We are increasingly aware of the importance of physical activity for our health both in preventing and treating various diseases Our research group at IDIBAPS is working to deepen our understanding of the health benefits of physical activity with a special focus on people living with diabetes endocrinologist and researcher at IDIBAPS/CIBERDEM Receive the latest news from our institution directly to your email in a few moments you will receive a confirmation email The district of Les Corts celebrates its Festa Major 2024 with music de la Concòrdia and Comas are the main axis where much of the festival takes place Among the most outstanding events of the Festival of Les Corts are the correfoc unitary the morning of celebration with the dance of the Àliga de la Ciutat the diada castellera and the exhibition of traditional dance that is organized in the monastery of Pedralbes This show reflects on the dehumanization of society due to digitalization and the excessive use of social networks and artificial intelligence Inspired by the descent into hell in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy the show vindicates life and art in the street and open and participatory popular culture Directed by the visual creator and choreographer Toni Mira and playwright Jaume Bernadet Date and time: October 4 at 21:00 h.Place: Plaça de Comas Sister Felipa and Leopoldo Planell (protocol figures of the fire of Les Corts) whose satirical tone will embarrass more than one bossy Date and time: October 4 at 21:20 h.Place: Plaça de Comas Parade starring the Devils and Timbaleros of Ithaca the Aegis (the Boc de Can Rosés) and the Devils of Les Corts Date and time: October 4 at 21:30 h.Place: Plaça de Comas.Route: Plaça Comas the fireworks of the fire groups of Les Corts will be lit Date and time: October 4 at 21:45 h.Place: Plaça de Comas The orchestra La Litoral will offer an extensive and varied repertoire for all audiences: ballroom dancing rock and versions of the most current groups of the national and international music scene Date and time: October 4 at 22:30 h.Place: Plaça de Comas which form the entourage of the Fiesta Mayor Date and time: October 5th at 9:30 h.Place: Plaça de la Concòrdia The bell tower of the parish of Santa Maria de Remei announces that the Festa Major has already begun Date and time: October 5 at 10:30 h.Place: Plaça de la Concòrdia.Route: Plaça de la Concòrdia radio broadcaster and neighbor of Les Corts neighborhood Date and time: October 5 at 12:00 h.Place: Plaça de la Concòrdia A parade of fire and firecrackers through the streets of the neighborhood Date and time: October 5 at 21:30 h.Place: Plaça de la Concòrdia.Route: Plaça de Comas The District of Les Corts recognizes every year a Cortsenc and a Cortsenca of Honor previously elected by popular vote among the neighborhood of Les Corts This act of homage also serves to recognize the work of those entities that celebrate a significant anniversary this year Date and time: October 9 at 19:00 h.Place: garden of the Centre Cívic Can Deu The devils invade the Camp Nou for the main festival parade with percussion starting at the CSS of La Maternitat and Sant Ramon (Travesera de Les Corts carretillada and fire show in the Ceràmiques Vicens square With the participation of Castellers de Sants Date and time: October 13 at 12:00 h.Place: Plaça de Comas the Festival of Les Corts offers fireworks accompanied by music It will be at the closing of the festivities We recommend that you place yourself in the gardens of Magalí to fully enjoy the show Date and time: October 13 at 21:30 h.Place: Magalí Gardens Complete program (PDF) Barcelona continues its commitment to the creation and improvement of public spaces with the recent reopening of the Clara Campoamor Gardens in the district of Les Corts After a comprehensive reform that responds to the current needs of the city and its inhabitants Mayor Jaume Collboni has stressed that these gardens represent “a green area won for the city and the district inclusive and designed for everyone” Collboni recalled the famous speech that Campoamor gave on October 1 defending women’s suffrage and political equality for women “We want to pay tribute to Clara Campoamor and to the struggle of the women who achieved political equality in this country,” stressed the mayor The garden renovation project has been made possible thanks to a public-private partnership between the District of Les Corts Merlin Properties and Inmobiliaria Colonial which have contributed 820,000 euros to finance the works the Barcelona City Council has invested 810,000 euros the District of Les Corts and the Institute of Parks and Gardens the budget for this refurbishment amounts to 1.6 million euros This public-private cooperation formula is not new in the district of Les Corts It had already been successfully implemented in the renovation of the Sant Joan de Déu Gardens demonstrating that this type of partnership can have a significant impact on the improvement of the city’s public spaces the Clara Campoamor Gardens needed a general renovation to adapt to the new uses and requirements of the public space the renovation of the street furniture and the creation of a path that invites visitors to stroll among the vegetation stand out which remains the centerpiece of the gardens but is now surrounded by shrubs and grasses that improve the aesthetics of the environment accessibility has been a priority in this renovation with the elimination