Palau de la Musica is One of the Best Concert Venues in Barcelona

September 8, 2016August 6, 2020bizFlats

Orchestra performance at the Palau de la Musica Music enthusiasts should consider the city of Barcelona, Spain, as their next vacation destination. This gorgeous and exciting area offers endless opportunities for entertainment, including numerous musical and dancing performances. If you’re visiting this city and you’re looking for the best concerts, you need to see what’s going on at Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. One of the finest event venues around, this magnificent building is the perfect setting for an unforgettable night in Barcelona. Learn everything you need to know about Palau de la Musica and check their events schedule today!

History of Palau de la Musica in Barcelona

This eye-catching attraction was built in the early 1900s by the beloved architect, Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Palau de la Musica Catalana was constructed with the purpose of fostering musical appreciation to the community by providing them with the finest entertainment possible. You’ll spot this gorgeous structure right away due to its iconic, colorful stained-glass windows and towering columns. You’ll find it easily, as it’s located nearby to popular Barcelona attractions like Las Ramblas and the Barcelona Cathedral.

Events at the Palau de Musica in Barcelona

Visitors and locals alike flock to Palau de la Musica in Barcelona from near and far to experience the incredible shows held here. They host over 600 shows annually, with over 190,000 visitors attending these extravagant events every year. These amazing shows include flamenco dancing, symphony orchestra performances, operas, concerts, and much more. Many performances of the Maestros de la Guitarra are held here as well. Take a look at their events calendar to see the full schedule of performances!

While you’re here, you should also consider participating in a guided tour of the Palau de la Musica Catalana. A historic building that is recognized as a World Heritage Site, this is one of the best places to take a tour in Barcelona. You’ll be treated to stories of this building’s past, as well as behind-the-scenes peeks into how these productions are created.

How to Obtain Palau de la Musica Tickets to the Next Concert

You can purchase your tickets for the events at the Palau de la Musica either online or at their box office. If you have any questions about tickets, you can contact them by calling (902) 442-882.

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Maestros de la Guitarra Features Some of the Best Artists in the World

August 26, 2016August 6, 2020bizFlats

Attend Maestros de la Guitarra at Palau de Musica Barcelona, Spain, has a rich and fascinating culture. With its innumerable, timeless traditions, this city contains all kinds of unique things to do and see. If you’re planning a getaway to Barcelona, you might be wondering what to do first. There are an abundance of stunning, historic buildings and attractions, not to mention the numerous museums honoring the influential figures of the past. One activity you don’t want to skip while you’re here is attending one of the shows of the Maestros de la Guitarra. Discover everything you need to know about this popular Barcelona attraction and make your plans to attend today!

Everything You Need to Know about Maestros de la Guitarra

What Is Maestros de la Guitarra?

A grand musical event like you’ve never experienced before, Maestros de la Guitarra produces around 300 amazing concerts per year. Attend Maestros de la Guitarra and watch as talented dancers and musicians showcase their incredible skills. Each performer reflects Barcelona’s colorful culture and lifestyle through their songs and dances. Some have performed all over the world, sharing a bit this city’s vibrant and exotic environment with people in other parts of the globe. A few highlights of these performers include Grammy winner David Russell, the band Beijing Guitar Duo, Berta Rojas, and countless others.

Where Is Maestros de la Guitarra?

This music festival holds its numerous concerts in three different venues in Barcelona: Palau de la Musica, Basilica del Pi, and Sant Jaume. Each of these magnificent venues will take your breath away with their unparalleled architecture and beauty, creating the perfect setting for enjoying a magical night of entertainment in Barcelona. Experiencing one or more of these concerts is one of the best things to do in Barcelona. The historic setting and soothing music combine to create a magical evening in Spain.

When Is Maestros de la Guitarra?

The concerts of Maestros de la Guitarra begin in June and run until the end of October. You can find their entire schedule online. Take a look at each show to start choosing which ones you’d like to attend. You can even purchase your tickets online as well!

