News & Views Directory 2
This is a full directory of all 102 articles about Barcelona, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Aug.26.2010 | |
Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, in the West of the city, has shown some forward thinking behaviour and installed two Skype video phones in their maternity ... | |
Aug.16.2010 | |
No need to cancel your holidays plans to Spain this August, or to go through the small print of your insurance policy if you've already booked! Thankfully for S... | |
Aug.04.2010 | |
Looking for an original birthday present? Then you'll be delighted to know that Barcelona's Museum of Erotica is on the market - on Ebay to be precise! Housing ... | |
Jul.29.2010 | |
It's official, the 'sport' of bullfighting has been banned in Catalonia following a vote by the Catalan parliament. Animal activists bought the issue to the par... | |
Jul.26.2010 | |
This summer a great new initiative has begun in Catalonia bringing mobile libraries to the beaches of Barcelona and beyond! The idea is to give folks a chance t... | |
Jul.19.2010 | |
There was tragic news in Barcelona in this weekend, when a 15-year-old girl died during a ride at the Tibidabo Amusement Park. On Saturday evening a ride called... | |
July.12.2010 | |
For the first time in their history, Spain's national football team held the World Cup trophy in their hands last night, after decades of disappointing their pu... | |
Jul.09.2010 | |
Normally, prior to a game of this magnitude, the focus might be on say the form of Spanish star striker David Villa, or the fitness of German midfield general B... | |
Jun.30.2010 | |
Crack open the Cava, Spain have advanced into the quarter finals in a hard fought match against local rivals Portugal. Man-for-man Spain are considered a superi... | |
June.25.2010 | |
It should have been a tense affair but what with David Villa's wonder strike in the 23rd minute and then a second goal from Iniesta on the 38rd (set up by Villa... | |
June.22.2010 | |
After their disastrous start in the World Cup against Switzerland last week, Spain knew that nothing but a win would do against Honduras if they were to maintai... | |
Jun.06.2010 | |
This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. Only a few days ago Spain were preparing for the World Cup with a bottom thrashing that means the poor Polish players... | |
June.09.2010 | |
Spain's preparation for the World Cup 2010 got a timely boost last night in a friendly against Poland, when they produced an emphatic 6-0 scoreline in Murcia, u... | |
June.04.2010 | |
Technology giants and inventors of the all-conquering iThingies (Pods, Pads and Phones!), Apple, are eyeing up the Spanish market as a potentially lucrative one... | |
May.26.2010 | |
If you've wandered the beaches of Barcelona already you might think that bikinis were banned long ago in BCN, seeing as so many sun worshippers chose to go wit... | |
May.17.2010 | |
Epic celebrations took place around the city last night as Barcelona's beloved football club wrapped up La Liga with a 4-0 victory against Valladolid at Camp No... | |
May.14.2010 | |
According to a recent survey by Coca Cola in 16 countries across the globe, Spain ranked as the second happiest in Europe! The soft drinks giant surveyed 12,500... | |
May.05.2010 | |
Despite a certain volcano (we won't mention any names, but that's only because we can't spell it) doing it's best to disrupt the F1 teams' preparations it seems... | |
Apr.30.2010 | |
Barca's fans were in tears last night as their dreams of winning a historic second Champions League title in a row were ripped up by a defiant - and let's face... | |
Apr.23.2010 | |
According to Barcelona Reporter, Barcelona's police force been getting high on the job - and not only that but they've had the gumption to grumble about it too!... | |
Apr.12.2010 | |
Over 5,000 football fans gathered for drinking and setting off firecrackers at the Placa Catalunya and the Canaletes Fountain on La Rambla on Saturday night... ... | |
Apr.06.2010 | |
After giving Arsenal a demonstration of near perfect football for 70 minutes at the Emirates last week, FC Barcelona had unaccountably let their hosts back in t... | |
Apr.01.2010 | |
It was a game hyped as a meeting of the two best footballing teams in Europe... FC Barcelona, the Catalan champions of Europe vs. their younger proteges Arsenal... | |
Mar.18.2010 | |
Thousands of Stuttgart supporters had made the journey to Barcelona yesterday in the hope of seeing their team cause an unlikely upset against European cup hold... | |
Mar.12.2010 | |
In a city over-saturated with bike tours, you might have thought that the news one more is coming to town would hardly stop the press... but this is one ride Ba... | |
