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Contents 

November 2012 

ENJOY 

BARCELONA 

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08 Feature 

Unmissable 

artworks 

IVÁN MORENO 

08 Feature 

A selection of Barcelona’s 

finest works of art 

14 Food & Drink 

Chefs find ways to beat the 

recession 

20 Shopping 

Après Ski joins the Born’s 

creative boutiques 

22 Around Town 

Run for your life! 

24 Arts 

La Pedrera celebrates its 

centenary 

26 Nightlife 

Pulling in at The Station 

29 Listings 

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Designer Eduard Forroll 

Writers Josep Lambies, 

Ricard Martín, Marta Salicrú, 

Eugènia Sendra 

Translations 

Nick Chapman 

Advertising Executives Nuria 

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Monthly planner 

Get out your diaries! We present just a handful of the 

cultural highlights of the month ahead. 

Tuesday 06 Thursday 08 

Sunday 18 

LEGACY OF 

JACKSON POLLOCK 

Works from Pollock 

himself, and 50 

artists influenced 

by his work. 

See p32 

Wednesday 21 

L’ALTERNATIVA 

The festival of 

independent 

cinema, now in its 

19th year. Until 

November 25 

See p46 

E. MAPPLETHORPE 

SAMUEL ARANDA 

MARIZA 

The queen of fado 

returns to the Palau 

de la Música as 

part of the Jazz 

Festival. 

See p41 

Monday 19 

PATTI SMITH 

Here to promote 

her excellent new 

album Banga in the 

extravagantly 

ornate Palau de la 

Música. See p25 

Friday 23 

FARRUQUITO 

A chance to see the 

controversial, 

but indisputably 

talented flamenco 

legend, Farruquito . 

See p47 

Thursday 29 

WORLD PRESS 

PHOTO 

Opening day of this 

prestigious 

international 

photography 

exhibition. See p31 

FC BARÇA VS 

SARAGOSSA 

Barcelona take on 

Zaragoza at Camp 

Nou in round 12 of 

La Liga. 

See p45 

Wednesday 21 

BUENA VISTA 

SOCIAL CLUB 

Featuring the 

magnificent Omara 

Portuondo, as part 

of the Jazz Festival. 

See p47 

Wednesday 00 

Friday 30 

ELLEN ALLIEN 

The Berlin-based 

minimal techno 

queen pays one of 

her ever popular 

visits to the Sala 

Apolo. See p49 

4 Time Out BCN Guide November 2012


The Hot 

Seat 

Jordi Clos 

The president of the Museu Egipci is still passionate 

about an extraordinary civilisation. By Eugènia Sendra 

MUSEU EGIPCI 

Ancient Egypt and its art have 

fascinated you for a long time. 

I’m a great fan of culture and the 

arts, but the Egyptian collection is 

what’s closest to my heart. My 

interest started when I was 12, 

and at 19 I bought my fi rst piece. 

The collection has allowed me to 

work in Egypt, and discover an 

intact tomb from 1100 BC. 

Which of the museum’s 1,100 

pieces would you save from a fire? 

We have several objects that would 

be hard to get hold of nowadays, 

such as the stele of Cleopatra VII – 

many of these were destroyed in 

Alexandria, and if it had been 

identifi ed sooner, it would probably 

have ended up at the Louvre or the 

British Museum. Or the fragments 

of bas-reliefs from the tomb of Iny, 

bought in London, Paris, New York 

and Amsterdam. 

They’re objects with a story. 

Yes, there’s the scientifi c story and 

the personal one, that of their 

owners. I have objects that 

belonged to Adolf Hitler’s 

propaganda chief, and a necklace 

that once belonged to Rudolf 

Valentino. 

You define the museum as ‘alive’. 

There’s a lot going on; we’re still 

making new acquisitions. We’ve 

created a diploma and master’s 

degree in Egyptology, and we run 

workshops for children. We want to 

pass on a sense of respect for 

humanity’s cultural heritage. 

In November the star of the show 

will be Tutankhamon. 

That’s right, we’re putting on an 

exhibition to celebrate the 90th 

anniversary of the discovery of his 

tomb by Howard Carter. 

1,100 

objects make up the collection, 

from the pre-dynastic period to 

the time of Cleopatra. 



ART 

in BCN 

They’re not in the Prado, the Louvre or the MoMA: 

they’re masterpieces of world art and they’re right here 

in Barcelona. Joana Hurtado and Ricard Mas have 

picked ten works that no visitor to the city should miss. 

Photos Iván Moreno 

Who leaves Paris without paying a 

visit on the Mona Lisa? And yet 

plenty of people pass through 

Barcelona without seeing the great 

Pantocrator of Taüll. The city may 

not have anything on the scale of the 

Louvre, but its many museums and 

foundations contain works that bear 

comparison with the best in the 

world, and attract visitors from all 

over the world. 

The MNAC has one of the finest 

collections of Romanesque art 

anywhere, centring on spectacular 

mural paintings dating from the 11th 

to the 13th centuries. The murals 

were removed whole from churches 

around Catalonia between 1919 and 

1923, to save them from damage or 

looting, and carefully reconstructed 

in the museum. The MNAC’s 

stunning Gothic and Modernista 

galleries, representing two of the 

region’s richest and most interesting 

artistic periods, are no less 

impressive. If the MNAC’s Gothic 

galleries leaves you wanting more, 

the Fundació Godia’s small but 

remarkable medieval collection 

comes highly recommended. 

To bring the story up to date, the 

Museu d’Art Contemporani de 

Barcelona (MACBA) specialises in 

Spanish and Catalan art created since 

1945. There’s also Can Framis, a 

brand new museum given over to the 

Vila Casas Foundation’s collection of 

contemporary art. In combination, 

these provide a general overview of 

Catalan art from its roots right up to 

the present day. 

For anyone who wants a fuller 

appreciation of 20th-century art, four 

of the greatest artists of the period – 

Picasso, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies 

and Joan Brossa – have strong 

connections to Barcelona, and each is 

represented by significant collections 

in the museums and foundations that 

bear their names. 

So as not to overwhelm you, we’ve 

narrowed down this ample field to ten 

of the best, focusing on painting and 

sculpture on display in permanent 

collections. Barcelona’s museums 

concentrate on Catalan art, and this 

selection reflects that tendency. These 

are the most representative works of 

artists who have left their mark on the 

region’s culture. 


The lark’s wing ringed in the blue of gold meets 

the heart of the poppy asleep on the field 

studded with diamonds, 1967 Oil on canvas. 195 x 130 cm 

JOAN MIRÓ (1893 – 1983) 

Many of the works on display at the Miró foundation belong on this list. So why this 

one? Because few express so perfectly the artist’s desire to ‘achieve the maximum 

intensity with the minimum means’. In his later period, Miró painted enormous 

canvases, stripping down and simplifying his style, intensifying his use of colour, and 

condensing his personal visual language. As always with Miró, the subject of the painting 

is not represented literally: instead it is suggested by a constellation of symbols. 

The landscape genre provided a framework for many of Miró’s works, but in this case 

the format is vertical rather than horizontal, almost suggesting a bird’s-eye view. 

FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ 

On loan from Gallery K.AG. 


Apse of St Clement de 

Taüll, 1123 

Fresco transferred to canvas 

620 x 360 x 180 cm 

MASTER OF TAÜLL 

This outstanding Romanesque piece is 

arguably the most emblematic artwork in 

the city. The largest work in this selection, it 

is also the oldest, although it radiates a raw 

modernity. The raw power of these colours 

and geometric forms has influenced 20thcentury 

artists from Picasso to Picabia. 

While contemporary viewers may struggle 

to identify biblical scenes, the image retains 

its aura of power. 

The jagged crack that crosses the main 

image like a lightning bolt, as if illustrating 

the inscription Ego sum Lux Mundi (I am the 

Light of the World), also suggests a root, and 

the physical uprooting of the mural itself, 

which was transported from the remote 

Valley of Boí in the Catalan Pyrenees. 

MNAC 

Acquired between 1919-1923. 


The Wait (Margot), 1901 

Oil on cardboard. 69.5 x 57 cm 

PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (1881 – 1973) 

For some a master, for others a monster, 

Picasso’s influence dominates the 20th 

century. His early years were characterised 

by his voracious appetite for new styles, 

which he assimilated and mastered with 

dizzying speed, before surging forward again. 

But who was Margot? Who is she waiting 

for, leaning on her elbows, her glittering eyes 

half-closed. Also known as The Morphine 

Addict or Pierreuse (slang for prostitute), 

this is a vivid image of Picasso’s first contact 

with the bohemian nightlife of Paris. The 

brushstrokes modelling the face are curt 

and energetic; in the background they are 

looser, conjuring the kaleidoscope of the night. 

Mixing the influences of the pointillists, 

Toulouse Lautrec and Van Gogh, it’s the work 

of a young Picasso taking his first steps 

towards recognition outside Spain. 

MUSEU PICASSO 

Acquired in 1932 by the Junta de Museus. 

In 1963, when the museum was opened, it 

became part of the permanent collection. 

Sock 2010 Mixed media. 2.85 m 

ANTONI TÀPIES (1923-2012) 

Antoni Tàpies made few public sculptures, but Sock is – or could have been – the exception. 

In 1991, as one of Catalonia’s most prestigious living artists, he was invited to create 

a sculpture for the huge oval hall inside the museum. But the prospect of an 18m holey 

sock caused such a n outcry that the project was cancelled. In 2010, the Tàpies foundation 

presented a 2.85 metre version of a work that pays tribute to simple, everyday things. 

Turning a humble, functional sock into a monumental sculpture invites reflection on the 

hidden power of ordinary objects, but also on the artist’s experience of old age, a time 

when straightforward actions – like putting on a sock – become a reminder of mortality. 

FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TÀPIES 

Donated by the artist in 2010. 


St Mary Magdalene, 

cap a l’any 1470 

Tempera on wood 144 x 73 cm 

JAUME HUGUET (1412 – 1492) 

Virginal she may not be, but with her worldly 

and direct gaze, Mary Magdalene is here 

painted as a lady of the royal court, with the 

attributes of the Virgin Mary. She sits on her 

throne, resplendent in the robes of a queen, 

holding a rosary, within a gilded frame with 

fine fluted columns in the purest Catalan 

Gothic style. 

The painting confers an air of regal 

mystery beyond that of her simple halo. 

The light around her face and smooth 

folds of her robes show the influence of 

Italian naturalism, while the meticulous 

detail draws on the Flemish tradition. 

The elegance, fragility and refinement 

of his work have earned Huguet a place 

as one of the greatest Catalan Gothic 

painters. 

FUNDACIÓ FRANCISCO GODIA 

Work acquired by Francisco Godia. 

ALSO NOT TO 

BE MISSED… 

The Spanish Wedding, 

1870 

MARIÀ FORTUNY (1838 – 1874) 

Though he died at 36, Fortuny is considered 

the greatest Spanish painter of 

the 19th century after Goya. The state 

funded his early studies in Rome, and 

commissioned large-scale paintings of 

the Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859. His 

travels in Northern Africa made a huge 

impact, turning him into one of Spain’s 

greatest Romantic painters of the 

Orient. After 1866 he turned to scenes 

of Spanish manners and customs, such 

as this one, set in a richly decorated 

18th-century sacristy. 

The Spanish Wedding shows off Fortuny’s 

technical virtuosity, his mastery 

of light and his fascination with costume 

and period details. Considered the 

finest example of his mature style, The 

Spanish Wedding catapulted its author 

to international fame. 

MNAC 

Acquired by public subscription in 1922. 

Cactus Man I, 1939 

JULI GONZÁLEZ (1876 - 1942) 

A starkly dissected body erupts into 

spikes, as World War II breaks out in 

Europe. Juli González was a leading 

figure in the Parisian avant-garde, and a 

pioneer of the use of welding and cutting 

techniques to create sculptures in iron. 