of architectural barriers and the improvement of side accesses ensuring that people of all ages and physical conditions can fully enjoy the space With the aim of allowing neighbors and workers in the area to enjoy the space new rest areas with abundant vegetation have been created making the gardens more welcoming and adaptable to the current climatic conditions flowerbeds and areas with tables and benches have been installed offering an ideal place for a break or a moment of disconnection in the middle of the working day One of the key points of the refurbishment was the renovation of the children’s area which now has new inclusive playground equipment as well as an accessible playground and a grassy esplanade providing a safe and fun space for the little ones These changes not only improve the quality of the space but also promote inclusion and family enjoyment making the Clara Campoamor Gardens a meeting place for all generations The reopening of the Clara Campoamor Gardens is an example of how the city of Barcelona continues its commitment to the creation of sustainable public spaces designed to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants accessibility and recreational areas make this an ideal space for coexistence and outdoor enjoyment making it a new green lung in the heart of Les Corts Stock images by Depositphotos La venta de la nuda propiedad Copyright © 2022 Salirporbarcelona , All rights Reserved. Created by JEZZ Media Barça's history and its growth as a sporting and social entity has always been linked to its stadia culminating in Camp Nou which will soon undergo the most important redevelopment in its history with the long awaited Espai Barça project The 122 year old Club celebrated this year the centenary of the construction of the ground at Les Corts - The Cathedral of football - as it quickly became known due to it being of the best in Europe at the time The building of the ground at Les Corts was a logical consequence of the great Barça explosion that occurred in its first Golden Age between 1919 and 1929 The area chosen to build the new ground on was known as Can Ribot and was situated in the Les Corts district between Carrer Numancia and the Travessera de les Corts (very close to the current Camp Nou) On 10 July 1921 at the FC Barcelona General Assembly the decision to build the new home was approved “to meet all the conditions which the good name of the Club its glorious history and the honour of Catalan football demand." needed financing for the project and on 8 December 1921 in an extraordinary meeting of members the financial conditions were agreed President Joan Gamper proclaimed that very day: "Gentlemen from here on in a new Barcelona will be born opening up a new era of prosperity and bringing an end to the opening period of its history."   On 8 February 1922 an emotional Joan Gamper signed the property deeds for the land on which the new ground was to be built A few days later – 19 February- the solemn ceremony of laying the first foundation stone for the future Les Corts Stadium was held At 11.00 a large number of Barça fans and members set out from the newly named Carrer París-Urgell (previously Carrer Industria) They were accompanied by the Casa de Familiar marching band the Club Standard carried by the ex-wrestling champion and fervent Barça fan Josep Ardèvol representatives of the City Council and the Mancomunitat and the complete Board of Directors Father Lluís Sabaté –Club member number 79 and a diehard fan From a small stage set up for the authorities Joan Gamper made an emotional speech in which he said: “on this ground there will be many more to come on this blessed ground Cheer up your hearts – we have a new ground!” building work began in earnest and in a record time of three months the new ground was completed and the new Les Corts Stadium FC Barcelona met Scottish club St.Mirren in the inaugural game at the stadium which ended in a 2-1 win for the home side The victory came just six days after Barça had beaten Real Unión Irun 5-1 to claim the Spanish Championship The opening of the new ground could not have come at a better moment in the Club's history A team containing legends such as Samitier Piera and Sancho amongst others dominated football in the country In the decade of the 1920s they won the Catalan Championship eight times the Spanish Championship five times as well as the first ever league championship in 1929 with more and more members joining every year This increased support was the inspiration for several expansion projects; the final expansion of the stadium in 1946 took the capacity to 48,000 fans it was becoming patently evident that what the club really needed to do was build a completely new stadium Despite the expansion of the stadium at Les Corts the post-war boom in support led to the feeling that a new ground was needed with the Club's current home unsuitable for further development At the end of the 1940s the construction of a new stadium was a serious objective for the Club and in 1957 Camp Nou was finally opened Les Corts was used as a training and as a stadium for the B team but president Enric Llaudet felt it could be put to better used by selling the land the old stadium was demolished and the land sold for 226 million pesetas for urban developments The money from the sale was used to finance the Club's debt brought on by the construction of Camp Nou and the stadium in Les Corts venue for Barça legend Paulino Alcantará's many goals the Five Cups side and many other great memories for the Club was no more on the day of 'La Mercé' the patron saint of the city of Barcelona the stadium has witnessed many a glorious day with stars such as Johan Cruyff Ronaldinho and Leo Messi gracing its turf amongst many others FC Barcelona face another challenge: a new Espai Barça Already a member? 