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Summer nights in Barcelona become a unique experience full of culture, music, and fun. With warm evenings and the city beautifully lit, Barcelona's venues open their doors to offer activities that invite you to enjoy summer in a different way. At Casa Batlló and La Pedrera, modernist art blends with concerts and evening performances on rooftop terraces, offering spectacular views over the city. The Poble Espanyol becomes a magical setting with live music, local cuisine, and popular culture. For classical music lovers, the Classical on the Beach series brings free seaside concerts—an unforgettable experience under the stars. And for film enthusiasts, Open-Air Cinema screens major films in iconic gardens and venues. All these offerings are designed to make the most of Barcelona's summer nights, turning each evening into a chance to experience the city like never before.
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The exhibition World Press Photo 2025 returns to the CCCB with its twenty-first edition, offering a selection of the photographs and multimedia productions that won the prestigious global photojournalism competition. This show presents works that are mostly unpublished in Spain, chosen for their quality and ability to offer a wide variety of perspectives on the most important current global events.
The world's most renowned photojournalism competition uses a regional model that divides the world into six zones, with the aim of ensuring a diverse representation of authors and stories. The works are organized into four categories: Single photographs, Photographic reports, Long-term projects, and Open format, covering a wide range of approaches and techniques. The exhibition not only presents powerful images, but also prompts deep reflection on issues that affect us all.
For an even more enriching experience, guided tours are offered that provide a detailed analysis of the works presented and the context in which they were created. World Press Photo 2025 is a must-see event for lovers of photojournalism and anyone interested in the stories that shape our reality.
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Barcelona is once again celebrating its grand festival, in honor of its patron saint. A program full of different activities is planned for all the public, with music, dance, circus and street arts. And not forgetting the giants, dragons, fire beasts, human towers and sardana groups.
La Mercè is also a festival of music, with streets full of modern and popular rhythms where the BAM, Barcelona Acció Musical, and Música Mercè will offer a programme with more than a hundred local, national and international artists. Free concerts in public spaces to celebrate Barcelona's biggest festival.
La Mercè will end, as always, with the traditional fireworks and music display. an explosion of light and sound, which has become one of the most expected and acclaimed events for the people of Barcelona and its visitors. -
Extraterrestres Museu de la Ciència CosmoCaixa
The exhibition at the Museu de la Ciència – Cosmocaixa explores one of humanity's greatest questions: is there life beyond Earth? Divided into five sections, it first situates our place in the cosmos, presents the historical and philosophical debate around the uniqueness or abundance of life, shows how art, cinema and literature have imagined alien beings, features scientific evidence such as exoplanets and terrestrial extremophiles, and showcases current technologies (like rovers and radio telescopes). With interactives, models, replicas, real artefacts and audiovisuals, the journey ends with a sensory immersion into possible futures in the event of discovering extraterrestrial life.
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A tour of Roman Barcelona is a box of surprises containing archaeological remains dating from the time the city was established. Barcino, the Roman city founded in the 1st century BC, has left us a valuable legacy, which can be found in the Gothic Quarter, the site of the early walled city.
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A visit to medieval Barcelona is one of the most fascinating city itineraries. The power wielded by the Crown of Catalonia and Aragon over the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages has left a valuable legacy of palazzos, churches and civic buildings. Most of them can be found in the old town, Ciutat Vella.
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Barcelona and its home-grown art nouveau movement, modernisme, go hand in hand. The style emerged in all its glory at the end of the 19th century to reveal itself in hundreds of extremely beautiful buildings which line the way. Let yourself be captivated once again by these masterpieces in a style full of opulence, fantasy, symbolism and colour.
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Barcelona is known throughout the world for its architecture. This is why the city didn't want to fall behind in the race to have some of the world's finest contemporary buildings. The names of today's great architects and artists are present in almost every city neighbourhood.
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Gaudí is a name associated with Barcelona who needs to be discovered while you admire his finest landmarks: a treasure trove of forms, ideas, symbols and fantasy which is hard to surpass. The Gaudí landmarks in Barcelona give a greater understanding of one of the most famous architects who ever worked in the city.
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When the Malaga-born painter arrived in Barcelona he was only 14. The city offered him the art school, La Llotja, as well as the stunning light of the Mediterranean. Picasso donated a large number of his works to Barcelona which can be seen today at the city’s Museu Picasso.
