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Discovering authors

Sant Jordi is when writers, books and Reader take to the streets. It's on Sant Jordi that people discover an author, fall in love with a book and become enthralled with a story. This year, to mark the opening speech that will be given by the Mozambican writer, Mia Couto, Barcelona's libraries have prepared a selection of books from African and other literature with Africa as their central focus. We have highlighted a collection of writers, hailing from several African countries, with remarkable narratives that stirred out emotions and which will stir yours too. Discover Africa this Sant Jordi.

New on Barcelona Llibres

We present you with the latest new developments on books published or jointly published by Barcelona City Council, which you will find at the book stall in Plaça de Sant Jaume, from 9 am to 9 pm, as well as other works from the last few years.

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"Podries", de Joana Raspall [projecte Poesia Dibuixada]

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Poema musicat pel grup Roba Estesa

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Joana Raspall i Juanola (1 July 1913 - 4 December 2013) was a Spanish writer and librarian. She was born in Barcelona and died in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.

Petits poemes per a nois i noies (1981)

Ales i camins (1991)

Llum i gira-sols (1994)

Bon dia, poesia (1996)

Degotall de poemes (1997)

Com el plomissol (1998)

Pinzellades en vers (1998)

Versos amics (1998)

Escaleta al vent (2002)

Font de versos (2003)

Serpentines de versos (2000)

A compàs dels versos (2003)

Concert de poesia (2004)

Arpegis, haikús (2004)

Instants haikus i tankes (2009)

El jardí vivent (2010)

El meu món de poesia (2011)

Batecs de paraules (2013)

46 poemes i 2 contes (2013)

Joana de les paraules clares (2013)

Divuit poemes de Nadal i un de Cap d'any (2013)

Nou Poemes per a tot l'any (2013)

A world of poetry! (Aplicació dispositius IOS a AppStore i Android a GooglePlay, versió anglesa)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Joana Raspall i Juanola (1 July 1913 - 4 December 2013) was a Spanish writer and librarian. She was born in Barcelona and died in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.

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La ciutat dels prodigis (The City of Marvels)

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La ciutat dels prodigis (The City of Marvels)

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The City of Marvels is a historical fiction Spanish novel written by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga in 1986 about the city of Barcelona and its cultural evolution during the turn of the 20th century. Its central character, Onofre Bouvila, represents a lower class character and their collective ideology.

There is a film of the same name, adapted in 1999 starring Olivier Martinez as Onofre Bouvila and Emma Suarez as Delfina.

The protagonist of the story is Onofre Bouvila, a man who grows up in a small rural town in Catalonia. As a child, he sees his father leave the town for Cuba to become rich. Although he sends letters on his voyage, the letters soon stop. Many years later his father returns and appears to have accumulated great wealth. Soon, the family learns that he was unsuccessful and borrowed money from the mafia in Barcelona to purchase a suit.

Years later, Onofre travels to Barcelona in order to find a job. He finds an inn that is run by a father along with his daughter Delfina. As Onofre finds himself unable to get work, Delfina helps him by introducing him to a group of anarchists. His job becomes the distribution of anarchist pamphlets which puts him at odds with the city officials and the guards.

Onofre distributes these pamphlets for a while at the world trade fair construction site, however he soon realises he isn't being adequately rewarded for his efforts so he begins to sell hair restorer to tradesmen from the fair. Here he meets his right hand man Efren who provides the muscle. After this Onofre becomes a gangster working for one of the bosses of Barcelona, through a clever plan he successfully takes over the gang and kicks out the other gangs in town.

After this chapter in his Onofre's dealings become less violent but arguably no more legitimate. Barcelona's expansion plan is in full swing and with these plots of land on the outskirts of town are rapidly changing value depending on the rumours of where metro lines will be created. Through sly dealings and misguiding buyers Onofre makes his fortune here.

After this Onofre invests in the silent movie business, before having to go into exile when Primo de Rivera comes to power. After this he is forced into retirement however by this stage he is one of the most power and rich men in Spain, he obsessively renovates his Mansion while ignoring his family and spending the majority of his nights in brothels.

