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Do you love shopping? Do you particular like all the top labels? With the current crisis, acquiring articles from major brands is turning out less accessible for many of us. Their high prices are an impediment, despite the quality. But as the saying goes, “buying cheap is buying expensive.” The so-called white label articles are [...]

The eagerly awaited night finally arrived! Yesterday, the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles were held, where ‘Slumdog millionaire‘ was the runaway winner, getting 8 of the 10 categories for which it was nominated, including Best Picture. The best movie stars paraded last night on the red carpet, including Penélope Cruz, who is the first [...]

Gaudi is one of the greatest figures in the history of Spanish and Catalan architecture. Seen as the genius of the Modernist movement his work was not only a product of the social context of the time, but also of his own personality and devotion to the culture of Catalonia. Read more about Gaudi here: Gaudi, the [...]

You already know this feeling: you wake up in the morning and you can´t get up from your lovely warm bed without music, you want to take a shower, but you can´t do it without switching on the radio, you drink a coffee to start the new day while you are listening to your favourite [...]

Ever since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympic Games it has become one of the most visited cities and a very popular tourist destination. Barcelona received huge sums of money from the European community and this helped with the infrastructure of the city and got it moving for the first time in years. Below I’ve noted [...]

What happens when we first hear the words Barcelona? Surely we think of words like Gaudi, Sagrada Familia, the beach, paella, tapas and sun. But we also think about tourists, traffic, garbage, and we’ll surely think of a big city. The fact that Barcelona is the largest city in Catalonia, with over 1.6 million inhabitants, [...]

Arrivals of foreign tourists to Spain, the world’s second biggest tourist destination, plummeted in November as top customers Britons and Germans stayed at home during the global economic slowdown. Arrivals fell 11.6% in the month from a year earlier, the first double-digit decline in years, with British visitors down 15% and 7% fewer Germans, Spain’s Industry, [...]

Spanish property company Metrovacesa (MVC.MC) said on Monday it would insist French real estate group Gecina (GFCP.PA) implements a spin-off plan agreed between the two companies in February last year. On Friday, Gecina said it had suspended plans to split from key shareholder Metrovacesa pending execution of a bank-led restructuring of the indebted Spanish property firm. The [...]

I don’t know if anyone’s going to agree with me on this but the Barça v Real Madrid game wasn’t that much of a deal the other night. I mean, every Culé worth his salt was hoping for a 6 – O goalfest but it was not to be. I just hope Barcelona fans recognise that [...]

Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola on Monday scoffed at suggestions by Real Madrid’s Bernd Schuster that the Spanish champions have no chance against their arch-rivals in this weekend’s ‘El Clásico’. “It’s not possible to win at the Nou Camp. Barça crushes everyone, it’s their year,” Schuster said late on Sunday after his club’s 4-3 defeat to Sevilla [...]