Mar.05.2010 | |
After the first raft of headliners for the Sonar Festival were announced earlier in the year, music lovers have been waiting with baited breath to see which of ... | |
Feb.25.2010 | |
With a title like that you might expect soccer fans to get excited, but in fact the sport in question last weekend was all about handiwork and not footwork... R... | |
Feb.19.2010 | |
Barcelona, with its hundreds of kilometres of bike paths, largely flat terrain and warm weather has long been bicycle friendly. However one thorn in bike owners... | |
Feb.11.2010 | |
With Air and LCD Soundsystem already confirmed for the 2010 edition of Barcelona's superlative Sonar Festival, it appeared that things couldn't get much more ex... | |
Feb.04.2010 | |
Sultry Spanish siren Penelope Cruz is looking to double her Oscar tally at this years Academy Awards in March. The 35 year old actress has been nominated as Bes... | |
Jan.25.2010 | |
It's January, it's cold and it's rainy (yes, it does occasionally rain in Spain), so perhaps now is a good time to dispense with some bad news whilst we're alre... | |
Jan.17.2010 | |
Police and firemen have rescued a Spanish woman after she got trapped in the lift of her apartment building in Sitges, near Barcelona. The 35 year old survived ... | |
Jan.12.2010 | |
Ok, so there's a little shortage of news going around right now, which is why we've gone all Daily Mail on you for this 'human interest' story. According to ... | |
Jan.04.2010 | |
The National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC) celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2010 with an exhibition entitled 'Guests of Honour', which will showcase the works ... | |
Dec.22.2009 | |
The current Barcelona football team have added to their glittering cabinet of trophies by winning the FIFA World Club Cup final in Abu Dhabi, by beating Estudia... | |
Dec.06.2009 | |
First Las Ramblas got a much-needed clean up, after photos of prostitutes going about their business made the front pages of the Spanish press, now the city is ... | |
Nov.29.2009 | |
At 7pm on a dark wet Sunday night in Barcelona it was finally time for the talkers to stop talking and the walkers to start walking. The hype before La Liga's f... | |
Nov.19.2009 | |
Barcelona's Henry has been accused of cheating during France's crucial World Cup play off with Ireland, which saw the Irish eliminated from the qualifying stage... | |
Nov.05.2009 | |
In a year that has seen the number of visitors to Catalonia drop by 12 percent (curse that economic crisis!), at least one success story has sailed into the loc... | |
Oct.28.2009 | |
'The Ridicule of the Century' was just one tag dished out by the Spanish press this morning as they queued up to pour salt on the wound of Real Madrid's histori... | |
Oct.19.2009 | |
No one is claiming a global recession is a good thing, but it doesn't have to be 100% doom and gloom. Whilst the Barcelona Life team are no economic whizz kids,... | |
Oct.05.2009 | |
The skies of Barcelona were the backdrop of a daring display of aerial acrobatics this weekend as the final meeting of the Red Bull Air Race 2009 World Champion... | |
Sept.20.2009 | |
Barcelona City Council has applied for approval for six CCTV cameras to be installed in problem areas in the Old Town. The move follows an ongoing debate in the... | |
Sep.09.2009 | |
With over 20,000 new confirmed cases of swine flu recorded in Spain during the last week of August and a death toll of 25 people, the government has sanctioned ... | |
Aug.14.2009 | |
It was only ever a matter of time before some Hollywood bigwig came up with the bright idea of making a movie based on Miguel Cervantes' medieval masterpiece, D... | |
Aug.04.2009 | |
The largest crowd to watch a football (or 'soccer') game in the US, since the 1994 World Cup, turned out to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California to watch LA Gal... | |
Jul.22.2009 | |
It's a frustrating time of year for football fans - and that's everyone in this city - when games are few and far between, and endless transfer talk and specula... | |
June.24.2009 | |
Britain has been one of the hardest hit in the economic crisis, and the knock on effect has been that less of the green stuff is now arriving in Spain... Brits ... | |
June.21.2009 | |
It seems like life in Barcelona is one big party. No sooner has Sonar Festival packed its record bags and left the city than the next big event looms into view.... | |
June.06.2009 | |
Great news for music lovers arriving in Barcelona for the 18th-20th June - your visit will co-incide with arguably the city's most prestigious event, the Sonar ... | |
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