This fragmented figure, undergoing 

its symbolic metamorphosis, breaks 

with traditional ideas of symmetry, 

creating an interplay of contrasting 

forms and suggesting a new concept of 

volume. In González’ cubist investigations 

he sliced and folded sheet metal, 

using iron bars to ‘draw in space’ and 

create the wiry artworks that won him 

international fame. 

MNAC 

Donated by Roberta Gonzalez, the artist’s 

daughter, in 1972, and became part of 

the collection in 1973. 


Food & 

Drink 

Edited by Ricard Martín 

rmartin@timeout.cat 

Luxury for less 

Barcelona’s Michelin-starred chefs open the season 

with luxurious new ideas that won’t break the bank. 

By Ricard Martín 

Black is a secret restaurant, but 

they’re not trying to keep you out: you 

don’t need to know the maitre d’s 

mother-in-law, or mutter a secret 

password before you’re allowed in. 

You just need to know it’s there, and 

ask to be shown the way in. But it’s not 

a traditional restaurant either: this is 

the first vodka and caviar lounge in 

Spain. In an paradoxical twist you’ll 

find the most exclusive food on the 

planet, Beluga sturgeon caviar, 

alongside one of the most accessible – 

you enter Black via the La Royal 

hamburger bar. 

Inside, Black is as dark and sleek as 

an expensive cocktail bar, with red 

neon to remind you that you’ve 

arrived somewhere cool. Triple 

Michelin-starred chef Paco Pérez has 

designed a menu of cold dishes on 

which, as well as straight-up caviar, 

you’ll find a mouth-watering array of 

dishes that feature caviar as a key 

ingredient, created with imagination 

and a sense of humour . ‘This isn’t 

exactly a place for sit-down suppers,’ 

explains Pérez. ‘It’s about informal 

snacks and surprises.’ The restaurant 

has an open kitchen from whose bar 

the tapas and main dishes are served. 

Another chef who’s upping their 

game is Romain Fornell. In a bold 

move, the youngest chef ever to be 


Food & Drink 

TEN’S 

IVAN GIMÉNEZ 

BLACK 

awarded a Michelin star – back when 

he was 25 – has become the first 

Michelin-starred chef in Barcelona to 

offer an all-in fixed price lunch menu. 

It costs €39, at Caelis at the Palace - 

the most solemn dining room in the 

city (with the possible exception of 

Via Veneto). ‘We have to move with 

the times,’ says Fornell, ‘if we were 

only serving two covers at midday, I’d 

rather shut up shop.’ It’s not an 

arbitrary decision: Fornell has just 

taken over ownership of the 

restaurant with Alan-Pierre Benteo 

and Eric Basset, and placed his stamp 

on the whole business, with a new, 

contemporary interior that makes a 

refreshing contrast to the bourgeois 

gravity of the hotel. 

The third Michelin chef to shake 

things up is Jordi Cruz, after winning 

back his second star at l’Àbac. He’s 

returning to his roots with Ten’s, a 

tapas bar on the site of the original 

Àbac, opposite the Estació de França 

– maintaining the original 

restaurant’s green tiles. His 

CAELIS 

ambitions go beyond reproducing or 

reinventing classics like croquettes 

and patatas bravas, but he hasn’t 

gone overboard on the design. ‘I 

didn’t want to create anything too 

showy. I just wanted to transfer the 

concept of quality dining to the 

world of tapas, even if we’re serving 

dishes that never existed before,’ 

explains Cruz. 

It’s unostentatious, functional and 

immaculately presented, with a select 

menu of only 20 tapas. Here’s a 

challenge: spend €120 between two 

and you can try them all. 

BLACK CAVIAR LOUNGE 

Pl. de Camp, 5. T. 691 403 599. 

€20 to €100 

CAELIS 

Gran Via, 668. T. 93 510 12 05. 

Set lunch menu: €39. 

TEN’S 

Av. Marquès de l’Argentera, 11. T. 93 

319 60 00. About €30. 


Food & Drink 

El Passatge del Murmuri 

 

Rambla de Catalunya, 104. 

T. 93 550 06 60. Around €30. 

In an area over-supplied with 

mediocre restaurants chasing the 

tourist euro, locals are delighted 

with the updated Passatge, the 

Hotel Murmuri’s eatery just off 

Rambla Catalunya. 

Chef Giuseppe Palo and his 

business partners Eduard Puiggròs 

and Carolina Murtra run what was 

originally a Thai restaurant, now 

devoted to Mediterranean, and 

particularly Catalan, cuisine. The 

young, enthusiastic team pick the 

best local, seasonal ingredients to 

create a fresh take on classic dishes. 

Natural light during the day and the 

subdued nocturnal lighting make El 

Passatge the ideal location for a 

romantic rendezvous. 

Among their innovations are 

small dishes designed to be shared – 

very much on trend – and the plat du 

jour, an imported French 

institution, offering daily lunches at 

an accessible price. The wine list is 

well thought-out, with plenty of 

variety and good value for money. 

–Marcelo Aparicio 

THE BILL 

EL PTGE. DEL MURMURI (2 PAX) 

1 coca with tomato 2.10 

1 ‘El Passatge’ patatas bravas 5 

2 portions anchovies 5 

1 portion Iberian ham 16 

1 ‘plat du jour’ 15.50 

1 Aranda suckling pig 19 

1 water 2 

1 ice-cream selection 5 

2 iced coffees 3 

TOTAL (amb IVA) 72.60 € 

‘Cacio e pepe’ 

MARIA DIAS 

THE DISH 

This is the Cinderella of 

Roman cuisine, found only 

in a certain trattorias and 

stores that sell bread and 

pasta. A dish traditionally 

eaten by shepherds as 

they watched their sheep. 

–M.A. 

SPECCHIO MAGICO 

Lluís Antúnez, 1. 

T. 93 217 88 24 /€16.90 


Hot 

tables! 

Edited by Marcelo Aparicio 

Our themed selection 

of Barcelona’s best 

restaurants. 

By Marcelo Aparicio 

Signature 

cuisine 

Casa Calvet 

Tradition and innovation Since 

Casa Calvet opened in 1994, chef Miquel 

Alija has worked to create his own style 

of cuisine, incorporating the latest 

culinary innovations into traditional 

Mediterranean cookery. With an 

excellent wine-cellar, this is a great city 

centre option. –MA 

(Casp, 48). M: Tetuan (L2). T. 93 412 40 

12. €40-60. Set lunch available. 

Codium 

Laid-back chef Chef Juanjo 

Rodríguez’s approach to cooking is 

honest and beautifully thought out. 

Classics are brought up to date, with 

dishes like tuna tataki with wasabi icecream 

or his salt cod with porrusalada – 

ample proof of his savoir faire. –M.A. 

(Villarroel, 88). M: Urgell (L1). T. 93 

451 09 50. €30-40. Set lunch available. 

Tickets 

Tapas as a way of life The brothers 

Adrià (Ferran and Albert) have done it 

again, this time with an ambitious 

statement of their philosophy of tapas. 

With separate zones conjuring different 

atmospheres and flavours, from seafood 

to sweets, diners are plunged into a 

wildly imaginative re-invention of tapas 

from all over Spain. Watermelon infused 

with sangria or their unique olives are 

only a taste of what’s in store. –R.M. 

(Av. Paral·lel, 164). M: Poble Sec (L3). 

€40-60. 

Els Jardinets de Gràcia 

True to its roots Catalan cuisine that 

manages to be contemporary while 

avoiding over-sophistication and respects 

basic ingredients. We recommend that 

you set aside time to take in an extensive 

and frequently updated menu, including 

daily set lunch menus.–M.A. 

(Pg. de Gràcia, 116). M: Diagonal (L3). 

T. 93 238 48 46. €20-40. 

Enoteca 

Seafood star Chef Paco Pérez, from 

the seaside town of Llançà,wonhisfirst 

Michelin star in Barcelona, but he did it 

by staying true to his roots, the 

traditions of the fishing villages of Cap 

de Creus, where cooks pride themselves 

on getting the very best from the finest 

seafood. His sea cucumbers with wild 

mushrooms are unmissable. –R.M. 

(Hotel Arts, Marina, 19-21). M: 

Ciutadella/Vila Olímpica (L4). T. 93 483 

81 03. Over €60. 

Jaume de Provença 

Past glories It’s worth remembering 

that Jaume de Provença boasted a 

Michelin star for 10 years, and that 

its chef is one of the best in the city. 

Standout dishes include lobster salad or 

a delicious duck breast filet mignon with 

orange. –M.A. 

(Provença, 88). M: Entença (L5). T. 93 

430 00 29. €30-40. 

Lagar 

Small restaurant, big flavours 

A small restaurant that matches big 

ambitions with a down-to-earth 

philosophy, serving a modern take on 

traditional Catalan cuisine that puts 

fresh ingredients centre stage: a great 

example is the morcilla de Burgos with 

apple sauce. –M.A. 

(Llenguadoc, 6). M: Fabra i Puig (L1). T. 

93 346 82 70. €20-40. Set lunch 

available. 

Topik 

Perfect fusion Chef Adelf Morales 

brings a breath of fresh air to the 

Eixample, with a restaurant that stands 

out from the crowd thanks to its 

perfectly judged fusion of Japanese 

cuisine with Mediterranean culture. –M.A. 

(València, 199). M: Passeig de Gràcia 

(L2-L3-L4) i Provença (FGC). T. 93 451 

09 23. €20-40. Set lunch available. 


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Shopping 

Edited by Eugenia Sendra 

esendra@timeout.cat 

Inspiring jewellery 

Lucía Vergara started out making necklaces, and ended 

up creating her own label, Après Ski. She’s left for 

London, but her Born studio remains. By Laia Beltran 

Our Garden Needs its Flowers takes 

its name from a 1985 album by 

Jess Sah Bi and Peter One, songs 

that mix country and western with 

traditional African tunes, folk from 

the Ivory Coast refracted through 

the prism of cowboy nostalgia. 

They’re intoxicating melodies that 

have a serious social message. 

Lucía Vergara has borrowed the 

title for the latest collection from 

Après Ski – it’s her homage to the 

obscure artists that have provided 

the soundtrack to long hours in her 

small studio in the Born. As she 

works, the only moments of 

silence are the pauses between 

songs, as Dirty Beaches follows 

Adriano Celentano, Jens Lekman 

or Dominant Legs. 

Our Garden Needs its Flowers 

isn’t Lucia Vergara’s debut, but it’s 

her first collection in the strict 

sense of the term – taking a source 

of inspiration and making it the 

basis of a creative statement. She 

makes it look easy, but it’s not: 

creativity’s like style, you have it or 

you don’t. Lucía has both in spades. 

She doesn’t identify with any 

particular place: she was born, and 

studied, in Valencia, and from there 

she made the leap to Barcelona, 

attracted by the possibility of 

working in fashion. Our Garden 

Needs its Flowers is the culmination 

of a career that began out of 

curiosity; while working for designer 

Lydia Delgado she started making 

her own necklaces. First her friends 

asked for them, then her friends’ 

friends – the result was Après Ski. 

APRÈS SKI 

Cotoners, 12. 

www.apresskishop.com 


The double-looped Colony 

necklace (€46), which combines 

hand-painted wood with 

old glass – one of the star 

pieces in the Our Garden 

collection. 

Shopping 

One of Lucia’s favourite 

‘flowers’: the Bi necklace, 

with pastel-toned 

wooden shapes in 

various sizes (€71). 

Ready to unleash 

your inner astronomer? 

The Saturno 

necklace (38€) is 

the one for you. 

Cosmic Ice Cream (37€) 

is one of Après Ski’s 

most successful pieces, 

layering art deco triangles 

in delicious colours 

and textures. 


Around 

Town 

Edited by Eugènia Sendra 

esendra@timeout.cat 

Born to run 

Want to get know to Barcelona at street level? 