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Sign up Explore our Food Tours → Inside Barcelona’s lesser-known Mercat de Les Corts is a small unassuming bar offering up the bounty of the Mediterranean serving esmorzars de forquilla (hearty Catalan breakfasts like sausage and beans tripe stew and grilled cuttlefish) to local workers it serves a more refined seafood menu composed of whatever owner Alfonso Puig gets from Peixateria Anna the fish stand on the other side of the market The fish and seafood of the day are always seasonal local and impeccably fresh – which is no surprise since Puig is also the owner of the fish stand Les Corts is a residential and commercial area crossed by Avinguda Diagonal the hallowed stadium where football powerhouse Barça plays a university campus and the Pedralbes Royal Palace Les Corts is the kind of neighborhood where retirees walk their dogs and do the shopping with all the time in the world to enjoy the morning sun They mix with students and workers from the business area around Diagonal who come and go in cars and on bikes and scooters but has a little bit of everything and is easily navigable order a wine glass and give free rein to your appetite: here you’ll find some of the best calamares a la romana (Roman-style fried squid) in Barcelona made with pristinely fresh squid and a touch of Vichy sparkling water in the batter The restaurant was renovated in 2007 when Puig decided to take over an old bar in the corner of the market Peixateria Anna (which has been in Mercat de Les Corts since day one) was originally his in-laws’ but Puig was no stranger to the food and drink business – his own parents used to have a bar in a Catalan region called El Bisaura (Girona) just put all the pieces together to complete the puzzle given her skill in preparing the simple recipes that made this bar famous for its seafood dishes the kitchen was put in the able hands of a young professional chef who can cook sea bass The cuisine and recipes continue to be straightforward and simple: just about everything is grilled except the calamares a la romana and a few other dishes The fish come from the Mediterranean and are caught using sustainable methods While at other places lobsters and crabs are trotted out across the counter Only before lunchtime (around 1 p.m.) do some marine creatures appear behind the glass; most of the seafood is carried straight from the fishmonger to the kitchen in its ice-filled box you can see Puig bring more fresh fish from the other side of the market – no need to keep all the fish waiting under the counter lights better to keep it fresh and in optimal conditions before it’s prepared and served the perfect respite from office buildings and urban traffic we recommend resting your feet and ordering a chilled Penedés or Albariño and enjoying a wonderful tapa of fried squid or grilled scorpion fish some delicate yet highly flavorful escamarlans (langoustines) or some very special Noah’s Ark shellfish You can rest assured knowing everything came straight from the source loading map - please wait...Map could not be loaded - please enable Javascript!→ more information Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy your city without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Barcelona This is Yamashita Group's flagship restaurant the ultimate expression of Japanese cuisine 'Kaiseki' is a tasting of dishes that are eaten at an important dinner though not forced by the concept of fine cuisine but – by definition – 'kaiseki' describes a meal of between 6 and 15 dishes that include vegetables fish and a bit of meat. You can also eat in the 'kotatsu' (a room with tatami and floor-evel tables) of the renovated ground floor Wonders of simple accuracy such as a delicate and tasty tofu with fish broth or egg with wakame and crab are traditional and delicious here Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! facebooktwitterspotifytiktokAbout us Contact us Time Out Worldwide Today marks one hundred years since one of the most significant episodes in FC Barcelona history during the first third of the last century: the tribute dedicated to Joan Gamper in the Les Corts stadium On Sunday 25 February 1923 the Barça founder was the centre of attention on a day full of emotion organised by the sporting world and the civil society of the time to highlight his contribution to society as a whole via his sporting endeavours It is not just due to the sporting material no; sporting sentiments have joined forces with popular sentiment and at all times we have felt as excited as ever," so said the rhetoric of the time in El Mundo Deportivo the day after the event The centrepiece of the event was a game between Barça and a Catalan Football XI and it took place at a time when the Club boasted 6,341 members and when it had just entered into what would becomes its first golden age consolidating its position both on and off the field had opened just some months before on 20 May 1922 and was a sign of the importance of the blaugrana project which would soon see a huge increase in its membership On