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Seafood Barcelona 2012

Published: October 9, 2012Posted in: Barcelona CongressTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

From 15 to 17 October, Barcelona will host the Southern Europe’s newest seafood trade event. In the exhibition centre Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue. Seafood Barcelona brings buyers face-to-face with top suppliers in one convenient location for three days of networking, sourcing new products and doing business. With consumers increasing their seafood consumption, buyers need a place to turn to to source live, fresh and frozen seafood from international and local resources more than ever.

Seafood Barcelona 2012

Seafood Barcelona is brought to you by Diversified Business Communications in partnership with Alimentaria Exhibitions providing outstanding expertise in the trade fair industry and experience in the industries they serve. Barcelona is a sea city and the Mediterranean port par excellence, so there is no better venue for the fair of seafood.

Spain is the third global importer of fish, with purchases of 5.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2009, and the ninth exporter, with sales of 3.47 billion dollars in the same year. The particular significance of the Spanish market is unquestionably defined by the international fishing industry as the consumption per person, per year, is around 37 kilos, one of the highest in the EU. With a total of 992,489 tonnes of fish and seafood, aquaculture and processed products, Spain is also the number-one exporting country in the EU, representing 17% of the community total.
In turn, the countries from the south of the EU and the Mediterranean basin uphold significant fishing trade – Italy, Portugal, France and Greece are placed among the top 5 recipients of Spanish fish and seafood exports, while Morocco and Tunisia are originating countries of Spanish imports.

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Join top buyers from across the retail, foodservice, manufacturing and processing seafood industries in Barcelona for three days of business, networking, and opportunity! Here you will find top suppliers with the newest, most innovative products to hit the Southern European market! You can find all the information on he official webpage of Seafood 2012 Barcelona.

So if you are a businessman of the seafood industry, a buyer, or just a lover of it, or even if you are thinking about a holiday in the pleasant october Mediterranean climate, do not hesitate and rent one of our exclusive apartments in the Barcelona city center or close to the Gran Via Fira de Barcelona venue.

Barcelona’s Markets

Published: July 23, 2012Posted in: Barcelona what to doTags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Barcelona has a unique market network. Each neighborhood has its own market, where, besides shopping, you can enjoy modern buildings or modernist vanguard. In addition, the atmosphere lively and colorful makes the markets as a great place to eat or for to take a picture. Many markets in Barcelona have been remodeled in recent years. This is a recovery of social and architectural value of buildings.

Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona

Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona

The Boqueria market is undoubtedly the most known of Barcelona. CNN puts the Boqueria market as the first in the list of the best markets of the world. It is a paradise for the senses. A multitude of feelings that’s open passage between the busy comings and goings of people in the right profession strives to buy and sell. La Boqueria is a gastronomic temple, a place that congregates all the phases in the food chain, from the producers, harvesters, butchers and fishmongers who provide the food, to the individual and professional clients who wander through this magnificent, characteristic maze of traders in charge of the market stalls. At the Boqueria people eat, shop and gossip together doing what the Spanish excel at, living life well and enjoying a sense of community.

Rent apartments in Barcelona

Rent apartments in Barcelona

Markets in Barcelona offer the ideal place to purchase some of the freshest food and produce in the city, which is usually very reasonably priced. They are the perfect place in Barcelona to by food for snacks or ingredients for meals and there is generally much more choice than in supermarkets. Barcelona’s bustling markets provide a fun way to shop, for both experienced and novice bargain hunters alike. The best way to enjoy the many others opportunities that Barcelona offers its visitors, is to rent an apartment in the city center, starting from the visit at the most spectacular show of its gastronomy, the Boqueria Market, on the charming Ramblas.

The Barceloneta Market

The Barceloneta Market

The Mercat del Born (now under restoration) is one of the most important buildings in Barcelona, constructed with iron. Located in the lower, east side of the la Ribera neighborhood, it is the largest covered square in all of Europe and marked the start of Modernisme in Catalan architecture.