We suggest three ways to run the city. By Eugènia 

Sendra 

World decathlon champion Roger 

Roca recommends that beginners start 

on the flat, and alternate walking and 

jogging. If possible it should be green 

– to avoid breathing in too much 

carbon dioxide – and central: the 

obvious choice is Ciutadella Park. 

It’s a simple circuit, around two km 

in total, which starts and finishes at 

the beginning of Passeig Picasso. 

The route misses some of the park’s 

features, such as the lake or the 

Catalan Parliament buildings, but if 

you’re left wanting more, it can easily 

be extended. Be warned: on a Sunday 

afternoon, the route indicated by 

green markers will involve a lot of 

slow-moving obstacles. 

There are plenty of online resources 

with detailed route descriptions and 

maps – for our second challenge we 

suggest a simple circuit of Montjuïc. 

You can get to the start point using the 

cable car, or just walking – a good 

warm-up. It’s a 1.3 km run, close to the 

castle cemetery. To extend the route, 

you can simply repeat the circuit, or 

for variety, try the longer version, 

following the perimeter of the castle 

and the museum, passing the seaward 

walls and the funicular station. The 

second route clocks in at 2km. 

Barcelona’s city council recently 

published Barcelona Corre, by Pere 

Bosch and Núria Blanco, which 

presents 23 routes for runners. It’s in 

Catalan, but you can find three selected 

routes in English at www.bcn.cat/ 

barcelonablog (search ‘corre’). One of 

the most popular routes is number 5 – 

2.6 km along Avinguda Diagonal 

between C/ Badajoz and C/Josep Pla. 

You’ll have to dodge bikes and 

benches, but you’ll also see plenty of 

other runners who appreciate a wellfinished 

road surface. 



Arts 

Edited by Josep Lambies 

jlambies@timeout.cat 

La Pedrera turns 100 

La Pedrera, the last major work Gaudí saw to 

completion, is celebrating its centenary. Before the 

candles are lit, Eugenia Sendra dusts off its history. 

The peephole opens, and behind the 

wooden doors and a wrought-iron 

grille appears Carmen Burgos Bosch. 

She moved into Casa Milà in the 1950s 

and is the most high-profile of the 

house’s four remaining residents – 

something of a living national 

treasure. She is the last to receive 

visitors in the original interiors that 

Antoni Gaudí designed in 1906, and 

despite her 81 years, is happy to show 

me every corner of her 300 m2 flat. 

She says it was a wise move to follow 

the advice of her husband, notary 

public Ramon Maria Roca Sastre – he 

told her to keep the coal-fired oven. The 

kitchen cabinets are ideal, not too high 

and not too low, she adds, opening and 

closing them with brio. What brought 

this well-known family of lawyers to La 

Pedrera? ‘My father-in-law fell in love 

with it, but everyone told him it was a 

monstrosity, far too dark,’ she explains, 

in what was her husband’s bedroom. 

She leads on to the bathroom, pointing 

out all the doors – there are five – and 

the column in the middle of the room. 

Her mother used to wonder out loud 

what they had done to deserve such an 

impractical bathroom. 

In the plaster of the living room 

wall, Gaudí created – ‘and signed,’ 

adds Carmen – a sgraffito of a cross, 

the Catalan flag and a heart. She talks 

about the luminosity and the quiet 

inside the house, emphasising the 


importance of the natural light and the 

sense of calm created by the central 

light well. 

She remembers the market in the car 

park, the boarding house on the first 

floor and the bingo hall – all businesses 

started by the owners of the building 

during the 1950s, to generate some 

income for a work of genius that was 

running at a loss. The architect Barba 

Corsini renovated the loft and laundry 

rooms – the space that now houses the 

Espai Gaudí – to create 13 duplex 

apartments. ‘It was the only full-scale 

modern-day reworking of one of 

Gaudí’s works by a Barcelona architect 

who was important in his own right,’ 

says Joaquim Ruiz Millet, author of a 

monograph on Barba Corsini, and 

director of the gallery H2O. 

Barba Corsini created parabolic 

arches, played with curves, designed 

small lofts to optimize the use of space 

and experimented with what he called 

‘interior architecture.’ He designed the 

lighting and the furniture. All that 

remains of these efficient living spaces, 

as striking as film sets and inhabited by 

the in-crowd of the period, are Francesc 

Català Roca’s photographs, the 

architect’s drawings, some film footage 

and the odd newspaper report. The 

apartments themselves were destroyed 

in 1995, despite an initial agreement 

with the Caixa Catalunya bank – 

owners of the building since 1986 – to 

preserve two of them. 

The building as a whole is 

supported on columns, which means 

that the façade is not load-bearing, and 

becomes a curtain wall, allowing free 

distribution of the internal spaces. 

Gaudí could move the façade and make 

each apartment different, and kept 

trying out new ideas until the client’s 

patience ran out. The client in question 

was Rosario Segimon, a wealthy 

widow who married Pere Milà, a 

developer. He promised her the finest 

house on the Passeig de Gràcia, but she 

ended up paying for it. The signing of 

the construction completion certificate 

was delayed until 1912, although the 

building had been completed two 

years earlier. 

Música 

Festival 

del Mil·lenni 

Founded 14 years ago, at the end of the 

century – and of the millennium, hence 

the name – this festival’s original 

raison d’être was to plug the gap in the 

city’s musical calendar during the last 

and the first months of the year, 

traditionally a live music desert. Times 

have changed, and the city now has a 

steady stream of gigs to keep us warm 

through from December to February. 

But the Festival del Mil·lenni has 

grown too: this year the festival begins 

in November, and, just for comparison, 

last year’s festival went on well into 

spring. It starts with a bang: the first 

acts are The Divine Comedy and Patti 

Smith who – and this is another of the 

festival’s defining characteristics – will 

both be playing stunning venues. Neil 

Hannon will be performing The Divine 

Comedy’s back catalogue of baroque 

pop alone, and at the piano – a format 

that allows him freedom to interact 

with the audience – in the welcoming 

ambience of the Casino de l’Aliança in 

Poblenou. Meanwhile Patti Smith will 

be promoting her most recent album, 

the magnificent Banga (2012), backed 

by a four-piece band, at the Palau de la 

Música. –Marta Salicrú 

THE DIVINE COMEDY 

Casino de l’Aliança. 

3 November. 

PATTI SMITH 

Palau de la Música. 

19 November. 

E. MAPPLETHORPE 

Arts 


Nightlife 

Edited by Ricard Martín 

rmartin@timeout.cat 

Gigs beside the tracks 

The spacious café at the Estació de França 

re-opens as The Station, a late-night bar with live 

music. By Ricard Martín 

CARLA TRAMULLAS 

Without falling into the hoary clichés 

of cinema – brief encounters, missed 

connections, last goodbyes – railway 

stations are sad places. Genuinely sad, 

sordid and grimy, with none of the 

romance of the silver screen: it’s all 

lukewarm coffee, plastic-wrapped 

pastries and blocked drains. By 

evening the despair among the last 

travellers is palpable, leaden eyes 

glued to the departures board. 

So we should all be grateful that the 

only station café in Catalonia with a 

glimmer of personality, at Barcelona’s 

grand but underused Estació de 

França, is opening its doors again. 

With the self-explanatory moniker 

The Station, it will warm the hearts of 

locals who remember it as the place 

where workers on the early shift 

downed breakfast sandwiches and 

coffees laced with brandy, shoulder to 

shoulder with clubbers emerging from 

Magic and the late-lamented Woman 

Caballero – two crowds whose only 

common denominator was the need 

for company and one more drink. 

The Station is still the place for 

early-risers and nighthawks: it opens 

at half past six in the morning and 

closes at 3am. What was once an 

echoing, utilitarian hall with Formica 

tables dispersed among marble 

columns has been converted into a jazz 

greenhouse, where 12-foot plants 

disappear up towards the ceiling. 

During the day snacks and lunches are 

served: early evening is the time to 

appreciate its charm, as the only bar in 

Barcelona promoting late-night 

clubbing with live bands. 

THE STATION 

Marquès de l’Argentera, 6 

(Estació de França). T. 93 295 

63 62. Mon-Fri, 6.30am-2am; 

Fri & Sat, until 3am. 

www.stationbarcelona.com 



Listings 

November 2012 

bcnguide@timeout.cat 

Legacy of 

Pollock 

Patti 

Smith 

Festival 

L’Alternativa 

UNTIL 24 FEB 

A look at Pollock’s 

effect on artists 

such as Warhol and 

Bruce Nauman. At 

the Fundació Miró. 

MONDAY 19 

Legendary NYC 

poet and singer 

performs songs 

from new album 

Banga. 

21-25 NOV 

Festival of 

independent and 

original cinema, 

over four days at 

the CCCB. 


Exhibitions 

Information and sales: 

Tourist Information Points and 

www.barcelonaturisme.cat 

Arxiu Fotogràfic 

de Barcelona 

(Pl. Pons i Clerch, 2). M: Arc de Triomf 

(L1) & Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 34 20. 

Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm. Closed Sun and 

public holidays. 

FREE Raval. Consuelo Bautista 

Until 26 January. More than 50 

photographs documenting Barcelona’s 

Raval district, shot by renowned 

photojournalist Consuelo Bautista 

between 2004 and 2010. 

CaixaForum 

(Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 

6-8). M: Espanya (L1-L3- 

FGC). T. 93 476 86 00. 

www.lacaixa.es/ 

obrasocial. Mon-Fri, 

10am-8pm. Wed, 

10am-11pm. Sat, Sun, 

10am-9pm. 

FREE Before the 

flood. Mesopotamia 

3500-2100 B.C. From 30 

Nov to 24 Feb. With over 400 

archaeological exhibits, the show 

explores our debt to this early Near 

Eastern civilisation. 

FREE Food justice. Sowing 

the Seeds of Hope Until 5 Jan. 

The problems of distributing and 

providing access to food across the globe 

are presented through recordings made 

by people living in rural communities in 

Bolivia and Tanzania. 

FREE The Arts of Piranesi: 

Architect, Printmaker, 

Antiquarian, Painter of 

Cityscapes and Designer From 5 

Oct to 20 Jan. Over 250 works by the 

multifaceted 18 th -century Italian artist 

Giambattista Piranesi, whose influence 

on European art and culture was 

profound. 

FREE What to Think. What to 

Desire. What to Do. The La Caixa 

Foundation’s contemporary art 

collection. From 9 Nov to 25 August. 

In confusing times it makes sense to 

ask oneself: What should I think? 

What should I desire? What should 

I do? This exhibition of works from 

To 

mark the 

25th anniversary 

of the Barcelona Bus 

Turístic you can visit 

this exhibition (Diagonal 

Metro Station), 

combining the Bus, 

the FC Barcelona 

and the city’s history. 

the La Caixa Foundation’s modern 

art collection revolves around these 

questions. 

Can Framis. 

Fundació Vila Casas 

(Roc Boronat, 116-126). M: Glòries 

(L1), Poblenou (L4) & Llacuna (L4). 

T. 93 320 87 36. http://www. 

fundaciovilacasas.com/en/ Tue-Sat., 

11am-6pm. Sun, 11am-2pm. 5 € adults. 

2 € students and pensioners. 

Agustí Centelles. A 

Photographic Chronicle – The 

Thirties. Until 10 Feb. Photographs by 

renowned Catalan photojournalist 

Agustí Centelles, documenting the last 

years of the Spanish Republic, the Civil 

War and his years in exile. 

Castell de Montjuïc 

(Ctra. de Montjuïc, 66). M: Espanya 

(L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 256 44 45. 

http://www.bcn.cat/ 

castelldemontjuic/en/ 

welcome.html 

FREE Sala del Pati 

d’Armes 

Photographs of 

President Lluís 

Companys, 1931-1938 

Mon-Sun, 10am-7pm. 

From 15 Oct to 30 Jan. 

Photographs of Catalan 

president 

Lluís Companys, who was executed 

by Franco’s troops at Montjuïc Castle 

in 1940. 