As the book draws to a close, Onofre becomes more pensive and meets another woman who takes his fancy whose father is an inventor who he had met many years ago, he agrees to support his project to build a form of blimp. He falls for this woman and has one night with her before the unveiling of their project and the next world trade fair in 1929.

Finally Onofre dies when their Blimp crashes into the sea at the world trade fair.

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The City of Marvels is a historical fiction Spanish novel written by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga in 1986 about the city of Barcelona and its cultural evolution during the turn of the 20th century. Its central character, Onofre Bouvila, represents a lower class character and their collective ideology.

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Santa Maria del Mar (la Catedral del Mar)

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Santa Maria del Mar (la Catedral del Mar)

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Els horaris per aquest Nadal són els següents: 20 de desembre: 20h: Concert de Nadal (Fundació Montserrat Caballé) 23 de desembre: 21h: Messies de Händel 24 de desembre: 17h: Missa de la... Llegir més

Celebració eucarística en honor a Nostra Senyora de Guadalupe Data: Diumenge 12 de desembre de 2021 Hora: 19h Celebració que es durà a terme per segon any consecutiu a partir del fet que... Llegir més

25 nov 2021 | Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar

Concert de Nadal Dia: 2 de desembre de 2021 Hora: 20.30h Presentat per: Gergely Bogányi: pianista hongarès Urszula Bardlowska: cantant d'òpera polonesa Gábor Varga: pianista hongarès... Llegir més

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Els horaris per aquest Nadal són els següents: 20 de desembre: 20h: Concert de Nadal (Fundació Montserrat Caballé) 23 de desembre: 21h: Messies de Händel 24 de desembre: 17h: Missa de la... Llegir més Celebració eucarística en honor a Nostra Senyora de Guadalupe Data: Diumenge 12 de desembre de 2021 Hora: 19h Celebració que es durà a terme per segon any consecutiu a partir del fet que...

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Owing to the strike called for Women's Day on Sunday, 8th March, the Barcelona Bus Turístic service may be disrupted.

A historic, medieval, artistic and innovative district

Hola Barcelona, your travel solution

In this medieval district of Barcelona you can find Gothic palaces, museums, art galleries, churches, restaurants and innovative shops. The Born district retains not only part of the history of medieval Barcelona, which was mutilated during the War of the Spanish Succession, but also the bohemian air of the artists who adopted it as their home in the 20th century.

Why visit El Born?

El Born was the name of the enclosure, now Passeig del Born, where tournaments and jousts between medieval knights were held. The district delimited by Passeig de Picasso, Carrer de la Princesa as far as Carrer del Rec, Passeig del Born, Santa Maria del Mar, Pla de Palau and Avinguda del Marquès de l'Argentera has managed to preserve its medieval Gothic architecture palaces while its narrow streets now play host to the latest trends in art, fashion and gastronomy.

If you wander through its squares and streets, you will be taken back to the Middle Ages, when wealthy merchants built their palaces on Gothic streets like Carrer de Montcada, where the Picasso Museum is located. These traders lived alongside the craftsmen, sailors and guildsmen who built the Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar, the finest example of Catalan Gothic art. A square next to the basilica, Plaça del Fossar de les Moreres, is home to an eternal flame that was lit in memory of the fallen in the 1714 War of the Spanish Succession, which mutilated the district. For a good understanding of the history of that time visit the Born Cultural and Memorial Centre. This former market and jewel of cast-iron architecture preserves remains of the part of the city that either disappeared during the war or was demolished immediately after it to build the citadel.

20th-century artists like Picasso, Rusiñol and Casas also established their studios in the district as it was to Barcelona what Montmartre was to Paris. Now the area is home to a large number of art galleries and emblematic spaces for new generations of artists, showrooms featuring the latest trends, and gourmet stores.

How do you get to El Born?

On the Red Route of Barcelona Bus Turístic hop off at the Pla de Palau - Parc de la Ciutadella stop, from where you can explore the Born district.

