OFFICIAL Monthly agenda FREE GUIDE! JULY 2017 GREC FESTIVAL OF BARCELONA ENJOY RESTAURANTS AGENDA WITH SUMMER NIGHT WITH TERRACES MORE THAN EVENTS AND GARDENS 200 ACTIVITIES SUMARIO July 2017 Music at the Sant Pau Modernista Site. 08 FESTIVALS 20 IN THE CITY Grec Festival Refreshing activities The best international shows Film, museums, sport, music... in theatre, dance, music and Culture for all ages and circus invade the stages of Barcelona. Summer Nights at the city’s landmark sights. 14 ART Cutting-edge exhibitions 23 SHOPPING A variety of exhibitions focusing Your summer kit on cutting-edge ideas. Swimwear and towels, hats 18 FOOD AND DRINK and sunglasses… Everything Charming terraces, you need. courtyards and gardens Restaurantes donde comer bien 25 AGENDA y disfrutar del buen tiempo. More than 200 daily activities. Follow us @VisitBCN_EN facebook.com/visitbarcelona youtube.com/c/visitbarcelonaofficial pinterest.com/visitbcn/ instagram.com/visitbarcelona plus.google.com/+visitbarcelonaofficial Leyenda de iconos Type: show, sport, culture, gastro-tourism Target: family, children, romantic Space: outdoors, routes, historical, panoramic Time: morning, afternoon, evening, all day Publisher: Turisme de Barcelona. Passatge de la Concepció, 7-9. Tel. 93 368 97 00. visitbarcelona.com · Design & layout: ZetaCorp (Ediciones Reunidas SA - Grupo Zeta). Tel. 93 227 94 16 · Advertising: Director Comercial, Juan Garçon. ZETA Gestión de Medios. Tel. 93 484 66 00 · DL: B 12.919.2016 · Printed on certified paper 3 THE HOT Festival, at Fòrum beach, with Armin Van Tu. 25 LIST Buuren and others. SPORT P. 43 July 2017 A big party to Su. 16 celebrate the 25th FREE FILMS AT THE anniversary of the BEACH P. 20 Barcelona Olympics. A free season of independent cinema. Th. 27 EXHIBITION P. 25 Mo. 17 The Way OPERA P. 41 Things Do at Il Trovatore by Verdi at Fundació Miró. Gran Teatre del Liceu. Fr. 28 Tu. 18 FESTIVAL P. 44 MÚSICA P. 41 The singer Imany Sa. 01 Ireland’s U2 at performs at Palau de FESTIVAL: P. 32 Olympic Stadium. la Música Catalana GREC 2017, to kick off the Festival theatre, music, Mas i Mas, a classic dance and circus Sá. 22 event in the city. for all ages. DANCE P. 42 Ibstage Star Galas at Gran Teatre del Liceu. Th. 06 MUSIC P. 35 Sting, a true classic performer at Festival de Pedralbes. Sa. 08 PRIDE PARADE P. 20 Demanding rights and partying at Moll de la Sa. 29 Fusta. FESTIVAL P. 45 Ma. 24 Unite with We. 12 SUMMER NIGHTS P. 18 Tomorrowland FILM P. 11 Activities to enjoy features the best Outdoor film screenings summer nights at the electronic music at at Sala Montjuïc. best venues in the city Parc de Can Zam (Sant Pau Modernista (Santa Coloma de Sa. 15 Site, Casa de les Gramanet), with FESTIVAL P. 40 Punxes, Palau Baró Steve Aoki and other Barcelona Beach Quadras,…) international artists. 4 Buy your tickets at: tickets.visitbarcelona.com TOURISM THERE ARE MANY DESK BARCELONAS TO EXPLORE. July 2017 WHICH ONE IS YOURS? DISCOVER THE FULL RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES ON OFFER BY VISITING: tickets.visitbarcelona.com Barcelona... just a click away Find more than 200 suggestions to suit a wide range of tastes This month… Enjoy the Mediterranean sea: You have a wide range of wa- Or enjoy a peaceful and rela- ter sports to choose from: scu- xing experience as you sail the ba diving, parasailing, paddle, kayak, sea off the Barcelona coast on a cata- jet ski… and glide over the waves of the maran, where you’ll see the city from blue Barcelona ocean. another perspective. PADDLE CATAMARAN 6 Buy your tickets at: tickets.visitbarcelona.com FESTIVALS 1 GREC: a great festival invades the city THE WORLD’S BEST THEATRE, MUSIC, DANCE AND CIRCUS SHOWS GROW IN NUMBER IN BARCELONA EVERY SUMMER AS PART OF THE GREC FESTIVAL BY MARÍA V. VELASCO Another summer has arrived and Barce- Plaça de Margarita Xirgu, Mercat de les lona is once more brimming with creativ- Flors, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalu- ity thanks to the Grec Festival, which this nya, Sala Hiroshima and Fundació Joan year’s 41st edition is packed with a host Miró. Several other venues scattered of shows from these four areas –theatre, throughout the city are also staging many music, dance and circus– and divided shows: Sala Barts, Jamboree, Harlem into two main sections: Grec Montjuïc Jazz Club, L’Auditori, Teatre Romea, Sala and Grec City. Villarroel, Lliure de Gràcia, Sala Beckett, The activities on the hill of Teatre Nacional... but other landmarks Montjuïc, the heart of the Grec, in the city are also hosting activities, are centred around the classi- such as La Pedrera or Bibliote- cal theatre that gives the Fes- ca de Catalunya. The Fes- tival its name, as well as six tival also sets its sights other venues: Teatre Lliure, abroad and is therefore 8 Buy your tickets at: tickets.visitbarcelona.com 4 MINIGREC CULTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY The Grec Festival has also programmed shows that are ideal for 2 families with children of all ages. Some of these MiniGrec activities include Pop-up at the Fundació Miró on July 7 and 8, a show by the theatre company Teatro delle Briciole in which a book becomes the main protagonist. Another 3 highlight is My Baby 1. Teatre Grec. 2. ‘Fidelis Fortibus’. Is A Queen (pictured 3. Bill Evans. 