Make sure to “Like” the Maestros de la Guitarra Facebook page to receive the latest updates on what’s going on!

Where to Stay during Maestros de la Guitarra

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Go to the Primavera Sound Barcelona for the best show ever

Primavera Sound Barcelona: Indie Music at its Best

April 20, 2016June 13, 2020bizFlats

If you haven’t heard of Primavera Sound, it’s about time that you begin exploring what has become an international indie music community right here in Barcelona. Quickly approaching its 16th anniversary with the festival taking place the 1st through the 5th of June at venues all over the beautiful city. This year is a landmark for Primavera Sound Barcelona, and a chance to look back and tell the many inspiring stories of one of the country’s premier festivals for independent-minded artists and music lovers who congregate around some of the world’s most progressive sounds. With performers ranging from large groups to solo artists, and from child stars to veterans, you are sure to be awed by this year’s lineup, as you have in years before.

Each part of this festival is bound to be more exciting than the next, with music performances happening literally all day. Guests will find it hard to choose which stages to be at throughout the day, and will undoubtedly have to make some sacrifices. There are many different ways to see the festival. If you’re a hardcore “fesitvarian,” you’ll want to buy the full festival ticket, or even sign up to be a part of the Primavera Pro. If you want to plan ahead for next year, consider joining their three installment plan way of purchasing the ticket, which you can purchase up until 2 months before the festival. You can also buy single day tickets if you’re only want to see one particular performer.

Some headline performers whose names you will definitely recognize on the Primavera Sound Barcelona lineup this year are Explosions in the Sky, Radiohead, Last Shadow Puppets, LCD Soundsystem, and PJ Harvey. As this sample of the performers suggests, the indie genre is wide ranging and full of mixed styles and sounds, ensuring that there is something for everyone, whether you’re more inclined to house, metal, blues, pop, jazz or bluegrass.

Primavera Sound Barcelona is also known for being a place where new talent is discovered by record labels. Beach House, Deerhunter, Crystal Castles, Mac DeMarco and Manel all played at Primavera and got record deals out of it, breaking onto the mainstream indie scene. You’re sure to see both the kings of indie, as well as newcomers to the stage, but also be part of an audience from the remotest parts of the world. The festival has had visitors from Nepal, The Bahamas, Greenland, the Cayman Islands, the Ivory Coast and Madagascar.

Having put on over 2,350 concerts in its 15 years of existence, Primavera Sound Barcelona knows how to entertain. Between the eclectic musical performances and the perfect Barcelona setting, a trip to this festival is sure to be not only a great time, but potentially a life changing experience. Hang out in some of the city’s most beautiful parks and oldest venues and get ready to indulge in five days of mind blowing experiences in one of the most incredible cities in the world.

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Circuit Festival Barcelona Will be Here Soon!

July 1, 2015June 13, 2020bizFlats

One of the city’s biggest international festivals is right around the corner, much to the anticipation of the LGBT community worldwide. From August 5th through the 16th, people from around the world to congregate in our beautiful city and celebrate a facet of culture that has long been in need of more diverse gathering options. Circuit Festival Barcelona answers that need offering a 12-day holiday of enjoying the sunshine on the beach, around the city, and the clubbing scene at night. Barcelona is the ideal international meeting point for this gathering of the LGBT community, and Circuit promises to be a safe and fun upbuilding experience!

