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X Games Barcelona

Barcelona will witness one of the most spectacular sporting events that have passed through catalan capital in the last decades. And the world’s biggest competition of action sports comes to Montjuic from 16 to May 19: the X Games Barcelona. A sporting event, billed as the Olympic Games of extreme sports, which come to Europe for the first time since 1995 after being celebrated in different parts of the United States.

X Games 2013 Barcelona

Last year, with the bet to expand globally by ESPN -producer who directs and manages the X Games-, Barcelona, along with Foz de Iguaçu and Munich, were selected, in addition to Los Angeles, to celebrate the X Games in 2013.
So, after the X Games become one of the most viewed sporting events with 80 million viewers, Barcelona will have the opportunity to see the best riders in the world compete for the medals made in 15 different ways. These patterns come in four disciplines spread- Skate, BMX, Moto X and RallyCross- which have their venue in the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium, Palau Sant Jordi, Montjuic Municipal Pool and the Esplanade of the Olympic Ring.
With regards to skate, the best skaters of the moment come to Barcelona to fight in the Park, Vert, SLS Street and Big Air. Of these two disciplines fit two data point. Regarding the Street and through an agreement signed with the Street League Skateboarding, the greatest concerning the discipline will be in Barcelona. As regards the Big Air, the organizacion builds a mega ramp never before seen in Europe with dimensions of 25 meters high and 100 meters long which will challenge both skaters and BMX riders. Precisely BMX fans will also have the opportunity to see the great specialists of disciplines Park, Street, Vert and Big Air.
If the show bikes and skates will be total, what about what will happen in the disciplines of motor. And in what refers to the bikes, the Palau Sant Jordi will have the best drivers in Best Whip, Freestyle, Step Up, Enduro and Speed & Style. Meanwhile, the RallyCross is a six-lap race in the Olympic Stadium in a circuit where skidding, overtaking and jumping cars will lift audiences from their seats.
And an event like this, how could it be otherwise, must have an exceptional list of drivers. So legends like Travis Pastrana (RallyCross), Robbie Maddison (Moto X), Nate Adams (Moto X), Bob Burnquist (Skate), Paul Rodriguez (Skate) or Ken Block (RallyCross), among others, will be in the X Games Barcelona. And beside them, local athletes as Moto X rider Dany Torres, who already knows what it is to get a medal at the X Games, Edgar Torronteras (Moto X), Sergio Layos (BMX Street) or Fran Molina (Skate) will everything possible to make stay at home medals.
But if all this were not enough, the X Games Barcelona also offer much more than sport. As is the case with X Music, a music festival to be held on May 18 at the Poble Espanyol and which will be attended by artists such as 50 Cent, Nach or Zedd. On the other hand, in the X Fest, which will be located on the esplanade of Olympic ring, fans can play with different activities and check the news of the principals brands of extreme sports. In addition, 25 local bands will put the rhythm this meeting point for fans and athletes. Look at the official web page.

Montjuic Olympic Venues

As you can see, the X Games Barcelona have all possible ingredients to become one of the historical events of the sport in Barcelona. So, do not let them know you and be also part of the history of the X Games. Come to Barcelona, where you can seee the best sport in the world. Ren Top Apartments offers you a luxury apartments selection perfect for all needs, located in the city center, by the sea or on the exclusive hills of the city. Our apartments are the top for a top holiday.

Barcelona Harley Days 2013

The Barcelona Harley Days 2013 will gather on July 5th, 6th and 7th. The meeting point will be the same as always: Plaza España (Fira de Barcelona, Avenida Mª Cristina).

Barcelona Harley Days 2013

Once more we will be able to enjoy H-D’s biggest urban event in Europe.
It’ll be once again our pleasure to share with you this great celebration of Harley Davidson and the biker cult. On the 7th of July 2013 at 11 o’clock, 13.000 motorbikes will take over the Barcelona city center, cruising down the city’s most emblematic streets for the Grat Flag Parade. Participation is completely free and there are many other activities planned. Of course, a lots of music. You‘ll enjoy the live show with the best stereo sound and 40.000 watts of light to make the cover bands shine. And there will be some suprise acts. Have a look at the official web of the event once in a while to get all the updates on the bands that’ll make Barcelona Harley Days rock this year. You can’t miss the next Elvis Day for the Sunday 7th, with the best Elvis performances!
Kids also have their own space where they can have fun participating in various kids activities.

