The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Until Fri 19 Sep 08

Mon to Fri 9am - 2pm/Wed & Thu 4pm - 6pm at Archivo Histórico de Barcelona (Plaça de Pons i Clerch 2)

This exhibition is composed by sixty four photographs that shows the evolution of the mountain of Montjuic. The photographers responsible for the project were Rosin, Sagarra, Brangulí, Godes and de Rozas, taking more than seven thousand photographs capturing the transformation of the mountain between 1915 and 1923.

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(Taken from http://www.bcn.cat/arxiu)

Until Tue 30 Sep 08

Mon - Sat from 10am to 8pm. Sun 10am to 2pm

at Museu Egipci de Barcelona (Valencia, 284) 11€ Buy tickets at the museum

This exhibition has more than thirty sarcophagus, one mummie and other funerary pieces that belonged to five generations of priests of the Amon Temple. All pieces were found in the princes Jaemuaset and Setherjepeshef, sons of the Pharao Ramses III (dinasty XX).

Taken from (www.museuegipci.com)

Tue 16 - Wed 24 Sep 08

This is the 7th edition of the Asia Festival, this year is dedicated to India. During this time there will be more than fifty activities and shows in three different places: Ciutadella Park, Mercat de les Flors and CaixaForum.

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(Taken from www.casaasia.es)

Programme

9:30am - 9pm at L’Aquàrium de Barcelona (Moll d’Espanya del Port Vell) Adults 16,50; Kids 11,50; Seniors 13€  Buy tickets

In L’Aquàrium de Barcelona, as well as the tanks and the displays, you can enjoy the different services we offer you for your visit to be as pleasant as possible (cafeteria / self-service, L’Aquàrium shop, souvenir photo, the auditorium, etc).

The Oceanarium in Barcelona, the only one of its kind in Europe, is the largest tank and the one with the greatest number of species in L’Aquàrium de Barcelona.

It has a diameter of 36 metres and 5 metres in depth, it contains 4,500 m3 of water. Such diverse species are found as giltheads, morays, ocean sunfish, rays and two kinds of sharks: the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) and the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), the true stars of L’Aquàrium.

(Taken from www.aquariumbcn.com)

Always

May -Sep: Thu to Sunday from 9pm - 11pm
Oct- Apr: Fri & Sat from 7pm - 8:30pm.

at Font Màgica - Fonts de Montjuïc (Pl Carles Buïgas, 1-Sants-Montjuïc) Free admission

The Magic Fountain is one of the city’s most important landmarks. Carles Buigas was asked to design it for the International Exhibition of 1929. He had the innovative idea of giving the water movement and adding light, colour and sound.

He created the fountain as if it was a river at the foot of the Palau Nacional with raging waters racing down the mountain to reach the Magic Fountain before “dying” in the sea on Avinguda Maria Cristina.

Montjuïc’s Magic Fountain has a new show based on cinema music. The light and water of the fountain will “dance” to the rhythm of film soundtracks like ‘Chariots of Fire’, ‘The Godfather’, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Jungle Book’

(Taken from http://w3.bcn.es & www.youtube.com).

Until Sat 13 Sep

Mon to Fri, from 10am - 9pm; Sat from 10am - 2pm at Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Pl Nova, 5 - Ciutat Vella)   Free admission

The theme of the exhibition “Mirage City: Baghdad, from Wright to Venturi”, that is presented at the College of Architects of Catalonia, is the major architectural projects of King Faisal II’s 1950s Iraq.

The initiative to recover these projects came from Pedro Araza, a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and Spain’s ambassador in Baghdad, Ignacio Rupérez.

Architects of the standing of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Josep Lluís Sert and Ricard Bofill were commissioned to produce the designs. (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es)

Dance.
From The Arts Series. 1898. Color lithograph. 60 x 38 cm

Mucha’s art aspires to beauty. His elaborate compositions bring theatrical and allegorical elements into play in order to create a mystical atmosphere closely linked to Symbolist poetry. (Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es & vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw)

Until Sun 28 Sep 08

10am to 7pm (except Sun 10am to 2:30pm) at Palau Robert Barcelona (Pg Gràcia, 107)   Free admission

The exhibition shows the painter’s relation with the people in Cadaqués and the region of the Empordà. There is also an audio-visual assembly with 177 photographies that compose the collection.

The relation of the French photographer Descharnes with Dalí and Gala, began the winter of 1950 in Cadaqués. Since 1955 the photographer made long stays in this locality, which allowed him to accumulate an authentic photographic and filmed chronicle of Dalí.

(Taken from www20.gencat.cat & www.lavanguardia.es)

Until Sun 2 Nov 08

Tue to Sun from 11am to 8pm / Thu 11 am to 10 pm / Closed on non-holiday at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB ( Montalegre, 5)  Mon 4,5€

This exhibition offers an itinerary through Ballard’s creative universe: his times and obsessions, his dissection of the secret keys of the contemporary, the traces of his own life in his fictional body of work, his artistic and literary referents, and his precise, disenchanted intuitions of a future life governed by the concepts of aseptic dystopia and disaster.

Ballard’s work represents an open-ended body of work that still has many revelations in store for his readers and the capacity to throw light on the course of our future. An author with an enormous influence on later generations of creators in all disciplines, from fantasy cinema to industrial music, Ballard is the author, among many other works, of The Empire of the Sun and Crash, adapted for the cinema by Spielberg and David Cronenberg, respectively. (Taken from www.cccb.org)

Until Sun 12 Oct 08

At CaixaForum Centre Social i Cultural (Av Marquès de Comillas, 6-8) Free admission
Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun & Holidays 8am to 8pm /Tue 8am to 10pm / Wed 8am to 11pm