and dying only two, one of them retired. As in all JGNGHVDGJKPFVJGQHƁEGTQWVKPGUQH one by one… all this mixed with the novels of the series, Vázquez New York for bohemian existence in whores, homosexuals, immoral Montalbán uses his own district as a . There he surrounded himself persons. If we had struck out only the setting. The streets of the Barrio Chino, with the vivid, decadent, characters parts that describe the prostitutes who EJTKUVGPGFVJGƁHVJFKUVTKEVDGEQOGC that he wove into the plots of his pleasure their clients in cinemas, not perfect labyrinth, with the Plaça Reial at novels. Miller loved Barcelona. Take his half the novel would remain.’ its heart. The detective also makes his NGVVGTUVQJKUENQUGHTKGPF#NHTGF2GTNÄ way uptown as far as La Bonanova and in which he writes, ‘Barcelona even, in Tattoo, to the airy ridge of impressed me as a hodgepodge of 08 Vallvidrera, where the author himself Brooklyn and … That evening, ‘TATTOO’ eventually took up residence. Carvalho back on the Rambla again, we sat down Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. has an international following, and it’s to have our last few drinks together. Translated by Nick Caistor PQVWPWUWCNVQƁPFDCTUDGCTKPIJKU Our laughter, though still boisterous, How would Pepe Carvalho, Barcelona’s name all around the world. Genius! was verging on tears. Everything was most famous literary detective, have still droll, hallucinatingly droll.’ The reacted to the news that Barcelona same can be said of The Smile at the would one day be awash with tattoo 09 Foot of the Ladder, in which Miller was parlours and their enthusiastically ‘THE SMILE AT THE FOOT OF THE inspired by one of Miró’s , inked clients? When a corpse appears LADDER’ ‘Dog barking at the moon’, even though in the sea off Barceloneta beach, a Henry Miller the book is ostensibly about the circus, tattoo on the body – ‘Born to Raise Hell The legendary author of the 1930s with illustrations by Fernand Léger. A in Hell’ – provides the only clue. The Tropics trilogy, Henry Miller had a fascinating story.

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 19 10 ‘THE ENORMITY OF THE TRAGEDY’ Quim Monzó. Translated by Peter Bush While the author doesn’t like to offer up Rue des Voleurs obvious clues to his readers, and he (in French) prefers neutral settings, The Enormity Mathias Énard of the Tragedy has an unmistakable Babel aftertaste of Barcelona. And it’s even €8.70 got a soundtrack too, featuring rock and soul hits of the 1960s and 1970s. Every character has a composite name, from the central character Ramon-Maria to a string of Gil-Eudalds, .NWÉU#NDGTVU/CTKC'WIÄPKGU+IPCUK Xaviers and other unlikely Últimas tardes combinations that intensify the hilarity con Teresa (in of the story. The protagonist suffers Spanish) from priapism and walks round with a Juan Marsé permanent erection, in a plot that Debolsillo mixes caricature with other € 9.50 characteristic elements of Monzó’s oeuvre including pain, fear, unrequited ESTACIÓ DE FRANÇA love and a certain existential ( NADA) emptiness, which he evokes OCIPKƁEGPVN[KPJKUFGUETKRVKQPUQH places, creating an echo in the reader’s bookshop. Despite the Cemetery, this own mood. I don’t know if this effect is is a book no reader ever forgets. 13 deliberate, but he certainly achieves it. No digas que me ‘THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON Those who accuse Monzó of being able conoces (in QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA’ to write nothing more than short Spanish) 12 Miguel de Cervantes. Translated by stories should take another look at this Sergi Dòria ‘CEUX DE BARCELONE’ Edith Grossman (2003) novel. The only part that has not Plaza y Janés Hanns-Erich Kaminski. (‘The People I’ve been helped in the writing of this withstood the test of time are some of €17 of Barcelona’, not available in ƁPCNKVGOD[/CTVÉFG4KSWGToU the drinks the characters knock back. translation) illuminating guide, Cervantes en Nobody’s perfect. Comparable only to Orwell’s Barcelona. There’s no need to dwell masterpiece as a record of the on the praise that Cervantes heaped revolution during the Civil War, Hanns- on the city, but it’s worth bearing in 11 Erich Kaminski evokes the fervour of mind. It was once common in Catalan ‘THE SHADOW OF THE WIND’ the anarchist uprising and those dining rooms to see framed quotes Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Translated by RTGRCTGFVQƁIJVVQVJGFGCVJHQTVJGKT from Don Quixote, which contrasted Lucia Graves ideals. From the border crossing at with the animosity of other Castilian A monumental novel about Barcelona Portbou onwards, Kaminski notices the writers of the that was unlucky enough to become a ‘magical initials’ of the CNT and the FAI such as Quevedo or Lope de Vega. In runaway success – otherwise it would everywhere, and describes La Rambla the chapters of Don Quixote that are have been a cult book – The Shadow of to the strains of ‘The Internationale’ UGVKP$CTEGNQPCYGƁPFGXGT[VJKPI the Wind is a daring, free and thought- and ‘A las barricadas’. He sees the from a comprehensive study of the provoking book about post–Civil War poverty of the slums that surround La region’s famous bandits, in the Barcelona. From the beginning, set Rambla, compared to middle-class episode with Roque Guinart (based in 1945 in the Cemetery of Forgotten areas, and is not enthused, because on the real-life bandoler Perot Books, the author embarks on a voyage ‘the life of the rich is growing less Rocaguinarda), to his descriptions of into the imagination, set in a Barcelona pleasant by the day’. The funeral of the gibbets in Creu Coberta, or the to which the book is our guide. The Durruti, the bull-running, the robbers hanged in the forest – which central character, Daniel Sempere, the descriptions of women ‘emancipated is now the site of the shopping centre son of a bookseller who initiates him in and almost completely shameless’, in the old Arenas bullring. The action, VJGOCIKEQHMPQYNGFIGƁPFUVJGDQQM the opinions of anarchist intellectual set in the summer of 1614, includes of the same title, systematically and Health Minister Frederica combat in galleys, almost certainly destroyed by one of the characters. Montseny, and the counter- based on the author’s own bitter Though it might appear to be a simple revolutionary atmosphere under the experience of naval warfare, and the read, the book is addictive because of auspices of the Stalinists are portraits of shadowy characters of the the suspense it generates and the described with fury. It’s hard not to be Ribera district. Martí de Riquer investigation itself, a hymn of praise to moved by the passion, albeit often locates what was supposedly reading and the love of books. From the naive, of this German observer, who Cervantes’s house on Passeig Colon. Rambla de Santa Mònica, it visits Santa had the opportunity to live through an Don QuixoteKUEQPUKFGTGFVJGƁTUVs Anna, Santa Maria del Mar, El Call (the extraordinary period in history, and to and possibly the most important – Jewish quarter), Can , Quatre Gats TGƂGEVVJCVVKOGUQYGNNKPQPGQHJKU novel in the world, and even here, restaurant and the now-defunct Canuda best novels. Barcelona makes an appearance.

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Just good neighbours

It’s Catalonia’s second-largest city, stretching south of Barcelona towards the airport, but most visitors will pass through without even registering the name. L’Hospitalet was little more than a village until the 19th century, when waves of industrialisation transformed it, culminating in the post-war boom of the 1960s that saw vast tracts of high-rise housing flung up to accommodate workers from the rest of Spain. City planning lagged behind the population explosion, and residents had to fight for such basic amenities as health centres and schools. Since the 1990 s, large - scale infrastructure project s have turned a suburban hinterland into a city in it s own right, with a personality in constant evolution emerging from immigrant communities from all over world. As young artists are attracted by cheap, post-industrial property, some have called it Barcelona’s Brooklyn – a place with an energy and life many Barcelona residents would envy, if only they knew what they were missing.

By Albert Balanzà Photographs Maria Dias

as its icon, surrounded by towering hotels, big the City Hall, the country house at Can Buxeres Pilgrim’s progress box retail outlets and new businesses (the (now the centrepiece of a municipal park), and The oldest building in L’Hospitalet is Santa latest signing is Nissan). mansions in the neighbourhoods of Pubilla Eulàlia de Provençana, a Romanesque chapel Cases and Can Rigalt. The second was the which was consecrated in 1101. It’s also the style of choice for middle-class dwellings along source of the city’s name, which refers to the Healthy rambles C/Major and La Rambla, employing cheaper pilgrim’s hostel, or ‘hospital’ that once stood No Catalan town would be complete without its materials and less-imposing dimensions or next to the chapel (the town was originally own rambla, and L’Hospitalet is no exception. simply using isolated elements of Catalan Art known as Provençana). During the Civil War, the Strolling down its Rambla Catalana from La Nouveau. Botiga Nova, Estanc de Cal Testos chapel hosted meetings of the communist Marina to Just Oliveras, you’ll see the housing and Cases Barates are prime examples. youth party. Ancient history meets 21st-century blocks of the Bellvitge neighbourhood, built street art in the 1950s church next door, which 50 years ago, like the SEAT factory, where features a giant commission inspired by the many of the residents worked. You’ll pass the Post-industrial landscapes Romanesque style, painted in aerosols by warehouses of the Carretera del Mig, where the Until 1982 La Farga was a gigantic iron foundry. ITCHƁVKCTVKUVU*QWUGCPF4WFK Latin American community dances at l’Agapito, However, in that year it was converted into one and the Av. del Carrilet, where the trendy crowd QHVJGEKV[oUƁTUVEQPHGTGPEGEGPVTGUJQUVKPI go to gigs at Salamandra. As you reach the city meetings and trade fairs (most notoriously the Winds of change centre, you’re greeted by Arranz-Bravo’s statue of Salón Erótico, until 2008). Other post-industrial On its way south out of Barcelona and through ‘L’Acollidora’ (‘The Welcoming One’), with her transformations include La Bòbila cultural L’Hospitalet, Gran Via used to be a wasteland strange ponytail-trumpet headpiece, symbolising centre in the neighbourhood of Pubilla Cases, of junkyards and high walls, behind which you the open-hearted spirit of L’Hospitalet. once a brick factory; Tecla Sala, in La Torrassa, could pick out the ramshackle huts of scrap which used to be a textile mill, is now home to a merchants, abandoned factories and isolated NKDTCT[CPFƁPGCTVUEJQQN UGGDQZQPRCIG  blocks of Gran Via Sur. Local residents had to Modernisme for the people the Freixas building in Santa Eulàlia, which campaign for a health clinic. Since 2002, a new L’Hospitalet’s architectural heritage is split swapped Phillips TVs for young artists, and the city has begun to emerge here, with Toyo Ito’s between neoclassicism and Catalan nearby Vanguard building, which exchanged swirling skyscraper, a kind of red-hued tornado, OQFGTPKUOG7PFGTVJGƁTUVJGCFKPIVJGTGoU looms for the 25TV station.

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GALLERIES AND MORE

NOGUERAS BLANCHARD +PVJGTGEGPVFKCURQTCQHICNNGTKGUƂGGKPI from the centre of Barcelona, Alex 0QIWGTCUYCUCOQPIVJGƁTUVVQOQXG to L’Hospitalet to gain space, light and visibility. Since last October this gallery has been located in a 1970s industrial building, where it has hosted works by standout contemporary artists such as Mladen Stilinovic and Wilfredo Prieto. Isaac Peral, 7 ⓣ  CARRER DE SANTA BÀRBARA www.noguerasblanchard.com

ANA MAS PROJECTS Ana Mas also made her move in 2015, and in fact she shares the building with Nogueras Blanchard; she also has a small space in Puerto Rico. New generations of artists from different disciplines – such as artistic photographer Ian Waelder, who recently UJQYGFVJGTGsƁPFVJGKTRNCEGYKVJ/CU Isaac Peral, 7 ⓣ  www.anamasprojects.com

ESPAI SALAMINA The creative vitality of L’Hospitalet, which is working to transform itself into a cultural city, can also be measured by VJGRTGUGPEGQHCTVKUVUUKPEG.WC Coderch, Rasmus Nilausen and Pere TECLA SALA Llobera, among others, have a workshop at the Espai Salamina. Salamina, 37-41

Miniature revolutions Local fare FUNDACIÓ ARRANZ-BRAVO How do you bring together a population of On a Saturday morning, if the sun is shining, Provisionally located in the former 250,000? This is the task of L’Hospitalet’s there’s no better way to start the day than with Tecla Sala factory, the foundation was Federation of Neighbourhood Associations, a strolling breakfast, starting at the terrace of launched in 2009 with the aim of led by the tireless Manuel Piñar, who runs the Casino (Prat de la Riba, 337). It’s not a promoting the work of painter Eduard food banks and helps families facing eviction. casino with gambling, but instead it’s a social Arranz-Bravo; since then, it’s also Among the other members of the association club -– take a look at the photos inside. Next started to nurture and develop young are the Centre d’Estudis de L’Hospitalet, an stop, La Flama (Rbla. de Marina, 250), with contemporary artists. archive of the city’s history; the Akwaba traditional Spanish fare, and then it’s back up to Av. Josep Tarradellas, 44 (QWPFCVKQPƁIJVKPIHQTCHCKTGTOQTG Deportivo to sample their croquettes and ⓣ 93 260 02 68 participative society; and the 15+1 association patatas bravas (Rambla, 63). Make sure you www.fundacioarranzbravo.cat that brings together Andalucian organisations. leave space for lunch at La Bodegueta (Lleida, 32), although decent eateries have opened TECLA SALA recently in the centre of L’Hospitalet: Mug The leading art centre in L’Hospitalet Los Pajaritos with no birds 4QUGNNGU KUQHHVQCIQQFUVCTV+PVJG opened its doors in the 1990s in the The alternative to Barcelona’s Sant Antoni afternoon, a visit to Córdoba (Luarca, 10) is eponymous former factory. The market has always been Los Pajaritos (‘the little obligatory. For Galician specialities there’s O Vall dissemination of contemporary Catalan DKTFUo CYGGMN[5WPFC[ƂGCOCTMGVVJCVVCMGU d’Ouro 6 (Av. de Catalunya, 1). Meanwhile, Serra art, presentation of national and place outside the municipal market in Torrent (Santa Eulàlia, 100) does burgers that offer stiff international artists, and support of Gornal. People once came to buy, sell and swap competition to the city’s fast-food joints. For late- young creatives and local artists make all kinds of things -– including budgerigars and night dining head to Collblanc, where you have up its raison d’être. caged songbirds. In recent years, after protests two options: one more traditional, Cal Siscu Av. Josep Tarradellas, 44 from animal campaigners, the council has /CTVÉ,WNK¼ YJGTG[QWoNNQHVGPƁPFJQVGNKGT ⓣ 93 338 57 71 prohibited unlicensed bird sellers. But the Jordi Clos, or dapper local favourite Cóm www.teclasala.net OCTMGVKUCUDWU[CUGXGT| (Progrés, 9).

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We know you’re special, highly sensitive individuals who’ll stop at PQVJKPIVQVTCEMFQYPVJCVƂCXQWTVJCVVGZVWTGVJCVCTQOCsVJG perfect cheese… This one’s for you! By Laura Conde Photo Maria Dias

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THE QUINTET Radio Fanjul’s line-up: Jeremías Fanjul, Katherine RADIO FANJUL Sheng Morrison, Baltazar Fanjul (Jeremías’s brother) and Marco Baranzano. Two Argentinians, one Chinese- Canadian and a Basque with Uruguayan roots who play tangos, polkas, Russian ballads and Venezuelan and Greek folk songs. Forgotten musical treasures from different countries and times, which they revive with accordion, guitar, violin, trumpet, double bass and all the other instruments this nomadic family lugs to and fro between San Sebastián and Barcelona, their principal JQOGU;QWoNNQHVGPƁPFVJGO on Carrer Verdi in Gràcia.

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Trumpet Piano Pepe Robles has been playing his trumpet on the street for 30 Lleonart is 27, has been playing the piano for 20 years, and years and is part of the everyday soundscape of the Barri graduated with honours in musical interpretation from the Gòtic, the city district he performs to from the steps of the ’s Higher Conservatory in 2012. A year ago, his friend Cathedral, often accompanied by piano and banjo. He has told him about the Street Music programme run by the loved music as far back as he can remember, and when other Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Centre, and that they were children asked for toys, he wanted instruments. Some organising a draw for licences to play in various locations in musicians busk out of necessity while others, like Robles, do the Old City: Lleonart was lucky enough to obtain a permit. it because they need a connection with people that can only Since then he’s played a classical repertoire in different parts be found in this way. Busking makes him happy and earns him of the district – on Portal de l’Àngel, Av. de la Catedral and a living, but what brings home the true meaning of what he C/ de Cucurulla – usually along with violin and cello. Soon does is seeing how his music brings a smile to so many faces. he’ll be joining forces with other former students of the Liceu Where to hear him: Portal de l’Àngel and Plaça de la VQUVCTVCPGYRTQLGEVYKVJCLC\\KPƂWGPEG Catedral Where to hear him: All over

28 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com They roam Barcelona with their instruments, providing the soundtrack to squares, streets and metro tunnels, with everything from classical to rock. Seek them out! By Maria Junyent MUSIC Photographs Iván Moreno XAVI DE LA TORRE

Walk past Fontana metro station in the afternoon and you may pass a man with a mop of curly hair and a classical guitar, playing oblivious to the hundreds of passers-by, many of whom pause to listen a little while longer. Xavi de la Torre has been playing the guitar for 25 years. After spending a decade down south, splitting his time between Seville, Cádiz and %ÏTFQDC JKUOQVJGToUJQOG city), this Reus native combines his regular metro stints with gigs and guitar classes. He also has a CD on sale.