In the Harley Village you can enjoy all the Harley motorbikes, the latest models and all kinds of accessories. In the exhibition tent you can take pictures of yourself sporting the brand’s latest models and you will also find the Expo Classic booth with collectors bikes with a lot of history behind.
The Barcelona Harley Days 2013 activities program even includes a series of guided tours through the city and its surroundings, which will take place on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th. Then, on Saturday 6th of July, Harley dreambikes will participate in the Custom Bike Show with the world’s best custom bikes. Enrollment is free and can be done in the morning on the same day.

This summer Barcelona will host bikers, tourists, amateurs and enthousiasts who want to be a part of these three legendary days with the best motorbikes, activities and unbeatable athmosphere that reigns during this big event organized by the American brand.

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The Grec Festival 2013

The Grec Festival of Barcelona 2013 is about to begin! The Grec Festival of Barcelona is an international theatre, dance, music and circus festival. Over the course of its history, this long-standing event, which will take place for the thirty-seven time in 2013, has become not only the major summer attraction in Barcelona, but also a reference on the European performing arts calendar.

Grec Festival 2013

The festival takes its name from its main venue: an open-air theatre (the Teatre Grec) built on Mount Montjuïc for the 1929 Universal Exhibition. At first, this “Greek Theatre” was the only venue used for festival productions, but, today, the Grec programme embraces many other theatres, cultural facilities and public spaces all over the city of Barcelona.
The festival, which will take place from July 1 to 31, will include several new initiatives, including a season aimed specifically at family audiences: this MiniGrec, as it is known, will feature thirteen productions at seven Barcelona theatres, including such shows as “El petit Dalí” and “Perduts a la Viquipèdia”.

A circus show with music by Shostakovich? That is what we can look forward to in “Opus”, by Circa, a company that our city has taken to its heart and which will open the festival at the Teatre Grec on July 1 and 2 this year. In this show, the Australian company explore the language of the circus, their breath-taking acrobatic skills accompanied by the Russian composer’s string quartets, performed live by Quatuor Debussy.
But “Opus” is just one of the shows on the Grec 2013 programme revealed in the first advance preview. Audiences at the Teatre Grec will enjoy a choral show starring one hundred anonymous Barcelona women (“100Femmes”, July 19); whilst Marc Rosich and Josep M. Pou will take them on a journey into the intimate world of Marguerite Yourcenar in “Fuegos” (July 26-28); and the venue will also host a show created by theatre schools from three major European cities (“Utopies”, July 9).
The festival dance programme sees the return of one of the international choreographers most acclaimed by Barcelona audiences: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, whose “Puz/zle” (Teatre Grec, July 15 and 16) speaks to us, through dance, about the beauty of fusion. In another outstanding choreography, “L’ADN de l’ànima”, the Catalan dancers Mudit Grau and Ramón Giménez will explore the world of feelings (Teatre Grec, July 6 and 7).
Turning now to music, the Municipal Band of Barcelona will team up with the Catalan actress Lloll Bertran in a truly unusual concert entitled “Bandalismes” (Teatre Grec, July 12). The festival programme also features such renowned artists as: Diego “El Cigala” (Teatre Grec, July 10); Jorge Pardo (Teatre Grec, July 22), Kiko Veneno (Teatre Grec, July 31); Buika (Teatre Grec, July 21); and Wynton Marsalis with The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, celebrating the band’s twenty-fifth anniversary at the Teatre Grec on July 17. Catalan music will be represented by Blaumut (Teatre Grec, July 30) and Ja t’ho diré (Teatre Grec, July 3), a band returning to Barcelona as part of a short one-off tour.
The Grec 2013 programme will also include activities aimed at professionals in the theatre world, including the International Performing Arts Meeting, whose purpose is to boost the Catalan theatre internationally. Amongst educational events, we can highlight the Sala Beckett’s summer workshop, held at a new venue in Poblenou this year, and taking anger as its theme; as well as activities aimed directly at audiences, such as the “Spectator Workshop”, which offers fresh insight for theatre-goers; and “Explica dansa” (“Modern Dance Speaks!”), presented by the choreographer Toni Jodar.
Festival-goers are reminded that tickets for shows at the Teatre Grec will be available online and at Tiquet de Rambles box offices in the Palau de la Virreina from May 2. The full festival programme will be revealed in late-May, when tickets for all other productions will also go on sale, at www.bcn.cat/grec.