Circuit Festival Barcelona Schedule

BIG OPENING @ BLOC CLUB – 5 AUGUST
WE SEX SHOP @ THE ONE CLUB – 6 AUGUST
RAPIDO @ UNDER CLUB – 7 AUGUST
MATINÉE POOL PARTY @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 8 AUGUST
MATINÉE KLUBBERDOME FEAT OFFER NISSIM @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 8 AUGUSTP
PACK POOL PARTY & KLUBBERDOME @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 8 AUGUST
THE BEACH PARTY @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 9 AUGUST
FOREVER TEL AVIV @ RAZZMATAZZ – 9 AUGUST
BEYOND @ UNDER CLUB – 10 AUGUST
THE WATER PARK DAY @ L’ILLA FANTASIA – 11 AUGUST
THE WATER PARK NIGHT @ L’ILLA FANTASIA – 11 AUGUST
PACK WATER PARK DAY & NIGHT @ L’ILLA FANTASIA – 11 AUGUST
MEGAWOOF @ UNDER CLUB – 12 AUGUST
WE CLEOPATRA POOL DAY @ LA BASSA – 13 AUGUST
MATINÉE PERVERT @ GLOOBAL CLUB – 13 AUGUST
PACK WE POOL DAY & MATINÉE PERVERT @ LA BASSA & GLOOBAL CLUB – 13 AUGUST
MATINÉE EASY RIDERS @ UP&DOWN – 14 AUGUST
PAPA MAIN POOL PARTY @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 15 AUGUST
MAIN PARTY @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU L’HOSPITALET NORD – 15 AUGUST
PACK PAPA POOL & MAIN PARTY @ COMPLEX ESPORTIU HOSPITALET NORD – 15 AUGUST
LA LECHE! @ EIBISÍ CLUB (TERRACE) – 16 AUGUST
THE WEEK SAFADO @ EIBISÍ CLUB – 16 AUGUST
PACK LA LECHE! & THE WEEK SAFADO @ EIBISÍ CLUB – 16 AUGUST

Tickets

Circuit Festival Barcelona tickets can be purchased ahead of time either for individual events or for the entire event. Single event tickets range from 25€ to 75€. The All Access Pass will give you free priority access to all of the events at a 50 percent discounted rate. If you are looking forward to attending most of the events, this is a great option for you. The Pass also comes with a 10 percent discount at all the local shops that collaborate with the festival, four free entries at one of the DIR GYMS Barcelona, as well as festival swag!

Circuit’s Waterpark

One of the festival’s most famous and fun events is the Water Park Day, which is known to be the biggest open-air gay part in all of Europe. This fun day in the sun will take place on August 11th starting at 10 am and going all night! Enjoy water games and rides, live music and performances, and thousands of people gathering to celebrate the LGBT community!

Circuit Festival Barcelona is one of the events of the year in the city, and a great reason to finally take that trip to this ideal Spanish destination. Come enjoy the Mediterranean atmosphere, and the city’s rich modern culture!

Electronic Music Lovers Unite at Sónar Festival Barcelona

April 28, 2015August 6, 2020bizFlats

One of the best things about visiting Barcelona is their thriving creative community whose members are undoubtedly drawn there by things like the myriad works of Gaudi throughout the city. With both a prevalent creative class and large universities who are contributing to the global new media movement, Barcelona was the perfect choice as one of the world’s Sónar destinations. The Sónar Festival Barcelona, taking place June 18th through the 20th is a celebration of creativity, technology and business, aiming to inspire artists and entrepreneurs alike to start thinking without limits. This Barcelona stop is one that features both the world’s frontier-minded electronic musicians, its most inventive new media artists, and most forward thinking entrepreneurs.

Sónar Festival Barcelona Music

One part music festival, Sónar-goers can expect earth-shattering sounds from an eclectic mix of electronically inspired musicians. You’ll recognize names like Duran Duran, Hot Chip, DJ Fresh, The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, and Southern Hospitality, who are on a long list of over 100 emerging artists of the mixed genre. If you love to move to unique beats, and that strange place where technology meets music, Sónar is definitely a world you will want to explore. You will very easily get lost in the music, and enter the artists’ worlds of creation.

Sónar +D

Sónar +D is a sensory experience. Not only will you witness the most cutting edge electronic music scene, but you’ll also get to experience completely new art forms from a the place where digital fabrication and rendering meet the tangible world and interact with audiences of the Sónar Festival Barcelona. Whether you’re coming as an entrepreneur, a creative job seeker or someone who’s interested in a little bit of everything, +D will inspire you to go to lengths you would never have imagined.