the field the departure of Ricardo Zamora the absence of Sancho and the limited contribution from Paulino Alcántara meant the team ended the 1922/23 season without silverware Barça and Joan Gamper appeared in good shape at his tribute in February 1923 on 29 June of that year the founder of the club ended his fourth spell as president having consolidated the Club's finances on the eve of its first 25 years of existence who stayed in the role for a year: Gamper returned for his fifth and final stint as president on 1 June 1924 For the event on 25 February 1923 at Les Corts all Catalan football clubs with the exception of Europa and Espanyol took part The presence of Barça's main city rivals would have been a surprise given the strong rivalry between the two clubs they were engaged at the time in a battle with the blaugranes for the Catalan Championship A week before on 18 February a decisive fixture between Europa and Barça should have taken place but the Civil Governor of Barcelona postponed the game "in anticipation of incidents and altercations of public order that may occur."  a club who at the time enjoyed excellent relationship with FC Barcelona had no problem in attending the tribute to Gamper this genuine dedication can be found in one of the album recording the event: "Real Madrid Foot Ball Club to the enthusiastic sportsman Master Juan Gamper in admiration and sincere affection." More surprising is that is of the signatures was that of a Real Madrid player by the name of Santiago Bernabéu At 3pm on 25 February the stands at Les Corts were full They had been for quite a while before the start of the tribute which got under way with the eminent composer Joan Lamote de Grignon led the Barcelona Municipal band in different pieces of music Segunda marcha catalana' by the composer himself and a commemorative plaque for the opening of the Les Corts Stadium The Orfeó Gracienc choir gave a version of the 'FC Barcelona Anthem' on the field the second in the club's history following that of 1910 with lyrics by Rafael Folch and music by Enric Morera gaining the largest ovation of the afternoon accompanying the Barça players as they came out along with Ramon Bruguera the former blaugrana keeper who was recovering from serious injury the Swiss founder gave a short speech during the tribute and took the honorary kick off before the game The referee for the day was former Barça player Roman Forns with Enric Ducay and Otto Maier running the lines two men who attended the FC Barcelona foundation meeting on 29 November 1899 Barrachina (Martinenc) and Galofré (Athletic de Sabadell) Barça won 2-1 after two goals from Gràcia and one from Barrachina in a game that was far from easy for the team then coached by Jack Greenwell as described by El Mundo Deportivo: "Given the game was a friendly it was hard fought and Barça's greater unity led to victory although it was not an easy one."  The gastronomic cycle Tasta'M returns to the markets of Barcelona with 5 events scheduled until October where tapas will be tasted and there will be a popular paella and fideuà The Tasta’M gastronomic cycle returns from this week to the local markets barcelona with a Program focused on seasonal products music and sessions dedicated to seafood and seafood products This year will be given to taste proposals such as paella customers must make purchases at the stalls of the different participating markets The first appointment of Tasta’M will be this Saturday, June 15 at the Les Corts Market, where the lid the protagonist will be the mussels Visitors must present the aforementioned tasting ticket which will entitle them to a tapa of mussels and a drink promoted by the Institut Municipal de Mercats de Barcelona and the Federation of Municipal Markets (FEMM) was born in 2022 and 2024 will be its third edition I trudged through adolescence with The Boomtown Rats’ ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ firmly stuck in my head but over the years Sunday has turned into my weekly day of doom So one Sunday night I went out for dinner at a Thai restaurant with just me myself and I to try to shake that dark Sunday feeling out of my head Lucky for me Bangkok Café turned out to be a pleasant surprise making it look and feel like a restaurant out of New York instead of in the Les Corts neighbourhood of Barcelona The entrance is in the small street Passatge de Tubella a marvel of early 20th-century Barcelona that has managed to survive through changes and chain restaurants Bangkok Café is a small space on whose walls the different types of curries are written – yellow massamang – showing off a cuisine that is sandwiched between the Japanese and Chinese culinary empires that reign supreme in Barcelona There are a lot of spicy dishes (which is fantastic or terrifying I ordered a delicious spicy duck with vegetables The waitress warned me that it would be very spicy and I needed a bit of a fire lit inside me so spicy that making the dish forced the cook to open all the windows in the room I went back home so hot that I had to have a cold shower Definitely get to this top Thai restaurant but just be sure you're ready if you order spicy At the start of the 1920s there was an air of euphoria in the city due to the excellent form of the team and the healthy state of the Club It was clear that the 4,000 capacity Carrer Industria ground – opened in 1909 – was too small for the increasingly popular team about to enter its Golden Age with players