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The Grec Festival is also .barcelona

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The collective voice is the idea underpinning the 47th Barcelona Grec Festival, with a programme inviting reflection on how group awareness enriches individual qualities. You’ll find full details on this edition at festivalgrec.barcelona.

Between now and 30 July you can enjoy local and international productions that look at global issues such as the conservation of nature, women’s voices, the consequences of war, the importance of giving visibility to people at risk of social exclusion and the increasing presence of artificial intelligence. There are also activities all around the city, while “La Xirgu en família” offers shows, concerts and workshops for families to enjoy with the children.You’ll find the full programme on the website festivalgrec.barcelona, where you can also download it, buy tickets and keep up to date with the latest news. Not to be miss

The .barcelona domain is ‘Orgullosa’

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Barcelona is a place for celebrating and asserting LGBTI rights and freedoms in June, as the city marks International Pride Day. You’ll find full details about the programme on the website orgullosa.barcelona.

“Orgull de barri” (neighbourhood pride) fills the city with over a hundred intergenerational, transfeminist and intersectional activities. The city’s museums are also joining in, as “Orgull de museus” (museum pride) sees them reinterpret their spaces and collections from an LGBTI perspective through exhibitions, guided tours and workshops.

The celebrations culminate on 28 June with the second Orgullosa concert, to be held this year at the Moll de la Fusta wharf, celebrating diversity, love, dissidence, bodily diversity and LGBTI pride.

Don’t miss a thing at orgullosa.barcelona!

City markets closer to hand

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Barcelona’s markets form an important part of neighbourhood life and provide a harmonious experience. Besides being a role-model for commerce in each neighbourhood, they head the urban market model at an international level. Now they’re the latest to have a .barcelona domain with mercats.barcelona, where you’ll find all the details.

In addition to basic information on each food market and non-food market in the city, such as addresses and opening times, you can check how busy they are in real time, discover the Quiet Hours, when light and noise are less intense, make online purchases for home delivery and discover where collection points are located for you to pick up your shopping swiftly and securely from refrigerated lockers. You can also check the activity agenda so you don’t miss the upcoming workshops and displays or read the latest news on markets.

But the website mercats.barcelona offers so much more! Do you know how to make cherry gazpacho or romesco sauce? Check out the markets blog to find dozens of recipes, tips from grandma, information on what’s in season and more.

Barcelona’s markets are also a place for learning. Through this domain you can discover how markets help people acquire knowledge linked to healthy and sustainable food and products.

Return of the Model Barcelona Architectures Festival

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Architecture’s got the dot again at model.barcelona from 20 to 30 April, with the second edition of the Model Barcelona Architectures Festival set to turn the area around the Parc de les Glòries into a lab for architectural experimentation.

The main concept for this year’s festival is “Radical empathy” in design, architecture and the city, based on spaces for research, dissemination, experimentation and celebration. The areas for this edition of the festival are:

  • Between species: cities are an ecosystem with a balance between multiple species, not just humans.
  • Between cultures: the city must be a place where each new inhabitant and their stories and traditions can fit in while maintaining a shared identity and memory.
  • Between classes: the architecture and urban planning of cities must balance out the class divide.
  • Between generations: a city for all is only possible if it includes all sorts of people.
  • Between materials: cities must be rebuilt using sustainable materials and methodologies which reduce the material footprint.

At the model.barcelona domain you’ll find the full programme for this citizen celebration: workshops, debates, exhibitions, literature and more. Come along and have your say!

Barcelona’s young people have got the dot

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If you’re aged between 12 and 35, you’ll find all the free resources on everything of interest to you at the website joves.barcelona, with information on studies, work, housing, emotional well-being and more. You also have access to 18 points for young people located all around Barcelona.

What content does this .barcelona domain offer?

  • Studies and training: discover the full range of education options available and which ones are best for you. You’ll also find information on study rooms, official language schools, grants and much more.
  • Work: whether you’re looking for your first job, out of work, looking to change sector or start your own project, you’ll find personalised advice on how to do it. 
  • Housing: advice on looking for a flat or a room, what support is available to help you pay the rent, information on saving energy at home and all things related to housing. 
  • Well-being: discover the municipal services and resources for emotional and psychological support, sexual and reproductive health, physical activity and sport.
  • Activities: get the most out of your free time with all the cultural and recreational options available to young people.

And if you want to keep up with what’s going on at joves.barcelona, you can keep up to date with everything via Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and the newsletter.

survey.barcelona: the photographic vision of transformations in the city

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Ten photographers have been working in parallel to portray Barcelona, each from their own particular perspective, and document the transformation the city has undergone since 2015. Discover this photographic project at survey.barcelona to understand how the urban landscape has changed and the scope of work carried out in recent years.