This interdisciplinary gathering of creative-minded businesspeople happens in an intriguing mental space where creativity and technology meet the transformation of cultural industries. Taking place at Fira Montjuic, alongside the ongoing musical performances, +D will be a conference and showcase for innovative people to display their ideas and creations. The diversity of things present will certainly be astounding as you’ll witness innovations in everything from turntables and computer innovation to robotics and virtual reality.

Part of what makes the +D such an excellent addition to the music festival is the impressive list of speakers and presenters who travel from around the world to share their innovate ideas that apply to both work and lifestyle. This year’s showing will include multiple Mego executives, Amy Robinson from EyeWire; Christina Hug from The Maker’s Nation; David Cuartielles, the creator of Arduino; Indy Saha from the Google Creative Lab; and Jeremy Boxer, the Creative Director of Vimeo. These giants in the creative class have some things to share for people interested in using crowdsourcing and technology for trailblazing their industry.

The Sónar Festival Barcelona is one of the best events of the year, and well worth booking a short term rental for. From the comfort of your very own city flat, you’ll have the true Barcelona experience, getting a feel for the creative class here in Catalonia!

Madonna Traerá Su “Rebel Heart” a Barcelona

March 11, 2015November 30, 2021Alí Araúz

Mito viviente para unos. Una provocadora para otros. Ha sido censurada en muchos países por “contenidos explícitamente sexuales” y ha generado grandes polémicas en temas religiosos.

Sin importar lo que pensemos, se caiga o no, esté vieja o no, Louise Verónica Ciccone – “Madonna” – sigue re-inventándose y conquistando generaciones.

En su último paso por Barcelona en el 2012, durante su gira “Madonna World Tour”, logró un lleno total en el Palau Sant Jordi y encendió a una multitud de fans.

La Reina del Pop visitará la Ciudad Condal este 24 de noviembre, en lo que hasta el momento será el único concierto en España de su gira “Rebel Heart”. La diva iniciará su despliegue de conciertos en Miami en el mes de agosto y visitará las ciudades más importantes de Europa como Praga, Berlín, Amsterdam, Londres, Paris y por supuesto, Barcelona.

Las entradas estarán a la venta el próximo lunes, 16 de marzo en ticketmaster y van desde 45€ hasta 175€.

Si no vives en Barcelona no te preocupes! Ven con tus amigos y hospédate en uno de nuestros apartamentos desde 85€ la noche. No te pierdas la oportunidad de ver a una de las cantantes más influyentes de las últimas décadas en una de las ciudades más vibrantes de Europa.

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The Palace of Catalan Music is a Feast for Both the Eyes and the Ears

December 22, 2014August 6, 2020bizFlats

In the heart of Barcelona, Spain you’ll find the Palace of Catalan Music, which is just as much an historical institution as it is a center for the arts. Featuring world-renown art in both performance arts and in fine arts, this is certainly a stop worth making on your trip to Barcelona. Whether you’re seeing a performance, taking a tour, or just walking by you won’t be disappointed that you visited that Palace.

Built between 1905 and 1908, the Palace of Catalan Music is itself a masterful work of art. Part of the turn-of-the-century Catalan Art Nouveau movement, also known as modernisme, it is the only art venue of this style to be listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It stands today as a symbol of the history and heritage for the people of Catalonia. The building’s beautiful architecture is centered around a metal structure covered in glass, flooding it with natural light and making it a wonderful place for large installations.

The Palace has three separate venues. Two are large concert auditoriums, and the third is an intimate concert room for small shows. It also has two meeting places, one is used for intermissions, while the other is an event venue. Each space has a unique art piece all its own, and evoke strong senses of place.

This unique center for the arts is the culmination of local, national and international talent performing in an historic setting. The Palace also has a renowned music education program and guided tours of their gorgeous building. The house Chamber Choir is a professional international benchmark. These 22 voices are devoted to rediscovering the Catalan musical heritage while embracing international choral music and developing new works. This traveling group has worked with the most prestigious international orchestras, opera companies, and conductors.

Shows at the Palace of Catalan Music are diverse and entertaining. Here are some listings for the 2014 holiday season.