such as Samitier President Joan Gamper then decided to build a new ground: “to meet all the conditions which the good name of the Club its glorious history and the honour of Catalan football demand” On February 8th 1922 an emotional Joan Gamper signed the property deeds for the land on which the new ground was to be built A few days later – 19th February- the solemn ceremony of laying the first foundation stone for the future Les Corts Stadium was held At 11.00 a large number of Barça fans and members set out from the newly named Carrer París-Urgell (previously Carrer Industria) the Club Standard carried by the ex-wrestling champion and fervent Barça fan Josep Ardèvol the members of the Club’s four teams Father Lluís Sabaté –Club member number 79 and a diehard fan Joan Gamper made an emotional speech in which he said: “on this ground Cheer up your hearts – we have a new ground!” which first opened its doors in September 2016 is a cocktail bar that the neighbourhood of Les Corts was waiting for their own recipes and others that they've found in the temple of temples to cocktails natural pineapple emulsified with five types of pepper and mead for 24 hours The owners and operators of La Javanesa say that this is a place where they don't use measures Barça's new stadium replaced their old ground of Les Corts which with a capacity of just 48,000 was too small to accomodate the interest generated by a team led by Hungarian star Ladislao Kubala The stadium was designed by architects Francesc Mitjans Miró and Josep Soteras Mauri with the collaboration of Lorenzo García Barbón and it was constructed between 1955 and 1957 The whole project cost a staggering 288 million pesetas which meant the club would spend the following years heavily in debt Although it was originally going to go under the official name of ‘Estadi del FC Barcelona’ it soon came to be popularly known as the 'Camp Nou' (the ‘new ground’) as opposed to the club’s old home at Les Corts It was not until the 2000/2001 season that following a postal vote made by the Club membership that the decision was made to make ‘Camp Nou’ the official name of the stadium a total of 19,861 (68.25%) preferred Camp Nou to Estadi del FC Barcelona and it covers a surface area of 55,000 square metres (250 metres long and 220 metres wide) the playing area has been downsized to 105 metres x 68 metres the total capacity has varied over the years owing to different modifications which would be increased to 120,000 in 1982 on occasion of the FIFA World Cup the introduction of new regulations outlawing standing areas reduced the stadium’s capacity in the late 1990s to just under 99,000 UEFA recognised the services and facilities at Camp Nou by awarding it five star status this category was replaced by the new 'Category 4' title which corresponds to the stadiums which fulfill the most demanding requirements with regards to facilities services and capacity such as FC Barcelona's ground Of the different facilities on offer inside the stadium of particular note are a chapel next to the changing rooms and the offices of all of the many different Club departments BUY NOW The Penya Blaugrana Les Corts will welcome all those supporters clubs travelling to Barcelona for the second leg of the Champions League semifinals Despite the unfavourable score on the first leg fans do not want to miss the opportunity to show their support The events will start with a snack at the penya’s headquarters at 1pm on Wednesday Lunch will take place at 3pm at Restaurant Ciurana It is a popular meal with popular price (€19) for which one can still register Applications can be sent via email to the penya’s address penya.blaugrana.les.corts@gmail.com Capacity is limited and requests will be dealt on a first come No club in football history has achieved what Pep Guardiola's men managed in 2009: six tournaments This 'annus memorabilis' climaxed in December with the FIFA World Club Cup win over Estudiantes the tactics-obsessed young coach telling his players: 'Lose and you'll still be the best team in the world; win and you'll be eternal.' Like Guardiola himself seven of the Champions League-winning XI were formed at FCB's youth system it had a capacity for just over 93,000 spectators the stadium increased its capacity to hold 115,000 fans and hosted the first game of the World Cup that year the stadium has been altered to include more seats and less standing area - making the total capacity 99,000 or you can take a tour of the stadium that includes the field The FC Barcelona Museum includes a trophy gallery and an audiovisual space dedicated to replays and the history of the Barça team and Camp Nou His seven children and ten businesspeople will also face court for the alleged corruption scandal affecting his whole family ACN | Barcelona The longest-serving Catalan president in modern times will face trial for the alleged corruption case affecting him and his whole family Spain's National Court announced the news on Wednesday also confirming that his seven children and ten businesspeople will also be be tried The court requested a €7.5 million bail for his son will also be brought to trial for the same case The clan has been accused of unlawful assembly crimes against the tax office and forging documents All of them will remain free during the sessions and their defenses have been given a month to hand in their arguments in writing with the proposed outcome of the trial Spain’s National Court indicted