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Citygrove has agreed to buy three sites in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville, if planning permission is given. The total cost of the sites is around €26m and they will be let to Travelodge. Citygrove, based in the UK and Spain, is developing schemes in both countries one of which is a shopping centre in 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 [...]

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 [...]

The urban sports are in fashion and Barcelona, as an iconic city that embraces the latest trends, the Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival debuts on 11 and 12 October. This is an unprecedented festival in Spain. The event will take place at the Parc Del Forum in Barcelona and it will bring together the best [...]

It’s nearing 1am. The crowd has swollen. Delay of ritual: Never a good idea. Wires strung round the necks and wrists and legs of the dancing girls are being checked. Firecrackers are being slipped under their costumes. Applause rise and fall in the streets, half to keep our pulses strong, half to induce the explosion. Read [...]

To rent apartments in Barcelona is quite possibly the best alternative to booking a Hotel room. One of the advantages of renting a Barcelona apartment is that you can go with a group of people and it will be much cheaper than renting a few hotel rooms. You can also rent an apartment with a [...]