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Traditional jazz Rock They’re not from New Orleans and none of them were 9JGP[QWƁTUVNC[G[GUQP.GQ%CDCNNQ/WGTVQ IWKVCTCPF around during the golden age of jazz. In fact, the MasNou XQECNU CPFJKUTJ[VJOUGEVKQP'UMWNN cajón) taking up their Orleans Jazz Band was formed only two years ago, but they combative stance in the Barri Gòtic and the Born, you could be have the chops to turn C/ d’Astúries, a busy pedestrian forgiven for thinking they’re about to summon demons and street in the neighbourhood of Gràcia, into a packed music perhaps even bite the heads off of passing pigeons. But no, venue many would happily pay to get into. With trumpets, the duo, whose name means ‘Satan’s Meat’, strum acoustic saxophone, banjo, double bass and washboard, they belt punk metal ditties like ‘Plátano por el potasio’, a hymn to the out jazz standards made famous by the likes of Duke high potassium content of bananas, and lament the Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, with an traumatic demise of their beloved yellow canary. Yes, Satan’s infectious, easy-going good humour. Are you up to the emissaries cry too, and write love songs. Papitu bar in the challenge of trying to stop your toes tapping along in time $QSWGTKCJCURTQFWEGFVJGKTƁTUV%&CXCKNCDNGHQTa VJG to their tunes? number of the beast!) from their Facebook page. Where to hear them: Gràcia, often on C/ d’Astúries Where to hear them: Squares in the Barri Gòtic and the Born

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 29 Edited by Eugènia Sendra [email protected] Shopping & Style @eugeniasendra MARIA DIAS Playing with patterns Txell Miras, Miriam Ponsa and Josep Abril have opened NU#02, an Eixample space that brings together three labels infused with the same philosophy. By Laia Beltran

6JGƁIWTGUURGCMHQTVJGOUGNXGU . ‘That’s where we got to Andrea Ayala) and for men by own personality. ‘It was the effect e-commerce just keeps on growing. know each other well, and realised Abril. In addition, they also sell we were looking for in an area full And in this online market, fashion that we shared a philosophy and leather bags by Cristina Corres of luxury store franchises that are plays a huge part. Lots of people could do things together,’ explains and original decorative objects the same wherever you go,’ says KPETGCUKPIN[ƁPFKVOQTGCRRGCNKPI Ponsa. Out of this chemistry came from Aparentment. The warm Ponsa. At NU#02 the luxury is to update their wardrobes from the REC#00, an ephemeral endeavour welcome they received in Paris austere, and you have to look for it comfort of their sofa then to head that takes place twice a year in was decisive in their asking in the details such as the hangers to the shops. But there’s no Igualada’s RecStores, and which themselves, Should we try the and the spectacular iron furniture physical emotion achieved through the trio use to sell off stock and same formula at home? from Jonathan Singleton. Each those clicks. You don’t enjoy the have direct contact with their designer has their own space, pleasure of visiting an elegant customers. ‘It’s a very valuable NU#02 which means they can show full space or trying on a dress. And that source of information. It’s where NU#02 answered this question. collections. ‘We want everyone to means there’s still a place for brave we discovered that we could do ‘We have different styles, but speak for themselves, and then it’s gambles such as the one recently even more,’ says Miras. together the three of us bring up to the client to decide if they buy taken by Txell Miras, Miriam Ponsa more,’ says Miras. ‘Our day-to-day trousers by Miriam or one of my and Josep Abril, three Catalan PROJECTE#01 reality is similar – we make shirts,’ says Miras. ‘At the end of designers who have just opened a And so, from Igualada to Paris. signature collections, use local the day, we all dress in different shared shop in the Eixample. About 18 months ago, in the production, share a colour palette, labels.’ Miras is happy with this district of Le Marais, they opened and we also like to play around with new step forward. She won’t be REC#00 Projecte#01, a shop where the patterns.’ NU#02 is the name of the last one. The roots of the project can be main protagonist is Catalan this collective idea that now has its found in the Rec neighbourhood of design with lines for women by own space, which is authentic, NU#02 the central Catalan town of Ponsa and Miras (as well as without ornamentation and with its València, 229 (Eixample Dret).

30 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com Shopping & Style You inspire us Going local in When she takes off her guise as a journalist, Laura Sangrà turns the Gòtic into a doodle-bomb artist. By Eugènia Sendra SHOP OF THE MONTH

Laura Sangrà, a journalist on Catalan TV, became a fan of doodle bombing during the month she was convalescing after an operation, and she fell asleep thinking about how, the following day, she would decorate the faces appearing on the pages of magazines with her automatic drawings. The practice that’s been popularised by the likes of Hattie Stewart and Ana Strumpf appealed to her for being TOP DISC fun, relaxing, realistic and Forever Changes by Love is ‘my hypnotic, says Sangrà. It doesn’t favourite all-time record’, says In the quieter streets of the Barri work with all paper (it has to Sangrà. And she adds that the )ÎVKE[QWoNNƁPFUOCNNJKFFGP have a certain weight) nor with cover by Bob Pepper has a very spaces, welcome and promising all images – she chooses doodle-bomb style. surprises in a neighbourhood that boring photos, languid JCUUQOCP[EQOOGTEKCNƁZVWTGU portraits, and run-of-the-mill Röa is one of these tiny treats. It’s faces and gestures. ‘Labels the shop of Carolina Salazar, a neutralise people so that you Chilean designer who is often to see the scenery, the clothes,’ be found at the Lost&Found she says. But if she masks second-hand market, and has adverts it’s because she enjoys it also established herself as a rather than to criticise a system regular at the Palo Alto design that homogenises and imposes an market. After years dedicated to aesthetic. She knows what she’s vintage clothing, she decided to talking about – she likes fashion specialise in contemporary local (but not fashions), how it’s created creatives, which is why in her and how an individual can be HER DRAWINGS UGNGEVKQP[QWoNNƁPFGZEGRVKQPCN projected through clothing. Above Sangrà had a recent exhibition names such as Juanma by el all, however, she believes in the of her work at Felisa Cowork Cuco, the dark, industrial pieces OGUUCIGQHVJGKEQPKE+TKU#RHGN (Rosselló, 295), where standout of ZAGV, and the boho chic ‘It’s better to be happy than well- pieces included a Playboy cover articles of It Rocks. Among her dressed.’ from the ’70s. most recent discoveries is NOTE, a label created in Tel Aviv that’s instagram.com/laurasangra moved its production to Barcelona. In Röa there’s also space for the bags of Malagan GET THE LOOK! brand Su-shi, and a small selection of vintage clothing from top labels (the leather coats are LOVE OF THE ’50S the most sought after). Salazar is Sangrà collects vintage dresses, the sure she’ll soon be able to feature majority of which come from thrift her own designs – in the stores in NYC. ltrainvintage.com meantime, she likes having fun with Röa’s neighbours, the shop THAT HAIRCUT... EVERYTHING HAS A REASON of swimsuit designers, Plhi She put herself into the hands of Why did people stop wearing hats? Studio. –E.S. Nenuca and dared to try the short And why do men and women button cut she has now. Ribera, 6. their shirts on different sides? RÖA CLOTHES & DESIGN

MARIA DIAS Sangrà found the answers in this Comtessa de Sobradiel, 9 book by Eugenia de la Torriente. (Barri Gòtic).

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RENEWING A CLASSIC Your style With a resolution of 20 megapixels, 14 artistic fi lters and M. Zuiko lens, this camera pays homage to the 1963 Olympus Pen-F with its design – beautiful *CNUVQPFKFKVƁTUVDWVDGKPI but also light ( 1,200 for the body). Casanova Foto (Ronda Universitat, 35). inspired by Pollock is still cool. Let’s splash about. By Laia Beltran

A LITTLE BIT ROCK ’N’ ROLL It’s not just a black dress with long sleeves and asymmetric hem. Nerea Lurgain’s piece is also the perfect canvas for exploring the fury of a paintbrush ( 195). OnLand, Princesa, 25 Blahnik in words

Passage is always one step ahead. of you would prefer an actual pair Before anybody had even heard of of Manolos, but having this coffee Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions table book (€140) in your hands (Rizzoli), it was already on sale in could be an even more sensual the Sarrià concept store. Manolo adventure. –L.B. Blahnik himself came to Barcelona SPIRIT OF to present the book, as a special FLEETING GESTURES AND AN ARTIST guest at the recent 080 Barcelona OBSESSIONS Get your brushes Fashion event in February. While Abat Samsó, 7 (Sarrià). out and convert this here, the veteran shoe designer passagebcn.com Equipaje BCN thick achieved a fully fledged veni, vidi, cotton bag with vici in his role of absent-minded, wooden handle into cultured and entertaining dandy. your own personal To be honest, the book is no work of art ( 95). more than an extension of his LEAVE A Santa Tecla, 11 actual personality. A chaotic ode to FOOTPRINT beauty summarised in texts from The Oxford is surely various authors and fabulous the most reinvented photographs, such as the one by shoe. Kupuri have Manuel Outumuro of the Spanish splashed theirs with singer Rosario, taken from behind paint ( 169). Portal with her long hair hanging loose de l’Àngel, 14 and dressed only in an Azzedine Alaïa belt. Probably more than one

32 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com Shopping & Style Shopping list New collections, new owners, new collaborations and new products that are a breath of fresh air. By Eugènia Sendra

BASIC RAINS The Danish brand has created jackets and parkas in pastel shades for a touch of colour to protect you during the unpredictable spring WISH LIST weather. They say CLIMA that after a morning See off April showers in style SUSTAINABLE of sun, and when you with this umbrella designed G-STAR least expect it, the by illustrator Ana de Lima for Message and manufacturing count on rain arrives. Be ready %CVCNCPƁTO%NKOC a  this collection that’s made using for it. Wan Blue Temprado, Mansó, 49 recycled plastic. It’s the handiwork of (€93.68). 248, new co-owner, Pharrell Williams Rosselló, 248 (€99.95). Pg. de Gràcia, 44

ANNIVERSARY ACCESSORY PALOMA WOOL JULIETA ÁLVAREZ Paloma Lanna’s book 14-14 relates the The Anchor necklaces are artistic experiences and evocative already a classic from this RKGEGUHTQOVJGƁTUV[GCTQHJGTDTCPF ceramics designer – they’ve just It’s published by Terranova (€30). been reissued in new colours Wer-Haus, Aragó, 287 (€234). Le Fortune, Avinyó, 42

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FOLLOWING THE THREAD ORGANIC MAKE-UP ON A SMALL SCALE AS THE CROW The discovery of a suitcase belonging The brand Couleur Caramel tempts Addicted to Life, the DRESSES to couturier Pilar Ayarza, who worked everybody, including professional former dry cleaner’s If you want your in the Balenciaga atelier, was the seed make-up artists. Its strong point in Poblenou that was children to that produced the exhibition Entredós is the use of certifi ed organic transformed into a get their own 2.0. Painter Rosa Solano and designer ingredients, such as jojoba oil, aloe gallery and performance taste of Scandi Rosa Capdevila have continued to juice, shea butter and rose water, venue, continues to expand style, try out the follow the thread of Ayarza’s life for which they use to make exquisite its concept store dedicated to creations of Mói (which this new show that re-creates her eyeshadows, correctors, artisans, small-scale creatives and was the name that the family gave to apartment. Fundació foundation and vintage style. The latest to arrive is a crow they adopted). With pieces for Setba, Plaça more. L’Nena, a women’s clothing brand newborns to eight-year-olds, their latest Reial, 2. Until Buy at Purple, made in Barcelona. collection is called Urban Atmosphere. Apr 23. València, 273. Pujades, 156, bis. Go Kids, Elisabets, 16. –L.B./E.S.

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 33 Things to Do Secrets of the L9 The newest part of Barcelona’s metro system, the MERCABARNA As this wholesale food market southern section of the L9, has nine new stops. Maria is only open to professionals in Junyent got on board to discover what each has to offer the sector, there’s very little for Sant the layperson to do here that Ildefons doesn’t involve snooping around the toll gates at the entrance. Can PARC NOU Vidalet Just where the station’s escalators end, on C/ del Collblanc Riu Llobregat, Parc Nou starts. It’s a large, grassy triangle with picnic tables in both shady and sunny spots, a football pitch, a space for playing volleyball, and games for kids. Rbla. Just Torrassa Oliveras CÈNTRIC It would never be possible to have too many libraries. At Can Tries the least, a few more would Gornal be nice. As you come out of VJKUUVCVKQP[QWoNNƁPFVJG Antonio Martín library, with a section specialising in the environment – particularly MAS BLAU the local Llobregat one – and This place is of interest to another in aeronautics. anyone local who’s wanted to buy a caravan but held Europa back because they had Ildefons El Prat Estació Fira Cerdà nowhere to leave it: at the station’s exit is a caravan park. The rest of the area is Cèntric Les Moreres a dusty industrial estate. Fira Parc Nou

Aeroport T2 Mercabarna Parc Mas Blau Logístic AEROPORT T1 Half an hour and €4.50 is what it takes to get to the L9 Aeroport T1 airport from Zona Universitària. Traditional travellers will stick to a single ticket (€2.15) on the No 46 bus.

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L9 Zona Universitària Sarrià CAN TRIES GORNAL The Gornal Municipal Sports Centre, covering 14,000 square metres and located just at the metro exit, is a pleasing alternative to the crowded gyms in the centre.

Maria Cristina FIRA Hurrah for more options for getting to Sónar by Night, and for trying This&That Plaça Co., the latest gastro hit in del Centre L’Hospitalet (Amadeu Torner, 41).

Plaça de Sants Entença

Hospital PARC LOGÍSTIC Clínic Elderly locals will take their grandkids to this stop to tell them, ‘I remember when all this was farmland.’ Desperate drivers will use it as a ‘park and ride’.

Espanya LES MORERES The best thing that the new Magòria section of the L9 can offer La Campana Barcelona residents, apart from the possibility of getting to the airport by metro of course, is the chance of a trouble-free journey to the cultural centre La Capsa del Prat. It’s an excellent place to enjoy concerts by some of Catalonia’s most popular musicians.

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schedule. Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm. Family Open air Sun, public holidays 10am-2.30pm. Day by day €14. €9.80 (reduced). A tea with mint Barcelona Urban Forest| Information and sales: /WUKEKCPUHTQOVJG/CIJTGDTGƂGEV Zip wires, trampolines and Tourist Information Points and QPVJGKPƂWGPEGVJCV#TCDOWUKE bungees for high-adrenaline fun. Monday 4 www.visitbarcelona.com has had on the Iberian peninsula. (Pl. del Fòrum, s/n). M: El Maresme/ CaixaForum (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Fòrum (L4). Weekends and public Open air FREE This activity is free Guàrdia, 6-8). M: Espanya (L1,L3; hols 10am-8pm. €11-€27 (depends FGC). Sat 5.30pm, Sun noon. €6. For on circuit and age). Visit PortAventura * The dates of league matches QXGTƁXGU theme park may be moved forward or back An hour south of Barcelona, this one day, depending on TV Family theme park has six zones of broadcast schedules Gastronomy attractions, plus parades, A tea with mint eateries and shops. Speaking with See Sat 2. CaixaForum (Av. (Av. Alcalde Pere Molas. Km. 2. Vila Friday 1 chocolate Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). Seca, Tarragona). Train (Renfe): Led by English teacher Edwina, M: Espanya(L1,L3, FGC) . Port Aventura. T. 902 20 22 20. Family participants will learn how to make Tickets: tickets.visitbarcelona.com different types of chocolate treats. or www.portaventura.es Scòpic Miniatur Barcelona The class ends with a small snack. Sports Large space with interactive model (Comerç, 36– city, and ride-on train. (Tarragona, Antic Convent de Sant Agustí). Catalonia Championship – Spa 177). M: Sants Estació (L3, L5), M: (L1). 4pm-7pm. €25. Spanish Resistance Cup Tarragona (L3). T. 93 423 78 55. Prior booking necessary. Motor-racing contest held out at Aire de Barcelona, Arab 10am-8pm. €11.20. Reduced: museuxocolata.cat Barcelona’s Formula 1 track. Baths €7.84. Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya (Ctra. Experience the old-age tradition of de –Parets, 2km). bathing to care for body and mind. Traditions Montmeló. For times and details of (Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: Barceloneta Tours programme: www.circuitcat.com. (L4), Jaume I (L4). T. 93 295 57 43. FREE Sardanes /QP(TKƁTUVGPVT[CONCUVGPVT[ Secret Basilica del Pi Catalonia’s national dance between 10pm and midnight; Sat, Evening visits to the 14th-century performed in front of the cathedral. Football Sun and days before public hols: last Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi. (Pla de la Seu). M: Jaume I (L4). Sat entry between midnight and 2am. (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). Wed-Fri 6pm; Sun 11.15am * League fixture. FC 9pm. Sat 9.30pm. €19 (general). Barcelona – Real Madrid €16 (in advance). Info and tickets: Arguably the biggest match of the Tours www.adsentiabarcelona.com or Tours season for Camp Nou and all Barça tickets.visitbarcelona.com. supporters. Date and time TBC. For Basilica de Santa Torre more info: fcbarcelona.cat. Camp Maria del Pi Gaudí’s Pedrera. Gaudí| Nou (Aristides Maillol, s/n). M: Les Visit the 14th-century Basilica of The Origins Tours of Gaudí’s modernista Corts (L3). Santa Maria del Pi and its belltower. Spectacular night-time event with castle on the slopes of Tibidabo. (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). Mon-Sat rooftop video mapping, (Bellesguard, 6-9). M: Av. Tibidabo 10am-6pm; Sun 4pm-7pm. €4. screenings and a glass of cava. (FGC). Visit with audio guide: Tue- Tours Reduced: €3. (Provença, 261, entrance on Pg. de Sun 10am-3pm. €9. Reduced: Gràcia). M: Diagonal (L3, L5), FGC: €7.20. Guided tour: Sat noon FREE Guided tour of Poblenou Palau de la Música Provença. Mon-Fri 9pm-10pm (Spanish); Sat, Sun 11am (English). Cemetery Tour this emblematic building of VKEMGVQHƁEGQRGPUCVRO a €16. €12.80 (reduced). Brief but fascinating Catalan modernisme. Reduced: €17. reconstruction of 100 years of (Palau de la Música, 4-6). Santa Maria del Mar history from the 18th century. M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). Daily tours rooftop (Av. Icària, s/n). M: Llacuna (L4). 10am-3.30pm. €18. Reduced: €11. Saturday 2 Guided tours to the top of this 1st Sun 10.30am (Catalan) & historic church for great city views. 12.30pm (Spanish). 3rd Sun Open air (Plaça de Santa Maria, 1). 10.30am (Spanish) & 12.30pm Tuesday 5 M: Jaume I (L4). Mon-Fri noon to (Catalan). 6KDKFCDQVJGOGRCTM| 5.15pm. Sat, Sun, public hols 11am Human towers Enjoy fun activities for all ages at to 7pm. Tours various times and Sant Pau, Art Nouveau site| Barcelona’s historic theme park. languages.€10. Reduced: €8. Once a working hospital, this Castellers practice (Pl. Tibidabo, 3-4). Funicular del Booking: www.riostabarcelona.com network of pavilions was designed session TIbidabo (Pl. Doctor Andreu). FGC: and tickets.visitbarcelona.com. by Lluís Domenech i Montaner. See local group of castellers Av.Tibidabo + Tramvia Blau or bus (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167). M: rehearse, from districts of Sants or 196. Sat, Sun noon-7pm. €28.50 Sant Pau/Dos de Maig (L5). Tours in Gràcia, or the Barcelona city one. (under-120cm, €10.50). Sunday 3 various languages; consult for Tue, Thu, Fri. €24.20; reduced