In addition these are some of the most important markets of the city:

  • Mercat de Sant Antoni (under restoration), located in Ronda de Sant Pau (junction with c/del Comte). Food stalls are situated in the centre of this large Barcelona market and many close in the month of August.
  • Mercat de Santa Caterina at Pg Lluis Companys. This food market is conveniently positioned for the Parc de Ciutadella and also the beach.
  • Mercat de la Barceloneta, very close to the beach at Pl de la Font.
  • Mercat de la Libertat at Pl de la Libertat, in the Gracia neighborhood.

The Food Show of Barcelona

Published: October 20, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , , , ,

Celebrating its 4th anniversary, the following 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December 2011, the “Food Show for the Consumer and the Specialized Channel” will be set in the Barcelona’s Fair’s space, in the “Recinto de Montjuic, Palacio 1”.

Barcelona The Food Show

Barcelona The Food Show

This is a great chance for both consumers and professionals of the gastronomic sector, to find out new recipes and products, trends, and meet culinary secrets thanks to the sharing time offered by the fair.

The exhibitor profiles go from “Producers of food specialities”, to “Organic produce and integrated production”, passing by “Catering schools and cooking courses”, “Associations and Cooperatives” or “Major distribution outlets”.

Barcelona Degusta

Barcelona Degusta

Exclusive products, the best companies in the world, and the most passionate food lovers, will converge in this year’s food show of Barcelona. Getting new ideas for your most original menus, finding business’ partners or welcome new commercial possibilities, are only some of the aims of this event.

By paying the 12€ general ticket, you will also have right to taste two different products chosen among all the stalls in the fair.

The prepared activities consist in culinary demonstrations and workshops, conferences with the best specialists or the possibility to buy directly in the fair.

Barcelona is one of the richest cities regarding the gastronomy and restaurants’ world. The density of good places to eat is outstanding, and part of this can be explained by the importance and the health power of the Mediterranean diet, so present in the kitchen of the Barcelona’s homes and restaurants. Sometimes, this diet is reinvented thanks to the modernity and the influence of the worldwide culinary traditions.

Visiting Barcelona in this occasion can be a fantastic way to enrich your “inside” cooker or to improve your job’s skills. Moreover, Barcelona is a city that deserves to be consumed slowly, as a good wine, by walking calmly through its streets, taking some drinks in a terrace and maybe having dinner in front of the sea.

And for those who like to live comfortably, with the peace and luxury that can make your journey, an unforgettable experience of pleasure and emotions, we invite you to check our range of luxury apartments in Barcelona, and find the style that best matches your desires.

 

 

 

 

The gay world in Barcelona

Published: October 13, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , , ,

The gay and lesbian’s world in Barcelona

There is a site in l’Eixample district of Barcelona, called Gayxample to create a word’s joke and to express the affluence of homosexual people who visit it. It is full of business, shops, bars and clubs focused in this sector. By walking there, you can easily notice its atmosphere.

Barcelona is an open-minded city. It has been recognized as a sexual tolerant place thanks to its public support to the gay and lesbian community, through the massive celebrations of the Gay’s Proud Day, the Gayixample or the large offer of entertainment designed for this public.

Barcelona Gay Friendly

Barcelona Gay Friendly

Among the nightclubs of Barcelona of this category, we have to highlight Arena (Gran Via, 593) for gays, and Aire, for lesbians. Both clubs welcome a very heterogenic public, and offer original celebrations to satisfy the most demanding customers. The entrance is free and some of the parties start from 11pm or 12am.

Another option is Salvation (Ronda Sant Pere, 19-21). This is a Matinée Groups’ place, which has a combination of styles: the best of the Ibiza’s music and the most famous remember hits.

If you want live performers by the best drags, you can try Dietrich (Consell de Cent, 255). For crazy and funny activites, shows and more, you can’t miss Metro (Sepúlveda Street, 185), a classic for those inside the “ambient”.

These are only some of the places that deserve to be visited during a getaway in Barcelona. The night and the day is magic in this city, and everybody can find his/her place. This is what makes Barcelona, a city that invites to have fun, live the life and stay young.