4. ‘The Great Tamer’. below), a show for babies and their fami- featuring the Mediterranean region. Art- lies, which tackles the ists from various cities along its shores will subject of difference showcase their creations as part of this and the way we perceive year’s Grec Greek route. And there are four it. It can be seen at other routes: Grec Summer Nights, to en- Mercat de les Flors on joy the Festival outdoors under the stars July 15 and 16. on Montjuïc; Grec Selection, featuring the biggest names for the most demanding audiences; Grec with the Family, for spec- tators of all ages, and Grec Explorers, high- lighting new performance forms, languag- es and spaces. Theatre Euripides’ Troyanas (The Trojan Wom- en, show in Spanish) is one of the most important Greek works in this year’s Grec. The Trojan women will take to the stage to explain the abuses to which they have been subjected. As part of the same route, Dimitris Papaioannou’s The Check out all the latest news at: 9 visitbarcelona.com 1 1. Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. Great Tamer, a wordless show, displays 2. Sala Barts. 3. ‘Invisibles’. his commitment to visual theatre. Camus’ Caligula (show in Spanish) as directed by Mario Gas is part of Grec Summer Nights. GREC CREATION While highlights of Grec Explorers in- cludes the Philoctetes-inspired Inflam- FACTORIES mation du verbe vivre (show in French) OF CREATIVITY and Who Is Me. Pasolini (show in Span- One of the Grec’s parallel acti- ish), directed by Álex Rigola, which por- vities is Grec Creation, focu- trays the personality of the Italian director. sing on factories of creati- Major shows in Grec City include new vity, permanent spaces in productions of Lorca’s Bodas de sangre which a joint work has been (Blood Wedding, show in Spanish) and completed and whose result Les véritables aventures de Don Qui- can also be seen in the Festi- chotte de La Mancha (in Spanish, Cata- val’s programme. The spaces lan and French with Spanish and French are: Graner, Centre de Creació surtitles), based on the book by Cervantes Fabra i Coats (pictured), and combining puppets and actors. Caldera de les Corts, Hangar, El Central del Circ, Sala Music Beckett and Teatre Nacional The various venues of Grec Montjuïc de Catalunya. Make sure you will feature the singer-songwriter May- visit them all. te Martín performing music other than her usual flamenco at Teatre Grec on July 6. There will also be one of the great voic- es of Italian song at the same venue, Vinicio Capossela (July 10), and on Ju- ly 31 the classical music conductor Jor- di Savall will perform Hesperión, a jour- ney through the Mediterranean using the common thread of the figure of Ibn Bat- tuta, a 14th-century Moroccan traveller. Three flamenco singers will also per- form together at Teatre Grec on July 16: 10 Buy your tickets at: tickets.visitbarcelona.com Linares, Arcángel and Marina Heredia in a show entitled Tempo de luz, with songs ranging from the more traditional forms of flamenco to the most innovative styles. Highlights of some of the music shows scattered throughout the city are Bill Evans & Dead Brown Band at Jambo- ree, performing an evening of jazz fusion 2 on July 1 and 2, and jazz and flamenco as performed by the Carles Benavent Trio opening show of the Festival (July 1 and 2) on July 4 and 5. at the Teatre Grec: the Dresden Frankfurt Four female performers are fea- Dance Company, with choreographies by tured at Sala Barts: the Afro-Peruvian Jacopo Godani, as well as La Fiesta by the Susana Baca (July 3); Joana Serrat, per- dancer Israel Galván at the same venue forming Catalan folk, country and pop (Ju- on July 4 and 5. ly 5); the soul music of Sara Pi (July 21) and As part of Grec Montjuïc at Mercat de Maria Gadu, the child prodigy of Brazilian les Flors on July 7 and 8, there is the show music (July 19), as well as Galicia’s Luar na Cementary by the Aerites Dance Compa- Lubre (July 11) and John Pizzarelli (July 13) ny, an urban ballet by a young Greek com- at the same venue.