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€20.50. For info about availability the city, as they compete to see sevens. Info and tickets: www. and times: www.castellscat.cat. which one the public prefers. Which Friday 8 casabatllo.cat. will be your fave? Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 (includes 2 Family Family workshop: Chindogus Tours tapas + 1 drink). More info: Fun for all ages with this 30-minute hoteltapatour.com. Scòpic Miniatur Barcelona guided tour of the museum and a Liceu opera house See Fri 1. (Tarragona, 177). M: Sants 50-minute creative workshop. Discover Barcelona’s glorious opera Estació (L3, L5), Tarragona (L3). MIBA–Museu d’Idees i Invents de house, carefully restored after a Thursday 7 Barcelona (Ciutat, 7). M: Jaume I (L4). FGXCUVCVKPIƁTGKP 11.30am-1pm. €10. More info and (La Rambla 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Cinema Tours tickets: [email protected] Mon-Fri 9.30am & 10.30am. €16. or T. 93 332 79 30. Festival Xcèntric: The enigma of Palau de la Música Santa Maria del Mar rooftop photography See Mon 4. (Palau de la Música, See Sat 2. (Plaça de Santa Maria, 6JTGGƁNOUNQQMCVJQYRJQVQITCRJ[ 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). Traditions 1). M: Jaume I (L4). has also managed to make the invisible visible. FREE Sardanes| Gaudí’s Pedrera. CCCB (Montalegre, 5). M: Universitat Saturday 9 See Sat 2. (Pla de la Seu). M: Jaume I The Origins (L1, L2), Catalunya (L1,L3). 8pm. (L4). 6pm. See Fri 1. (Provença, 261-265, Open air entrance on Passeig de Gràcia). M: Diagonal (L3, L5), FGC: Provença. Food and drink Barcelona Urban Forest| Sunday 10 See Sun 3. (Pl. del Fòrum, s/n). M: El Hotel Tapa Tour| Maresme/Fòrum (L4). Family Wednesday 6 See Wed 6. Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 (includes 2 tapas + 1 drink). More A tea with mint Tours info: hoteltapatour.com. Family See Sat 2. CaixaForum (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). Secret Basilica del Pi Little cinephiles: Let’s laugh! M: Espanya(L1,L3, FGC) . See Fri 1. Human towers Selection of shorts and shows from (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). the British Aardman studios, the What music! Castellers practice s people behind Shaun the Sheep. Learn about the gamelan, a ession CaixaForum (Av. Francesc Ferrer i traditional percussion group from 6QTTG$GNNGUIWCTF)CWFÉ| See Tue 5. For info about availability Guàrdia, 6-8). M: Espanya (L1,L3; south-east Asia. See Sat 2. (Bellesguard, 6-9). M: Av. and times: www.castellscat.cat. ()% 0QQPa(QTQXGTƁXGU Museu de la Música (L’Auditori, Tibidabo (FGC). Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Marina Dramatised visit to Casa Batlló (L1), Monumental (L2). 5.30pm. Tours A new way to discover the famous €3.50. For ages six and over. Food and drink Gaudí building, with this new Basilica de Santa initiative aimed at families. Hotel Tapa Tour| Maria del Pi (Pg. de Gràcia, 43). M: Pg de Gràcia Football Signature tapas are on offer in See Mon 4. (L2,L3, L4). Apr 9, 16. 4pm (English), various 4- and 5-star hotels around (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). 6pm (Spanish). €35. Free for under- * League fixture. RCD

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SCÒPIC MINIATUR CASA BATLLÓ TIBIDABO PORTAVENTURA Kids love all things small, and the The Gaudí landmark now offers hour- Generations of Barcelona children have About an hour down the coast, this Scòpic world, a miniature city based long dramatised visits of the iconic discovered the joy of roller coasters, is Catalonia’s answer to Disneyland. on Barcelona, will captivate them. building, specially aimed at families. Apr dodgem cars and Ferris wheels at this Discover their six zones, including one And there’s a to-scale train to ride on. 9, 16. 4pm (English), 6pm (Spanish). hilltop theme park. Plaça del Tibidabo, based on Sesame Street for the very Tarragona, 177. www.scopic.es Pg. de Gràcia, 43. www.casabatllo.es 3-4. www.tibidabo.cat young. www.portaventuraworld.com

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Espanyol – Club Atlético de (Renfe): Port Aventura. Some of the tour’s best players take Madrid Human towers to the clay courts of Barcelona. Espanyol face the Madrid team. Reial Club de Tennis Barcelona 1899 Date & time TBC. Estadi Cornellà–El Human towers Castellers practice (Bosch i Gimpera, 5-13). M: Maria Prat (Av. del Baix Llobregat, 100. session Cristina (L3). Apr 16-24. www. Cornellà de Llobregat). FGC: Castellers practice session See Tue 5. barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com Cornellà. www.rcdespanyol.com See Tue 5. For info about availability For info about availability and times: and times: www.castellscat.cat. www.castellscat.cat. Traditions Sport Tours Friday 15 FREE Sardanes| 38th El Corte Inglés Road Race| See Sat 2. (Pla de la Seu). Tours One of the most popular road races Torre Bellesguard Gaudí| Book your M: Jaume I (L4). 6pm in Spain, the 11km route tends to See Sat 2. favourite attract over 50,000 participants. (Bellesguard, 6-9). M: Av. Tibidabo Santa Maria del restaurants at Start: Plaça de Catalunya. M: (FGC). Mar rooftop timeout.com/ Sunday 17 Catalunya (L1,L3). 9.30am. More See Sat 2. (Plaça de barcelona info: www.cursaelcorteingles.cat. Santa Maria, 1). M: Jaume Family Food and drink I (L4). Món Llibre 2016 Traditions Hotel Tapa Tour| Week of activities focused on See Wed 6. Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 Family books for children, tying in with FREE Sardanes| (includes 2 tapas + 1 drink). More this year’s Sant Jordi on Sat 23. See Sat 2. (Pla de la Seu). M: Jaume info: hoteltapatour.com Scòpic Miniatur Barcelona CCCB, Pl. de Joan Coromines and I (L4). 6pm. See Fri 1. MACBA (Montalegre, 5). M: (Tarragona, 177). M: Sants Estació Catalunya (L1,L3). Apr 17-24. Wednesday 13 (L3, L5), Tarragona (L3) 11am-7.30pm. Tours Spa FREE Guided tour of Montjuïc Saturday 16 Food and drink Cemetery Aire de Barcelona, Arab Visit Barcelona’s hillside Baths Open air Hotel Tapa Tour| graveyard, which is as much an art See Mon 4. See Wed 6. Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 OWUGWOCUCƁPCNTGUVKPIRNCEG (Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: Barceloneta 6KDKFCDQVJGOGRCTM| (includes 2 tapas + 1 drink). More Cementiri de Montjuïc (Mare de (L4), Jaume I (L4). See Sat 2. info: hoteltapatour.com Déu del Port, 56-58). M: Espanya (Pl. Tibidabo, 3-4). Funicular del (L1, L3; FGC). 2nd & 4th Sun 11am TIbidabo (Pl. Doctor Andreu). FGC: FREE Earth Fair|& Market (Catalan) and 11.15am (Spanish). Tours Av.Tibidabo + Tramvia Blau or bus See Sat 16. – 196. Passeig de Lluís Companys. M: Palau de la Música Ciutadella–Vila Olímpica, Jaume I Monday 11 See Mon 4. (Palau de la Música, (L4). Family Food and drink 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). Family workshop Sport Hotel Tapa Tour| Thursday 14 See Sat 9. MIBA–Museu d’Idees i See Wed 6. Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 Invents de Barcelona (Ciutat, 7). M: Salomon Run Barcelona (includes 2 tapas + 1 drink). More Cinema Jaume I (L4). Run covering 10km around the info: hoteltapatour.com. mountain of Montjuïc. Start and Festival Xcèntric: Music with ƁPKUJ/CIKE(QWPVCKPUKP/QPVLWËE new images Food and drink (Pl. Puig i Cadafalch). M: Espanya Tours Forgotten works from the French (L1, L3; FGC). 9.30am. More info: avant-garde era in the ’20s. FREE Earth Fair|& Market www.salomonrunbarcelona.com Liceu opera house CCCB (Montalegre, 5). M: Annual event dedicated to local See Tue 5. Universitat (L1, L2), Catalunya food products that are respectful (La Rambla 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). (L1,L3). 8pm to both the planet and people. Football Parc de la Ciutadella–Passeig de Lluís Companys. M: Ciutadella–Vila * League fixture. FC Tuesday 12 Food and drink Olímpica, Jaume I (L4). Apr 16-17. Barcelona – Valencia CF www.diadelaterra.org Another match for Messi and Open air Hotel Tapa Tour| friends to display their skills. See Wed 6. Tennis Date and time TBC Visit PortAventura theme park Apr 6-17. €4.50-€8 (includes 2 For more info: fcbarcelona.cat. See Mon 4. (Av. Alcalde Pere Molas. tapas + 1 drink). More info: Barcelona Open Banc – Camp Nou (Aristides Maillol, s/n). Km. 2. Vila Seca, Tarragona). Train hoteltapatour.com 64th Conde de Godó Trophy M: Les Corts (L3).

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64th Conde de Godó Trophy For info about availability and Tours See Sat 16. Reial Club de Tennis times: www.castellscat.cat. Cinema Barcelona 1899 (Bosch i Gimpera, FREE Guided tour of Poblenou 5-13). M: Maria Cristina (L3). Festival D’A Cemetery Wednesday 20 Sixth edition of international See Sun 3. (Av. Icària, s/n). M: festival of Auteur cinema, featuring Llacuna (L4). Tours Football OQTGVJCPƁNOUQHEQPVGORQTCT[ cinema and the best local Palau de la Música * League fixture. RCD productions. Monday 18 See Mon 4. Espanyol – Athletic Club Various venues. For details of venues (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Another Spanish league match and programme: www. Open air Urquinaona (L1, L4). for Barcelona’s other team. cinemadautor.cat. Cinemes Aribau Date and time TBC. Club & CCCB: €7.50 (single entry); PortAventura theme park www.rcdespanyol.com. a ƁXGVKEMGVU  See Mon 4. (Av. Alcalde Pere Molas. Tuesday 19 Estadi Cornellà - El Prat (Av. del Km. 2. Vila Seca, Tarragona). Train Baix Llobregat, 100. Cornellà de (Renfe): Port Aventura. Tours Llobregat). FGC: Cornellà. Tennis

Family Basilica de Santa Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell– Maria del Pi Tours 64th Conde de Godó Scòpic Miniatur Barcelona See Mon 4. Trophy See Fri 1. (Tarragona, 177). M: Sants (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). Torre Bellesguard Gaudí| See Sat 16. Estació (L3, L5), Tarragona (L3) See Sat 2. Reial Club de Tennis Barcelona Human towers (Bellesguard, 6-9). M: Av. 1899 (Bosch i Gimpera, 5-13). M: Tennis Tibidabo (FGC). Maria Cristina (L3). Castellers practice session Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell– See Tue 5. Thursday 21 Friday 22

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to a local homeless charity. of Badalona Festival (Pg. de Gràcia, 43). M: Passeig de Tours The 12th edition of the ‘Magno Gràcia (L2,L3,L4). 9am-9pm. More Celebration’, which sees Beergarten Poble Espanyol| info: www.casabatllo.cat. FREE Guided tour of Montjuïc Barcelona’s neighbouring city mark Experience a typical German Cemetery its classical origins. Discover trades, Biergarten with authentic beer and See Sun 10. Cementiri de Montjuïc customs and rituals. Museu de typical food, as well as workshops Sports (Mare de Déu del Port, 56-58). M: Badalona and surrounds (Pl. for all ages, live music and fun Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). Assemblea de Catalunya, 1, contests. Targa Iberia Trophy Badalona). M: Badalona Pompeu (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 13). Escuderia Targa Iberia is a decade- Fabra (L2). 10am-2pm, 5pm-8pm. M: Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). Apr 22- old Spanish company that Monday 25 Apr 27-30, May 1. www. 30, May 1. pobleespanyol.com organises motor-racing events. magnacelebratio.cat. Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya (Ctra. Open air de Granollers–Parets, 2km). Sport Montmeló. For times and details of 2QTVCXGPWTCVJGOGRCTM| Cinema programme: www.circuitcat.com. See Mon 4. (Av. Alcalde Pere Molas. 48th Barcelona International Km. 2. Vila Seca, Tarragona). Train Festival Xcèntric: Exquisite, Polo Tournament| (Renfe): Port Aventura. recent and essential Experience a typical German Tours #UGTKGUQHƁNOUVJCVJCXGTGEGPVN[ Biergarten with authentic beer and passed through international typical food, you can also enjoy FREE Sant Pau, Art Nouveau Spa GZRGTKGOGPVCNƁNOHGUVKXCNU workshops for all ages, live music site CCCB (Montalegre, 5). M: Universitat and fun contests. Experience Sant Jordi at this Aire de Barcelona, Arab Baths (L1, L2), Catalunya (L1,L3). 8pm. Reial Club de Polo de Barcelona (Av. modernista gem: live music from See Mon 4. (Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: Dr. Gregorio Marañón, 19-31). Apr the Balkan Paradise Orchestra and Barceloneta (L4), Jaume I (L4). 22-24, Apr 29-May 1. rcpolo.com the Barcelona Coral Àsia, and the Friday 29 sale of books and roses. (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167). Tuesday 26 Human towers Saturday 23 M: Sant Pau (L5). Visit and sale: 10am-6.30pm; live music: noon- Festival Castellers practice session Family 2pm. www.santpaubarcelona.org See Tue 5. For info about availability Beergarten Poble Espanyol| and times: www.castellscat.cat. Little cinephiles: Shaun the See Fri 22. (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Sheep Sunday 24 Guàrdia, 13). M: Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). An ideal activity for families who Tours love going to the cinema. Family CaixaForum (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Tours Palau de la Música Guàrdia, 6-8). M: Espanya (L1,L3; MIMoMUSICA See Mon 4. (Palau de la Música, ()% 0QQPa(QTQXGTƁXGU Dramatised visit to the Music Gaudí’s Pedrera. The Origins 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1, L4).. Museum. See Fri 1. (Provença, 261-265, Món Llibre 2016 Museu de la Música (L’Auditori, entrance on Passeig de Gràcia). See Sun 17. CCCB, Pl. de Joan Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Marina M: Diagonal (L3, L5), FGC: Provença. Saturday 30 Coromines and MACBA (Montalegre, (L1), Monumental (L2). 5.30pm. 5). M: Catalunya (L1,L3). €2.50. For ages six and over. Open air Wednesday 27 Roman Festival of Traditions Sports Tours Badalona See Thu 28. Museu de Badalona FREE Day of Sant Jordi Sagrada Família 1km Road Run Secret Basilica del Pi and surrounds (Pl. Assemblea de The streets of towns and cities Annual fun run around the famous See Fri 1. (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3). Catalunya, 1, Badalona). M: CTQWPF%CVCNQPKCƁNNYKVJTQUGUCPF temple.Starts: Provença and Badalona Pompeu Fabra (L2). books as lovers exchange gifts. Marina. M: Sagrada Família (L2,L5). Around the city, especially Rambla More info: claror.cat/lamilla. Festival de Catalunya, Pg. de Gràcia and La Sports Rambla. 9am-9pm. www.barcelona. Beergarten Poble Espanyol| cat/santjordi Football See Fri 22. (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Bicircuit Festival Guàrdia, 13). M: Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). Weekend dedicated to different FREE Experience Sant Jordi at * League fixture. FC Barcelona bike competitions, including the Casa Batlló – Real Sporting de Gijón Brompton World Championships. Antoni Gaudí’s most poetic building As the league draws to an end, will Thursday 28 Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya (Ctra. in Barcelona celebrates his feast $CTÃCƁPKUJƁTUV! de Granollers–Parets, 2km). day with a vertical rose garden Date and time TBC. For more info: Open air Montmeló. Apr 30-May 1. For times covering part of its façade. You can fcbarcelona.cat. Camp Nou (Aristides and details of programme: www. also buy roses with the money going Maillol, s/n). M: Les Corts (L3). Roman Festival circuitcat.com

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Architecture €7.50 (reduced). This UNESCO €11.20 (reduced). Under-16s free. over Spain. Regularly hosts World Heritage Site is inside First Sunday of the month there live music events. Basílica de la Sagrada Colònia Güell, a planned textile are no tours, but free entry to enjoy Família factory and residential area 20 cultural activities. Tour the Gaudí Experience (Mallorca, 401). M: Sagrada minutes from Barcelona. buildings and grounds of one of (Larrard, 41). M: Lesseps (L3). T. Família (L2, L5). T. 93 513 20 60. the world’s largest Art Nouveau 93 285 44 40. 10am-7pm. Last 9am-8pm. Guided tour: €24. Tour Gran Teatre del Liceu monuments, restored and entry: 6.30pm. €9. €7.50 with audio guide: €22. Panoramic (La Rambla, 51–59). M: Liceu opened to the public in 2014. (reduced). A fascinating visit (audio guide and towers): (L3). T. 93 485 99 14. Guided interactive journey that uses €29. Barcelona’s most famous tour: Mon-Fri 9.30am, 10.30am. Torre Bellesguard 4-D technology to take you landmark, begun by Antoni €16. 25-minute tour: Daily (Bellesguard, 6-9). FGC: Av. inside Gaudí’s creative )CWFÉKPCPFWPƁPKUJGFVQ (various times and languages). Tibidabo. T. 93 250 40 93. Tue- universe. A new way to discover this day. €6. Visit one of the world’s great Sun 10am-3pm. Last entry: the architect and his world. opera houses, with its 2.30pm. Closed Mon. Panoramic Basílica de impressive concert hall and tour (audio guide to exterior, Tibidabo Amusement Park Santa Maria del Mar exclusive private rooms. remains of Martin the Humane’s (Plaça del Tibidabo, 3-4). Bus (Plaça de Santa Maria, 1). palace, audiovisual centre): €9. Tibibus (T2A) from Plaça M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 310 23 90. La Pedrera €7 (reduced). Full guided tour in Catalunya. M: Av. Tibidabo (L7, Mon-Sat 9am-1pm, 5pm-8.30pm; (Provença, 261–265). English (tower exterior and FGC) + Tramvia Blau or Bus 196 Sun and public holidays 10am- M: Diagonal (L3, L5). T. 902 interior, roof terrace): €16. + Funicular del Tibidabo. T. 93 2pm, 5pm-8pm. Wheelchair 202 138. La Pedrera by Day €12.80 (reduced). Discover the 211 79 42. Weekends noon- access. Known as the ‘cathedral (includes audio guide): 9am- modernista castle that Antoni 7pm. Sky Walk: €12.70; children of the Ribera’, this church is one 8pm. Last entry: 7.30pm. Gaudí built at the foot of measuring less than 120cm, of the most perfect examples of €20.50. €16.50 (reduced). Tibidado mountain. €7.80. Amusement park: Gothic architecture. Gaudi’s Pedrera. The Origins €28.50; children under 120cm, (evening tour): 9pm-10pm. €34. Leisure €10.30. With over 100 years of Basílica de Santa €17 (reduced). Many Barcelona history, Tibidabo features Maria del Pi residents consider this building Aire de Barcelona, classic rides, old favourites (Plaça del Pi, 7). M: Liceu (L3), to be Gaudí’s true masterpiece. Arab Baths and new attractions, plus Jaume I (L4). T. 93 318 47 43. In fact, some of its apartments (Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: spectacular city views. 10am-6pm. €4. €3 (reduced). are still private homes. The roof Barceloneta (L4), Jaume I (L4). T. Guided tour (including up to bell terrace represents modernista /QP(TKƁTUVGPVT[ PortAventura tower): Sat noon, 1.30pm, 5pm, CTEJKVGEVWTGCVKVUƁPGUV 10am, last entry between 10pm (Av. Alcalde Pere Molas, km 2. 6.30pm; Sun noon, 1.30pm, and midnight; Sat, Sun and days Vila Seca, Tarragona). Train: Port 5pm (book in advance). €10. €8 Palau Güell before public holidays: last entry Aventura. T. 902 20 22 20. (reduced). La Basílica del Pi (Nou de la Rambla, 3-5). between midnight and 2am. Tickets: tickets.visitbarcelona. Secreta (night-time tour): Thu, Fri M: Drassanes (L3), Barceloneta These Arab baths revive the com or www.portaventura.es. 9pm (9.20pm English); Sat (L4). T. 93 472 57 75. Tue-Sun ancient tradition of bathing as a An hour south of Barcelona, 9.30pm (9.50pm English). €19. 10am-8pm. Last entry: 7pm. form of relaxation. this theme park has six zones One of Barcelona’s grandest Closed Mon except public hols. of attractions plus parades, Gothic churches, with great €12. €9 (reduced). Barcelona Urban Forest eateries and shops. views from its bell tower. Built by Antoni Gaudí in the late (Plaça del Fòrum, s/n). M: El 19th century, this palace Maresme/Fòrum (L4). T. 93 117 34 Scòpic Miniatur Barcelona Casa Batlló belonged to his principal patron. 26. Sat, Sun, public holidays 10am- (Tarragona, 177). M: Sants Estacío (Pg. de Gràcia, 43). M: Passeig de 8pm. €11-€27 (depending on age (L3, L5), Tarragona (L3). T. 93 423 Gràcia (L2, L3, L4). T. 93 216 03 Palau de la and circuit). Zip lines, trampolines 78 55. 10am-8pm. €11.20. €7.84 06. 9am-9pm. Last entry: 8pm. Música Catalana and bungee jumping for high- (reduced). Entry includes ride on Tour and video guide: €22.50. (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: adrenaline fun. an authentic to-scale train. €19.50 (reduced). 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unusual dialogues. In 2014 he imagined the relationship between Degas and Duchamp through paintings and , some of which were created with 3D printers. Here, the works of Ignasi Aballí confront those of Carl André, and Juan Muñoz speaks to Robert Gober; Brassaï’s photographs connect with Sigmar Polke’s paintings, and Gerhard Richter’s white canvases are juxtaposed with a video piece by Gabriel Abrantes. Other striking works in the show include a Degas as well as GRAHAM, SCHOOL YARD TREE, VANCOUVER 2002. MACBA COLLECTION © R. GRAHAM 2016 2002. MACBA VANCOUVER TREE, SCHOOL YARD GRAHAM, S. POLKE, TRIPTYQUE, 1989. COL. “LA CAIXA” © POLKE ESTATE, COLOGNE/VEGAP, BCN 2016 COLOGNE/VEGAP, © POLKE ESTATE, 1989. COL. “LA CAIXA” TRIPTYQUE, S. POLKE,