For the most curious of you

Did you know? Carrer de Santa Maria, which leads to the historic Fossar de les Moreres, was a busy shopping street that featured two very popular tailor's shops, La Lluna and El Vaixell, which shared a space in Plaça de Santa Maria until they disappeared at the end of the 20th century. A small metallic ship used to advertise the tailor's shops has been preserved on the facade to commemorate them.

A must: To discover a district that has undergone many changes throughout its history.

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Owing to the strike called for Women's Day on Sunday, 8th March, the Barcelona Bus Turístic service may be disrupted. A historic, medieval, artistic and innovative district Hola Barcelona, your travel solution In this medieval district of Barcelona you can find Gothic palaces, museums, art galleries, churches, restaurants and innovative shops.

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It is regarded as an outdoor museum owing to the quantity and quality of its sculptures. There are works there by Frederic Marès (the equestrian statue of General Prim), Eusebi Arnau (marble bust of Marià Aguiló), Josep Clarà (bronze nude dedicated to the Catalan volunteers of 1914), Josep Llimona (female marble nude entitled El desconsol), Pau Gargallo (marble bust of Lleó Fontoba), Manuel Fuxà (marble busts of Milà i Fontanals, Víctor Balaguer and Joaquim Vayreda, and a bronze figure of Bonaventura Carles Aribau) and Eduard B. Alentorn (marble group called La cigonya i la guineu [The Stork and the Fox]), to name but a few.

Two sculptures should be noted here, given their popularity: Joan Roig Soler's La dama del paraigua [Woman with Umbrella], one of Barcelona's symbols for many years, which crowns the ornamental fountain designed by Josep Fontserè, and a stone mammoth, the first and only natural-sized reproduction of extinct animals which the Natural Sciences Board put up in the park in 1907.
The monumental waterfall
This was designed by Josep Fontserè in 1875 and officially opened in 1881. Fontserè had a very young Antoni Gaudí as his assistant, to whom the rocky decoration of the waterfall and some of the decorative motifs have been attributed.

The waterfall is decorated with numerous sculptural features by Catalan artists from the end of the 19th century and put together after its official opening. The central element is Venanci Vallmitjana's Naixement de Venus [Birth of Venus]; and the highlight of these works, at the top, is the La Quadriga de l'Aurora[Aurora's Chariot] by Rossend Nobas, who also sculpted four groups of djinns, two fauns and the figure of Eros. Four griffins beneath, modelled by Rafael Atché, protect the Venus. There are steps from one end to the other giving access to a type of temple for contemplating the park from a privileged perspective.
The buildings
There are a few extant buildings from the old military citadel built in 1715: the military chapel, designed by Pròsper Verboom (1728); the Governor's Palace, the seat of the Institut Escola during the Second Republic and a secondary school today, and the arsenal building, now the seat of the Catalan Parliament.

The other buildings in the park were built towards the end of the 19th century. The first was the neoclassical-style Martorell Museum of Geology, designed in 1879 by Antoni Rovira i Trias and integrated into the design of the park created by Josep Fontseré in 1982.

As for the buildings constructed for the Universal Exposition of 1888, only the restaurant remains: an exposed-brick building, crowned by turrets and designed by Domènech i Muntaner. It belongs to the first period of the Modernista movement in Barcelona. Popularly known as Castell dels Tres Dragons [The Three Dragon's Castle], it has housed the Barcelona Museum of Zoology since 1934.

Other constructions designed for the Universal Exposition of 1888 include the Umbracle, a unique structure designed by Josep Fontserè (1883) which integrates bricks, iron and wooden beams that shade the subtropical species, and the Hivernacle [Greenhouse], an iron and glass structure designed by Josep Amargós i Samaranch in 1884.

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Built towards the end of the 19th century, this was the first place to be specifically designed as a public park. It is a widely used space for all kinds of leisure and cultural activities. It contains over a hundred species of plants, with a large number of century-old trees and interesting sculptures.