CCCB. Centre de Cultura 

Contemporània de 

Barcelona 

(Montalegre, 5). M: Catalunya (L1-L3). 

T. 93 306 41 00. www.cccb.org/en 

Tue-Sun & public hols, 11am-8pm. 

Closed Mon. 5 €. Reduced entry for 

pensioners and students on Wed (excl 

public holidays): 3,40 €. Free for under 

16s, & unemployed, Thur 8-10pm & 

Sun 3-8pm. 

El Paral·lel, 1894-1939 From 

26 Oct to 24 Feb. The broad avenue 

of El Paral.lel was created during 

Barcelona’s 19 th century expansion. 

This exhibition describes the evolution 

of a new entertainment district that 

stretched from Plaça Espanya to the 

sea. 


World Press Photo 2012 From 

29 Nov to 6 Jan. The World Press Photo 

exhibition is renowned as the biggest 

international showcase for 

photojournalism. More than a travelling 

exhibition of the best news 

photography, it’s a document of the 

year’s main stories. 

CosmoCaixa 

(Isaac Newton, 26). M: Av. Tibidabo 

(FGC). T. 93 212 60 50. www.lacaixa.es/ 

obrasocial. Tue-Sun, 10am-8pm. 3 € 

(permanent and temporary exhibitions). 

Reduced entry 

2 €. First Sun of month free. 

Epidemic! Until 10 February. 

Exhbition explaining the causes and 

cyclical nature of epidemics, and how 

they have shaped the history of 

humanity. 

Technorevolucion Until 6 

May. Interactive exhibition that allows 

visitors to experience the evolution of 

technology, with spaces dedicated to 

nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and 

cognitive sciences. 

DHUB Barcelona- 

Pedralbes 

(Palau Reial de Pedralbes. Av. Diagonal, 

686). M: Palau Reial (L3). T. 93 256 34 

65. www.dhub-bcn.cat. Tue.-Sun., 10am- 

6pm. Closed: 1 Jan, 1 May, 24 June, 25 

& 26 Dec. 5 € (ticket valid for Disseny 

HuB Barcelona-Montcada). 

DHUB - Museu de les Arts 

Decoratives Permanent exhibition. 

DHUB - Museu Tèxtil i 

d’Indumentària Permanent 

exhibition. 

DHUB Museu de 

Ceràmica (Palau Reial 

de Pedralbes) 

(Palau Reial de Pedralbes, Avda 

Diagonal, 686). M: Palau Reial (L3). T. 

93 256 34 65. www.museuceramica.bcn. 

cat. Tue-Sun, 10am-6pm. Public hols, 

10am- 3pm. Closed Mon. 5€. Reduced: 

3€ 

Ȧ Singular Garden. Ceramics 

from Iznik, in the 16th and 17th 

centuries. From 10 Oct to 3 March. A 

journey through the unique and 

beautiful ceramics of Iznik (Turkey), 

which are characterized by their ornate 

floral decorations. 

Espai VolART-Fundació 

Vila Casas 

(Ausiàs March, 22). M: Urquinaona 

(L1-L4). T. 93 481 79 85. www. 

fundaciovilacasas.com. Tue-Fri, 

5-8.30pm, Sat, 11am-2pm & 

5-8.30pm. Sun, 11am-2pm. 1 €; 

Reduced: 50¢. 

Espai Volart 2 Daniel Enkaoua – 

Create/Believe 20 Sept-16 Dec. 

Paintings by French artist Daniel 

Enkaoua, a master of expressionist 

brushwork. 

Víctor Pérez-Porro – ‘The 

Colours of Berlin made Shapes 

in my Head’ 20 Sept-12 Dec. 

Thirty works focusing on the most 

recent work by this contemporary artist: 

a meditation on the various elements of 

painting as a discipline – shape, colour 

and texture. 

Filmoteca de Catalunya 

(Plaça Salvador Seguí, 1). M: Liceu (L3). 

T. 93 410 75 90. www.filmoteca.cat. 4€. 

El Raval. The Image of a 

District Tue-Sun, 4pm-9pm. Until 11 

Nov. The Raval is a central district of 

Barcelona, celebrated in novels, plays 

and films. This exhibition explores the 

history of the area and its portrayal in 

film. 

Fundació Alorda- 

Derksen 

(Aragó, 314). M: Girona (L4). T. 93 272 

62 50. www.fundacionad.com By appt. 5 

€. Reduced 3 €. 

Permanent exhibition: 

contemporary art collection focusing on 

cutting-edge international artists. 

Fundació Antoni Tàpies 

(Aragó, 255). M: Passeig de Gràcia 

(L2-L3-L4). T. 93 487 03 15. www. 

fundaciotapies.org. Tue-Sun, 10am- 

7pm. 7 €. Students and pensioners, 

5.60 €. 

Re. Act. Feminism #2 – A 

Performing Archive 16 Nov-17 Feb. 

A temporary and living archive of 

performance art, which will travel 

Europe from 2011 to 2013, presenting 

feminist, gendercritical and queer 

performance art by over 120 artists and 

artist collectives from the 1960s to the 

beginning of the 1980s, as well as 

contemporary positions. 


Francisco Godia 

(Diputació, 250). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- 

L3-L4). T. 93 272 31 80. www. 

fundacionfgodia.org. Mon-Sun, 10am- 

8pm. Closed Tue 6.50 €, Reduced 3.25 €. 

Palazuelo. Lines and planes in 

space. 9 Oct to 6 Jan. The conceptual 

discoveries and geometric procedures 

that enabled sculptor and painter Pablo 

Palazuelo (1915-2007) to turn the shapes 

of his private geometry into works in 

aluminum and steel. 

Fundació Joan Miró 

(Parc de Montjuïc, s/n). M: Espanya 

(L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 443 94 70. www. 

fundaciomiro-bcn.org. Tue-Sat, 10am- 

8pm. Thu, 10am-9.30pm, Sun & public 

holidays 10am-2.30pm. Closed 

Mondays. 10 €. Espai 13, 2.50 €. 

Explosion! The legacy 

of Jackson Pollock 

From 24 Oct to 24 Feb. 

With works by artists 

from the late 40s to the 

present day, including 

Pollock, Andy 

Warhol & Yves Klein. 

Espai 13 Jordi 

Mitjà - Monument. 

Wire thieves. 5 Oct-2 

Dec. A site-specific 

sculpture created for Espai 

13. 

La 

Fundació 

Godia 

(Diputació, 250) 

looks at how painter 

and sculptor Pablo 

Palazuelo turned his 

geometric system 

into works made of 

aluminum and 

steel. 

Fundació Suñol 

(Passeig de Gràcia, 98). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). T. 93 496 10 32 . www. 

fundaciosunol.org Mon-Sat 4pm-8pm. 

Closed 3-27 September. 

Fifth anniversary of the 

Josep Suñol collection 28 

Sept-9 Mar. Exhibition to mark the 

Suñol Foundation’s fifth anniversary, 

with works by more than 70 artists 

including Picasso, Dalí, Tàpies, 

Warhol, Boetti and Man Ray. 

Nivell Zero Documents and 

memory: The Josep Suñol 

collection archive Until 2 Mar. 

Jardí Botànic 

(Doctor Font i Quer, s/n). M: Espanya 

(L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 256 41 60. www. 

museuciencies.bcn.cat. Oct-March; daily, 

10am-6pm. 

Masia del Jardí Botànic Savia 

Roja Mon-Fri 10am-2pm. Until 30 Nov. 

Watercolours by Mexican artist Tatiana 

Musi. 

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La Pedrera 

(Provença, 261-265). M: Provença 

(FGC) & Diagonal (L3-L5). T. 902 400 

973. www.lapedrera.com. Mon-Sun, 

9am-6.30pm (last admission: 6pm) 

16.50 €. Reduced 14.85 €. 

Exhibition Hall The other 

Pedreres. Architecture and 

furniture of the twentieth century 

13 Nov-24 Feb. 3 €. To commemorate the 

centenary of La Pedrera, this wideranging 

exhibition features buildings 

from the same period. 

MACBA Museu d’Art 

Contemporani 

(Plaça dels Àngels, 1). M: Universitat 

(L1-L2) & Sant Antoni (L2). T. 93 412 

08 10. www.macba.cat. Mon- Fri, 11am- 

8pm. Sat 10am-8pm. Sun & public 

holidays, 10am-3pm. Tues. closed, 

except public holidays. Whole 

museum ticket, 8 € (reduced 

6.5 €). Single exhibition ticket, 

6 € (reduced, 4,50 €). 

Utopia is possible – 

ICSID. Eivissa, 1971 Until 

20 Jan. Utopia is Possible. 

Documentary material, 

photographs and films from the 

MACBA’s own collection, 

commemorating the VII Congress of 

the International Council of Societies of 

Industrial Design (ICSID). 

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak 

Afrassiabi. ‘Seep’ 1 Oct to 20 Jan. 

First Spanish exhibition by two Iranian 

artists, based on their Two Archives: 

their project exploring processes of 

modernisation in the 20 th century. 

MEAM Museu Europeu 

d’Art Modern 

(Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 

93 319 56 93. www.meam.es. Tue-Sun, 

10am-8pm. 7 €. Reduced 5 €. 

21st century contemporary 

art Almost 200 paintings and 30 

sculptures featuring works by figurative, 

realist or hyperrealist artists from all over 

the world. 

MIBA Museu d’Idees 

i Invents de Barcelona 

(Ciutat, 7). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 

332 79 30. www.mibamuseum.com. 

Tue-Fri., 10am-2pm & 4-7pm. Sat,

11am-8pm. Sun & public holidays, 

10am-2pm. 7 €. 

The Barcelona Museum of 

Ideas and Inventions Permanent 

exhibition. 

MNAC Museu Nacional 

d’Art de Catalunya 

(Parc de Montjuïc). M: Espanya 

(L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 622 03 60. www. 

mnac.cat. Tue-Sat, 10am-7pm. Sun & 

public holidays, 10am-2.30pm. 10 €. 

Temporary exhibitions: consult website. 

Permanent collection: The 

largest collection of Catalan art from the 

Romanesque to the mid-19th century. 

FREE The Museum Investigates. 

Works of Art under Scrutiny 23 

Nov-24 Feb. Showing the vicissitudes 

and modifications undergone by some 

of the museum’s artworks, and the ways 

experts distinguish between an original, 

a copy, a forgery or a restoration. 

MUHBA El Call 

(Placeta de Manuel Ribé). M: Liceu (L3) 

& Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 21 22. www. 

museuhistoria.bcn.cat. Tue-Fri, 11am- 

2pm. Sat, Sun, 11am-7pm. Sun and 

Mon before public holidays, 10am-2pm. 

Closed Monday. 2 €. 

Salomó ben Adret (1235- 

1310). The Triumph of an 

Orthodoxy Until 31 December . Salomó 

ben Adret, also known as the Rashba, 

was a Catalan Jewish leader and Rabbi at 

the main synagogue of Barcelona during 

the late 13 th and early 14 th centuries. 

Museu Monestir 

de Pedralbes 

(Baixada del Monestir, 9). M: Reina 

Elisenda (FGC). T. 93 256 34 34 . www. 

museuhistoria.bcn.cat Tues-Fri, de 10am- 

5pm. Sun, 10am-7pm. Sun, 10am-8pm 

(Sun, free after 3pm). Sun 10am-2pm. 

Closed Monday. 7 €. Reduced 5 €. Under 

16s, Barcelona Card, free entry. 

Paintings from the Sant 

Miquel Chapel Until 31 December. 

Paintings from the chapel of Sant 

Miquel, a 14th-century Gothic 

masterpiece. 

MUHBA Museu 

d’Història de Barcelona 

(Pl. del Rei). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 

21 22. www.museuhistoria.bcn.cat. 

Tues-Sat, 10-19 h. Sun, 10am-8pm 

(Sun free after 3pm). Sun and Mon 

before public holidays, 10am-2pm. 