+VoUPQVVJGƁTUV time Sarmento has played with unusual dialogues pieces by Portuguese artists Joaquim Rodrigo, João Onofre, Ângelo de Sousa and Fernando Calhau, the last of whom Sarmento greatly admires. But he does not make distinctions or suggest hierarchies between LUÍSA CUNHA, HELLO! 1994. COL CAM–FUNDAÇAO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN © COL. CAM HELLO! 1994. COL CAM–FUNDAÇAO LUÍSA CUNHA, JUAN MUÑOZ, THE WASTELAND, 1986. © ESTATE OF THE ARTIST 1986. © ESTATE THE WASTELAND, MUÑOZ, JUAN one artist and R. the next; instead he treats the exhibition as a breathing whole, in which ‘one work can’t live without another’. A collection of my own What of the voyeuristic gaze, the aura of mystery and the Julião Sarmento spins a narrative with artworks from La Caixa, presence of women, recurrent the MACBA and the Gulbenkian Foundation. By Eugènia Sendra motifs in his own career? Perhaps they appear ‘I’m an artist, not a curator, so MACBA, as well as the found himself dealing with three unconsciously: the model of the it’s as if this were one of my own Gulbenkian Foundation in collections that are different in Capitolio building in Lisbon works,’ says Julião Sarmento, Lisbon. The title of the terms of their ‘consistency, reminds us that Sarmento the renowned Portuguese artist exhibition is also the name of content and interest’, and even studied architecture to earn his who, throughout his 50-year one of Sarmento’s own though he was unable to use living in Portugal under the career, has used different paintings from the 1990s, in work by certain artists (the Salazar dictatorship. He insists, media to explore varied which two figures sate their example he gives is Bruce however, that he would have concepts such as memory, thirst against a grey shape Nauman), the Portuguese made a terrible architect. eroticism and representation. whose edges are the artist has put the pieces in Sarmento has travelled to silhouettes of female bodies. order as though they were the El pes d’un gest is at Barcelona as the creator of an The reference is intentional, he ‘sentences of a novel’. CaixaForum (Avinguda exhibition called The Weight of a admits. ‘I’ve modified and Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8) Gesture, which draws on the transformed several things, I’m From Degas to Abrantes until May 1. collections of Barcelona creating a new context for each 6JKUKUPQVVJGƁTUVVKOGVJCV institutions La Caixa and the one of these artworks.’ He Sarmento has played with

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Black box A musical celebration

The latest initiative from Barcelona Obertura – the association of some of the city’s key classical music venues that was launched last year – is this month’s Festival of the Arts. It’s a ten-day celebration that gives audiences the chance to see stars such as singers Plácido Domingo and Matthias Goerne, pianists Maria João Pires and Alexei Volodin, and conductor Daniel Harding. The programme

is eclectic and the festival A. BOFILL promises to be an exciting event for lovers of opera and classical it’s the one on Sun 23), and ‘BIRDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA’, 2012 ‘BIRDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA’, music: performances will include the Barcelona Symphony  as Lenin or Henry VIII – are of the songs from Schubert’s Winter Orchestra will present works by waxworks at Madame Tussaud’s. Journey (Thu 14, Palau de la George Gershwin and Leonard Fundació Mapfre. Diputació, 250 Here we encounter the concept Música Catalana), Verdi’s Simon Bernstein (Fri 15, L’Auditori). (Eixample Dret). of the uncanny, developed by Boccanegra (take note that –Hannah Pennell fundacionmapfre.org. Until May 8. Sigmund Freud at the beginning Plácido Domingo will be taking of the 20th century to describe the title role in only three of the Festival of the Arts (Barcelona Hiroshi Sugimoto is a conceptual the unsettling feeling caused by scheduled performances of this Obertura) takes place from April artist who uses photography as a something that is both familiar work at the Gran Teatre del Liceu; 14 to 23. means of expression. A word of and strange. The waxwork of in the framework of the festival, www.barcelonaobertura.com warning: these works may be more Henry VIII was based on a portrait interesting as ideas than to look at. by Hans Holbein that was Sugimoto explores the gulf destroyed in a fire. between representation and reality Among Sugimoto’s earliest Exploring the city’s galleries through metaphors that erase the subjects were dioramas. In this RCUUCIGQHVKOGCUGZGORNKƁGFD[ exhibition he includes a series of JKUUGCUECRGUVJGƁTUVJWOCP pictures taken at the American saw the same sea that the last one Museum of Natural History in will. On dry land it’s different. His New York, scenes of animals and WUGQHƂCYNGUUDNCEMCPFYJKVGKU prehistoric humans. The uncanny at once physical and supernatural. again, or the more technological To make his images of cinemas, he uncanny valley: art as the QRGPUVJGUJWVVGTCUVJGƁNO suspicion that what we are seeing begins and closes it when it’s over. is not, in fact, what we are seeing. The result is a shining screen that They say the Japanese prefer to contains – and eliminates – the avoid physical contact. Perhaps. ƁNOoUVGORQTCNUGSWGPEG#DNCEM But these immense photographs hole of meanings surrounded by avoid touching our hearts, a GALERÍA CORTINA theatre seats and ornamental strange exercise in aesthetic Barcelona is a city of art. There’s present. There are also details of proscenium arches. autism. –Ricard Mas the amazing architecture plus initiatives such as ‘Tardor Art’, an Not a single living human figure open-air sculptures, murals and autumn event that seeks to raise appears in the photographs. The FOOTNOTE The artist describes installations. And what about the awareness of the galleries among portraits of historical figures – such the camera as a time machine. galleries? It feels as though you the public. So take your chance to could spend a lifetime visiting explore this active part of the city’s these specialised showrooms for art world. On the website AN ARTISAN OF THE IMAGE both established and up-and- visitbarcelona.com you can coming creatives, and still not see download a free map showing the everything. The Gremi de Galeries location of all the galleries CANNED LIGHTNING ALMOST ABSTRACT d’Art de Catalunya (Association of represented by the Gremi (you’ll Sugimoto emulates the pioneers of On the ground floor of the Fundació Art Galleries of Catalonia) aims to ƁPFKVKPVJG3WKQUEQHVJG2TCEVKECN photography. The series ‘Lightning Mapfre you can view the series promote the hard work of almost Guide section, under Specialised fields’ captures electrical discharges ‘Seascapes’, which suggests a 60 local galleries, and on its Publications). –H.P. on photographic dry plates, doing colour-blind version of the Rothko YGDUKVG[QWECPƁPFFGVCKNUQHVJGKT away with the camera altogether. chapel in Houston. artists and exhibitions, past and www.galeriescatalunya.com

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Monumental (L2). Apr 1 8.30pm; Rock VKEMGVUCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGUCPFVKEMGVU Music Apr 2 7pm; Apr 3 11am. €25-€32. visitbarcelona.com Black Mountain Masters of the Spanish Guitar Various Psychedelic rock group from See Fri 1. Basilica de Santa Maria Friday 1 Canada present their latest work. del Pi (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Catalunya Video Games Live Sala Bikini (Av. Diagonal, 547). M: (L1, L3; FGC). Blues Music from some of the most Les Corts & Maria Cristina (L3). popular video games of all time, 8.30pm. €22. The art of the Spanish guitar: Blues at the MEAM organised by industry superstar music and wine Live music surrounded by modern Tommy Tallarico. Guitar BCN 2016: Igor Paskual See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church art and with drinks and snacks. CCCIB–Auditori del Fòrum (Rambla San Sebastián rocker performs new (Santa Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Prim, 2-4). M: El Maresme-Fòrum disc 6GTTCƁTOG. L3; FGC). Every Friday. 6pm. €14. More info (L4). 8.30pm. €25-€60. www. BARTS Club (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). CPFVKEMGVUCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGUCPF livenation.es M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 9pm. €15. tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Electronica

Electronica Saturday 2 Lapsus Festival Classical Festival featuring avant-garde music DNIT at CaixaForum Jazz with a programme that lasts more The art of the Spanish guitar: Grouper, aka Liz Harris, the than 12 hours. Among the music and wine venerated experimental artist Live Jazz EQPƁTOGFCTVKUVUCTG,KKP Carmen, Barcelona Duo de Guitar presents her latest compositions. Live jazz at Milano Cocktail Bar. Donnacha Costello and HKE. perform a candlelit concert (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). (Ronda Universitat, 35). M: CCCB (Montalegre, 5). M: Universitat featuring work by Albèniz, Granados M: Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). 10pm. €6. Catalunya (L1, L3). 9pm (double (L1, L2), Catalunya (L1, L3). and Rodrigo, among others. session). Cover charge €8. Santa Anna Church (Santa Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). Tue, Jazz Pop Thu, Sat 9pm. Fri 7pm. €20. Flamenco &KUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU/QTG Live Jazz at Jamboree The Next Step info: tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Barcelona’s iconic club hosts two Flamenco show dedicated to Stars of Canadian TV teen drama sessions. Check website for details. Camarón de la Isla are on an international tour.CCCIB– Masters of the Spanish Guitar Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu Casa Camarón celebrates the Auditori del Fòrum (Rambla Prim, Pedro J. González performs . ROROa DQZQHƁEG  NGICE[QHCƂCOGPEQNGIGPF 2-4). M: El Maresme-Fòrum (L4). ƂCOGPEQIWKVCTVWPGU. €10 (online in advance). www. Casa Camarón (Roger de Flor, 8.30pm. €27-€40. www.livenation.es Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. masimas.com/jamboree 230). M: Verdaguer (L4,L5), del Pi, 7). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; Sagrada Família (L2,L5). Mon-Sat FGC). 9pm. Discount at tourist 8pm (supper), 9pm-10pm (show). Sunday 3 QHƁEGUa+PHQVKEMGVU Flamenco Closed Sun. visitbarcelona.com. www.casacamaron.com Classical Tablao Cordobes The Song of the Sibyl 6JGDGUVƂCOGPEQFCPEGTUKPVJG Tablao Flamenco Nervión A tour of Romeo and Juliet Evening of poetry and music, most authentic BCN tablao. City centre restaurant hosts Exploring different version of including compositions from the (La Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) ƂCOGPEQRGTHQTOCPEG Shakespeare’s epic romantic likes of Bach, Zimmermann and & Liceu (L3). Daily 6.30pm, 8.15pm, (Princesa, 2). M: Jaume I (L4). Thu, drama, including works by Krebs. 10pm, 11.30pm. €44-€78.50. Fri, Sat 8pm-10pm. Show + drink Tchaikovsky and Bernstein. Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar tablaocordobes.com €16.90; show + supper €27.90. Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, (Pl. de Santa Maria, 1). M: Jaume I 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). 5pm. €10- (L4). 9pm. €18-€54. More info: Stories of Love €91. liceubarcelona.cat www.concertsabarcelona.com A full cast performs the traditions Classical QHQRGTC\CT\WGNCCPFƂCOGPEQ OBC in concert: Pirates of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Teatre Poliorama (La Rambla, 115). St. Matthew’s Passion Caribbean German violinist performs works M: Catalunya (L1, L3). Apr 1, 15, 20, Symphony orchestra from the See Fri 1. L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). by Bach, Vivaldi and Previn. 24, 29. 7pm. From €38. More info: nearby Valles area perform. M: Glòries & Marina (L1), Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau Monumental (L2). de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). 8.30pm. €15-€100. (L1, L4). 6pm. €25-€32. Musical season at CaixaForum Pop – Rock Performance of works by Bach, OBC in concert: Pirates of the Classical music at the MEAM Purcell and Händel. Caribbean Guitar BCN 2016: Andrés Suárez Regular event at historical venue (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). City orchestra performs popular Spanish singer-songwriter visits in the city centre with music and M: Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). 7pm. €12. music from even more popular before heading to tour in South afternoon snack. ƁNO. L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). America. BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). FREE Shh! We’re making music M: Glòries & Marina (L1), M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 9pm. From €18. Every Sat. 6pm. €19. More info and Studio sessions open to the public,

44 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com The Arts with this month’s featured Tarantos (Plaça Reial, 17). M: Liceu Cuba’s most famous group arrives instruments being piano and organ. (L3). Daily 8.30pm, 9.30pm, as part of a farewell tour. Pop – Rock Museu de la Música (L’Auditori, 10.30pm. €10 (on the door). €8 Auditori del Fòrum (Rambla Prim, Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Marina (web). www.masimas.com/tarantos 2-4). M: El Maresme-Fòrum (L4). Sergio Dalma (L1), Monumental (L2). Apr 3, 17. 9pm. From €24. The Catalan musician is one of 5.30pm. Spain’s best-selling artists. Jazz Auditori del Fòrum (Rambla Prim, Wednesday 6 2-4). M: El Maresme-Fòrum (L4). Apr Flamenco WTF Jam Session 7-8. 9pm. From €24. Anything goes at the long-running Classical Palacio del Flamenco show jam hosted by Aurelio Santos. Guitar BCN 2016: Sivan Tamor A full cast of guitarists, singers and Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu Masters of the Spanish Guitar The young Israeli singer presents dancers, and the rhythms of the . ROa DQZQHƁEG a Xavier Coll gives a show of classic her second album, Fire. cajón, heels and palms. (Balmes, (online in advance). www.masimas. Spanish guitar sounds. BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). 139). M: Diagonal (L3, L5; FGC). com/jamboree. Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 9pm. From €15. Daily 6.25pm, 8.15pm & 10.30pm. del Pi, 7). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; Options: show only; show + one FGC). 9pm. €23. Discount at tourist drink; show + different menu options Tuesday 5 QHƁEGU+PHQVKEMGVUXKUKVDCTEGNQPC Opera (including tapas). €45-€160. €10 com. FKUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU Flamenco Opera at Palau Dalmases RCNCEKQFGNƂCOGPEQEQO La Petita Companyia Lírica de Tablao Cordobes Flamenco Barcelona perform in a historical Grand Flamenco Gala See Fri 1. Tablao Cordobes (La venue, with the singers moving Enjoy a grand performance of the Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & Stories of Love among the audience. (Montcada, classic Spanish music genre. Liceu (L3). A full cast performs the traditions 20). M: Jaume I (L4). Every Thu. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau QHQRGTC\CT\WGNCCPFƂCOGPEQ 11pm. €20. Info: www. de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Palacio del Flamenco show Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau palaudalmases.com. (L1, L4). 9.30pm. €20-€49. More See Sun 3. (Balmes, 139). M: de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona KPHQCPFVKEMGVUCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU Diagonal (L3, L5; FGC). (L1, L4). Apr 6, 10. 9.30pm. €20- and tickets.visitbarcelona.com. €50. More info and tickets at Flamenco VQWTKUVQHƁEGUCPFVKEMGVU Classical visitbarcelona.com. Tablao Cordobes Jazz See Fri 1. Tablao Cordobes (La Bach Partitas Flamenco show dedicated to Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & Live Jazz at Jamboree Violinist Viktoria Mullova performs Camarón de la Isla Liceu (L3). See Fri 1. Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). three works by Bach. See Sat 2. Casa Camarón (Roger M: Liceu (L3). Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de Flor, 230). M: Verdaguer (L4,L5), de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Sagrada Família (L2,L5). Friday 8 (L1, L4). 8.30pm. €21-€72. More Monday 4 KPHQCPFVKEMGVUCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU Classical and tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Jazz Classical Spanish Guitar Maestros The art of the Spanish guitar: Live Jazz Manuel Barrueco gives virtuoso Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis music and wine See Fri 1. (Ronda Universitat, 35). recital with Spanish guitar featuring The tenor and pianist perform See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church M: Catalunya (L1, L3). works by Bach, Albéniz and others. works by Beethoven and Schubert. (Santa Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau L3; FGC). de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Thursday 7 (L1, L4). 9pm. €30-€35. More info (L1, L4). 8.30pm. €35. and tickets: tickets.visitbarcelona. Jazz Classical com. Masters of the Spanish Guitar Dúo del Mar give a recital of Jazz Night at El Molino Grigory Sokolov The art of the Spanish guitar: ƂCOGPEQCPF5RCPKUJIWKVCT. Guillem Arnedo Band and Celeste Russian pianist Sokolov performs music and wine Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. del Alías perform traditional jazz greats a programme featuring two works See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church Pi, 7). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). by the likes of Sinatra, Holiday and by Chopin and two by Schumann. (Santa Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, ROa&KUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU Nat King Cole. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau L3; FGC). Info: tickets.visitbarcelona.com. (Vila i Vila, 99). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona 9.30pm. From €15. elmolinobcn.com (L1, L4). 8.30pm. €20-€50. Flamenco Flamenco The art of the Spanish guitar: World music music and wine Grand Flamenco Gala Live Flamenco See Fri 1. Enjoy a grand performance of the 6JGRCUUKQPQHƂCOGPEQKPCP Guitar BCN 2016: Orquesta Santa Anna Church (Santa Anna, classic Spanish music genre. intimate tablao on Plaça Reial. Sala Buena Vista Social Club 29). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). Teatre Poliorama (La Rambla, 115).