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080 Barcelona Fashion 2013

The 2013 edition of the 080 Barcelona Fashion City, is an edition in which, more than in any other year, we can really speak about Barcelona as the city of fashion and creation.
Over four days, from July 8th to 12th, 080 Barcelona Fashion will show and indeed, make available to the city and the world, the collective creative wealth of the capital of Catalonia.

080 Barcelona Fashion 2013

The event shows the talent of spanish designers, the work being done by the schools in the sector, the strength of our industrial complex, the variety on offer, all within the same project, 080 Barcelona Fashion city.
Creativity and innovation are the always the inspiring concepts behind 080 Barcelona Fashion, without ever forgetting the importance of the market and the will to provide designers and companies international exposure.
080 Barcelona Fashion has set itself four primary objectives:
• Help designers and companies to project themselves internationally, as well as potentiating as much as possible the sales capacity of the sector.
• Contribute to the visualization of the educational potential of Catalonia in the design and fashion fields.
• Create synergies and complicity between the worlds of design and production.
• Make 080 into the meeting point for all professionals in the sector.

This edition of 080 Barcelona fashion renews its digital endeavors: a new web page, a new blog, the 080 TV channel, the network as the definitive vehicle for the broadcasting of all the creative talent of Catalonia.
The program includes a total of 28 designers and brands on the catwalk, four magnificent exhibitions, the presentation of a book, a new magazine, the presentation and birth of a new entrepreneurial initiative, homage to Andrés Sardá and the presentation of ModaFAD.
In the same vein and for the first time, the 080 Barcelona Fashion Summit, the first professional business gathering to be held here at home with the aim of discussing and debating the world of fashion.
So, to sum up, this new edition will be, once again, the meeting point for the whole sector and the point from which to disseminate all the positive energy that the creative world always generates.

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The 080 Barcelona Fashion 2013 will be held in the brand new building dedicated to the design, the DHUB Building, next to the Agbar Tower in the vibrant district 22@ of Barcelona. All info on the official webpage of the event.
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Running through the Diagonal of Barcelona

After than the Barcelona Marathon and the Corte Inglés Race, Barcelona has a new run on its streets. On May 26, the Avenida Diagonal, the most exclusive street in the city, will be filled with runners taking part in the first race organized by the police of Barcelona. Hundreds of people will run for the first time on the most prestigious street of the city.

Diagonal Barcelona

The race measure 10 kilometers, a distance approved by the Catalan Athletics Federation, with the goal to promote the practice of physical exercise. This is the first time in wich people can run down the center of the Diagonal. The race will begin at 8:30 pm on Sunday May 26 at Avenida Diagonal, at the height of the Royal Palace and will run throughout the centre of the street until reaching the Selva de Mar Street, in the Diagonal Mar District, next to Rent Top Apartments‘ s head office.

The race is unique in Barcelona, because it is the first time that people will be able tu run throughout all the Diagonal and the track has the distinction of being completely straight up to the Forum. So the arrival and departure points of the race will be differents, with a logistics structure that will allow the participants to collect their belongings as soon as they’ll reach the goal.

Registrations are now open on the website of the race www.dir.cat/cursa-barcelona with a price of 15 euros or 17. Participants will receive a T-shirt and gifts from sponsors on May 24th and 15th at the Runner Fair, that will be located in the gardens of DiR Diagonal, the Barcelona Police headquarter.

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D’A 2013-Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona

Today starts the Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona (D’A 2013), Barcelona International Author Film Festival, that will screen an international panorama of the finest contemporary auteur cinema, combining the discovery of emerging new talents and cinematographies with internationally established directors and films that have traditionally received rough treatment from our country’s commercial distributors.