Soweto Gospel Choir – Gospel Greats
This South African gospel choir will be performing a tribute concert to Nelson Mandela.

Waltzes and Dance Festival – Orquestra Sinfonica del Valles
This is a festival of Waltzes, Dance and gospel.

Christmas Gospel Rhythm – Alabama Gospel Choir
This show is a journey through the history of gospel from the 19th century to modern Christmas tunes that invite the crowd to join in.

Christmas With Swing – Coros de las Escuelas del Conservatario del Liceu
This is an instrumental and vocal jazz show by students of all ages.

Great New Year’s Concert – Strauss Festival Orchestra and Ballet
This is one of Europe’s most famous tours celebrating the musical traditions of 19th century Vienna.

When you visit the Palace of Catalan Music you’ll be treated to several unique, and famous experiences. The Palace itself is a symbol of an artistic movement set in that particular area while simultaneously celebrating its cultural heritage. The in-house acts are just as noteworthy as the guest ensembles they host from around the world. The Palace of Catalan Music is worth a trip when you’re visiting Barcelona. If you’re looking for a great accommodation while in town, check out the great bizFlats apartments scattered about this beautiful city.

The Opera is Spectacular at the Gran Teatre del Liceu

December 16, 2014August 6, 2020bizFlats

The Gran Teatre del Liceu is not only Barcelona’s premier opera house, but a historical institution founded on La Rambla in 1847. It is a symbol of the city’s diverse arts culture. Visiting the Teatre on La Rambla would be a great night out in Barcelona, is a favorite among locals and visitors alike. A nice meander down the tree-lined, open air mall, and maybe a meal or cappuccino at one of the outdoor cafes would be a great precursor or finish to a show. This outing in the heart of Barcelona will be all but disappointing whether it’s your first time in Barcelona, or you’re just looking for something new to try in this wonderful city.

Founded as a theatrical center for the city, a program for Italian-style singing was eventually cultivated. In a one-and-a-half centuries of existence it went through many stages of development, mostly in ownership and management. Finally, in 1994 on the the 31st of January the stage and Auditorium burned to the ground. In 1997 the Gran Teatre del Liceu was rectified. Though certainly a modernized version of its predecessor, the new building is every bit as inviting, elegant and encompassing of Barcelona’s history and culture as ever.

Here are some of the upcoming 2015 operas at the Gran Teatre del Liceu:

Maria Stuarda
This is a lyric tragedy by Giuseppe Bardar based on the play Maria Stuart by Friedrich con Schiller. It tells the story of the rivalry between Mary, Queen of the Scots and her powerful cousin Elizabeth I.

Una voce in off / La voix humaine
These back-to-back one-act operas are wonderful juxtapositions to each another. Una voce in off is a romantic opera about a woman falling in love while hearing the voice of her dead husband through a tape recorder. La voix humaine, on the other hand, is a lyric tragedy about a woman who refuses to accept the truth.

Norma
This is Vincenzo Bellini’s most famous opera, and a lyric tragedy of Italian romanticism in which the high priestess, Norma, falls in love, breaks her vow of celibacy and has two children. This story of the classic revengeful and passionate heroine is a must-see for any opera fans.

Siegfried
This is the third part of The Ring of Nibelung, a monument of Western culture. This classic drama of the human urge to self-destruct finds the characters moved beyond sense to violate the laws of nature.

Tristan und Isolde
A classic drama of betrayal, guilt, and revenge is the ultimate battle for honor in this story of nonsensical passion. Wagner’s classic tale paralleling romanticism and modernity is another one for the opera lovers out there.

If you’re a real opera buff than you might consider staying at one of these bizFlats accommodations right in La Rambla neighborhood where Gran Teatre del Liceu is located. Besides the opera you can enjoy the many shops, cafes and restaurants in this historic and beautiful part of Barcelona. Buy your opera tickets in advance to be sure to get the best seats for your favorite show. While you’re staying in the area check out some of the other great La Rambla attractions.

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