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Blog Barcelona
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Blog BarcelonaChristmas in Barcelona, what is done differently here
The 26th is a public holiday here and almost nowhere else in Spain, the cathedral fair dates from 1786, and this year the New Year bells move to a new place.
Blog BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família is now the tallest church in the world
172.5 metres since 10 June, and not a centimetre more, by Gaudí's own decision. It went up for 137 years without a building permit and the hardest part is still missing.
Blog BarcelonaWhere to see castells in Barcelona and when the diades are
Barcelona has eight human tower teams and you do not need to wait for La Mercè. Rehearsals are open and free midweek, and the autumn calendar has four big dates.
Blog BarcelonaUnderground Barcelona, what you can visit and book
Four sites below Barcelona are genuinely open to visitors, with prices, depths and the detail nobody publishes, which organisation takes each booking. Three separate bodies, three unconnected systems, and that is where most people lose their place.
Blog BarcelonaBarcelona facts, the city that reinvented its own past
The Gothic Quarter was rebuilt between 1908 and the 1930s, the beaches were created in 1992, and those Plaça Reial lamp posts are early Gaudí. What is genuinely old, what was built to look it, and which legends do not hold up.
Blog BarcelonaLa Mercè in Barcelona, a local's guide to the city festival
How I do La Mercè, day by day across the five of the festival. The castellers, the correfoc and the Piromusical, what I avoid with children and the mistake nearly everyone makes. Over 500 events, almost all free.