D’A 2013-Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona

From april 25 to May 2 The Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona will leave in three venues of the city: Cinema Aribau (Eixample), CCCB y Filmoteca de Catalunya (Raval). Structured into different sections, the Festival will screen more than 50 films featuring the best films from the international independent cinema circuit and a review of the Romanian contemporary cinema.
The Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona is organised by Noucinemart, a film promoter specialized in the promotion and diffusion of the best contemporary cinema. The Noucinemart’s team has 15 years of experience organising different film events, such as the Barcelona Asian Film Festival – BAFF (12 editions held) and the CineAmbigú independent cinema programme (12 editions).
The almost fifty films on show at the festival are distributed into different sections, with the main section, Directions, containing the finest productions of the year. The films in this section include some major names in independent contemporary cinema. There will be a section dedicated to rookie directors called Talents, a showcase for new and emerging film-makers with no more than two feature length pictures to their name.

On the official webpage of the Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona is available the downloadable pdf with the D’A 2013 schedules. The program -published by Time Out- will be available on April 17 with the Time Out Barcelona at the kiosks and on April 19 free with El Periódico de Catalunya. From the April 22 it is available in all the venues of D’A 2013.

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Sónar 2013

Sonar is the International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art taking place in Barcelona for three days every June. Sonar 2013 will take place on June 13,14 and 15.
Created in 1994, Sonar is a pioneering festival with a unique format and content. It’s first class reputation as a leading reference for international festivals is by virtue of a carefully balanced cultural offering, combining a playful nature, the avant-garde, and experimentation with electronic dance music’s newest trends.

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Sonar is constantly on the pulse of the current electronic music landscape. Its interactions and hybridizations with digital creation and new media, unites established artists with emerging talent, in all areas of musical and audiovisual production.

Sonar Barcelona’s activities are divided into two main locations: Sónar by Day, in Fira Montjuïc, with concerts, showcases and an area for professionals, the essence of which is discovering and tracking new talent; and the larger shows at Sónar by Night, in Fira Gran Via de L’Hospitalet, which stage the leading names in the current international music scene.

Each year Sonar is host to more than 80,000 people from more than 90 countries around the world as well as bringing together 3.500 professionals and 1.000 accredited journalists.
Sonar is also a meeting point for professionals from various creative industry sectors (artists, promoters, software / hardware developers, app makers, digital designers, hackers, creative new media), who all find Sónar+D the ideal place to do business, exchange ideas and network.

Sónar+D presents a set of activities with a common goal: to make the relationship between creativity, technology, mobility, innovation and business more transparent and accessible.

Since 2002 Sonar has organized more than 40 festivals in many different parts of the world, incorporating Barcelona’s festival philosophy of spaces and unique environments while showcasing the most interesting international talent from the music scene of each country where Sonar is held. Aside from the annual Barcelona date, Sonar festival is currently held in Tokyo, Osaka and Reykjavik.

Kraftwerk (3D show), Pet Shop Boys, Skrillex, Paul Kalkbrenner, Ed Banger 10, Richie Hawtin presents ENTER., Jurassic 5, Two Door Cinema Club, Soulwax, Major Lazer, Hot Natured, Laurent Garnier, Luciano, Bat For Lashes, Seth Troxler, Diplo, Nicolas Jaar, Chromatics, Liars, Skream, Lindstrøm & Todd Terje, TNGHT, Karl Hyde, AlunaGeorge, Sébastien Tellier, Sherwood & Pinch, Maceo Plex, Jamie Lidell, Modeselektor dj set, Richie Hawtin. This is just a little part of the line up of Sonar 2013. All info on the Sonar official webpage.

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Pentecost Monday in Barceloneta

Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name. Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday.

Barceloneta Pentecost

Among Christians, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve Apostles and other followers of Jesus. For this reason, Pentecost is sometimes described by some Christians today as the “Birthday of the Church.”
In Christian tradition Pentecost is part of the Moveable Cycle of the ecclesiastical year. According to Christian tradition, Pentecost is always seven weeks after Easter Sunday; that is to say, 50 days after Easter (inclusive of Easter Day). In other words, it falls on the eighth Sunday, counting Easter Day.
In the West, the earliest possible date is May 10 (as in 1818 and 2285), and the latest possible date June 13 (as in 1943 and 2038). Pentecost Monday is a public holiday in many European countries including Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania (since 2008), (most parts of) Switzerland, Ukraine and also in the African nations Senegal, Benin and Togo.
In the United Kingdom the day is known as Whit Monday, and was a bank holiday until 1967 when it was replaced by the Spring Bank Holiday.