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In 1888 Barcelona hosted the Universal Exhibition. The Arc de Triomf was built as the gateway to the fair which was held in the Parc de la Ciutadella. The monument is classical in shape and proportions and features ground-breaking sculptural and decorative finishes replete with symbolism. It has become one of the city's iconic landmarks.

The Arc de Triomf rises up majestically at the top of the Passeig Lluís Companys. The gateway to the 1888 Universal Exhibition, the arch stood at the end of the Saló de Sant Joan, the boulevard that led to the exhibition grounds in the Parc de la Ciutadella. The architect Josep Vilaseca designed a monument of classical style and proportions as an allegory of Barcelona's respect for the nations and provinces taking part in the exhibition. As a counterpoint, Vilaseca chose to build the arch from brick and decorate it with sculptural motifs evocative of the neo-Mudejar style that was very much in vogue in Spain at the time. The combination of red brick with the series of friezes around the arch, make it a singularly beautiful landmark.

If you take a close look at the arch you'll soon realise that the Arc de Triomf was the gateway to the modern Barcelona of the late 19th century. The frieze overlooking the Passeig de Sant Joan depicts Barcelona welcoming the nations and the frieze facing the park shows the city presenting medals to the exhibition participants. There are reliefs on one side symbolising agriculture and industry, and commerce and art on the other. At the top of the arch the shields of the 49 Spanish provinces are presided over by the coat of arms of the city of Barcelona.

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In 1888 Barcelona hosted the Universal Exhibition. The Arc de Triomf was built as the gateway to the fair which was held in the Parc de la Ciutadella. The monument is classical in shape and proportions and features ground-breaking sculptural and decorative finishes replete with symbolism.

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Sau - Concert Set de Gira 1996 - Boig per tu

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Shakira - Boig Per Tu - El Dorado World Tour in Barcelona

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You'll never go hungry in Barcelona, but one of our favorite delicacies is the humble churro (or xurro in Catalan). The Spanish version of doughnuts, churros are deep-fried lengths of choux pastry. We don't discriminate - sweet or savoury, long or short, served with thick hot chocolate or rolled in sugar - churros are always the answer. Here are our nine pics for the best spots in town.
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After five decades in the churro biz, this Eixample staple knows what's up. The churros here are hand-made daily and carefully fried to perfection in peanut oil. Our tip? Try one of the chocolate-covered confections in addition to the classic plain churros.

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You'll never go hungry in Barcelona, but one of our favorite delicacies is the humble churro (or xurro in Catalan). The Spanish version of doughnuts, churros are deep-fried lengths of choux pastry. We don't discriminate - sweet or savoury, long or short, served with thick hot chocolate or rolled in sugar - churros are always the answer.

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Pa amb tomàquet i altres plats típics catalans

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Escalivada

This dish is a tribute to some of the most quintessentially Mediterranean vegetables around: tomatoes, peppers and aubergines. The name comes from the Catalan verb ' escalivar' which means 'to cook in ashes' and refers to the way the vegetables are cooked. Each vegetable is grilled whole either on a grill, over an open fire, or directly in the ashes. Little more is required to the dish's preparation aside from dressing the cooked vegetables with olive oil and salt. Although it is very common to find it served alongside either anchovies or tuna, the beauty of the dish lies in the use of perfectly ripe vegetables, rich in flavor and just waiting to be devoured.

Escudella i carn d'olla

This is a dish with a long history and is actually rumoured to have been the first documented soup to be eaten in Europe. The 14th century Catalan writer Francesc Eiximenis claimed that it was eaten by Catalan people every day. Escudella, as it is known in short, is composed of a broth made from pieces of meat and seasonal vegetables such as carrots, celery or cabbage, and a large meatball known as the pilota which is cooked in the broth. At Christmas it is very typical for Catalans to eat a special version of this dish known as the ' Sopa de Galets' or ' Sopa de Nadal ' made with a large pasta in the shape of a snail shell.