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M: Catalunya (L1, L3). Apr 8, 13, 27. BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). and Tchaikovsky. 7pm. From €38. More info: tickets. M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 9pm. From €15. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau visitbarcelona.com Palacio del Flamenco show de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona See Sun 3. (Balmes, 139). M: (L1, L4). 9pm. €18-€54. More info: Tablao Flamenco Nervión Classical Diagonal (L3, L5; FGC). www.concertsabarcelona.com See Thu 4. (Princesa, 2). M: Jaume I (L4). Romeo and Juliet Masters of the Spanish Guitar The Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès Jazz See Wed 6. Basilica de Santa Maria performs musical love letters. del Pi (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Catalunya Pop Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau Live Jazz (L1, L3; FGC). de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1, See Fri 1. (Ronda Universitat, 35). Festival del Mil·lenni: Anastacia L4). 7pm. €18-€68. M: Catalunya (L1, L3). The Chicago singer presents her Flamenco greatest hits album, Ultimate The art of the Spanish guitar: Collection. L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). music and wine Classical Flamenco show dedicated to M: Glòries & Marina (L1), See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church Camarón de la Isla Monumental (L2). 9pm. €32-€68. (Santa Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, Spanish guitar / Gran Orquestra See Sat 2. Casa Camarón (Roger L3; FGC). Simfònica de Flor, 230). M: Verdaguer (L4,L5), Guitar BCN 2016: Enric Classic compositions performed Sagrada Família (L2,L5). Verdaguer + Cybee Cinema Symphony Orchestra by Rolando Saad, including work Verdaguer, whose output lies Some of the greatest hits from the by Rodrigo, Bizet and De Falla. somewhere between folk and pop, music of cinema, such as James Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau Jazz shares the stage with young Bond, The Lord of the Rings and Out de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Catalan pop band, Cybee. Luz de of Africa.Palau de la Música Catalana (L1, L4). 5.30pm. More info. www. WTF Jam Session Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: promoconcert.es. See Mon 4. Jamboree (Pl. Reial, (L3, L5); FGC: Gràcia. 9pm. €15. Urquinaona (L1, L4). 10.30pm. More 17). M: Liceu (L3). info: www.promoconcert.es. Masters of the Spanish Guitar Manuel González performs classic Indie Spanish guitar tunes. Basilica de Tuesday 12 Pop – Rock Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Festival del Mil·lenni: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). 9pm. €23. Classical Supersubmarina Guitar BCN 2016: Noel &KUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU+PHQ The Spanish group has just Gallagher’s High Flying Birds tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Arnold Schoenberg Choir embarked on a national tour. Sala The Mancurian musician and his Rendition of works by Mendelssohn, Razzmatazz (Almogàvers, 122). M: band showcase their second album, Schubert and Brahms, among Marina (L1), Bogatell (L4). 9pm. €17. Chasing Yesterday. Pop others. L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Sant Jordi Club (Pg. Olímpic, 5-7). M: Glòries & Marina (L1), Monumental Espanya (L1; L3; FGC). 9pm. €40. Suite Festival: Julieta Venegas (L2). 8.30pm. €20-€30. Jazz Mexican singer-songwriter presents her new disc. Gran Teatre The art of the Spanish guitar: Live Jazz Sunday 10 del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: music and wine See Fri 1. (Ronda Universitat, 35). Liceu (L3). 8pm. €20-€45. See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church (Santa M: Catalunya (L1, L3). Flamenco Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). Live Jazz at Jamboree Festival del Mil·lenni: Siempre Post-hardcore See Fri 1. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). Así 6JGEJQTCNƂCOGPEQITQWRHTQO At the Drive-In Flamenco Seville arrive in Barcelona on their Legendary US group give their only Saturday 9 tour promoting their album, concert in Spain on current tour Live Flamenco Corazón. L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: where they’ll perform songs from See Mon 4. Sala Tarantos (Plaça Flamenco Glòries & Marina (L1), Monumental past three albums. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). (L2). 7.30pm. €26-€39. Sala Razzmatazz (Almogàvers, 122). Tablao Cordobes M: Marina (L1), Bogatell (L4). 8pm. Palacio del Flamenco show See Fri 1. Tablao Cordobes (La Flamenco at Palau Dalmases €33. More info: www.livenation.es See Sun 3. (Balmes, 139). M: Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & A baroque space is the setting for Diagonal (L3, L5; FGC). Liceu (L3). VJKUNKXGƂCOGPEQUJQY (Montcada, 20). M: Jaume I (L4). Monday 11 Guitar BCN 2016: Juanito Daily 6pm, 7.30pm, 9.30pm. €25 Opera Makandé (includes one drink). More info: Classical Multifaceted musician from the tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Simon Boccanegra south of Spain, whose tunes Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci and KPEQTRQTCVGƂCOGPEQTGIICGHWPM Stories of Love Russian Musical Chamber Giovanni Meoni are the three singers rock and more gets on stage to See Wed 6. Palau de la Música Ensemble ‘Victoria’ and violinst who will take the lead role in this present his latest album. Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). Rodion Zamuruev perform Vivaldi dramatic work by Verdi about

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14th-century love and Italian 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Apr 13, 27. politics. 9pm. €15-€55. Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Apr 12, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29. 8pm (except Thursday 14 Apr 17 5pm). €12-€299. Contemporary classical music Jazz Guitar BCN 2016: Ludovico Jazz Night at El Molino Einaudi The Biel Ballester Trio are Pianist and composer from Turin renowned for their European take presents Elements. Gran Teatre on jazz. (Vila i Vila, 99). M: Paral·lel del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: (L2, L3). 9.30pm. From €15. Liceu (L3). 9pm. elmolinobcn.com Classical Wednesday 13 Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Classical See Mon 11. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). Masters of the Spanish M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). Guitar See Fri 1. Basilica de Santa Maria Festival of the Arts: del Pi (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: Catalunya Winterreise (L1, L3; FGC). 9.30pm. New package of concerts organised by Barcelona Obertura (see page 43) starts with this Flamenco performance of Schubert’s Winter Journey starring baritone Matthias Grand Flamenco Gala Goerne. Palau de la Música See Fri 8. Teatre Poliorama (La Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). Rambla, 115). M: Catalunya (L1, M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). 8.30pm. L3). €15-€60.

Tablao Cordobes See Fri 1. Tablao Cordobes (La Electronica Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & Liceu (L3). Kygo The greatest hits of the Norwegian DJ will get Barcelona moving. Sant Jazz Jordi Club (Pg. Olímpic, 5-7). M: Espanya (L1; L3; FGC). 9.30pm. €33. Guitar BCN 2016: Brooklyn musician presents Flamenco Afrodeezia (2015), which mixes jazz with African sounds.BARTS (Av. Flamenco show dedicated to del Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel (L2, Camarón de la Isla L3). 9pm. From €28. See Sat 2. Casa Camarón (Roger de Flor, 230). M: Verdaguer (L4,L5), Live Jazz at Jamboree Sagrada Família (L2,L5). See Fri 1. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). Indie

Pop – ‘Canço’ Guitar BCN 2016: Tindersticks Nottingham (UK) band are already Suite Festival: Manuel classic contemporaries, the Carrasco equivalent of Scott Walker for the Spanish singer-songwriter takes indie generation. L’Auditori (Lepant, VQQPGQHVJGƁPGUVUVCIGUKP$%0 150). M: Glòries & Marina (L1), Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, Monumental (L2). 9pm. €20-€38.

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US soul musician presents latest (L’Auditori, Lepant, 150). M: Glòries Jazz Night at El Molino: Wax & Opera work, Radius. La [2] d’Apolo (Nou & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). Boogie de la Rambla, 111). M: Paral·lel (L2, Wax & Boogie play classic blues, Opera at Palau Dalmases L3). 9pm (doors 7.30pm). From Music of Ferran Sor swing and boogie. See Thu 7. (Montcada, 20). M: €20. More info: livenation.es. Guitar pieces by Catalan composer. (Vila i Vila, 99). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). Jaume I (L4). L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries 9.30pm. From €15. elmolinobcn.com & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). Rock – Catalan Noon. €2-€7. Friday 15 Flamenco Guitar BCN 2016: Adrià Punti Blues Catalan musician and actor is Gospel – Soul Flamenco at Palau Dalmases touring his latest album, La clau See Sun 10. (Montcada, 20). Blues at the MEAM de girar el taller (2015). L’Auditori Musical season at CaixaForum M: Jaume I (L4). See Fri 1. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Marina Winning combination of gospel Jaume I (L4). (L1), Monumental (L2). 9pm. €24. and soul.(Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). M: Espanya (L1, L3; Wednesday 20 Classical Pop FGC). 7pm. €12. Classical

Händel’s Serse Guitar BCN 2016: Bebe Young musicians Spanish Guitar Maestros Concert version of opera seria Spanish singer-songwriter visits Barcelona 4 Guitars: two men, two from mid-1700s. Sant Cugat on her latest tour. Josep-Ramon Olivé women and four guitars and pure Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat (Pl. Young baritone performs as part of virtuosity. (Palau de la Música, 4-6). 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Apr 15 8pm; Victòria dels Àngels, 1. Sant Cugat the Musical Residencies cycle. M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). 9pm. €30- Apr 16 6pm. €10-€187. del Vallès). M: Catalunya to FGC: Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera €35. Sant Cugat. 9pm. €28. (Provença, 261-265). M: Provença The art of the Spanish guitar: (FGC) and Diagonal (L3, L5). 6pm. music and wine €10. Info: www.lapedrera.com. ‘Canço’ See Fri 1. Santa Anna Church (Santa Saturday 16 Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; Festival del Mil·lenni: Roger Mas FGC). Classical Opera Born into a family of musicians, Mas launched his career back in OBC Concert: Gershwin Festival Bach stories Simon Boccanegra 1996; here he performs from Andrew Grams conducts and Alexei Performance featuring Chamber See Tue 12. Gran Teatre del Liceu 2015 album, Irredempt. Volodin is on piano. Choir of the Palau. (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). L’Auditori, (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona 9pm. €22-€28. Apr 15 8.30pm; Apr 16; 7pm; Apr (L1, L4). 7pm. €20. Monday 18 17 11am.€10-€56. A coffee with... G.F. Händel Classical Flamenco Concert featuring professors and Singer-songwriter students of ancient music. Swedish Radio Symphony Live Flamenco Museu de la Música (L’Auditori, Orchestra See Mon 4. Sala Tarantos (Plaça Festival del Mil·lenni: Quique Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Marina Conductor Daniel Harding and Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). González (L1), Monumental (L2). Noon. pianist Maria João Pires perform a Singer-songwriter from Madrid €3.50-€5. mixed bag of classical music. presents new album. L’Auditori, (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries Thursday 21 Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 113). & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 9pm. From €24. Indie – Rock 8.30pm. €26-€132. Classical

Florence and the Machine Masters of the Spanish Guitar Flamenco British band visit on their ‘How Jazz Manuel González performs classic Blue Tour’. Spanish guitar tunes. Basilica de Guitar BCN 2016: Tomatito BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). WTF Jam Session Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. del Pi, 7). M: One of the most important M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 8pm. €45. See Mon 4. Jamboree (Pl. Reial, Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). 9pm. €23. flamenco guitarists of recent times. More info: www.livenation.es. 17). M: Liceu (L3). &KUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU+PHQ BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). M: tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Paral·lel (L2, L3). From €25. More info: www.theproject.es. Sunday 17 Tuesday 19 Flamenco Classical Jazz Soul Palacio del Flamenco show FREE Shh! We’re making music Live Jazz at Jamboree See Sun 3. (Balmes, 139). M: Allen Store See Apr 3. Museu de la Música See Fri 1. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). Diagonal (L3, L5; FGC).

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Suite Festival: Chris Cornell Live Jazz Flamenco at Palau Dalmases Live Jazz at Jamboree US singer-songwriter, winner of See Fri 1. (Ronda Universitat, 35). See Sun 10. (Montcada, 20). See Fri 1. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). various Grammys and composer for M: Catalunya (L1, L3). M: Jaume I (L4). ƁNOUUWEJCU Casino Royale. Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, Friday 29 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). 8pm. €30-€70. Opera Tuesday 26 Hip hop Simon Boccanegra Classical Friday 22 See Tue 12. Gran Teatre del Liceu IAM (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Spanish Guitar Maestros French hip-hop band present their Blues Barcelona Guitar Trio & Dance. most recent album, Arts Martiens. (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Sala Bikini (Av. Diagonal, 547). Blues at the MEAM Sunday 24 Urquinaona (L1, L4). 9pm. €30-€35. M: Les Corts, Maria Cristina (L3). See Fri 1. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: +PHQVQWTKUVQHƁEGUCPFVKEMGVU 9pm. €20. Jaume I (L4). Classical visitbarcelona.com. Pastora Galván returns Isabel Faust The art of the Spanish guitar: See Tue 1. Tablao Cordobes (La Classical Mozart’s sole requiem, left music and wine Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & WPƁPKUJGFCVJKUFGCVJ Flamenco and classic sounds. Santa Liceu (L3). Miguel de Cervantes: Journeys, Palau de la Música (Palau de la Anna Church (Santa Anna, 29). M: dreams and utopias Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). 9pm. €20. /WUKEƁNNUVJGTQ[CNUJKR[CTFUQP (L1, L4). 5pm. €10-€35. tickets.visitbarcelona.com Classical the eve of Sant Jordi.Les Reials Drassanes (Av. de les Drassanes, OBC in concert: Jordi s/n). M: Drassanes (L3). 8.30pm. Pop Jazz Savall €10-€40. Savall conducts the orchestra in a Primavera Festival in Jazz Night at El Molino performance of popular classics. The art of the Spanish guitar: L’Hospitalet: Antonio Orozco Ignasi Terraza, Pierre Boussaquet L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries music and wine Local musican, who grew up in the and Carles GR present their disc, & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). Robert Majure presents ‘Flamenco city, returns to perform. 4GƂGLQU. Apr 29 8.30pm: Apr 30 7pm. €10- Soul’. Santa Anna Church (Santa La Farga de l’Hospitalet (Vila i Vila, 99). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). €56. Anna, 29). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). (Barcelona, 2, L’Hospitalet de 9.30pm. From €15. elmolinobcn.com 7pm. €20. tickets.visitbarcelona.com. Llobregat). M: Av. Carrilet (L1). 7pm. €22. Pop OBC in Concert: My homeland Wednesday 27 Performance of Smetana’s Marlango Guitar BCN 2016: Carmen symphonic poems from the 1870s. 5RCPKUJDCPFJGCXKN[KPƂWGPEGFD[ Flamenco Bouza L’Auditori, (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries Tom Waits – their sound is pop with Up-and-coming singer-songwriter & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). LC\\CPFDNWGUKPƂWGPEGU Grand Flamenco Gala is currently on a tour of Spain. Apr 22 8.30pm; Apr 23 7pm; Apr 24 BARTS (Av. del Paral·lel, 62). See Fri 8. Teatre Poliorama (La L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries 11am. €10-€56. M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). 8pm. From €28. Rambla, 115). M: Catalunya (L1, L3). & Marina (L1), Monumental (L2). 9.30pm. €15. Pop Monday 25 Pop – ‘Canço’

Primavera Festival in Classical Suite Festival: Manuel Carrasco Saturday 30 L’Hospitalet: Hombres G See Wed 13. Gran Teatre del Liceu Popular Spanish band from the Vladimir Ashkenazy (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Flamenco 1980s are still going strong. La Works by Ravel, Smetana and Farga de l’Hospitalet (Barcelona, 2, Rachmaninoff, among others. Flamenco show dedicated to L’Hospitalet de Llobregat). M: Av. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau Camarón de la Isla Carrilet (L1). 9.30pm. €22. de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona Thursday 28 See Sat 2. Casa Camarón (Roger (L1, L4). 8.30pm. €15-€80. de Flor, 230). M: Verdaguer (L4,L5), Classical Sagrada Família (L2,L5). Saturday 23 Masters of the Spanish Guitar .WKU4QDKUEQRNC[UƂCOGPEQ Ensemble Intercontemporain Classical guitar. Works by Parra, Harvey and Classical Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi (Pl. del Boulez. Palau de la Música Classical music at the MEAM Pi, 7). M: Catalunya (L1, L3; FGC). Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). Classical music at the MEAM See Sat 2. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: ROa&KUEQWPVCVVQWTKUVQHƁEGU M: Urquinaona (L1, L4). 8.30pm. See Sat 2. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Info: tickets.visitbarcelona.com. €20-€30. Jaume I (L4).