In Spain it’s not a public holiday, but yes it is in Barcelona. Particulary in the Barceloneta quarter and this year will be Monday, May 20.

In Barcelona Pentecost is also called the Second Pasqua or Pasqua Granada, but in particular, in the Barceloneta is known as the Salseta. 27 bars and restaurants of the historic fishing district of the city, organize choirs and big bands with drums and trumpets, wich continually runs the narrow streets of the neighborhood all day long and untill late night, playing and dancing on the street. It is a great party at the Spanish style, where everyone participates and where you can not miss a beer or a glass of white wine with a couple of mussels.

Pasqua Granada Barceloneta

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Primavera Sound 2013

It ‘s spring and in Barcelona spring means Primavera Sound Festival. The 13th edition of Primavera Sound festival Barcelona 2013 is from Wednesday 22nd May 2013 to Sunday 26th May 2013. The main venues for concerts are the Forum Park, Poble Espanyol and Arc de Trionf, here you can attend free concerts in the city stages and in the park stages.

Primavera Sound 2013 Barcelona

You can buy tickets for Primavera Sound 2013 directly on the festival’s website. The line up of the festival is still being finalized, but you can already be safe about the presence of the greatest protagonists of the independent music world. The best new bands of the year along with veterans of the indie music take turns on stage at the Primavera Sound 2013.
Actually the confirmed line up for Primavera Sound 2013 in Barcelona includes Blur on Friday 24th May 2013. Other headliners are Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Phoenix, The Postal Service, Animal Collective, Tinariwen, Mulatu Astatke, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr, The Knife, My Bloody Valentine, Wu-Tang Glan and many many more.

The vast majority of the open-air concerts of the Primavera Sound 2013 are being held on various stages in Parc del Forum by the beach, directly in front of the Meditteranean sea, for a totally unique experience enjoying the climate and atmosphere of Barcelona in the best period of the year. The Primavera Sound Festival started off with its first edition in 2001 and has evolved in as little as a decade from a relatively small indie festival to one of Barcelona’s and Europe’s main music festivals. Many parallel events are planned at the Primavera Sound 2013, in many places and clubs in town. For this reason, the best is to spend a great music and fun week’s holiday in Barcelona. The best idea for a spring break. Boys and girls from all over the world take advantage of the Primavera Sound to live an unique entertainment experience in one of the most vibrant and lively city on the planet.

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The Barcelona Motor Show 2013

The 37th International Motor Show of Barcelona, which will be held in Fira’s Montjuïc exhibition centre, from 11 to 19 May, will feature many manufacturers that will present around thirty new world, European and national premiers. The new models are a big attraction for visitors and an aid to reactivating the sector. The show will coincide with the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix, which will take place on the Circuit de Catalunya, turning the city of Barcelona in the world motor capital.

Barcelona Motor Show 2013

During these nine days, companies belonging to the Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Automóviles y Camiones (ANFAC) and the Asociación Nacional de Importadores de Automóviles, Camiones, Autobuses y Motocicletas (ANIACAM) will be participating.
The show’s president, Enrique Lacalle, said that “in today’s difficult economic climate, it is no secret that the complexities involved in the organisation of an event of this magnitude are accentuated. But the strength of the Barcelona Motor Show, together with the constant effort of those of us who work in it and the collaboration of the manufacturers and their associations, has made it possible for us to make Barcelona one of the leading international showcases for the automobile industry”.

The Barcelona Motor Show is the only motor show in Spain to be recognised by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA), and enjoy the support of Anfac and Aniacam.
More than 20 brands have already made a firm commitment to the show
Audi, Bentley, BMW, Dacia, Ferrari, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Mini, Nissan, Renault, Seat, Smart, Volkswagen, Volvo…

The fact that the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix is taking place at the Circuit de Catalunya during the same week as the Barcelona International Motor Show will make the city of Barcelona the motor capital of the world for one week. Visitors to both events will enjoy advantages: Grand Prix ticket holders will get free access to the show, while visitors to the show who purchase Formula 1 and Moto GP tickets will be eligible for special discounts.

The biennial Barcelona Motor show is one of the Europe’s leading and oldest automotive events and is recognised internationally by the Paris-based Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles (O.I.C.A.). For visitors are planned many alternatives activities. All info on the official webpage.

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