Closed Mon. 7 €. Under-16s free. 

Saló del Tinell Indianes. Els 

orígens de la Barcelona industrial, 

1736-1847 Until 16 December. The 

mass-production of calico prints or 

‘indianes’ galvanised the economic life of 

Barcelona. 

MUHBA Laboratory. 

Collecting the city Until 1 April. 

MUHBA Park Güell 

(Olot, s/n. Casa de la Guarda). T. 93 256 

21 22. www.museuhistoria.bcn.cat. 

From 1 April until 30 Sept: Mon-Sun 

10am-8pm. From 1 Oct until 31 March: 

Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm. 2€ 

Permanent exhibition 

MUHBA Refugi 307 

(Nou de la Rambla, 169). M: Jaume I (L1-L4). 

T. 93 256 21 00. www.museuhistoria.bcn. 

cat. Sat. & Sun., 10am-2pm, by 

appointment. Public holidays, closed. 3 €. 

Permanent exhibition. In 

these 400 metres of underground 

passageways, visitors can relive the 

uncertainty of a city which, during the 

Civil War, was subject to a new form of 

warfare:. 

MUHBA Santa Caterina 

(Pl. de Joan Capri). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). T. 

93 256 21 22. www.museuhistoria.bcn. 

cat. Mon-Sat., 10am-2pm. Sun. & Public 

holidays, closed. 

Permanent exhibition. Inside 

Santa Caterina Market, this exhibition 

describes the significant events in 

Barcelona’s history. 

MUHBA Vil·la Joana. 

Casa Verdaguer 

(Ctra de l’Església, 104. Vallvidrera). T. 

93 204 78 05. www.museuhistoria.bcn. 

cat. Sat & Sun, 10am-2pm. Tue-Wed, 

groups (by appt) only . Closed Mon. 

Permanent exhibition The 

poet Jacint Verdaguer, one of the great 

figures in the revival of Catalan as a 

literary language, spent the last years of 

his life in this 19 th century villa. 

Museu Blau 

(Pl. de Leonardo da Vinci, 4-5, Parc del 


Fòrum). M: El Maresme/Fòrum (L4). T. 

93 256 60 02. www.museuciencies.bcn. 

cat Tue-Sun & public holidays, 10am- 

8pm. Closed Mon. 6 €. Museum & 

Botanical Gardens, 7 €. 

Aliens: Exotic Species Invade. 

Until 31 Jan. How do invasive species 

arrive in an ecosystem, and what are the 

consequences? 

Espai Terra: The Catalonia You 

Know Until 31 Jan. Photographs of 

remote areas, unusual land formations, 

flora, fauna and meteorology – 

everything that relates to the geography 

of the Catalan-speaking regions. 

Museu de Badalona 

(Pl. Assemblea de Catalunya, 1). 

Badalona. M: Pep Ventura (L2). T. 

93 384 17 50. www.museudebadalona. 

cat Tue-Sat, 10am-2pm & 5-8pm Sun 

& public holidays, 10am-2pm. 6 €. 

Permanent exhibition Tue-Fri, 

5-8pm, Sat & Sun, 10am-2pm. Until 

31 Dec. A display of objects that were in 

daily use in Badalona more than 2,000 

years ago. 

Museu de l’Eròtica 

(La Rambla, 96, bis). M: Catalunya 

(L1-L3). T. 93 318 98 65. www.eroticamuseum.com. 

June-Sept: Mon-Fri, 

10am-9pm. Oct-May: Mon-Sun,10am- 

8pm. Adults 9 €. Reduced 8 €. 

Permanent exhibition This 

season the Erotic Museum has 

inaugurated its ‘Garden of the Senses’ – 

an open-air exhibition at the heart of 

Barcelona. 

Museu de la Moto 

de Barcelona 

(Carrer de la Palla, 10). T. 933 186 

584. www.museumoto.com. Tues-Sat, 

10am-2pm & 4.30pm-8.30pm. Sun 10am- 

2pm. Closed Mon. 6 €. Reduced entry: 4 €. 

The Montjuïc International 

24 hour race Until 30 June. Paying 

homage to a race which was held for 

32 years, from 1955 to 1986. 

Museu de la Música 

(Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1) & 

Marina (L1). T. 93 256 36 50. www. 

museumusica.bcn.cat Mon-Sat., 

10am-6pm. Sun, 10am-8pm. Closed 

Tues. 4 €. Reduced 3 €. Free admission 

Sun afternoon. 


Museu del Futbol Club 

Barcelona 

(Arístides Maillol, s/n. FCB stadium. 

Access gates 7 or 9). M: Les Corts (L3). 

T. 902 18 99 00. www.fcbarcelona.cat. 

From 2 April to 7 Oct: Mon-Sat, 10am – 

8pm. Sun & public holidays, 10am- 

2.30pm. 8 Oct – 1 April: Mon-Sat., 

10am – 6.30pm. Sun &/ public holidays, 

10am – 2.30pm. Camp Nou Tour 

available until one hour before museum 

closing time. 22 €. Children 16.50 €. 

Under 6s and FCB members, free 

Permanent exhibition. The 

Camp Nou Experience. Discover 100 

years of the club’s history, visit different 

zones of the Camp Nou and relive the 

club’s greatest moments in the 

multimedia zone. 

Museu del Modernisme 

Català 

(Balmes, 48). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- 

L3-L4). T. 93 272 28 96. www.mmcat. 

cat. Mon-Sat., 10am . 8pm Sun & public 

holidays, 10am-2pm. 10 €. 

Permanent Exhibition 

Museu Egipci 

(València, 284). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- 

L3-L4). T. 93 488 01 88. www.museuegipci. 

com. Mon-Sun 10am-8pm. Sun, 10am- 

2pm. Adults 11 €. Reduced, 8 €. 


Museu Frederic Marès 

(Plaça de Sant Iu, 5). M: Liceu (L3) & 

Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 35 00. Tue-Sat, 

10am-7pm. Sun & public holidays, 

11am-8pm. Closed Mon except public 

holidays. 4.20 €. 

Vilató (1921-2000). Barcelona- 

Paris. A Road to Freedom: In 

Bronze Until 30 September. Work by 

painter, sculptor and engraver Xavier 

Vilató, Picasso’s nephew. 

Museu Olímpic i de 

l’Esport Joan Antoni 

Samaranch 

(Av. de l’Estadi Olímpic, 60). M: 

Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 292 53 

79. www.museuolimpicbcn.cat. Tues- 

Sat 10am-8pm. Sun & public holidays, 

from 10 a 14.30 h. 4.50 €. Students, 


2.60 €. Under-14s free. Over-65s free. 

III International Award for 

Watercolours and Other Works 

on Paper. Theme: Sport 6 Sept- 

21Dec. Works from the award 

shortlist. 

Museu Picasso 

(Montcada, 15-23). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 

93 256 30 00. www.museupicasso.bcn. 

cat. Tue-Sun, 10am-8pm. Closed Mon 

(except public holidays). 11 € (combined 

ticket for museum + temporary exhibition). 

Temporary exhibition only: 6 €. 

Picasso’s ceramics: a gift from 

Jacqueline to Barcelona 26 Oct -1 

April. Exhibition featuring 41 original 

ceramic works by Picasso to celebrate the 

30 th anniversary of their donation by 

Jacqueline Picasso to Barcelona. 

Vilató (1921-2000). Barcelona- 

Paris. A road to freedom: People 

Until 11 Nov. Work by painter, sculptor 

and engraver Xavier Vilató, Picasso’s 

nephew, who was instrumental in 

securing a significant donation of the 

artist’s works for the museum. 

Palau Robert 

(Pg. de Gràcia, 107). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). T. 93 238 80 91. www.gencat. 

cat/probert. Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm. 

Sun & public holidays, 10am-2.30pm. 

FREE Jardí Catalunya Experience 

5 Oct-18 Nov. Photographs of Catalonia 

by its people. 

FREE Sala 4 Catalan: a language 

for everyone. 30 years of 

language policy 21 Nov-5 Jan. 

Celebration of thirty years of campaigns 

to raise awareness and promote the use 

of Catalan. 

FREE Sala 3 Ferran Adrià & El 

Bulli – Risk, Freedom and 

Creativity Until 3 Jan. The creative 

genius of Ferran Adrià, probably the 

most influential chef in the world, 

whose talent and flair for innovation 

have turned 21st-century gastronomy 

upside-down. 

FREE Salas 1 & 2 Photographs 

from the New York Times 

Magazine 28 Sept-2 Dec. An 

examination of the nature of 

photography at a crucial moment in the 

development of the printed press. 

FREE Mossos d’Esquadra. The 

Second Republic and the Civil 

War. 1931-1939 2 Oct-18 Nov The 

history of the Catalan regional police 

force from its origins to the present 

day. 

Virreina Centre 

de la Imatge 

(La Rambla, 99). M: Liceu (L3). T. 93 

316 10 00. www.bcn.cat/ 

virreinacentredelaimatge Tue-Sun, 

noon-8pm. 

Aïm Deüelle Lüski. Residual 

images. Documentary 

photography in dark times 23 Oct- 

13 Jan. Since the 1970s, Photographer 

Aïm Deüelle Lüski has invented an 

enormous variety of cameras and this 

exhibition shows how he has used them. 

Theatre 

El Molino 

(Vilà i Vilà, 99). www.elmolinobcn.com. 

M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). Advance: www. 

elmolinobcn.com. 

El Molino lifts the spirit Thur- 

Sun., 6.30 pm. 33 €. 

A risqué show that looks back 

over the history of the legendary El 

Molino theatre, with feathers and 

sequins, vintage entertainment and a 

generous dose of humour and audience 

participation. 

El Molino Burlesque Fever 

Thur-Sun 9.30pm. 33 €. 

Sensual, daring and provocative 

burlesque. 

Teatre Gaudí Barcelona 

(Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 120). 

T. 93 603 51 52. www.teatregaudi 

barcelona.com. M: Sagrada Família 

(L2-L5) & Sant Pau/Dos de Maig (L5). 

David & Sara by Ever Blanchet. Tue & 

Wed, 8.45pm. 18 €. From 7 August. 

In Spanish. A love story set in a time of 

fear, dogma, repression, uncertainty, 

betrayal and cruelty. 

Our Personal Champions 

league by Cristina Clemente. Dir: 

Cristina Clemente. With Alícia Puertas 

and Santi Ricart . Thurs-Sat, 10.15pm. 

Sun., 8pm. 18 €. Until 2 Dec. In Catalan. 

The social and family pressures on a 

young couple of an age where they are 

contemplating parenthood can be 

almost unbearable. 

Teatre Lliure: Gràcia 

(Montseny, 47). T. 93 238 76 25. www. 

teatrelliure.com. M: Fontana (L3) & 

Joanic (L4). 


Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie 

Naylor. Dir: Pau Carrió. With Pol López. 

Wed-Fri 8.30pm. Sat., 5.30pm & 9pm. 

Sun., 6pm. From €19 to 28. From 21-25 

Nov. In Catalan. 

Dramatic monologue based on 

a true story by British playwright 

Hattie Naylor. 

Trial of a Whore by Miguel del Arco. 

Dir: Miguel del Arco. Amb Carmen 

Machi. 60. Tue-Fri., 8.30pmp. Sat., 9pm. 

Sun., 6pm. From €21.30 to 30.25. 28 

Nov-16 Dec. In Spanish. 

Dramatic monologue about Helen of 

Troy, the woman accused of causing 

the most famous of the ancient wars. 

Teatre Lliure: Montjuïc 

(Pg. Santa Madrona, 40-46). T. 93 

289 27 70 . www.teatrelliure.com. M: 

Espanya (L1-L3-FGC)&i Poble Sec (L3) . 

30-40 Livingstone by Sergi López 

& Jorge Picó. With Jorge Picó & Sergi 

López. 60. Tue-Fri., 8.30pm. Sat., 9pm. 