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10am-8pm. €5. Reduced: €3. marked by war. holidays 11am-7pm. €3. FREE Until it is done! (Sala Exhibitions Montjuïc, the construction of a Casanova) Examining 14-month Hiroshi Sugimoto Until May 8. See castle Permanent exhibition. that ended page 43. Doble Creu by Carles with capitulation to the Bourbons Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona Berga. Permanent exhibition. on Sep 11, 1714. Fundació Suñol (Pl. Pons i Clerch, 2). M: Arc de From mountain to urban park Until (Passeig de Gràcia, 98). M: Triomf (L1) & Jaume I (L4). T. 93 Oct. Work of French architect, Espai VolART-Fundació Vila Casas Diagonal (L3, L5). T. 93 496 10 32. 256 34 20. Mon-Sat 10am-7pm. Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier. (Ausiàs March, 22). M: Urquinaona Mon-Fri 11am-2pm, 4pm-8pm; Sat Closed Sun and public holidays. (L1, L4). T. 93 481 79 85. Tue-Fri 4pm-8pm. Closed Sun and public CCCB 5pm-8.30pm; Sat 11am-2pm, holidays. €4. Reduced: €3. FREE Pérez de Rosas Until May (Montalegre, 5). M: Catalunya (L1, 5pm-8.30pm; Sun 11am-2pm. 21. A visual L3). T. 93 306 41 00. Tue-Sun & Closed Mon and public hols. €1. Dialogues of the gaze Until Sep from 1931 to 1954. public holidays 11am-8pm. Closed 10. Collective exhibition exploring Mon (except public holidays). One Architecture, typography and the communicative function of art. Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de exhibition: €6. Two exhibitions: €8. other volumes Until Apr 24. Work Barcelona Wed (except public holidays) and by Catalan artist Ramon Enrich, Gaudí Exhibition Center (Santa Llúcia, 1). M: Jaume I (L4) & for pensioners and students: €4. who trained with . Museu Diocesà (Pla de la Seu, 7). Urquinaona (L1, L4). T. 93 256 22 Under-16s & unemployed: free. Constructed landscapes Until Apr M: Jaume I (L4) and Liceu (L3). T. 93 55. Mon-Fri 9am-8.45pm; Sat 9am- 24. 20th-century paintings by 268 75 82. 10am-8pm. €15. 1pm. Closed Sun, public holidays. + Humans Until Apr 10. How the Jaume Mercadé (1889-1967) who Reduced: €12. More info: www. future might be for our species. used a variety of genres to portray gaudiexhibitioncenter.com FREE The Art of Silk in Barcelona Making Africa. A continent of his native Tarragona. Until Apr 30. Exploring 500 years contemporary design Until Aug Walking with Gaudí Interactive of the city’s silk guilds. 28. New vision of contemporary Fundació Antoni Tàpies exhibition which looks at the life African design. (Aragò, 255). M: Passeig de Gràcia and work of Antoni Gaudí. CaixaForum (L2, L3, L4). T. 93 487 03 15. Tue- (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). M: CosmoCaixa Sun 10am-7pm. Closed Mon. €7. Hash Marihuana & Hemp Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). T. 93 476 86 (Isaac Newton, 26). FGC: Av. Tibidabo. Students and pensioners: €5.60. Museum 00. 10am-8pm. €4. Under-16s free. T. 93 212 60 50. Tue-Sun and public (Ample, 35). M: Drassanes (L3). holidays 10am-8pm. Closed Mon Documents of action Until May 22. T. 93 319 75 39. 10am-10pm. Conversations. Masterpieces (except public holidays).€4 Around 60 works from the Anthony Public holidays 2pm-10pm. €9. from Impressionism and Modern (permanent and temporary Denney Collection and Daniel Under-13s free. Art from the Phillips Collection exhibitions). Under-16s free. Cordier Collection. Antoni Tàpies. Until Jun 19. Major show including Collection, 1955-1965 Until May Permanent exhibition Past, work by Picasso, Degas and Rothko. The Material Room No end 22. Work that the late Catalan present and future of cannabis. The Weight of a Gesture Until date. Voyage through Universe’s artist created during this time. FREE Grow on Until May 1 Three May 1. See page 42. history. decades of Sensi Seeds, the world’s Windows on the World Until Aug 3D Planetarium No end date. Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera main supplier of cannabis seeds. 28. 5JQTVƁNOURQTVTC[VJGFCKN[ Installation for exploring space. (Pg. de Gràcia, 92). M: Diagonal (L3, lives of communities Africa, Asia Flooded forest No end date. L5). T. 902 202 138. 10am-8pm (last Jardí Botànic de Barcelona and South America. Living exhibit with over 100 entry 7.30pm). €3. Reduced: €2. (Doctor Font i Quer, s/n). M: Espanya Iconoclastic gestures Until Jun species from Brazilian jungle. (L1, L3; FGC). T. 93 256 41 60. 5. #TGƂGEVKQPQPVJGFGUVTWEVKQP Talking about drugs No end Toni Catany. Come and Go Until Permanent display: Daily 10am-7pm. CPFFGO[UVKƁECVKQPQHVJGKOCIG date. Programme that aims to Jul 17. Contemporary photography €3.50. Reduced: €1.70. Salvadoriana: prevent the consumption of drugs. that uses classical themes. Tue-Sun, Mon that are public hols Can Framis. Fundació Vila Casas The Birthplace of Humanity No 10.30am-6.30pm. €5. Reduced: (Roc Boronat, 116-126). M: Glòries end date. Discover the lives of our Fundació Joan Miró €2.50. (L1) & Poblenou, Llacuna (L4). T. 93 ancestors thanks to archaeological (Parc de Montjuïc, s/n). M: Espanya 320 87 36. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; ƁPFUKP6CP\CPKC (L1, L3; FGC). T. 93 443 94 70. Tue- Jardí Botànic (MCNB) Plants from Sun 11am-2pm. Closed Mon, Sat 10am-7pm; Thu 10am-9pm; Sun global Med climate zones. public holidays. €5. Reduced: €2. El Born Centre Cultural & public holidays 10am-2.30pm. Salvadoriana. Barcelona’s (Plaça Comercial, 12). M: Jaume I & Closed Mon (except public hols). €11. cabinet of curiosities Until Apr. Collection for a trip Until Apr 3. Art Barceloneta (L4). T. 93 256 68 51. Temp exhibition: €7. Espai 13: €2.50. Reconstruction of one of BCN’s created to fund a students’ trip. Tue-Sun 10am-8pm. Closed Mon earliest natural history collections. The Art of Collecting Until Apr 3. (except public holidays). €6. Permanent exhibition Most Works of art that suggest olfactory Reduced: €4.20. Under-16s free. important public collection of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge memories. Ràfols-Casamada Apr Sun 3pm-8pm, free. First Sun every works by the Catalan artist. (La Rambla, 99). M: Liceu (L3). T. 18-Jul 17. Celebration of colour month 10am-8pm, free. 93 316 10 00. Tue-Sun and public with 40 works by Catalan artist. Fundación MAPFRE hols, noon-8pm. FREE Barcelona 1700. From Casa Garriga i Nogués (Diputació, Castell de Montjuïc stones to people (Sala Villarroel) 250). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2, L3, FREE Barcelona, the metropolis in (Ctra. de Montjuïc, 66). M: Espanya 18th-century Barcelona was L4). T. 93 401 26 03. Mon 2pm-8pm; the age of photography, 1860- (L1,L3;FGC). T. 93 256 44 45. dynamic and forward-looking, but Tue-Sat 10am-8pm. Sun and public 2004 Until Jun 26. Iconic images

50 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com The Arts trace the city’s urban development. Permanent exhibition. Discover FREE Permanent exhibition Montserrat + zip train. Mon-Sun how life was for Barcelona’s Remains among the foundations 10am-5.45pm. €7. Reduced: €6. MACBA. Museu d’Art medieval Jewish community. of the Santa Caterina market. Temporary exhibition: €3.30. Contemporani (Plaça dels Àngels, 1). M: Universitat MUHBA Oliva Artés MUHBA Temple d’August Rocamora variations Until May 1. (L1, L2) & Sant Antoni (L2). T. 93 (Espronceda, 142-146, Parc Central (Paradís, 10). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 The work of Catalan artist Jaume 412 08 10. Mon-Fri 11am-7.30pm; del Poblenou). M: Poblenou (L4). T. 93 256 21 22. Mon 10am-2pm; Tue- 4QECOQTCWUGUTGƁPGFIGQOGVT[ Sat 10am-9pm; Sun, public hols 256 21 22. Mon-Fri visits with prior Sat 10am-7pm. Sun 10am-8pm. Emotional geography Until May 22. 10am-3pm. Closed Tues (except booking only; Wed 10am-2pm; Sat- Selection of work by Josep public holidays). €10. Reduced: €8. Sun 11am-3pm, 4pm-6pm. Permanent exhibition Remains of Guinovart, with landscapes that site where urbanism and political had a profound impact on his soul. Species of space Until Apr 24. FREE Interogate Barcelona, from and religious power combined in 'ZCOKPKPIVJGURCEGUVJCVFGƁPG industrialisation to the 21st Roman Barcelona. MEB: Museu de l’Eròtica us by the way we use them. century Permanent exhibition of (La Rambla, 96). M: Liceu recent city history. MUHBA Turó de la Book your (L3). T. 93 318 98 65. MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Rovira favourite 10am-midnight. €9. Modern MUHBA Park Güell (Marià Labèrnia, s/n). Bus: restaurants at Reduced: €8. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). (Olot, s/n. Casa de la Guarda). 119,V17. T. 93 256 21 22. timeout.com/ T. 93 319 56 93. Tue-Sun 10am- M: Vallcarca (L3). T. 93 256 21 22. General access has no barcelona Permanent 8pm. Closed Mon. €9. Reduced: €7. Tue-Sun 8.30am-9.30pm. The Casa ƁZGFVKOGVCDNG/WUGWO exhibition History of de la Guarda museum is part of area: Sat, Sun 10am-3pm. eroticism and its portrayal 21st-century art Permanent park’s ‘monumental area’, and visits in art. exhibition of almost 300 paintings are covered by general conditions for Permanent exhibition Barcelona The history of vibrators and and 80 sculptures. admission. Access with ticket only. to the limit. female hysteria Until May 1. www.parkguell.cat Museu Etnològic MUHBA Via Sepulcral Romana Museu de la Moto de Barcelona (Pg. de Santa Madrona, 16-22). M: Permanent exhibition The Casa (Pl. de la Vila de Madrid). M: (C/ de la Palla, 10). M: Jaume I (L4). T. Poble Sec (L3), Espanya (L1,L3:FGC). de la Guarda, Park Güell and Catalunya (L1,L3;FGC). T. 93 256 21 93 318 65 84. Mon-Sat T. 93 424 68 07. Tue-Sat 10am-7pm; modernista Barcelona. 22. Tue, Thu 11am-2pm; Sat- Sun 10.30am-7.30pm; Sun, public hols: Sun, public holidays 10am-8pm. 11am-7pm. Closed Mon, Wed, Fri. check with museum. €7. Reduced: Closed Mon (except public hols). MUHBA Plaça del Rei €2. Reduced: €1.50. €5. Under-8s free. Combined ticket for Museu Etnològic (Pl. del Rei). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 + Museu de les Cultures del Món: €5. 21 22. Tue-Sat 10am-7pm; Sun Permanent exhibition This Motorbike. Society, industry, Reduced: €3.50. 10am-8pm. Closed Mon. €7. secondary Roman road was also a competition Permanent exhibition Reduced: €5. Under-16s free. Free burial site for the popular classes of the history of the motorbike, from Permanent exhibition Understand Sun from 3pm. KPVJGƁTUVCPFVJKTFEGPVWTKGU#& its beginnings as an elite status society by comparison of places and symbol. Scooters Until Dec. A times. Land of potters Until Jun. Permanent exhibition Tour of the Museu Blau look at urban motorcycles such as Looking at trades associated with Roman colony of Barcino. (Pl. de Leonardo da Vinci, 4-5, Parc del Vespas and Lambrettas. water. The sacred, the profane and Renaissance Barcelona Until May Fòrum). M: El Maresme/Fòrum (L4). T. the festive Until Jun. Origins and 16. Journeys made by some of the 93 256 60 02. Tue-Sat 10am-7pm. Museu de la Música prevalence of religious expression in stones of the museum. Dawn of Sun & public hols 10am-8pm. Closed L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries & Catalonia. agricultural development in the Mon (except public hols). €6. Reduced: Marina (L1). T. 93 256 36 50. Tue-Sat Pla de Barcelona From Apr. €2.70. Museum & Botanical Gardens: 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-8pm. Closed MIBA. Museu d’Idees i Invents Looking at a key aspect of the local €7. Reduced: €3.50. Temp exhibition: Mon. €5. Reduced: €3.50. Free entry de Barcelona economy. €5. Reduced: €3.50. Sun from 3pm and for under-16s. (Ciutat, 7). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 332 79 30. Tue-Fri 10am-2pm, MUHBA Refugi 307 Nutrition, vital instinct Until May Permanent exhibition Take a 4pm-7pm; Sat 10am-8pm; Sun, (Nou de la Rambla, 169). 29. Fundamental concepts of food trip through musical history. public holidays 10am-2pm. Closed M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). T. 93 256 21 22. and nutrition. Mon (except public hols). €8. Guided tours with prior booking: Sun Museu de la Xocolata Reduced: €6. 10.30am (Eng), 11.30am (Spanish), Museu de Badalona (Comerç, 36 - Antic Convent de Sant 12.30pm (Catalan). Closed public (Pl. Assemblea de Catalunya, 1. Agustí). M: Arc de Triomf (L1). T. 93 Permanent exhibition The holidays. €3.40. Badalona). M: Badalona-Pompeu 268 78 78. Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; world of creativity and inventing. Fabra (L2). T. 93 384 17 50. Tue-Sat Sun 10am-3pm. €5. Group: €4 p/p. MUHBA Refugi 307 Underground 10am-2pm, 5pm-8pm; Sun & public MUHBA El Call passageways highlight the city’s hols 10am-2pm. €6. Reduced: €4.80. Permanent exhibition The story (Placeta de Manuel Ribé, s/n). suffering during the Civil War. of chocolate from its origins. M: Liceu (L3), Jaume I (L4). T. 93 Permanent exhibition Remains of 256 21 22. Mon, Wed, Fri 11am- MUHBA Santa Caterina the Roman city of Baetulo. Museu de les Cultures del Món 2pm; Sat-Sun 11am-7pm. Closed (Pl. de Joan Capri). M: Jaume I (L4). (Montcada, 12-14). M: Jaume I (L4). Tue, Thu. €2.20. Reduced: €1.54. T. 93 256 21 22. Mon, Wed, Sat Museu de Montserrat T. 93 256 23 00. Tue-Sat 10am- 7.30am-3.30pm; Tue, Thu-Fri 7.30am- (Abadia de Montserrat. 08199 7pm; Sun and public holidays The Jews in Medieval Barcelona 8.30pm. Closed Sun, public hols. Montserrat). FGC: Monistrol de 10am-8pm. Closed Mon (except