Pujol and his relatives in April, including his wife Marta Ferrusola and their seven children. Charges against Ferrusola were later dropped for health reasons The public prosecutor requested 17 years behind bars for Gironès 14 for Josep Pujol Ferrusola and 8 for each of his remaining siblings: Pere As for the solicitor general on Tuesday a 25-year prison sentence was requested for former Catalan president Jordi Pujol's eldest son with accusations for five tax crimes and a request for €7.7 million for civil liability Gironès was presented with a 17-year conviction wil face a four and a half year sentence from the solicitor general neither the longest-serving Catalan head of government in modern times nor any other family member have been accused by this same party for the corruption case ongoing since July 2014 when the former president admitted to his family having money abroad which was undeclared in Spain's tax office the judge that led the investigation in Spain's National Court said he believed the family formed a criminal organization and concluded that there was no solid evidence to prove that the Pujols' wealth came from inheriting his grandfather's as the former politician had originally claimed in July 2014.  The April 20 indictment stated the family behaved as an illicit association or criminal organization due to their coordinated actions including simultaneously opening and closing bank accounts abroad as well as transferring funds between them in a strategy aimed at concealing the origin of the funds The court said that the family "took advantage of Pujol's position at the head of the Catalan government from which they obtained significant economic returns which were deposited in bank accounts abroad and subjected to various transfers and transmissions was the longest-serving president in Catalonia’s democratic history but his mammoth political legacy was tainted by subsequent corruption scandals Pujol was reelected in five consecutive elections and ruled uninterrupted until 2003 leading Catalonia through Spain's democratic transition into the new millennium Pujol was also the founder of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), for years Catalonia’s hegemonic center-right party, until corruption scandals and tensions caused by the independence bid led to its dissolution, with its offspring dispersed between Junts per Catalunya and PDeCAT parties, among others. Get the day's biggest stories right to your phone Although Consell de Cent and the superblocks have been the focus of attention in Barcelona’s urban transformations in recent years at the height of the Glòries shopping center where neighbors can anticipate a significant leap in the quality of urban life After years of construction work for the Glòries tunnel residents of this area will leave behind an eight-lane highway in front of their homes and will instead have a wide 21-meter-wide green promenade starting next year The urban transformation project of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes is an ambitious initiative that seeks to improve the quality of life of residents and transform the urban landscape this area has been dominated by a congested highway which has negatively affected the air quality and tranquility of the area the eight traffic lanes will be eliminated and replaced by a spacious green promenade The importance of this change cannot be underestimated as it will offer neighbors a healthier and more attractive environment in which to live the promenade will be surrounded by a lush grove of trees that will provide shade and coolness on hot summer days While the urban transformation works are underway residents and visitors can enjoy a temporary tactical urbanism intervention This intervention includes a zip line and outdoor exercise elements that have demonstrated the need to create dynamic public spaces where previously there was only traffic congestion This is a preview of what is to come with the final transformation The future Gran Via green promenade will become a meeting space for the community Wide spaces are planned at the intersections with the main cross streets as well as at the accesses to the Glòries shopping center This focus on community and connectivity promises a friendlier and more socially active environment The project also takes sustainable mobility into account Resident and service vehicle traffic will be channeled through a single platform lane between the sidewalk and the central walkway This will not only improve pedestrian safety but also encourage the use of bicycles and public transportation The municipal government of Jaume Collboni has confirmed its commitment to the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes urbanization project No changes will be made to the project that has already been definitively approved by the government commission This project is the responsibility of the joint venture formed by Esteyco TRN Taryet and the JPAM architectural firm Work on the first phase of the project will begin in early 2024 and is expected to last one year The budget allocated for this phase is 11.41 million euros Once work is completed on the part closest to the residential buildings including the laying of the tramway tracks in this area The transformation of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes is an exciting step forward for Barcelona in its quest for a more sustainable and livable urban environment This initiative will not