Sun., 6pm. From €21.30-30.25. 31 Oct 

-18 Nov. In Catalan 

A loquacious, contradictory, 

contemporary character, deeply 

unsatisfied with his life, decides to 

give it all up and go in search of 

adventures. 

Teatre Nacional 

de Catalunya 

(Pl. de les Arts, 1). T. 93 306 57 00. 

www.tnc.cat. M: Glòries (L1) i 

Monumental (L2). 

La Bête by David Hirson (translated 

by Joan Sellent). Dir: Sergi Belbel. Wed- 

Fri., 8pm. Ds., 9.30pm. Sun 6pm. From 

19.50 to 38.09 €. Until 25 Nov. In 

Catalan. 

Composed in verse in the style 

of Moliere, ‘La Bête’ was a huge hit 

on Broadway and in the West End. 

MCBTH (Macbeth) based on the 

play by William Shakespeare. Dir: Àlex 

Rigola. Wed & Fri., 8pm. Thur 5pm or 

8pm. Sat 9.30pm. Sun 6pm. From 15.69 

to 31.37 €. Oct . Until 18 Nov. In 

Catalan. 

Aloose adaptation of Shakespeare’s 

Scottish play by one of Catalan 

theatre’s most controversial and 

creative directors. 

Ras! Wed, Thur, Fri., 10.30am., Sat 

6pm, Sun, 12pm, From 8.96 to 13.44 €. 

7-25 Nov 

A show that mixes theatre, dance 

and visual arts. 

Dance 

Gran Teatre del Liceu 

(La Rambla, 51-59). T. 93 485 99 00 . 

www.liceubarcelona.cat. M: Liceu (L3). 

Prague National Ballet ‘The 

Nutcracker, a Christmas Tale’ 

Thur & Fri, 8 pm. Sat, 8 & 9pm. Sun, 

5 pm. From €19 to 125.50. 22-25 Nov. 

Hungarian choreographer Youri 

Vámos brings the well-loved tale 

to life. 

Mercat de les Flors 

(Lleida, 59). T. 93 426 18 75. www. 

mercatflors.cat. M: Espanya (L1-L3- 

FGC) & Poble Sec (L3). 

Head Sat & Sun, 8.30pm. €6. 3 & 

4 Nov 

Daniel Abreu’s latest work is about 

drops. 

Icosahedron Sat & Sun., 20.30 h. 

6 €. 10 & 11 Nov. 

Tânia Carvalho and twenty dancers. 

Little Me + Loser Kings Thur & 

Fri., 7pm. 6 €. 8 & 9 Nov. 

Eulàlia Ayguadé & Young Jin Kim 

in collaboration with circus performer 

Joan Català. 

The Strange Thing is That 

We’re Alive Sat & Sun., 7pm. 6 €. 10 

& 11 Nov. 

Patricia Caballero, from Cádiz, 

presents her latest work. 

Slipping through my fingers 

Thur & Fri., 8.30 pm. 6 €. 8 & 9 Nov. 

Swedish choreographer Helena 

Franzén investigates the poetry of 

the body. 

Teatre Gaudí Barcelona 

(Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 120). T. 

93 603 51 52. www. 

teatregaudibarcelona.com. M: 

Sagrada Família (L2-L5) & Sant Pau/ 

Dos de Maig (L5). 

Happy Ha Ha Dir: Mercedes 

Boronat. Sat 6pm. Sun noon. 9 €. 

Dance show for the whole family. 

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Thursday 1 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 

Gran Gala Flamenco Palau de la 

Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 

4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 30 

to 45 €. 

Dance and music bring to life the 

passionate world of Spain’s flamenco 

traditions. 

6.45, 8.30, 10 & 11.30pm 

Pastora Galván & Antonio ‘El 

Farru’ and JuncoTablao Flamenco 

Cordobés (La Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes 

(L3) & Liceu (L3). 

Dancers Pastora & ‘El Farru’ are 

accompanied by up-and-coming artists. 

Folk traditions 

11.30am 

FREE Sardanas Plaça de la Catedral 

(Plaça de la Catedral). Traditional 

Catalan dance. 

Pop 

12.30am 

Cupcake Sala Apolo (Nou de la 

Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 

Paying homage to everything eighties. 

Friday 2 

Blues 

5-6pm 

Blues and Jazz at Palau 

Gomis - MEAM MEAM: Museu 

Europeu d’Art Modern (Barra de 

Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). 9 €. 

Classical music 

9pm 

The OBC with Alban Gerhardt 

L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries 

(L1), Monumental (L2)6pmMarina 

(L1). From 23 to 51 €. Works by 

Gerhardt, Lalo & Stravinsky. 

Electronic music 

12.30am 

Nitsa Club: Jacques Lu Cont Sala 

Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 113). M: 

Paral·lel (L2-L3). The legendary DJ, 

best known for his ‘rythmes digitales’, 

project plays at Nitsa Club. 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 

Flamenco Nights at the 

Palau Dalmases Palau Dalmases 

(Montcada, 20). M: Jaume I (L4). 

Mon-Sat a 9.30pm. 20 €. Guitar, voice 

and cajón in one of the most beautiful 

palaces of the Ribera district. 

Jazz 

9pm 

44th Voll-Damm Barcelona 

International Jazz Festival: Andrea 

Motis & Juan Chamorro Sextet 

Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de 

la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1- 

L4). From 12 to 32 €. 

Motis & Chamorro present a new show 

that pays homage to two jazz greats: 

Billie Holiday & Lester Young. 

9.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Ramón 

Valle Trio with Jesse Van Ruller 

Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: 

Diagonal (L3-L5). 23 €. Cuban piano 

prodigy Ramón Valle and his band 

return with a new album. 

Saturday 3 

Flamenco 

7pm 

Opera and Flamenco Palau 

de la Música Catalana (Palau de la 

Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 

From 30 to 45 €. 

This innovative show mixes opera, 

the Spanish tradition of zarzuela – a 

Spanish opera for the working-classes, 

with spoken parts – and flamenco 

music. 


6pm 


(Plaça de la Catedral). 3, 10 & 17 Nov 

Traditional Catalan dance. 

Guitar 

9pm 

The Art of the Guitar. 

‘Flamenco & Classic’ Parròquia 

de Santa Anna (Santa Anna, 29). 21 


€. The Spanish guitar in concert in a 

12 th -century church hidden away beside 

Plaça Catalunya. 

Jazz 

9pm 

44th Voll-Damm Barcelona Int. 

Jazz Festival: Giulia Valle Group 

Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). 20 €. Composer Giulia Valle and 

her group, with a flawless rhythm section 

and two first-class soloists, present ‘Live’. 

Pop 

9pm 

The Divine Comedy: a night with 

Neil Hannon Casino de l’Aliança del 

Poblenou (Rambla del Poblenou, 42). M: 

Poblenou (L4). From 24 to 28 €. Composer 

and singer Neil Hannon revisits his band 

the Divine Comedy’s back catalogue. 

Sunday 4 


12pm 

Spanish & Catalan Music Gala 

Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la 

Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4) 

30 €. Chamber music recital with works 

for solo piano and songs by Falla, 

Albéniz, Granados, Toldrà and others. 

7pm 

Barrocco Sempre Giovanni 

L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries 

(L1), Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 

23.50 €. The Czech baroque chamber 

ensemble play works by Stamic, Grieg, 

Mozart and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 


11.30am 


(Plaça de la Catedral). Catalan dance. 

Football 

League fixture. FC Barcelona 

vs. Celta de Vigo Camp Nou (Aristides 

Maillol, s/n). La Liga round 7 brings 

Galician team to the Camp Nou. 

Soul 

9pm 



International Jazz Festival: Mavis 

Staples + Dayna Kurtz Sala Apolo 

(Nou de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel 

(L2-L3). 32.50 €. Mavis Staples, one 

of the great icons of gospel and soul, 

and the voice of the Staples Singers, is 

wowing new audiences on the strength 

of her latest releases. 

Guided visit 

11.30am (in Catalan) & 12.30pm 

(in Spanish) . 

FREE Guided tour of Poble Nou 

cemetery Cementiri de Poblenou (Av. 

Icària, s/n). M: Llacuna (L4). A guided 

tour of 19 th -century Barcelona, as 

reflected in the tombs and gravestones 

of the city’s great and good. 

Monday 5 


8.30pm 

Auryn Quartet Palau de la Música 

Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: 

Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 18-27 €. 

The Auryn Quartet plays quartets by 

Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven. 

Flamenco 

6.45, 8.30, 10 & 11.30pm 

Pastora Galván, Gema Moneo 

and Junco Tablao Flamenco Cordobés 

(La Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) 

& Liceu (L3). The famous bailaors are 


Rock 

9.30pm 

Rachel Arieff presents: Antikaraoke 

Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


A mutant hybrid of a rock concert, 

underground karaoke party and 

cabaret. 

Tuesday, 6 


8.30pm 

Romina Lischka L’Auditori (Lepant, 

150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental 

(L2) & Marina (L1). From 23 to 51 € 

Viola recital with works by Marais, de 

Visée and Couperin. 

Rock 

8pm 

Dan Baird & Homemade Sin vs. 

Jim Wilson Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


Country rock from two of the genre’s 

greatest exponents. 

Wednesday 7 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 




Mon-Sat 9.30pm. 20 €. Guitar, voice 

and cajón in one of the most beautiful 


Jazz 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Michel 

Camilo & Tomatito L’Auditori 

(Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), 

Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 

From 18 to 45 €. Dominican pianist 

Michel Camilo and Tomatito, one of 

the greatest flamenco guitarists of 

all time, present ‘Spain Forever’ with 

interpretations of Chick Corea, Charlie 

Haden, Astor Piazzolla and others. 

Rock 

8.30pm 

Blind Melon Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


Classic American rock from the ’90s. 

Thursday 8 

Cinema 

8pm 

Xcèntric. The CCCB’s cinema 

Centre de Cultura Contemporània 

de Barcelona (Montalegre, 5). M: 

Catalunya (L1-L3). 25 Oct-20 Dec. 

Xcèntric focuses on experimental film 

and video. The new season opens with 

a special programme dedicated to 

Catalan filmmaker Antoni Padrós, and 

continues with thematic programmes 

that draw on the experimental film 

collections of the MoMA, the Centre 

Georges Pompidou and Tate Modern, 

with guest curators from each. 

Flamenco 

6.45, 8.30, 10 & 11.30pm 

Pastora Galván, Gema Moneo 

and Junco Tablao Flamenco Cordobés 



& Liceu (L3). Famous bailaors are 

accompanied by up-and-coming artists 

from the flamenco scene. 

de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 

The Canadian DJ, producer and remixer 

A-Trak shows why he is one of the most 

sought-after artists in the business. 

Jazz 

8.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Fred 

Hersch Trio Conservatori del Liceu 

(Nou de la Rambla, 88). M: Drassanes 

(L3), Liceu (L3), Paral·lel (L2-L3). 

25 €. One of the most innovative 

pianists in contemporary jazz makes 

his festival debut with the Fred Hersch 

trio, presenting ‘Alive at the Vanguard’, 

recorded at the legendary Greenwich 

Village club. 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Mariza 


la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1- 

L4). From 18 to 54 €. The new queen 

of the Portuguese singing tradition fado 

looks back on a career that began in the 

Mouraria neighbourhood of Lisbon. 

Pop 

9pm 

La Oreja de Van Gogh Artèria 

Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel 

(L2-L3). From 26 to 45 €. The popular 

Spanish group plays a benefit concert for 

the CODESPA foundation, which works 

with communities in developing countries. 

Punk 

9pm 

The Gaslight Anthem Sala Apolo 


(L2-L3). Underground U.S punk rockers 

promote their new album ‘Handwritten’. 

Friday 9 


9pm 

Concert Escolania de Montserrat 

La Pedrera (Provença, 261-265). M: 

Provença (FGC) & Diagonal (L3-L5). 