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public hols). €5. Reduced: €3.50. key Catalan modernisme artists. Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Ramón Casas and modern life Joan Antoni Samaranch Permanent exhibition Items Until May 8 Retrospective of work by (Av. de l’Estadi Olímpic, 60). M: gathered in Asia, Africa, Oceania Catalan artist Casas with posters, Espanya (L1, L3; FGC). T. 93 292 and the Americas. oils and drawings. 53 79. Tue-Sat 10am-8pm; Sun, public holidays 10am-2.30pm. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona Museu Egipci de Barcelona Closed Mon (except public 'FKƁEK&KUUGP[*WD$CTEGNQPC2NFGNGU (València, 284). M: Passeig de holidays). €5.10. Students: €3.20. Glòries Catalanes, 37-38). Gràcia (L2, L3, L4). T. 93 488 01 Under-7s and over-65s: free. M: Glòries (L1). T. 93 256 68 00. Tue-Sun 88. Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, 4pm-8pm; 10am-8pm. Closed Mon (except public Sat 10am-8pm; Sun 10am-2pm. Permanent exhibition Explore hols). €6. Reduced: €4. Temp exhibition: €11. Reduced: €8. in-depth the worlds of sport and €4.40. Reduced: €3. Combined: €8. the Olympic Games. Josep Reduced: €5.50. Free Sun 3pm-8pm Permanent exhibition Maria Co i de Triola Until May 1. CPFƁTUV5WPQHVJGOQPVJ Hundreds of exhibits give a Sport images from start of 20th glimpse of life in Ancient Egypt. century by Catalan photojournalist. From the world to the museum. Tutankhamun. Story of a Product design, cultural heritage discovery No end date. 1922 Permanent exhibition. Daily archaeological expedition that (Montcada, 15-23). M: Jaume I (L4). T. objects from a museum uncovered the pharaoh’s tomb. 93 256 30 00. Tue-Sun 9am-7pm; perspective. Dressing the body. Osiris, Egyptian god Until Jun Thu 9am-9.30pm. Closed Mon. €14 Silhouettes and fashion (1550- 30. Find out all about the god of (combined ticket for museum + 2014) Permanent exhibition. How death, resurrection and afterlife. temporary exhibition). Collection only: women change their shape with €11. Temp exhibition: €4.50. clothes. Extraordinary! Museu Frederic Marès Decorative and applied arts (Pl. de Sant Iu, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Permanent exhibition More than collections (3rd-20th century) T. 93 256 35 00. Tue-Sat 10am- 3,800 works from different periods Permanent exhibition. Art from 7pm; Sun, public hols 11am-8pm. in Picasso’s life. Latest donations across the centuries. Graphic Closed Mon (except public holidays). and acqusitions Until May 15 Works design: from trade to profession €4.20. Reduced: €2.40. and documents recently added to Permanent exhibition. Tracing the the museum’s archive. professionalisation of graphic Permanent exhibition Valuable design. Distinction Until Apr 30. artworks and objects. 20th-century fashion photography. (Pg. de Gràcia, 107). M: Diagonal Museu Marítim de Barcelona (L3, L5). T. 93 238 80 91. Mon-Sat Museu del FC Barcelona (Av. de les Drassanes, s/n). M: 10am-8pm; Sun, public holidays (Aristides Maillol, s/n. Gates 7 and 9). M: Drassanes (L3). T. 93 342 99 20. 10am-2.30pm. Les Corts (L3). T. 902 18 99 00. 10am-8pm. Temp exhibitions & 9.30am-7.30pm. Some parts closed on visit to Santa Eulàlia schooner: €7. FREE Rafael Patxot. Patrons, match day. €23. Children: €17. Under- Reduced: €3.50. Permanent scientist... the man Until May 8. 6s & FCB members, free. exhibition closed for remodelling. Exploring the work of Patxot in promoting culture and science in Camp Nou Experience Discover Llaverias and the sea Until May 1. Catalonia. FREE We’re all Supers! 100 years of the club’s history and Commemoration of the 150th Until Aug 28. Celebrating 25 years visit the stadium. anniversary of the birth of Catalan of Catalan TV’s output for kids. painter (and sailing enthusiast), FREE Ripoll Portalada Until Apr Museu del Mamut Joan Llaverias. 10. In-depth look at this (Montcada, 1). M: Jaume I (L4). architectural feature from a town T. 93 268 85 20. 10am-8pm. €7.50. Museu Nacional d’Art de in the Pyrenees. FREE Perelada’s Reduced: €5. Children (6-15): €3.50. Catalunya big moments. 30 years, 30 (Parc de Montjuïc). M: Espanya (L1, images Until May 11. Looking back Permanent exhibition Woolly L3;FGC). T. 93 622 03 60. Tue-Sat at 30 years of the Festival Castell mammoths and other Ice Age 10am-6pm; Sun, public hols 10am- de Peralada. FREE Comediants. animals. 3pm. Closed Mon (except public Inventors of a new language Apr hols). €12. Roof terrace €2. Free 22-Aug 28. Looking back at 44 Museu del Modernisme de entry Sat afternoon from 3pm. years of Catalan theatre company. Barcelona Temp shows: ask at museum. (Balmes, 48). M: Passeig de Gràcia Pis-museu Casa Bloc (L2, L3, L4). T. 93 272 28 96. Tue- Permanent exhibition World’s (Pg. Torras i Bages, 91). M: Torras i Sat 10.30am-7pm; Sun, public hols most important collection of Bages (L1). Guided tours in Catalan, 10.30am-2pm. Closed Mon. €10. Romanesque art and Catalan Spanish and English: reservations Reduced: €7. modernisme. 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Thu 3pm-5.30pm. Individual visits: A teatro con Eduardo Until May 1. 8.30pm; Fri 5.30pm, 9.30pm; Sun €4. Info: tel. 93 256 68 01 or Tue-Fri 8.30pm; Sat 9pm; Sun 6pm. 6.30pm. Musical exploring life during museudeldisseny.cat. €15-€29. Catalan director Lluís 1713 Siege of Barcelona. In Catalan. Pasqual takes on this work by Casa Bloc A symbol of rational Eduardo de Filippo. In Catalan. social housing in Barcelona. Surtitles in English on Sat, from Apr 9. Con la bambola in tasca Apr Dance Reial Monestir de Santa Maria 4-10. Sat-Sun 11.30am, 5pm. €9, de €12. Children’s theatre. In Spanish. (Baixada del Monestir, 9). FGC: Reina Sota la ciutat Apr 14-May 1. Wed- Auditori del Fòrum–CCIB Elisenda. T. 93 256 34 34. Tue-Fri Fri 9pm; Sat 6pm, 9.30pm. Sun (Rambla Prim, 2-4). M: El Maresme- 10am-5pm; Sat 10am-7pm. Sun 6.30pm. €12-€23. Play featuring a Fòrum (L4). More info and tickets: 10am-8pm. Closed Mon (except Barcelona of dreams and defeats. www.livenation.es. public hols). €4.40. Reduced: €3.10. In Catalan. The Next Step Apr 2 8.30pm. €27- Plants, remedies & apothecaries Teatre Nacional de Catalunya €40. Cast of popular TV series show Permanent exhibition. Natural (Pl. de les Arts, 1). M: Glòries (L1), off their skill with a live remedies from medieval garden. Monumental (L2). T. 93 306 57 00. performance. Murals under the magnifying glass 6KEMGVQHƁEG9GF(TKRORO5CV Permanent exhibition. Paintings in 3pm-8.30pm; Sun 3pm-5pm. tnc.cat Mercat de les Flors Sant Miquel chapel. Petras Albas (Lleida, 59). M: Espanya (L1,L3; FGC), Permanent exhibition. History of the Nàufrags Apr 9 8pm; Apr 10 6pm. Poble Sec (L3). T. 93 426 18 75. monastery and the Montcada family. €14-€28. Musical show completes 6KEMGVQHƁEGQRGPUCPJQWTDGHQTG extensive tour. In Catalan. Tripula/ UJQYUVCTVUOGTECVƂQTUECV Farrés Brothers Apr 17-May 1. Wed- Fri 11am; Sun noon; Sat 30 6pm, +45 Apr 1-3. 8.30pm. €12. Show Theatre 7.30pm. €6-€12. Theatre for kids (4 from Sebastián García Ferro and over). In Catalan. company. Secció irregular: Bad Translation Apr 8-9. 8.30pm. €12. El Molino Teatre Poliorama Cris Blanco explores decomposition (Vilà i Vilà, 99). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). T. (La Rambla, 115). M: Catalunya (L1, of meaning through transmission of 93 205 51 11. elmolinobcn.com. . 66+EMGVQHƁEG language. Circ d’ara mateix: La $QZQHƁEGU6JWT5CVRO6KEMGVU Tue-Fri from 5pm. Sat, Sun from Vide Apr 14-17. 8.30pm. €15. Show from: Ticketea, Atrapalo, Telentrada, 4pm until start of show. from Fragan Gehler, Alexis Auffray 'PVTCFCUEQOCPFDQZQHƁEGU teatrepoliorama.com and Maroussia Díaz Verbèke kicks off celebration of modern circus. Cabaret Experience Until May 29. A Midsummer’s Night Dream Apr 4 Circ d’ara mateix: InTarsi Apr 22- Thu 9.30pm; Fri, Sat 6.30pm, 7.30pm. €10. New version of 24. 8.30pm (Sat-Sun 6pm). €15. The 9.30pm. From €24. Cabaret, Shakespeare’s classic aimed at all Eia company gives another circus circus, song and dance. Rumba the family. In English. Generació de perfomance. Circ d’ara mateix: Experience Apr 1,3,14,23,28. merda Apr 1, 8, 15. 11.30pm. €14. Sapiens Zoo Apr 23- 24. 8.30pm. €18.50. There are few things Musical show. In Catalan. €15. Piece by Animal Religion. Circ more Barcelona than rumba. d’ara mateix: La cosa Apr 29-May Teatre Tívoli 1. 8.30pm (Sun 6pm). €15. Italian Teatre Gaudí Barcelona (Casp, 8-10). M: Catalunya (L1, L3), multidisciplinary artist Claudio (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 120). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2,L3,L4). Stellato takes to the stage. Sagrada Família (L2,L5). T. 93 603 T. 902 888 788. 6+EMGVQHƁEGQRGPUCPJQWT Teatre Victòria before function starts. www. Sara Baras / ‘Voces’ Apr 6-May 1. (Av. Paral·lel, 65-67). M: Paral·lel (L2, teatregaudibarcelona.com Wed-Thu 8.30pm; Fri 9.30pm; Sat L3). T. 93 329 91 89. teatrevictoria. 6.30pm, 9.30pm; Sun 6.30pm. EQO6KEMGVQHƁEG9GF(TKHTQO T’estimo però no tant Until Apr 10. €23-€48. One of the best 5pm. Sat, Sun, from 4pm until Fri 8.45pm; Sat 6pm, 8.45pm; Sun ƂCOGPEQbailaoras of recent times performance starts. 6pm. €20. Popular comedy returns presents her latest show. Tickets: for fourth run. In Catalan. Mozart www.sarabaras.com Carmen Until Apr 10. Wed-Fri 9pm; Mania Until Apr 24. Sun noon. €15. Sat 6.30pm, 9pm; Sun 6.30pm. €19- Classical music for all the family. Teatre Victòria €38. The Antonio Gades dance (Av. Paral·lel, 65-67). M: Paral·lel company presents Spanish dance (Sala Fabià (L2, L3). T. 93 329 91 89. masterpiece. Fuenteovejuna Apr Puigserver – Montjuïc) VGCVTGXKVQTKCEQO6KEMGVQHƁEG 13-24. Wed-Fri 9pm; Sat 6.30pm, (Pg. Santa Madrona, 40-46/Pl. Wed-Fri, from 5pm. Sat, Sun, from 9pm; Sun 6.30pm. €19-€38. Antonio Margarida Xirgu, 1). M: Espanya 4pm until performance starts. Gades’s company returns with its (L1, L3;FGC) & Poble Sec (L3). T. 93 interpretation of the Lope de Vega 289 27 70. teatrelliure.com Fang i setge Until May 28. Thu theatrical work.

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Knockout 1 vegetables Ricard Martín has been dying to say it: ‘4 amb 5 Mujades represents a new restaurant concept.’ And it’s actually true!

It’s one of Barcelona’s most opened, that’s impossible for now, overused marketing ploys, ‘a new but within a year they’ll be growing restaurant concept’, but for once 80 percent of their own veg, he it’s 100-percent accurate. I don’t says. But it’s much more than an know if the idea behind 4 amb 5 organic restaurant. Above all, Mujades is unique – I suspect there vegetables are king. ‘When you are similar places in Scandinavia, roast a suckling pig, you’re thinking but here it’s a radical innovation: 4 about the meat and choosing amb 5 Mujades is a restaurant garnishes. We don’t work like that where (organic, biodynamically here,’ says chef Quim Coll, who grown) vegetables are the even rejects the ‘vegetarian’ label. centrepiece of every dish, and ‘This is for anyone who wants to YJGTGOGCVCPFƁUJCTGRTGUGPV enjoy vegetables in a different way.’ only in the sauces or broths. The menu changes four times a year, obviously, and the seasonal 2 focus means it doesn’t adhere to the classic pattern. Instead it’s divided into root, leaf, fruit and The objective is flower. And moons next to each entry indicate a dish’s potency. permaculture; One moon: Japanese beetroot close the circle with sesame, spring onion, soy and trout roe. Two: a delicious and become salad of fennel with green apple, UGNHUWHƁEKGPV both diced and in a sorbet, and creamy goat’s cheese (the cheese It’s the brainchild of Toni Romero, balances the acidity, the sweetish the chef at Suculent, and his strength of the cheese is defused business partner, Javier by the apple – amazing). And three Cotorruelo. In fact, the name is an moons: white turnips in a broth of homage to Cotorruelo’s family roast quail and grated truffle, or allotment in Gavà: a mujada is a Jerusalem artichokes cooked with unit of land in the Baix Llobregat cod stock and skins (and all the region, 0.5 hectares. The rich fat released by the cooking restaurant’s address is Rambla del process – see photo). These 'N/GTECFGTJGoUIQPGRGTEGPV originators of modern Catalan Raval, 45, just next door to triumphs of haute cuisine will QTICPKEs*Q[QUJCUCO cooking). You’ll notice one of Suculent. And the restaurant has cause rivers of ink (and sauce) to QTICPKEEGTVKƁGFUOCNNJQNFKPIKP *Q[QUoURCUUKQPUVJGVTCEGCDKNKV[ its own vegetable garden! Julien be spilt. I was tempted to conclude Collserola, and all their meat and of the ingredients. ‘The menu Bruy, the resident gardener, it’s vegetarian cuisine at its most dairy is organic, too. ‘This is the shows the origin of every foodstuff explains that he plants and macho, but I’ll put it like this: these NQIKECNEQPVKPWCVKQPQH'N(KNGVGoJG and every producer, and, if the harvests biodynamically, according vegetables are a knockout. says, referring to the fact that his customer wants, we can show to the phases of the moon, and ƁTUVTGUVCWTCPVRKQPGGTGFQTICPKE them the invoice,’ he laughs. The that ‘the aim is to achieve A logical continuation burgers in BCN. The name of the unusual corner location is as cute permaculture: to close the circle, Less ambitious but very enjoyable new spot pays tribute to Josep as they come. And although they’re use food waste as compost and is the new restaurant from Claudio /GTECFGT HQWPFGTQHVJG*QVGN PQVVJGƁTUVVQFQKVVJGKTTGXKXCNUQH DGEQOGUGNHUWHƁEKGPVo*CXKPILWUV *Q[QUQYPGTQH'N(KNGVG4WUQ#V 'ORQTF¼KP(KIWGTGUCPFQPGQHVJG traditional Catalan recipes for

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ORGANIC’S Their motto is ‘slow fast food’. All the ingredients at Organic’s are certified organic: at lunchtime, there’s a range of salads, hamburgers, pasta and rice for healthy, high-speed eating. (Pl. Urquinaona, 14)

special occasions are pretty stunning. Ultra-phallic cannelloni have all the sinful goodness of roast meat and a hint of liver that will awaken many a Catalan’s childhood memories. And the salt OBBIO EQFHTGUJCPFHWNNQHƂCXQWTƂCMGU Gobsmacking: a 700m2 organic tenderly on a bed of Santa Pau supermarket (you’ll find products beans cooked to perfection. All there you never dreamt existed) that with serving sizes that are just includes a restaurant-cafeteria, bigger than half portions, making which sells dishes by weight. them ideal for sharing. (Muntaner, 177)

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BARCELONA’S BEST FRIED CALAMARI RINGS Don’t accept the frozen kind! Glups!

SARRIÀ BAR OF THE MONTH ÀBAC As part of the tasting menu, Jordi Cruz serves a tartare of fried calamari with citrics. Av. Tibidabo, 1.

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murals, and airport magazines such as Monocle. The fish and chips are good, crunchy to the bite, as are the fried edamame (Japanese soy beans) with a drop of truffle oil – that I personally would omit, although it isn’t overpowering. Crispy batter breaks off their deep-fried asparagus spears like slabs of plaster off a wall, and the romesco dipping sauce (made with red pepper and RICARD FADRIQUE nuts) adds a jolt of pure joy. The seitons 'WTQRGCPCPEJQXKGU  provide an oily fish option. Hake & potatoes When I go, they’re out of cocotxes en escabetx, pickled Pau Arenós XKUKVU6JG( KUJ%JKRU5JQRCPFƁPFUVJTGG cod’s cheeks, which they make Pakistani foodies reinterpreting British street food for Barcelona each evening in a nearby prep room. I finish up with an 6JGDGGTCV6JG(KUJ%JKRU which they smoke themselves that it tastes of… of what GURTGUUQHTQOVJGGZEGNNGPV'N Shop is served cold in metal (see below) – and then deep- exactly? Travellers nostalgic Magnífico brand. To sum up, a cups, which keeps it at an ideal fried in vegetable oil. Once for London mainly remember short, well-thought-out menu in temperature. Mani Alam, born in cooked it’s served with paper the texture and the smell, a setting designed down to the Islamabad but better adapted to cones of chips (made of neither of them edifying. Mani last detail. Barcelona is fitting Barcelona than one of the city’s potatoes with their skins left is a cocktail waiter, and it was the last pieces into a jigsaw of bike lanes, tells me that’s how on) and two dipping sauces, from this new branch of the the planet’s gastronomy. they serve beer in Pakistan. Let’s one a tartare, the other a juggler’s trade that he got the The Alams’ relationship with hope it catches on with those chutney, both home-made. idea for the smoked batter. ‘I cooking is tangential – their people who pour beers that have Clever ideas to raise the game used a cocktail-making trick. In uncle owns a Pakistani bubbles as warm as a hot tub. of a dish whose main failing is Great Britain the fish is usually restaurant. So why a fish and Mani, his brother Magid and his cod. We prefer hake. And it’s a chips shop? Because one night brother-in-law Bilal run the The healthier touch.’ they emerged from the Apolo (KUJ%JKRU5JQRCOKPWUEWNG WHAT ELSE? The men were recommended club with a craving for fish and eatery where people queue to to me by Albert Adrià (brother chips and didn’t know where to order the quintessential British Look out for: QHWNVTCEJGH(GTTCP YJQKU get it. So they decided to open takeaway food (although it is Wednesday lunchtimes – it’s boosting the district’s economy a shrine to the British icon. One possible to eat in, if you can bag very quiet. YKVJJKUEQORCP['N$CTTK wonders what would have one of the few bar stools): white Recommended if: which is behind several happened if they’d wanted that ƁUJKPCUKORNGETKUR[DCVVGT You like the idea of a gourmet restaurants in the area. Adrià other British pub classic, steak Mani and his two partners chippie. approves of their business and kidney pie. have reinterpreted a street- Stay away if: model (the USP) and the food classic in gourmet style. You’d be perfectly happy with designs skills of Mani, who THE FISH & CHIPS SHOP The result is chunks of line- HTQ\GPƁUJƁPIGTU has decorated this cubbyhole 4QECHQTV 'KZCORNG caught hake coated in a in an attractively urban style: 'USWGTTG 6 smoked tempura batter – sharp graphics, painted Price: €10 (without wine).

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MONTSENY – ANIVERSARI IPA (6.4%) ESPIGA – BLONDE ALE (4.5%) LA PIRATA – TREMENDA (8.5%) Good body, excellent foam and aromas of This gluten-free beer won a bronze medal at the The hefty alcohol content is well integrated, tropical fruits from New World hops. 2015 Dublin Craft Beer Cup. with a bitter fi nish and heavy malt base.

ROSITA – NEGRA (6%) MANDRIL – PALE ALE (5.4%) LA CALAVERA – MEDICAL STOUT (8%) Brown ale with hazelnuts from Alcover Hailing from the Costa Brava, this ale includes a Ideal to go with desserts, it’s dark like coal, with (Tarragona) – and you can really taste them. complex mix of Slovenian and US hops. hints of coffee, liquorice and spirits. A cure-all.

MOSKA – POMA (5%) FORT – AMERICAN PALE ALE (5.5%) CAPFOGUER – HILILLOS... (9.5%) In the mix are orange peel and mashed apple. It’s They use pale malts and a touch of crystal malt This Russian Imperial Stout is the strongest tart and opaque due to natural fermentation. to give the APA its special colour. Capfoguer creation, and it’s notably bitter.

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and wonderfully comfortable. Catalan cuisine Còrsega, 200. T. 93 453 20 20. 7 Portes M: Hospital Clínic (L5) The eponymous seven doors open on to as many dining salons, all Bar El Velódromo MKVVGFQWVKPGNGICPVVJEGPVWT[ This classic serves quality dishes decor. Long-aproned waiters bring from early morning until the wee TGIKQPCNFKUJGUKPENWFKPICƁUJ[ hours. With Jordi Vilà (one of the BOOK YOUR zarzuela stew with half a lobster, a city’s cooking maestros) at the FKHHGTGPVRCGNNCFCKN[ UJGNNƁUJHQT helm, they produce an endless example, or rabbit and snails), a succession of dishes and tapas TABLE! wide array of fresh seafood, and that will teach you about Catalonia’s heavier dishes such as herbed gastronomic heritage. The full black-bean stew with pork menu is available all day, so if you Japanese, al fresco, in the Barri Gòtic sausage, and orujo sorbet to HCPE[UQOG+DGTKCPJCOCVCOQTC ƁPKUJ4GUGTXCVKQPUCTG croissant for a midnight snack, or the Eixample...Take your pick from available only for certain this is the place to go. our recommendations and reserve tables; otherwise, get Don’t go Muntaner, 213. at TIMEOUT.COM/BARCELONA there early. hungry. Book T. 93 430 60 22. Passatge Isabel II, 14. restaurants at M: Hospital Clínic (L5) T. 93 319 30 33. timeout.com/ barcelona M: Barceloneta (L4) Wine bars Agut Barcelona has a wealth of eateries Can Cisa/Bar Brutal that have improved over the years. This restored neighbourhood bar Many are back on the map after combines a classic bodega at the having been forgotten, while some entrance with a wine bar at the provide the added bonus of having DCEM6JG[UVQEMYKPGUCNN modernised without going mad, from organic or bio-dynamic allowing them to catch up with the producers around the world (so no demand for quality products that nasty chemicals or additives), and clients want. One such case is Agut. at accessible prices. Gignàs, 16. T. 93 315 17 09. Princesa, 14. T. 93 319 98 81. M: Drassanes (L3), Jaume I (L4) M: Jaume I (L4)

