From the exterior, the façade of Casa Batlló appears to have been constructed from the bones of giant sea creatures. Marine life as an inspiration Spanish architect, Antoni Gaudí infused this...
Arts & Culture
Disfruta del mejor cine independiente en Barcelona
Veinte ediciones dan para mucho. En primer lugar, para establecer al festival de cine independiente L’Alternativa como uno de los festivales de referencia de Cataluña y, por qué no, como uno...
Original version films in Barcelona
Cinema in Spain is traditionally dubbed, both in theaters and on TV. This means that, in general, Spanish people haven’t a tendency to watch original version subtitled films. Anyway, local...
DHUB: Barcelona’s Design Museum
Barcelona has always been a city closely linked to the design, either for Gaudi Modernist buildings scattered around the most emblematic places of the city, for its characteristic decorative arts...
Libraries in Barcelona
If you are spending some time in Barcelona, enjoying your stay in one of the ShBarcelona’s rental apartments and you love reading, listening to music, watching movies, or you need to consult...
Gran Teatro del Liceo
This theater-opera is known simply as Liceo or “Liceu”, in Catalan, and you’ll find it going down the emblematic Rambla of Barcelona, on the right side of the street. Since its opening in...
Culture and architecture come together in CaixaForum
CaixaForum is the social and cultural center of the Obra Social “La Caixa”, located in a former textile factory at the lower part of the mountain of Montjuïc, 5 minutes walking from the...