This unique photographic of six hundred images features the following visions:

  • Parks (Milena Villalba): general organisation and new green areas.
  • Uses (Andrés Flajszer): elements of public space and how they engage people.
  • Surfaces (Pedro Pegenaute): reurbanisation of streets and added vegetation in more mineral areas.
  • Night (Aitor Estévez): public space during these hours.
  • Air (Jon Tugores): the city seen from above.
  • Life (Xavi Bou and Joan Diví): Barcelona’s biodiversity.
  • Architecture (Adrià Goula): new public housing and facilities and their relationship with the city.
  • Housing (Maite Caramés): personalisation of the inside of public housing by users.
  • Insides(Pol Viladoms): the inside of facilities as new public spaces.
  • Vegetation (Simona Rota): greenery in detail.

The goal of this first photographic survey was to generate a combined vision of the work carried out and shared in numerous projects of different types and dimensions: from major projects in public space to new facilities, public housing and minor works in streets and squares.

.barcelona is a city of women

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Streets, squares and parks are named after men in most cities in the world. So what’s the story with women? US artist and writer Rebecca Solnit pondered this and came up with the “City of Women” project in 2019, symbolically renaming all the subway stations in New York. London followed suit in 2022 and Barcelona is doing the same to mark 8M, International Women’s Day, with ciutatdedones.barcelona.

The project “Barcelona, ciutat de dones” highlights the extraordinary contribution of many women who have left their mark in different spheres in our city and society. Writers, activists, teachers, singers, actresses, doctors and others have all symbolically given their names to stations on the metro network and urban stops on the FGC train network.

We’ve also given women a greater presence among the city’s street names in all districts. Barcelona now has Plaça de Valerie Powles, Carrer de Lola Iturbe and the Jardins de Carme Claramunt.At ciutatdedones.barcelona you can retrace the history of these women and read their biographies. Are you familiar with Josefa Vilaret, Dolors Aleu or Pilar Aymerich? Discover their stories. Start your journey around the City of Women #CiutatdeDones.

The third City and Science Biennial is here

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The City and Science Biennial is set to turn the city into a space for debate and reflection from 21 to 26 February, with a programme based around living: on the planet, in the city, human life in general and the scientific community in particular. You’ll find all the activities to be enjoyed on the website biennalciutaticiencia.barcelona.

Round tables, debates, lectures, theatre, art installations and more make up the programme for this edition, which is grouped into four topic areas:

  • Living in the city: at a time when over half the global population lives in urban environments.
  • Living in equity: with options for moving forward in equal rights and opportunities in all spheres.
  • Living with science: to explore and understand the daily work of scientists.
  • Living creativity: the points where art and science meet open up new doors for us to find solutions for today’s needs.

Activities for the biennalciutaticiencia.barcelona are being held around ten spaces close to each other in the Raval neighbourhood in Ciutat Vella. In addition, and as with previous editions, the event is complemented by the activities in the +Biennal, organised by local municipal facilities, cultural centres and other organisations and institutions promoting scientific knowledge and reflection among the general public.

Resolutions for 2023: more visibility, more security, more .barcelona

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We move into the New Year with a list of resolutions (which really will hold true this year). Typically, these might include doing more sport, learning a language or plenty of other things. When it comes to going digital, there will also be those determined to gain greater internet presence or create a website for their project, whether a business, an organisation or a personal project.

But before creating the website, we need to think properly about the domain. It’s important to choose one that identifies us and which can stick with our project for a long time. If you’re unsure, it’s best to think it through than to launch with a domain you know will be provisional. All domains have two parts, the name you choose and the domain extension. Did you know that Barcelona is one of just over 30 world cities with its own domain extension? And that a .barcelona domain can help you stand out on Google Maps? In addition, besides launching a new website, with .barcelona you’re linking your digital identity to the city and forming part of the .barcelona digital community.

“And what if I’ve already got a domain that isn’t .barcelona? How can I link it to the city?” One way of gaining visibility on the internet and forming part of the .barcelona community is to register a .barcelona domain as a secondary domain. In other words, to redirect the .barcelona domain you register with your usual .barcelona domain. This way you can increase the possibilities of people finding you on the internet and promote your business by linking it to your city.

Superilla.barcelona: a city model for a new Barcelona

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The Barcelona Superblock project is transforming the city into a place where people are a priority. A city with wider pavements, more greenery, more spaces for meeting others and playing, with streets that boost local commerce and prioritise the use of bicycles and public transport. On the website superilla.barcelona you’ll find full information on how we’re getting the city ready for 2030, and where the future is already here.

The intention behind this new model, at the forefront of major urban transformations in the world, is to:

  • Regain and expand public space: gaining a million square metres of space for people, making the city a greener and healthier place, with less noise and less pollution, reducing and slowing traffic and protecting schools.
  • Transform the city for the well-being of everybody: where elderly people and children take centre stage in streets and squares.
  • Prioritise public transport: for less pollution and a better-connected city.
  • Defend the local economy: to protect traditional establishments and regenerate industrial networks, making them hubs for attracting talent and innovation.
  • Boost greenery: gaining over 40 hectares of vegetation with one in three city streets becoming green.

At superilla.barcelona you can also discover the big projects already starting to become a reality, such as the transformation of Via Laietana and La Rambla, the “Protecting Schools” programme and more.