Freixa Tradició Casa Mariol 6JGTGVWTPQH,QUGR/CTKC(TGKZC At the Casa Mariol Wine Bar, which to his family home, now that his is part of the bodega of the same son Ramón has gone off to enjoy name, you’ll have the chance to get fame in Madrid, has resulted to know suau – a version of a drink in a real celebration of traditional (a blend of soda and coffee) that cuisine – pig’s trotters with prunes YCURQRWNCTKPVJG4KDGTCFGNo'DTG CPFRKPGPWVUEWVVNGƁUJYKVJ region decades ago. You can also CTVKEJQMGUCPFRGTJCRUVJGƁPGUV VCUVGECUMYKPGUHTQOVJG'DTG macaroni in Barcelona. accompanied by a nice clotxa Sant Elies, 22. T. 93 209 75 59. (bread stuffed with herring, onions, M: Sant Gervasi (FGC) tomatoes and garlic), then top it all off with delicious cakes from Batea Restaurant Gaig CVQYPKPVJG'DTGCTGC  It’s currently all the rage for Barna’s Rosselló, 442. T. 93 436 76 28. top chefs to set up more-affordable M: Sagrada Família (L2,L5) offshoots, and this one is under the guiding hand of Carles Gaig. Bar Nostàlgic *KUCRRTQCEJKPVJKUTGUVCWTCPVCU Although it’s located in the in his other ventures, is a return to fashionable Sant Antoni market grandmotherly Catalan basics, and area, this bar does not mimic the the favourite dish here is the Nordic aesthetic of many local canelons – hearty, steaming tubes establishments. They serve a good QHRCUVCƁNNGFYKVJUJTGFFGFDGGH selection of wines, particularly and topped with a fragrant from Catalonia, plus they have cold béchamel. The various dining beer on tap and an impressive list rooms manage to be both modern of gins, malt whiskies and special

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 59 Food & Drink rums. Gin and tonics, spritz... they Montcada, 2. make it all, including tapas to ESPECTAPES: TAPAS AND MUSIC T. 93 268 30 03. please even the most sybaritic M: Jaume I (L4) palates. Viladomat, 38. El Jabalí M: Sant Antoni (L2) This deli bar, which is reminiscent of Av. Paral·lel in its heyday, is a Magatzem Escolà great place to eat wonderful tapas It looks like a hoarder’s paradise of – try the patatas bravas, the wine bottles, but the shop’s staff chicken salad and the cured know exactly where everything is. sausage – while sipping on good ;QWoNNƁPFCITGCVXCTKGV[QH wine. It’s also a nice place to sit on products, which is the result of a the terrace and do some serious company that really knows its people watching. business and has spent more than Ronda Sant Pau, 15. half a century dedicated to wine T. 93 441 10 82. FKUVTKDWVKQP-GGRCNQQMQWVHQT M: Paral·lel (L2,L3) their wine tasting and cocktail events. Tapas 24 Comercial, 13. Another nu-trad tapas bar focusing T. 93 167 26 55. on quality produce. Among the M: Barceloneta (L4) El Principal de l’Eixample oxtail stews, fried prawns and cod A pretty courtyard, varied dining options, and tapas nights croquettes, however, fans of chef Monvínic YKVJNKXGOWUKECTGCNNQPQHHGTCV'N2TKPEKRCN6JKUOQPVJoU %CTNGU#DGNNCPYKNNCNUQƁPFRNC[HWN This is one of the largest EspectapesUJQY FTKPM VJTGGVCRCUa UGGUUKPIGT snacks more in keeping with his information centres for wine not UKIPCVWTGUV[NG6JG/E(QKG$WTIGT QPN[KP'WTQRGDWVVJGYQTNFQXGT Daniel Anglès perform tunes by Rocío Jurado. Provença, is an exercise in fast-food heaven, It’s also a wine bar and restaurant. 286. Apr 5, 12, 26. 8.30pm. www.elprincipaleixample.com as is the bikini, a small version of The latter – which focuses on his take on the ham-and-cheese traditional cuisine with a creative toastie. touch – is excellent, by the way. Tabarca Langosta’s Club Murivecchi Diputació, 269. Diputació, 249. Tino Martínez, sailor and chef This restaurant-trattoria is a T. 93 488 09 77. T. 93 272 61 87. extraordinaire, has an unusual direct relative of Un Posto al Sole M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2,L3,L4) M: Universitat (L1,L2) restaurant in Barcelona in C/Urgell (No 188), and they both URGEKCNKUKPIKPNQDUVGT*GJCU make really good pizzas. La Tieta recovered the recipes of the lobster Princesa, 59. T. 93 315 22 97. Chickpeas with prawns, potato Seafood ƁUJGTOGPHTQOVJGKUNCPFQH M: Jaume I (L4) omelette, mushrooms with garlic Tabarca, and uses them to create a and parsley, amazing olives – the Els Pescadors menu that includes lobster and rice Piazze d’Italia prob lem is knowing where to Josep Maulini and his wife have cooked in the lobster stock. A temple of southern Italian cuisine start. La Tieta offers good wine turned this into a lovely spot, Comte Borrell, 160. T. 661 074 704. with an innovative and provocative (no classics, just what takes their combining antique furniture with M: Universitat (L1,L2) twist. The pizza chef makes the fancy that week), bottles of modern decor, and retaining its air dough spin and dance above his XGTOQWVJCPFCPGPFNGUUƂQYQH of a small-town bar. One delicious ƁPIGTVKRUDGHQTGVTCPUHQTOKPIKV draught beer, while the food is recommendation: grilled sardines Pizza into an outstanding crust. Try their good traditional fare made from in sauce, though they don’t always sweet Nutella pizza, which is fresh ingredients, with skill and have them. Rice dishes are a La Bella Napoli completely over the top but not to enthusiasm. staple on the menu, and never There can be few Barcelona be missed. Blai, 1. T. 93 186 35 95. disappoint. residents who haven’t tried the Casanova, 94. T. 93 323 59 77. M: Paral·lel (L2,L3) Plaça Prim, 1. wonderful pizzas served in this M: Rocafort (L1) T. 93 225 20 18. M: Poblenou (L4) place with an authentic Italian Taverna Mediterrània atmosphere and noisy, cheerful 6JKUUOCNN'KZCORNGTGUVCWTCPV Rías de Galicia waiters. Book a table if you’re going Tapas combines traditional intentions This restaurant is the setting for at the weekend. with a clear determination to do the Iglesias family’s wonderful Margarit, 14. T. 93 442 50 56. Bar del Pla things differently. Classic tapas TGNCVKQPUJKRYKVJVJGƁPGUV M: Paral·lel (L2,L3) Positioned somewhere between a are made with a touch of added seafood. The menu includes (TGPEJDKUVTQCPFCVCRCUDCT$CT imagination and effort – Cantabrian lobster with garlic, La Bricciola del Pla serves tapas and small recommendations include John Dory and txangurro crab A real Italian trattoria with good plates (divine pig’s trotters with Andalusian-style fried squid rings, cannelloni. And when it’s in pizzas and fantastic pasta. foie, superb pa amb tomàquet). delicious stuffed roast pork and season, they have the exquisite (GCVWTGUCPQVGYQTVJ[YKPGNKUVCPF &TKPMUKPENWFG/CJQWQPVCR CƁPG their ‘city’s second-best’ bravas. Bordeaux lamprey. some great Italian grappa. beer that’s often ignored here Enric Granados, 58. T. 626 86 Lleida, 7. T. 93 423 45 70. Olzinelles, 19. T. 93 432 19 33. because it’s from Madrid), plus 68 21. M: Diagonal (L3,L5); M: Espanya (L1,L3,FGC) M: Mercat Nou (L1) some good wines by the glass. FGC: Provença

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The great hostesses The lit tle sister of Melon Par t y is called Carita Bonita and gets the weekend started every Friday at a spot in the Gaixample. By Cristina Carbonell

I arrive at Carita Bonita two days new opening, and full of pride, not day and tells you that before it’s due to open. It’s almost so much for the fact that they host you made their week something 9pm on a weekday and I find myself one of the longest-running parties thanks to the great time like that?” in front of a place that’s called in the city, but rather because they had and how comfortable And here we are.’ Presing, in Barcelona’s gay they’re ‘survivors’. Along the way they felt. That’s priceless.’ Ursu Here they are indeed. Just four shy neighbourhood par excellence, the they’ve seen other well-known and Mireia complement each of their 50th Melon Party event Eixample. Outside, two women and lesbian fiestas fall by the wayside. other. They share knowing looks. and about to inaugurate a man are looking at an illuminated They insist that they’re not at all ‘After all these years we know Carita Bonita. sign they’ve just put up bearing the tired from the past five years of each other really well and we’re We end the interview by taking name of the new party night. We Melon, and the proof is that they a good team, because whatever our picture in Presing’s photo say hello and introduce ourselves, have the energy to put themselves I can’t get done, she does, and booth, another survivor in this age and the women explain that the into the spotlight not just once a vice versa. We’re very balanced,’ of selfies and social networks. sign will go up and down, that the month but now every week. says Ursu, as Mireia nods Unlike the overpriced machines Carita Bonita (‘pretty face’) will only This duo are always on the front in agreement. you find in metro stations, this show itself on Friday nights. line. They live up to their roles as one is sponsored and free. ‘The party hostesses, always looking A challenge for a laugh girls who come to the parties love Veterans of the scene to spread happiness and good The first Melon Party started as it,’ I’m told. Another fun touch For five years, Ursu and Mireia have vibes. And they know their stuff. a kind of joke challenge. ‘We from these women who are more been in charge of Melon Party, a What motivates them, they say, is were at a weekend party in the than just pretty faces. popular monthly theme party for that women come and have a countryside, and we had a great lesbians. ‘We’ve organised 46 good time. ‘What makes it all time. We were talking and talking, CARITA BONITA already,’ says Mireia. The pair are worthwhile is when, for instance, and said to each other, “Come on, València, 196 (Eixample Esq.). happy, radiating enthusiasm for the one of these women sees you one what would it take for us to do T. 685 99 96 35.

Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & tickets.visitbarcelona.com 61 Edited by Ricard Martín [email protected] Clubs @RicardMartn The crowd-pleaser Tiga, the much-loved Canadian DJ, returns to Barcelona to promote his third album, No Fantasy Required. By Javier Blanquez

It’s no secret that Tiga likes Razzmatazz, but what won’t electronic circuit, Tiga was a hero following Sexor (2005) and Ciao! Barcelona. Whenever he can, he change is the result: there are for the electroclash movement; (2009) – is slightly less pop makes sure that his visits to the few DJs who are more regular, as such, he played electro, and slightly more techno. He city coincide with a Barça match – GHƁEKGPVCPFUCVKUHCEVQT[KPVJG synthetic pop, house with an acid continues to sing, and the tracks he’s a fanatic for the joc bonic work they do. touch and elegant techno, all with still follow the structure of a song, (beautiful game) style of Messi Truth be told, Tiga has no secret a certain glam leaning. As the DWVVJGƁPKUJGFRTQFWEVKUOQTG and Iniesta; on Twitter he spends to hide. His formula is as simple years have passed, and abstract and closer to the more time comenting on the electroclash has faded while language of Detroit than before. matches than talking about he’s stayed at the top of the This means that Tiga may have music – and if it’s not the football game, Tiga’s adjusted the recipe introduced some variants into the that motivates him to come, then Tiga has added without changing it entirely. So mix, that now there’ll be elements it’s the opportunity to play at you still know more or less what that are harder, more Detroit, but festivals or clubs that raise his variants to to expect from him: sometimes in he won’t lose his personal prestige. He normally makes two the mix but his suitcase he carries material essence. In short, he’s like the obligatory stops in the Catalan that’s deeper, or more Detroit, or style of play at FC Barcelona: capital over the course of a without losing more vocal, but one thing he’ll whether maintaining possession season: one at Sónar – always in his essence never do is startle you with or going on the counter-attack, a position of privilege, generally something he’s not. If it’s a the objective is to triumph in this closing one of the big stages as they come: have fun without question of going out at night most beautiful game. because he’s well-practised in veering too much into risky and having fun without any kind that craft and knows how to territory, taking the audience by of higher aspiration, Tiga is a Tiga performs at The Loft @ manage the ecstasy of the party the hand and transporting them sure thing. Razzmatazz on Friday 29 crowd – and the other at one of to a world of fantasies that has a However, you have to take into at 1am. €13 in advance (plus fee). the big city clubs. This time it’s familiar language. When he account that the new album he’s €17 on door. Price includes drink. the latter, and at Sala started to really shine on the currently promoting – his third, www.salarazzmatazz.com

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PARTY ON ECLIPSE Eclipse The W Hotel, at the southerly point of the city beaches, JQUVUPKIJVN[RCTVKGUKPKVUVJƂQQTURCEG'ENKRUG6JKU month check out tech house and treats at Candy Shop (Sat 2), and cocktails and hip hop with the New Geisha Club (Fri 22). Pl. Rosa dels Vents. Free. www.eclipse-barcelona.com

this long-running club night. Sessions Sala Apolo (details above). Wed 12.30am. €12 (on the door). Nasty Mondays €9 (advance). Price includes Tattoos, sweat and rock ’n’ roll: one drink. the city’s wildest Monday night party. Miss it at your peril. Cupcake Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, Take a trip down memory lane 113). M: Paral·lel (L2, L3). Mon without forgetting to live in the midnight. €15 (on the door). €14 moment, with hits from the (advance). ’70s right up to the present day. Sala Apolo (details above). Thu Raw Rebels 12.30am. €10 (on the door). €8 Dance to the best beats of the (advance). Price includes one drink. ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, with local and international DJs, in the The Bus Music Club heart of the city. Session celebrating non- Sidecar Factory Club (Plaça commercial, non-mainstream Reial, 7). M: Liceu (L3). Tue and underground music. 12.30am. €5. Price includes Razzmatazz (Almogàvers, 122). one drink. M: Marina (L1), Bogatell (L4). Thu midnight. €15 (on the door). Wednesdays at Moog €13 (advance). Price includes Hear big names in international one drink. techno and enjoy one of Barcelona’s most authentic Trill atmospheres. Spain’s biggest future beats Moog (Arc del Teatre, 3). Wed club night features the up-and- midnight. €5 (on the door). €5 coming stars of the hardcore (advance). continuum. Razzmatazz (details above). Caníbal Sound System Sat 1am. €17 (on the door). Live acts, DJs and roots music €13 (advance). Price includes make for an underground vibe at one drink.

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2 3 1. Observatory in Castelltallat 2. Alicia Festival of Gastronomy 3. Magna Celebratio 4. Gaudí crypt at Colònia Güell, Santa Coloma

1. Houses of the stars 2. Alicia Festival of Gastronomy 3. Magna Celebratio 4. Close to Barcelona city Take a look up, and discover the The Alicia Foundation brings Badalona, BCN’s neighbour to the Armed with a multizone travel card, wonders of the cosmos at the together food and science to north, was once the site of the you can visit dozens of fascinating astronomical observatories all promote technological innovation Roman city of Baetulo. Every year it sites within BCN’s metropolitan over the Barcelona region. There in cooking, good eating habits and commemorates its history with the area by metro, bus, tram or train. are observatories in Castelltallat the region’s agricultural and region’s largest festival of Roman The Güell crypt in Santa Coloma is (observatoricastelltallat.com), gastronomic culture. Its base is at culture organised by Badalona a UNESCO World Heritage site and (observatoridepujalt.cat), the Món Sant Benet site in Sant Museum. You can enjoy guided one of Gaudí’s key works. In Sant Sabadell (astrosabadell.org), Fruitós de Bagès, a cultural visits of the city’s archaeological Joan Despí, there are more Tiana (astrotiana.com) and in the heritage centre built around a sites and monuments, with modernista gems from architect Garraf (oagarraf.net). Many make Benedictine monastery. This year reconstructions of daily life during Josep Maria Jujol. Esplugues de the most of the province’s rugged they’re celebrating their fourth the Roman era, demos of typical Llobregat has reminders of the coastal hills and inland mountains, annual festival with two days of trades, and workshops where you area’s ceramics past at the Fàbrica offering excellent conditions and activities, presentations and can try your hand at Roman crafts Pujol i Bausis-La Rajoleta, a factory- clear skies for stargazing and a guided tours, which are all open to and cooking. You can even sample turned-museum, and in the Catalan regular programme of the general public and are designed Roman recipes at many of the city’s tiles at the Museu de Can Tinturé. observations, talks and family to show that eating healthily and restaurants, which offer a special And Cornellà de Llobregat’s Museu workshops. well can be easy and fun. historical menu. Agbar de les Aigües shows how the Apr 30 – May 1. www.alicia.cat/ Apr 28 – May 1. area got its drinking water. festaalicia; www.monstbenet.com www.magnacelebratio.cat turisme.elbaixllobregat.cat

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Top Ten Times have changed, and now 1 Barcelona is a city of refugees. Rótulos Roura owl Although still as vain as it was at This is one of the most famous Advertising the time of the Olympic Games. signs in the city, sitting atop a building on the busy corner of Pg. de Sant Joan and Av. 7 Diagonal. As it’s so emblematic Vintage for locals, this mussol was #V'PECPVUƂGCOCTMGVVJG5CPV exempted from the application Antoni Sunday market, and in old of laws uniforming urban DQQMUJQRU[QWECPƁPFNQVUQH aesthetics, and it’s even been interesting historical adverts. restored so that now, from time ;QWOKIJVƁPFRTQENCOCVKQPUQH to time, it winks. the 1931 Republic, or images of children holding cava bottles (nowadays this would be seen as 2 an incitement to kids to drink Screen in Universitat alcohol) and real housewives It’s obvious that the majority of making choccy drink Cola-Cao. people who use the Universitat metro station are young, because that’s where a giant 8 screen has been installed, in the Advertising columns vestibule of Line 2. It shows non- When there’s an election coming, stop fashion ads featuring very these get inundated overnight, sexy youngsters, which make us and remain that way until some mere mortals without make-up 7 lose and others win – or feel even more mortal. everybody wins – and the columns return to their principal function of advertising concerts. 3 Of course, as you don’t need any Lamp post banners licence to put an ad up on them, We’re not sure who’s in charge of it’s no wonder they’re so popular. designing them, but if the banners aren’t displaying something about politics it’s 9 impossible to know what they’re Overloaded postboxes promoting. An exhibition? In lots of apartment buildings, A series of talks? A festival? the residents try to protect Often you need eagle eyes to be VJGOUGNXGUHTQOGPFNGUUƂ[GT able to see the email address, deliveries with a sign saying ‘No so you can ask someone what commercial post’ – but it makes the banners are going on about. little difference. Their postboxes 9 UVKNNƁNNWRYKVJCFUHQTVCMGCYC[U dentists, language schools and 4 MARIA DIAS bills. Whatever happened to Buses sheets with little pull-off slips cut love letters? Every space used for advertising along the bottom with the mobile has its own specialities, and numbers of poor maths Barcelona buses tend to graduates desperately looking to 10 RWDNKEKUGRNC[UƁNOQRGPKPIU give one-to-one classes, or of Ad agencies and theme parks. What’s philosophy or language students If you put ‘Barcelona ad annoying about the ads is that seeking babysitting gigs. agencies’ into the local Yellow they cover the windows, so for Pages search engine, you get those of us on board who like to 1,646 results. Proof, if it were amuse ourselves watching the 6 needed, that this is a city of world go by, they’re no fun. ‘Posa’t guapa’ publicists, photographers, This was one of the slogans from models, designers, creatives, the exciting pre-Olympics era salespeople, strategists and 5 when Barcelona wanted to clean communicators... just as we Photocopies up its façades. ‘Make yourself always suspected. These are the most basic kind of beautiful’ was followed by ‘It’s 1 city ad. We’re talking about those the best shop in the world’. By Ada Castells

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