Besides, you can have all the luxury and glamour you look for, by staying in a top rent apartment for yourself. Hotels don’t let the guests have their own space, neither intimacy, and you never feel like living in a city, but just visiting it for a while. If you book a luxury flat in Barcelona for some days, you will be able to design your days and organize exactly depending on your needs and desires.

 

Lovely sweet Barcelona

Published: October 7, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , ,

Although maybe the English tradition of the tea time, and the French or Austrian bakery reputation are irreplaceable, Barcelona is a city where any kind of food can find its place. Along different articles of this blog we have proved the diversity and rich offer of restaurants and food shops in Barcelona, and today is the turn of the cupcakes and cakes, the sweetest members of the menu.

Barcelona Luxury

Barcelona Luxury

Either you just like the incredible taste of a good cupcake or you want to celebrate something in your Barcelona holiday apartment, visiting one of these sites will bring you to a different universe, full of pastel colors, cute pictures and a very feminine atmosphere. And for sure, your sweet desire will be more than satisfied.

One of the shops that are really worth visiting is a brand-new one called “Victoria’s Cakes”.  This is a smart and lovely place where you can eat fantastic cupcakes, excellently decorated and all them made by 100% natural ingredients. You can also order a personalized cake in case your days in Barcelona match with a birthday event or other special moment that deserves to be celebrated: the professionals of the place will be able to add all the details you ask them, in order to create a unique cake. You can find this new shop in Laforja Street, 17.

Barcelona Delicious

Barcelona Delicious

Another place you can go is “Lolita Bakery”, a small and also very cute shop with exclusive sweet gifts that are as beautiful as tasty. You can find the “Lolita Bakery” both in Provença Street, 267 (Eixample) and Portal Nou Street, 20 (El Born).

Barcelona Gourmet

Barcelona Gourmet

As you see, Barcelona is ready to delight you with very talented bakery artists and fantasy places. Give an unforgettable surprise to your beloved ones, and buy some beautiful cupcakes or a personalized cake, and take it in your luxury apartment’s terrace with great views of Barcelona, or in your warm living room. All you can wish can be possible with one of our exclusive flats to rent in Barcelona for your days abroad: just imagine a perfect time, and it will become real!

Vegetarian Restaurants in Barcelona

Published: October 3, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , ,

Barcelona has plenty of vegetarian and bio options for those who care about their health and so they follow a specific diet.  You can cook in your Barcelona holiday apartment or go out to a special restaurant. Keep reading and find out all the possibilities you have in Barcelona in this sense:

 

Barcelona Restaurants

Barcelona Restaurants

“Veritas” and “FresCo” are the names of two restaurant chains in Barcelona. Both of them offer a rich list of delicious and quality dishes. “Veritas” is focused on the ecologic food, while “FresCo” has fresh, traditional and natural ingredients and offer a great variety of salads, rice and pasta components, that you can take in a self-service way. “FresCo” has a buffet system (so does “Veritas”) in which you can eat pizza, hot pasta, meat and deserts, and repeat as many times as you want! It is really well worth.

Other vegetarian buffets are “Organic” (de la Junta de Comerç Street, 11) , “Self Naturista” (Santa Anna Street, 11-17) or “El Buffet Verd” (Roger de Llúria Street, 134, Eixample).

Barcelona Gastronomy

Barcelona Gastronomy

Another ecologic restaurant in Barcelona is “Hàbaluc” (Enric Granados Street, 41): it has fish, meat and ecologic vegetarian options. For an original site, which is perfect if you don’t have much time, go to “Foodball” (Elisabets Street, 9, El Raval): literally, the food is served in a ball shape, and you can choose which combination you prefer for you fast meal. The place’s design is also unique, so don’t miss to visit it!

 

Barcelona Hàbaluc

Barcelona Hàbaluc

If you are also into the other cultures’ gastronomy, you must try “Maoz”, a chain of “falafel” food: delicious! There are “Maoz” sites in the centre: Las Ramblas, Sant Jaume Street and Ferran Street.