only improve the quality of life of residents but will also contribute to the improvement of mobility and connectivity in the city It will also lay the groundwork for future expansions of the streetcar system paving the way for a more modern and sustainable Barcelona plenty of ex-Army types. Jordi Bou and Óscar Manresa can boast they've got a rocker bar that real rockers go to Bou was a roadie for a while and you can tell he's got rock and roll in his blood He's made sure 99% Moto Bar is an extension of the music culture that he lives for a classic rock bar where you can grab a burger and see live acts perform doo-wop It's a temple that gets packed every weekend with old motorcycles and rockers who span generations Don't expect just any burger when you're hungry: Manresa takes his haute cuisine version seriously: for example, order the McManre and you get 180 grams of high-quality beef And the extra good news is that home-made fries are included in every burger order 'There is nothing permanent except change' has transformed from an ambitious gastronomic restaurant into a brilliant tapas bar where you can fill your boots for less than €20 Lito Baldovinos from the La Confiteria group explains the change of heart It's the perfect place for family and friends and eat well in under an hour if you want.' I can vouch for that The variety of seasonal wild mushrooms at the time I was there was phenomenal and served as a starter with a low-temperature egg Next I had melt-in-your-mouth octopus with potatoes – happily very straightforward as sometimes flourishes are there to hide an inferior cuisine I went for the house 'bikini' sandwich (usually just toasted ham and cheese) of stewed veal and smoked scamorza cheese almost knocked me out because we're talking about four triangles of bovine goodness Other hits are the made-to-order 'tortillas' (omelettes) – the one with cod looked so good I nearly jumped right into it – and small stripped-down dishes that have proven to be popular Although the style of the restaurant has changed in terms of the food the philosophy among the chefs and the staff is still the same and now the cooks also work in the dining room so they can explain the food preparation better.  In the transition from L'Alegria to Bolero they focused a lot on the exquisite interior design with wooden waves and takes on Spanish pop and kitsch (see the clippings from 'Hola' magazine featuring Julio Iglesias) like the cutlery being kept in the table drawers This space in Plaça de Joan Llongueras has reinvented itself to give Sant Gervasi just what it needed with an interior design that's perfectly balanced between elegance and modernity Upstairs you can relax in the magnificent restaurant headed up by Chef José Armenteros: the 'ensaimada' pastries with parmesan and spicy 'sobrasada' sausage and the scallops with pig's trotters cannot be missed The daily set lunch menu is also top-notch.But what really gets us going is the basement introduces me to this club/cocktail bar where I could spend the rest of my life; a lush club (with sofas and vinyl records on the walls) that features dance and urban music and with a class sound system and areas for every mood: you can dance laugh...The best thing is that the club also boasts one of the most attractive bars in Barcelona Eric Bertran mixes the highest-quality cocktails right in the thick of the action citrus and spice that zaps the life back into me DJs Viktor Ollé and Quim Campbell are in charge of spinning the soundtrack and they tell me they're planning a hip hop party with Flavio Rodríguez for Sundays The project has been jointly developed by the District of Les Corts and the Department for Animal Welfare with information provided for local people and FC Barcelona about the two stages of the pilot plan part of the municipal strategy to control and reduce the growth of pigeon communities The first stage lasts two weeks and will see raptors in flight every day between 8 am and 4 pm to regularly disperse areas identified by specialists where pigeons concentrate in numbers In the following four weeks corresponding to the second stage flights will be reduced to three a week to ensure that the colonies have dispersed as these birds reputedly return to the same spaces to feed The specialists will also gather data on the hours of pigeons their presence at drinking points and places where they feed and rest According to the results of the pilot project There's probably a Kitty O'Shea's in your hometown so if you venture out of the centre of Barcelona making it a popular place to meet before or after a match and if you can't make it to see a match live you can watch via their satellite coverage It looks like a British pub and all the facilities of an English gentlemen’s club but all the decoration refers to the Beatles The owners worship this music group with real devotion Joan and Ricky have play live songs for the first albums of the geniuses of Liverpool Is difficult to understand why they haven’t appeared at the Guinness Book of Records with the big-name stars it once booked replaced by little-knowns and ageing rockers Gigs are staged with the professional vigour of gold-ticket shows and the club nights that follow are legendary Divide your time between the rooms playing hip hop The World Cup winner netted a sensational treble as Paris Saint-Germain took command of their Champions League last-16 tie with a 4-1 away win in the first leg Mbappe's smart close-range