The classic Italian pasta dish, also known as 'cannelloni,' is a number one hit in Catalonia and in actual fact the region is the largest consumer of the dish in the world. The centuries of trade between Catalonia and Italy are what likely explain this cultural exchange and today canelons are an important part of Catalan cuisine. Unlike the Italian pasta which is eaten al dente, the Catalan version is usually well cooked and smothered with a creamy Béchamel sauce. Around Christmas time many Catalans opt to eat Canelons de Sante Esteve on the 26th of December, using pieces of cooked meat left over from the Christmas meal, often with the addition of foie gras.

Literally meaning 'head and leg', this is a traditional Catalan dish which has somewhat fallen out of favor in recent times due to it being mainly made of offal, such as nose and tripe. But a good cap i pota on a cold winter's day is enough to warm any Catalan's heart and a great way to use up the morcels of pig which haven't made it into the jamón or chorizo. You will find it on the menus of more old-fashioned restaurants but it has also been seen on the stalls of some of Barcelona's more trendy street-food markets, so we might well be about to see a cap i pota revival.

Esqueixada

Salted cod, known as bacallà in Catalan, is a method of preserving the fish in which the fresh cod is rubbed in salt and then dried outdoors. A staple of the regional diet, it's used in a variety of ways in the local Catalan cuisine. In order to prepare the salted cod for eating it must be soaked in water for a few days to reduce its salinity before being either cooked or served as is. Esqueixada is a popular salad composed of uncooked salted cod, most commonly served alongside tomatoes, onions and olives. A light and refreshing dish, it was traditionally eaten mostly in the warm summer months, although today you can find it on menus all year round.

This is the dish, or rather the ingredient, that has the Catalans going mad each year. Calçots are a type of large spring onion which are grown thoughout the winter in Catalonia and are at their best between January and March. When the time comes for them to be picked, head to Tarragona for a traditional calçotada where the onions are wrapped in paper and cooked in the ashes of an open fire before being served with a large dolloping of romesco sauce (made with red peppers and nuts). Luckily you can also find calçots on the menu of restaurants throughout Catalonia.

Suquet de Peix

Located on the shores of the Mediterranean, Catalonia enjoys an abundant supply of fresh fish and seafood. The suquet de peix is non other than the Catalan version of fish stew, first invented by the fishermen who would put together an easy meal for themselves at the end of a long day using the leftover bits of fish that did not sell that day. The cheaper, the smaller, or the odder the morsel, the better. Typically these would include a mixture of fish such as hake or monkfish, and shellfish such as clams or mussels. The other essential ingredient is the delicate saffron which gives it its warm color and rich flavor.

Mongetes amb botifarra

Another hearty meat-based dish, botifarra and mongetes is the Catalan version of sausage and beans and has been present in the region since at least the 16th century. Botifarra is the name of a sausage typically made of pork (although it can also be made with goose meat) and spices that can be either fresh or cured. The cured versions include black botifarra made with pork's blood, botifarra d'arròs made with rice, and bull which is made with fattier parts of the animal. When served with white beans, the most common is to use fresh botifarra which is cooked over a grill. The dish is simple and uncomplicated, but holds a special place in many Catalan's hearts.

Pa amb tomàquet

This is not so much a stand-alone dish but an essential part of any truly Catalan meal: pa amp tomàquet, or bread with tomato. Not to be underestimated in its importance, there are specific tomatoes which are preferred for its preparation known as tomate de penjar, meaning 'tomato to be hung' in reference to the way the tomatoes are usually kept in a bunch which can be hung in the kitchen. The origins of the dish are unclear but it likely emerged as a poor man's way of making a meal from the most basic ingredients available to him. Consisting simply of a slice of bread rubbed with half a tomato, drizzled with a little olive oil and a pinch of salt. It is perhaps the most iconic of Catalan dishes.

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Traditional Catalan Dishes You Need To Try

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Escalivada This dish is a tribute to some of the most quintessentially Mediterranean vegetables around: tomatoes, peppers and aubergines. The name comes from the Catalan verb ' escalivar' which means 'to cook in ashes' and refers to the way the vegetables are cooked.

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