12 €. A rare opportunity to hear the 

famous boys’ choir perform outside 

their usual home, the monastery on 

Montserrat. 


12.30am 

Nitsa Club: A-Trak Sala Apolo (Nou 

Jazz 

8.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: 

Dansonando Harlem Jazz Club 

(Comtessa de Sobradiel, 8). M: 

Drassanes (L3) & Jaume I (L4). 15 

€. Quintet of artists from La Havana 

blends the elegance of classical 

instrumentation with Cuban folk. 

Pop 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Milow 

Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). 

M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 20 & 25 €. A 

chance to see Belgian DIY-pop singersongwriter 

Jonathan Vandenbroeck. 

Soul 

9.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Lee 

Fields & The Expressions Luz de 

Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). 27 €. From Brooklyn – the 

mecca of 21 st -century soul – comes Lee 

Fields, with his smooth take on funk, 

soul and R&B. 

Saturday 10 


12.30am 

Nitsa Club Sala Apolo (Nou de la 

Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). The 

latest electronic music from Spanish 

and international DJs. 

Flamenco 

6.45, 8.30, 10 & 11.30pm 

Antonio ‘El Farru’, José 

Maya & Alfonso Losa Tablao 

Flamenco Cordobés (La Rambla, 35). 

M: Drassanes (L3) & Liceu (L3). The 

famous bailaors are accompanied 

by up-and-coming artists from the 

flamenco scene. 

Jazz 

9pm 




Irène & Francis Jacob Luz de Gas 

(Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal (L3- 

L5). 30 & 35 €. Art-house cinema 

muse turned singer Irène Jacob 

performs with brother Francis, a 

composer with his finger on the pulse 

of world music, promoting their 

album ‘Je sais nager’. 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: La 

Locomotora Negra Palau de la 


4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 

18 to 48 €. A night of swing from this 

legendary Catalan jazz band. 

Kids 

11am, 12.30am & 4.30pm 

Zig Zag, Mini-Concerts at the 

Palau Palau de la Música Catalana 

(Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona 

(L1-L4). T. 93 295 72 00. 6 € (adults, 14 

€). For 1- to 2-yr-olds. 

Sunday 11 

Al fresco 

12pm 

FREE Human towers Carrer Blai 

(Between Tapioles & Margarit). M: 

Poble Sec (L3) & Paral·lel (L2-L3). 

Gravity-defying human castles. 


6pm 

Madrigals, Lieder and Chansons 

Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau 

de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona 

(L1-L4). 13 €. Works by Monteverdi, 

Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy and 

others. 

9pm 

Manuel Barrueco, guitar Palau 



From 28 to 32 €. Guitar a the Palau 

with works by Bach, Granados, Albéniz 

and others. 


11.30am. 




12pm 

FREE Sardanas Avinguda Gaudí. M: 

Sagrada Família (L2-L5). Traditional 


Football 

League fixture. RCD Espanyol 

vs. Osasuna Estadi Cornellà-ElPrat 

(Av. del Baix Llobregat, 100). Cornellà 

de Llobregat. Barcelona’s ‘other’ team 

faces Osasuna in round 11 of La Liga. 

Guided visit 

11am (in Catalan) & 11.15am (in 

Spanish) 

FREE Guided tour of Montjuïc 

Cemetery Cementiri de Montjuïc 

(Mare de Déu del Port, 56-58). Guided 

tour of this huge cemetery on the 

slopes of Montjuïc. 

Jazz 

8pm 



Paolo Fresu & Quartetto Alborada 

L’Auditori Sala 2 Oriol Martorell (Lepant, 

150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) 

& Marina (L1). 30 & 35 €. Perhaps 

one of the most lyrical trumpeters in 

European jazz, Paolo Fresu presents his 

personal project. 

Opera 

5pm 

L’Elisir d’amore Gran Teatre del 

Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu 

(L3). An opportunity to see ‘L’elisir 

d’amore’, one of Gaetano Donizetti’s 

most popular operas. 

Rock 

8pm 

Calexico Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


28 € Alternative country rock from 

Tucson, Arizona. 

Monday 12 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 


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Mon-Sat 9.30pm. 20 €. Guitar, singing 

and cajón playing in one of the most 

beautiful medieval palaces of the 

Ribera district. 

Pop 

19.30pm 

Andrew Bird Sala Apolo (Nou de 

la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3) 

From 24 to 27 €. Classically trained 

multi-instrumentalist indie singersongwriter 

promotes new album ‘Break 

it Yourself’. 

Tuesday, 13 


8.30pm 

Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Palau 



From 11 to 56 €. One of the most 

talented pianists of the moment, 

blazing a trail on the international 

scene. She plays works from the 

romantic piano repertoire. 

Flamenco 

6.45, 8.30, 10 & 11.30pm 

Antonio ‘El Farru’, José Maya 

& lfonso Losa Flamenco Cordobés 


& Liceu (L3). Famous bailaors are 


9.30pm 

Opera and Flamenco Teatre 

Poliorama (La Rambla, 115). M: 

Catalunya (L1-L3). From 30 to 45 

€. This innovative show mixes opera, 

the Spanish tradition of ‘zarzuela’ – 

a Spanish opera for the working classes, 

with spoken parts – and flamenco music. 

Pop 

8pm 

Final Sona 9: Nyandú + The 

Mamzelles Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


Closing concert of Sona 9, the biggest 

platform for up-and-coming groups 

from the Catalan music scene. 

Wednesday 14 

Country 

9.30pm 

Cowboy Junkies Sala Apolo (Nou 

ARCHITOUR, architecture & city 

routes, introduces the Gothic 

Quarter by Night. Thursdays 7 

pm, Canaletes Fountain. For this 

and other routes, contact: 

architour@coac.cat / 

938834184 / www.architour.es 

de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2- 

L3). Veteran Canadian alternative 

country group. 

Jazz 

9.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Maria 

de Medeiros Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 

246). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). 30 €. 

Portuguese film star Maria de Medeiros 

promotes her most recent work. 

Pop 

9pm 



Van Dyke Parks L’Auditori Sala 2 

Oriol Martorell (Lepant, 150). M: 

Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & 

Marina (L1). 40 €. Composer, producer 

and musician: a living legend who 

revolutionised pop. 

Thursday 15 


10pm 

Opera Nights at the Palau 

Dalmases Palau Dalmases 

(Montcada, 20). M: Jaume I (L4). 20 € 

Live opera in one of the most beautiful 


8.30pm 

Rafal Blechacz, piano L’Auditori 

(Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), 

Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 28 

€. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy 


and Szymanowski. 

Instrumental 

8pm 

Ben Kweller Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


Young multi-instrumentalist from San 

Francisco gives his only concert in 

Spain. 

Jazz 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Tommy 

Emmanuel Artèria Paral·lel (Av. 

Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 30 €. 

One of the most versatile guitarists in 

the world, a veritable institution in his 

home country of Australia. 

Singer-songwriter 

9pm 

Ismael Serrano Palau de la 

Música Catalana (Palau de la 

Música, 4-6). M: 

Urquinaona (L1-L4). 

From 14.50 to 37.50 €. 

Singer-songwriter from 

Madrid promotes his 

album, ‘Todo empieza y 

todo acaba en ti’. 

Friday 16 

Blues 

5-6pm 

Blues and Jazz at Palau 

Gomis – MEAM MEAM: Museu 

Europeu d’Art Modern (Barra de 

Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). 9 €. 

Flamenco 

7pm 

Opera and Flamenco Teatre 


Catalunya (L1-L3). From 30 to 45 €. 

This innovative show mixes opera, 

the Spanish tradition of ‘zarzuela’ –a 

Spanish opera for the working-classes 

– and flamenco music. 

Jazz 

9pm 



Melody Gardot Palau de la Música 


Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 18 to 54 €. 

One of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 

21 st century presents ‘The Absence’. 

8.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Tamar 

McLeod Sinclair Harlem Jazz 

Club (Comtessa de Sobradiel, 8). M: 

Drassanes (L3), Jaume I (L4). 15 €. 

Tamar McLeod Sinclair has turned 

his travels around the world into song. 

‘The Heart Notes’ is his debut. 

Metal 

8pm 

Trivium Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 

113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). US heavy 

rockers. 

Others 

From 8pm 

24 hrs at the Barcelona 

Motorbike Museum Museu de la 

Moto (Palla, 10). 

Saturday 17 


7pm 

Coral Cantiga Palau 

de la Música Catalana 

(Palau de la Música, 4-6). 

M: Urquinaona (L1-L4) 

From 17 to 28 €. Works by 

Mendelssohn and Mozart. 

7pm 

The OBC and Marion Cotillard 

L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), 

Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). From 

39 to 73 €. The Barcelona Symphonic 

Orchestra and French actress and 

singer Marion Cotillard perform Swiss 

composer Arthur Honegger’s ‘Joan of 

Arc at the Stake’ (1938). 

The 

Centre 

de Cultura 

Contemporània de 

Barcelona’s annual 

festival of indie 

cinema, L’Alternativa, 

takes place from 

Wednesday 21 to 

Sunday 25. 


12.30am 

Nitsa Club Sala Apolo (Nou de la 



6.30pm 




Flamenco 

9.30pm 




(Montcada, 20). 20 €. 

Jazz 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: China 

Moses Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 

62). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 25 & 30 €. 

China Moses presents ‘Crazy Blues’, a 

homage to the great female voices. 

Others 

Until 8pm 

24 hrs at the Barcelona 

Motorbike Museum (Carrer de la 

Palla, 10). 


9pm 

Al Bano Gran Teatre del Liceu (La 

Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). From 

10 to 63.60 €. Legendary italian 

singer Al Bano, who during a forty 

year’s career span has achieved great 

numbers in Eurovision, will sing his 

greatest hits, such as ‘Felicitá’. 

Sunday 18th 

Al fresco 

12pm 

FREE Human towers Plaça de la Vila 

de Gràcia. M: Fontana (L3). 

Atletisme 

9am 

89 th Jean Bouin Avinguda Rius i 

Taulet Race Open; 1pm, Jean Bouin for 

professionals. 

First established in 1920 by sports 

journalists and professional runners, 

the oldest running race in Spain is still 

going strong 89 years later. 

Fado 

7pm 



Carminho Artèria Paral·lel (Av. 

Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 28 

& 35 €. One of the most talented and 

innovative names in contemporary fado 

is playing in the theater district. Go bar 

hoping after the show. 



11.30am 




Flamenco 

9.30pm 

Gran Gala Flamenco Palau de la 



to 45 €. 

Football 

League fixture. FC Barcelona- 

Saragossa Camp Nou (Aristides 

Maillol, s/n). League fixture. FC 

Barcelona vs. Zaragoza Camp Nou 

(Aristides Maillol, s/n). Barcelona take 

on Zaragoza in round 12 of La Liga. 

Guided visit 

11.30am (in Catalan) & 12.30pm 

(in Spanish). 

FREE Guided tour of Poble Nou 

cemetery Cementiri de Poblenou (Av. 

Icària, s/n). M: Llacuna (L4). 

Motocross 

6pm 

Solo XI Barcelona International 

Free Style Masters Palau Sant Jordi 

(Pg. Olímpic, 5-7). M: Espanya (L1-L3- 

FGC). Motocross show. 

Opera 

5pm 

L’Elisir d’amore Gran Teatre del 

Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu 

(L3). One of Donizetti’s most popular 

operas. 

Rock 

8pm 

Cobra + Hora Zulu Sala Apolo (Nou 

de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2- 

L3). From the Basque Country, Cobra 

play a blend of rock and metal. 

Monday 19th 

Rock 

12am 

Nasty Mondays Sala Apolo (Nou de 

la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 

The city’s wildest Monday night party in 

Barcelona. So get ready to rock and roll 

along with a hipster crownd drowning in 

piercings and tattos. 

Tuesday, 20 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 



(Montcada, 20). 20 €. 

Guitar 

9pm 

The Art of the Guitar. 