finish cancelled out Lionel Messi's penalty opener before he tapped in after half-time to give PSG the lead for the first time Moise Kean added to that advantage before a sublime breakaway fourth saw Mbappe sweep a stunning finish into the top-right corner The France forward is the first visiting player to score three times at Camp Nou since Diego Forlan's hat-trick for Villarreal in 2005 That Forlan effort was the first of the 21st century the previous being the only other Champions League treble besides Mbappe's when Andriy Shevchenko led a remarkable 4-0 away win for Dynamo Kiev in 1997 Not all hat-tricks for away sides at Barca have resulted in such dominant displays with three of the 10 trebles coming in matches that ended all square And two three-goal stars actually finished on the losing side including poor Milinko Pantic in a Copa del Rey epic months before Shevchenko stole the show Pantic scored four times for Atletico Madrid yet they improbably went down 5-4 to Bobby Robson's Blaugrana The only other instance of a visiting player netting four came at Barca's previous Les Corts home when Julian Arcas did so in a draw with rivals Espanyol in 1956 Two of the 10 hat-tricks came at Les Corts - the other eight were all at Camp Nou - as Barca also beat Valencia 4-3 in 1948 despite Vicente Segui's treble Not since 2005 had a visiting player scored a hat-trick away to Barcelona with Kylian Mbappe the 10th ever.Kylian Mbappe became just the 10th player ever to score a competitive hat-trick away to Barcelona on Tuesday The school  at the Barcelona Royal Tennis Club RCTB should be world-renowned since it represents one of the best clubs on the planet Students come out with not only a high technical level but also a number of values ​​such as discipline The motto 'know how to win and how to lose' is still present in the school's philosophy and reflects many of the values they seek to convey The group developing the monument that pays tribute to the former Women Prison of Les Corts has received the Medal of Honour of the Barcelona City Council The University of Barcelona (UB) participates in the group by means of the Polis Research Centre: Art the masterʼs degree in Urban Design and the European Observatory of Memories of the UB Solidarity Foundation This award-winning initiative —co-developed by the UB and the Associació per la Cultura i la Memòria de Catalunya (ACME Association for Catalan Culture and Memory)— aims at recovering the historical memory of the Women Prison of Les Corts citizens are invited to collaborate with neighbourhood associations to discuss the creation of the monument that will remember the prison This award-winning initiative —co-developed by the UB and the Associació per la Cultura i la Memòria de Catalunya (ACME Association for Catalan Culture and Memory)— aims at recovering the historical memory of the Women Prison of Les Corts The Women Prison of Les Corts was located at the Avinguda Diagonal thousands of women were imprisoned and eleven prisoners were shot in the prison during the cruellest years of Franco's dictatorship Repression was not only political and social Women were treated as hysterical people who were unable to take on the domestic role assigned to them. Nowadays the prison does not exist and the place is occupied by a popular shopping centre The former prison is only remembered by a plaque that does not make any reference to the dictatorship See the original article: Δdocument.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()) Communication Mitjà subsidized by the Generalitat Valenciana Customize your consent preferences for cookie categories and advertising tracking preferences for the purposes and features and vendors below. 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The atmosphere here is much more laid-back than in the busy city centre making it very much a place where locals like to go out and live This is also where you’ll find the quieter and more charming streets and squares in Les Corts with places near the world-famous Camp Nou stadium tending to be a little busier and louder Montjuïc and the Modernist marvels of the Eixample Sign up to our newsletter to save up to $800 on our unique trips See privacy policy Facade of an old Modernist apartment building in el Poble-Sec Catalonia | Jan Willem van Hofwegen / Shutterstock Aerial view of Barcelona Eixample residential district and Sagrada Familia Basilica at sunrise | Vunav / Shutterstock Bridge between buildings in Barri Gotic quarter of Barcelona About the author Tara is a travel writer and editor who lived in Barcelona for 5 years writing exclusively for Culture Trip She has a passion for sharing experiences around food and wine Architecture Spain’s Most Impressive Bullrings See & Do The Best European Cities to Visit in Summer Guides & Tips How to Spend the Perfect 24 Hours in Santander Sports The Most Epic Hiking Trails in Spain's Sierra Nevada See & Do The Best European Cities to Visit in Autumn Guides & Tips How to Attend a Bullfight in Spain See & Do The Best European Cities to Visit in October Guides & Tips The Best European Cities to Visit in December Food & Drink The 5 Best Food Markets in Madrid Guides & Tips The Best European Cities to Visit in November See & Do The Best European Cities to Visit in July See & Do The Best European Cities to Visit in September US: +1 (678) 967 4965 | UK: +44 (0)1630 35000 tripssupport@theculturetrip.com © Copyright 2025 The Culture Trip Ltd