And, as we have already said, you can also prepare your salads or vegetables in your luxury flat to rent in Barcelona.  Booking luxury and  rent top apartments in Barcelona don’t mean that you can’t enjoy a home-made meal with your travel companions. Enjoy your Barcelona flat during your days in the city, keeping following your personal food diet.

 

Photos: Eric Chan -

Healthy food to take away

Published: September 30, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , ,

Lots of people fancy booking a holiday apartment when they go abroad. This is a comfortable manner to visit a city, as for some days, you have the keys to your home, a private site where you can live following your own rhythm.  Moreover, this is the only way of living the experience of integrating in a city. While in a hotel or hostel you live in a place with other tourists, isolated from the real outside reality, an apartment creates the most realistic scenario for your 100% authentic holidays.

Barcelona Apartments

Barcelona Apartments

 

Booking touristic apartments doesn’t mean that you have to give up comfort, elegance and luxury. Our list of exclusive apartments for rent in Barcelona proves that privacy can go together with a VIP service, to create the most unforgettable experience for your days abroad.

Barcelona Luxury Apartments

Barcelona Luxury Apartments

But, what happen during the meal’s time? You may want to eat with your family or friends, comfortably in your apartment, in order to have your own space, talk with freedom, and design your perfect moment without restrictions. But at the same time, when you travel to another city, cooking can be tired, can’t it?

Well, now we will present you a good alternative to solve this little problem in Barcelona: The name of the company is “Nostrum”. It can refer to the “Mare Nostrum” name, which is the Latin way to call the “Mediterrani” Sea.

Anyway, the company has several chain stores in Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia. The philosophy of the company is built on the healthy food, and specifically on the home-made recipes. This way, buying food to take away in “Nostrum” will let you try traditional Catalan food, really tasty, good price, and 100% natural.

Barcelona Healthy Food

Barcelona Healthy Food

The popularity of “Nostrum” and similar companies is getting bigger and bigger. Although cooking can be boring, tiring or can need time which actually doesn’t exist in our day to day, people tends to promote good habits about nutrition, as the conscious of the food’s importance is now higher.

Travelling abroad doesn’t let us start eating bad: Freedom, comfort and healthy combines in this good alternative to eat in our touristic apartment, with our companions, and without cooking anything! Try the rice and pasta recipes and the delicious “croquetas”!

Have the best meals ever in your apartment’s dining room, or your Barcelona’s touristic apartment’s terrace. Barcelona means good life…and good food!

Merry Christmas in Barcelona

Published: September 30, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , ,

The “Santa Llúcia” Fair: Merry Christmas in Barcelona

There would be no Christmas in Barcelona without this market. Its origins are supposed to be around 1786, where some documents ensure there was the first “Santa Llúcia” Fair of the history. Till now, this winter celebration has kept alive thanks to the tradition, and the love of the people who participate in it.

Barcelona Santa Llucia Fair

Barcelona Santa Llucia Fair

This fair is not only a winter event, but has his whole meaning around the Christmas topics. All the stalls of the market have relation to this special time: Christmas trees and flowers, nativity scenes (three kings, Jesus, angels, etc. in little figures to decorate the house’s living rooms), instruments to sing the Christmas songs, and much more.

Barcelona Christmas

Barcelona Christmas

This market uses to take place during the first weeks of December, in the Barcelona’s Cathedral Square. By then, the weather is cold and everybody needs to wear coats, hats and gloves. This is why the hot food stalls are also common in the fair.

The fair is also a place where the Catalan Christmas traditions find protection and promotion, by activities for children and family. It is a good way both for Catalan inhabitants and foreign tourists, to participate in a rich culture and share illusions.

Take your photo camera to the “Santa Llúcia” Fair and take pictures of the thousands of little and cute Christmas products of the stalls. You can buy the most beautiful one and take it back to your country as a very authentic souvenir.

The nicest moment to visit the fair is once the night has fallen and the sky is dark enough for the lights to turn on. Then, is good to know that a cozy apartment is waiting to welcome you after a good dinner in the centre.