‘Carmen’ Parròquia de Santa Anna 

(Santa Anna, 29). 21 €. 

Indie 

12am 

Crappy Tuesdays Sala Apolo (Nou de 


Indie pop and electronica club night. 

Jazz 

9pm 



Sonny Rollins Palau de la Música 


Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 30 to 85 

€. Sonny Rollins is the greatest jazz 

saxophonist in the world. 

Wednesday 21 

Cinema 

L’Alternativa. Barcelona’s 19th 

Festival of Independent Cinema 

Centre de Cultura Contemporània 

de Barcelona (Montalegre, 5). M: 

Catalunya (L1-L3). 21-25 Nov. Festival 

of independent cinema featuring more 

than 200 films from all round the world. 

Funk 

12am 

Los Putos Miércoles Sala Apolo 


(L2-L3). Funk, disco, soul, r’n’b and live 

hip-hop from Se Atormenta Una Vecina. 

Jazz 

9pm 

44th Voll-Damm Barcelona Int. 

Jazz Festival: The Earth, Wind & 

Fire Experience ft. Al McKay Artèria 


Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel 

(L2-L3). 35 & 45 €. The legendary ’70s 

funk, soul, disco and jazz combo with New 

Orleans jazz guitarist Al Mckay. 

World music 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Buena 

Vista Social Club Orchestra 

ft. Omara Portuondo Palau de la 



to 56.50 €. An institution in the world 

of Cuban music. 

Thursday 22 

Indie 

8pm 

Bat for Lashes Sala Apolo (Nou de 


Brighton’s Natasha Khan, a singersongwriter 

and multi-instrumentalist, 

heir apparent to Kate Bush, promotes 

new album ‘The Haunted Man’, which 

is brand new: it was published on 15th 

october. 

Friday 23 


8.30pm 

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. 

‘The Magic Flute’ – René Jacobs 


la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 

From 28 to 196 €. Mozart, in a concert 

version conducted by René Jacobs. 

9pm 

The Art of the Guitar. ‘Carmen’ 

Parròquia de Santa Anna (Santa Anna, 

29). 21 €. The Spanish guitar in concert. 

Flamenco 

8pm 

Farruquito Sala Apolo (Nou de la 


The renowned flamenco bailaor is 

controversial –he run away after 

running over a passer-by, all of this 

without a driving license– but he is also 

a dancing genius. 

9.30pm 



(Montcada, 20). 20 €. 


Saturday 24 


12.30am 

Nitsa Club: Numbers Sala Apolo 


(L2-L3). Numbers play Nitsa Club 

with a DJ set from Jackmaster & Space 

Dimension Controller. 

Jazz 

9.30pm 


International Jazz Festival: Carles 

Benavent. ‘Un, dos, tres…’ Luz de 

Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). 25 €. The Catalan jazzman 

presents his latest album. 

9pm 

Diana Krall L’Auditori Sala 1 Pau 

Casals (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), 

Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). From 

72 to 90 €. Canadian pianist and singer 

gives this years’ only concert in Spain. 

Rock 

8.30pm 



Francesco Bearzatti Tinissima 

Quartet L’Auditori Sala 3 (Lepant, 


(L2) & Marina (L1). 25 €. The Italian 

saxophonist hailed by the French 

Académie du Jazz as the best jazz artist 

in Europe, presents an album dedicated 

to the great Thelonius Monk. ‘Monk & 

Roll’ takes the work of the bebop genius 

into the world of rock, from The Knack 

to Queen and Aerosmith. 

Sunday 25 

Al fresco 

12pm 

FREE Human towers Plaça d’Orfila. 

M: Sant Andreu (L1). . 


12pm 

FREE Giants La Pedrera (Provença, 

261-265). M: Provença (FGC) & 

Diagonal (L3-L5). Street spectacle 

involving the ‘giants’ of La Pedrera, 

to celebrate its hundredth anniversary. 

Football 

League fixture. RCD Espanyol 

48 Time Out BCN Guide November 2012 

– Getafe Estadi Cornellà-ElPrat (Av. 

del Baix Llobregat, 100). Cornellà de 

Llobrega. 

Gospel 

7pm 

Non-Stop Gospel L’Auditori Sala 1 

Pau Casals (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries 

(L1), Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 

From 15 to 45 €. 

Jazz 

8pm 



Christian Scott Quintet Luz de Gas 

(Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). 

35 €. New Orleans trumpeter presents 

one of the most groundbreaking jazz 

albums of the year. 

8pm 

Jazz & Swing Sala Apolo (Nou de la 

Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3).The 

Barcelona Jazz Orchestra transports the 

Sala Apolo to another era. As well as 

lovers of jazz and swing big band will be 

playing to more than a hundred dancers, 

ready to turn the concert into a party. 

Monday 26 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 



(Montcada, 20). 20 €. 

Rock 

12am 

Nasty Mondays Sala Apolo (Nou de 


Tuesday, 27 

Flamenco 

9.30pm 

Opera y Flamenco Teatre 


Catalunya (L1-L3). From 30 to 45 €. 

Indie 

12am 

Crappy Tuesdays Sala Apolo (Nou de 


Jazz 

9pm



Fanfare Ciocarlia Luz de Gas 

(Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). 

30 €. Trumpets and tubas with this 

legendary gypsy band from Romania. 

Wednesday 28 


8.30pm 

Early music concert with 

Jordi Savall La Pedrera 

(Provença, 261-265). 

M: Provença (FGC) & 

Diagonal (L3-L5). 12 

€. A chance to hear the 

master of the Spanish 

viol, a major figure in the 

world of early music. 

Jazz 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Brad 

Mehldau Trio L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). 

M: Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) and 

Marina (L1). From 18 to 48 €. The trio 

led by one of the most influential jazz 

pianists of recent decades. 

Pop 

9pm 

Alejandro Sanz Palau de la Música 

Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). 

M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 30 and 

160 €. Spanish balladeer debuts at the 

Palau to promote his new album. 

World music 

12.30am 

Caníbal Sound System Sala Apolo 


(L2-L3). World music as you’ve never 

heard it before. 

Thursday 29 


10pm 

Opera Nights at the Palau 

Dalmases Palau Dalmases 

(Montcada, 20). 20 €. 

8.30pm 

Casals Quartet L’Auditori (Lepant, 


(L2) & Marina (L1).28 €. Works by 

Haydn, Schubert and Shostakovitch. 

8.30pm 

Qvixote Quartet Palau de la Música 


Urquinaona (L1-L4). 11 €. Works by 

Santamant, Ravel and Schumann. 

Pop 

9pm 

Alejandro Sanz Palau de la Música 


Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 30 to 160 €. 

Spanish balladeer plays the Palau 

to promote his new album. 

To 

mark the 

25th anniversary 

of the Barcelona Bus 

Turístic you can visit 

this exhibition (Diagonal 

Metro Station), 

combining the Bus, 

the FC Barcelona 

and the city’s history. 

Friday 30 

Electronic 

music 

12.30am 

Nitsa Club: Ellen 

Allien Sala Apolo (Nou de 

la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel 

(L2-L3).The best new electronic 

music from label Bpitch Control. 

Jazz 

9pm 


International Jazz Festival: Chick 

Corea Trio Palau de la Música 


Urquinaona (L1-L4). From 18 to 54 

€. A living legend in the world of jazz 

plays the festival’s closing concert. 

Pop 

9.30pm 

Coti Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 246). 

M: Diagonal (L3-L5). 17 €. The 

Argentinean singer Coti performs his 

greatest hits. 


9pm 

Raimon Gran Teatre del Liceu (La 

Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). Veteran 

Valencian singer-songwriter who began 

his career as a protest singer, reviews a 

lifetime in song. 

INFORMATION 

AND SALES 




Sights 

Architecture 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família 

(Mallorca, 401). M: Sagrada Família 

(L2-L5). 93 20 804 14 9am-8pm. 13 

€. Barcelona’s most iconic building, 

begun by Antoni Gaudí in 1891 and 

which remains unfinished to this day. 

Ticket sales help fund the ongoing 

construction works. The most visited 

tourist attraction in Spain. 

Casa Batlló 

(Pg. de Gràcia, 43). M: Passeig de 

Gràcia (L3-L4). 93 216 03 06. 9am- 

9pm. 18.15 €. Late night visit, 29€. 

Another of Gaudì’s most emblematic 

works. Spaces include the former 

residence of the Batlló family, the roof 

terrace with its decorated chimneys, 

(and the scaly spine of the dragon 

defeated by Saint George,) and the 

marine-themed light well. The tour 

ends with the stunning entrance hall 

and main staircase. 

La Pedrera 

(Provença, 261-265). M: Diagonal 

(L3-L5). 902 400 973. 9am-8pm. 

16.50 €. Reduced entrance, 14.85 

€. The building many Barcelona 

residents consider to be Gaudí’s 

masterpiece – the roof terrace is one of 

the joys of Modernisme. Some of its 

apartments are still private homes. 

Palau Güell 

(Nou de la Rambla, 3-5). M: Drassanes 

(L3) & Barceloneta (L4). 93 472 57 75. 

Tue-Thur, 10am-8pm. 10 €. Reduced: 

8 € Built by Gaudí in the late 19th 

century, this mansion belonged to his 

main patron. The roof terrace is the 

highlight, but the whole house is a 

fascinating introduction to Gaudí’s 

revolutionary use of materials and space. 

Leisure 

Aire de Barcelona, Arab Baths 

(Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: Barceloneta 

(L4) & Jaume I (L4). Mon-Thur: first 

session: 10am. Fri, Sat & Sun: first 

session, 8am. Wed, Thu, Fri. & Sat: 

last session, midnight-2am.Aire de 

Barcelona is in the Born, and recreates 

a traditional hammam. 

Imax Port Vell 

(Moll d’Espanya). M: Drassanes (L3) 

& Barceloneta (L4). 93 225 11 11. 

Check times and programme at www. 

imaxportvell.com. 8.70 €. Put on your 

glasses, and take a seat for the most 

exciting virtual reality experience that 

the latest 3-D technology can provide, 

in Barcelona’s best-equipped largeformat 

cinema. 

G Experiència 

(Larrard, 41). M: Lesseps (L3). 93 285 

44 40. 10am-8pm. 9 €. Reduced: 7.5 €. 

Only 150 yards from the steps of Park 

Güell, you’ll find a doorway that takes 

you inside the mind of Antoni Gaudí. 

A fascinating interactive exhibition 

designed to help you understand the 

creative genius of Barcelona’s most 

famous architect. 

Tibidabo Funfair 

(Plaça del Tibidabo, 3-4). T. 93 211 79 

42. Wed-Sun, 12am-11pm. 25,20 € 

(Those under 120cm, 9 €). With over a 

hundred years of history, Tibidabo is 

one of the oldest funfairs in the world, 

featuring classic rides, old favourites 

and brand new attractions to 

guarantee an exciting day out. 

Port Aventura 

(Av. Alcalde Pere Molas. Km. 2. Vila 

Seca (Tarragona)). Train: Port 

Aventura. T. 977 779 000. 

PortAventura is a theme park located 

south of Barcelona, between Vila-seca 

and Salou. Six themed zones 

(Mediterranean, Far West, Mexico, 

China, Polynesia & SésamoAventura) 

occupy 119 hectares, with 30 

attractions, 100 live processions daily, 

75 places to eat and 27 craft and 

souvenir shops. 

Zoo de Barcelona 

(Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n). M: Arc de 

Triomf (L1) & Ciutadella/Vila 

Olímpica (L4). T. 93 225 67 80. 1-15 

Sept: 10-19 h. 16 Sept-29 d’octubre: 

10-18 h. 17 €. Infantil (3-12 anys): 

10.20 €. Barcelona Zoo, in Ciutadella 

Park, has a 100-year history and is one 

of the city’s best-loved attractions. At 

present it houses 315 species and more 

than 2,000 animals.

November 2012 - Barcelona

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