We have plenty of  luxury apartments that can make your days in Barcelona unforgettable. They are all top rent homes, well decorated, well equipped and above all, very well located, in order to make you as comfortable as possible to reach the principle attractions of Barcelona. In your holidays, ensure your comfort by renting a exclusive holiday apartment.

 

Photos: joan ggk - arquera / Emi Yañez

 

Catalan Christmas treasures

Published: September 26, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , , ,

Delicious treasures! Typical Catalan Christmas’s pastries

Visit Barcelona during the Christmas season is something special. By walking through the centre’s streets, you will feel the sweetness of the Barcelona’s feasts, but only if you know what Christmas means in Catalonia, you will enjoy completely your experience.

 

Barcelona Christmas

Barcelona Christmas

One of the things you should know, for example, is what the Barcelona’s inhabitants use to take during the Christmas days. Only this way, you will be able to live some 100% Catalan days in the city, and take the most of your touristic purpose.

It is called “turró” in Catalan and “turrón” in Spanish. It could be translated as “nougat” in English. Anyway, this is a sweet product that uses to be eaten at the end of all the meals. Attending the traditional stories, the “turró” has to be given as a present from “El tió”, the Catalan character of Santa Claus, which actually is a piece of wood (we explained this tradition in a previous article). Currently, the “turró” has plenty of different tastes: chocolate and almonds, coconut, orange, etc.

 

Barcelona Xmas

Barcelona Xmas

Another product which is very consumed during the feasts is called “polvorón”. They are sweet pastries with sugar on the top, which seem something between a muffin and a cookie. Part of the reasons why people tend to gain weight during these days, is related to the “polvorones”.

 

Barcelona Christmas Holidays

Barcelona Christmas Holidays

You can buy both “turrones” and “polvorones” in any bakery shop of the city, supermarket or food shop. It will be very easy for you to provide your luxury apartment in Barcelona with these delicious marvels that will bring the special and Catalan attribute to your holiday lunches and dinners.

And for breakfast, a universal cold’s antidote: hot chocolate! You can buy it and cook it in your Barcelona holiday flat, accompanied with “melindros”, another bakery pastry, soft and perfect to mix with chocolate, jam, etc. If you prefer to live the life of the streets in order to get part of the Barcelona Christmas’ fantasy, you just have to go to some “Cafeteria”, “Forn de pa”, “Pastisseria”, etc. and ask for your favorite winter pastry.

Merry Christmas in advance for all of you, or better….”Bon Nadal”!

 

Photos: Rogernot - Slastic - Marianne Perdomo

22@, the innovation’s area of Barcelona

Published: September 22, 2011Posted in: UncategorizedTags: , , , , ,

“22@” is the weird but inspiring name of a very new zone of Barcelona. It is born in Glòries, just at the south and left site of L’Eixample, and ends by the sea. Now it has become a place that brings modernity to the city, but not many years ago, it was holding lots of abandoned factories and unused ground.

 

Barcelona 22@

Barcelona 22@

From the City Hall, a project was approved in order to reinvent this big zone and use it to promote a new face of it. The result was the current “22@” district, which is the most cosmopolitan, innovative and modern spot in Barcelona.

Barcelona Hub Design

Barcelona Hub Design

This area is holding plenty of research institutes, innovation companies, university buildings, etc. Little by little, a kind of city of knowledge is being created and is growing, both in an external and internal way: The silhouette of the new city of the future is already being drawn on the Barcelona’s profile.

Besides a confluence of media, technology and business companies, this area is equipped to welcome residences, green parks, and in general, spaces to live.

This amazing district has some interesting points where you can go during your stay in Barcelona: The National Theatre is quite near it, for example, as well as the Glòries Shopping Centre, the Pompeu Fabra University, and the beach. Plan your day in the “22@”, and take your time to discover one of the most interesting and entrepreneur zones of Europe.

 

Barcelona Apartments

Barcelona Apartments

During your days in Barcelona, we recommend you to rent a private apartment in an attractive zone. Besides enjoying the views from the flat’s terrace, you will have the privileged of living your holidays on your own and integrating to the Barcelona’s life with all the comfort of a private luxury apartment.

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