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What to do on the Costa Barcelona
If you enjoy combining your walk with a swim, you’re in luck: you’ll find plenty of paths in the regions of Barcelona that are ideal for exploring the coastline on foot. Signposted and waymarked, they often boast information panels listing the characteristics of the route. A great deal of effort has been made with these paths to ensure that no one gets lost and that everyone can discover the beautiful landscape and nature of this part of the Mediterranean region.
When the good weather arrives, the beach is one of the tourist attractions that everyone likes, especially families with children, since the huge variety of seaside activities on offer guarantee hours of playtime, physical exercise and entertainment. What's more, on the Costa Barcelona there are six towns that hold the Family Holiday Destination seal, which means they're particularly attentive to children's needs. Would you like to know which ones they are?
Strength, balance, courage and common sense, the four key concepts of human tower building, repeated like a mantra by its practitioners. For spectators, the most appropriate words might be thrills, nerves, suspense and joy. Without a doubt, to experience a human tower building event is to navigate a sea of sensations. So it’s no wonder that UNESCO inscribed this Catalan tradition par excellence on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Very close to Barcelona you will find a great many examples of modernista works created between the 19th and 20th centuries. Urban palaces and holiday homes, churches and hospitals, warehouses and gardens, factories and cellars, all with the signature of the great architects of the movement in Catalonia: Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, among others. To commemorate this cultural trend, different towns and cities are organizing festivals and fairs to recover their aesthetic quality. Want to find out more about them?
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Anar de compres mentre passegem per nuclis urbans plens d'història, edificis emblemàtics, carrers amb encant i dinàmiques avingudes és possible als eixos comercials de Granollers, Igualada, Mataró, Terrassa, Sitges, Vic, Vilafranca del Penedès i Vilanova i la Geltrú. Hi trobaràs botigues de marques internacionals i establiments de tota la vida, una fórmula ideal per fer-hi el millor shopping. Si pots, mira, remena i compra en 8 eixos comercials absolutament únics
Les dones han estat oblidades durant dècades pels cronistes. Durant segles, el seu paper ha quedat relegat al d’esposes i mares i qualsevol fet destacat quasi sempre s’ha atribuït als homes del seu voltant o ha caigut en l’oblit. Per aquest motiu i a les portes del 8-M volem explicar-te sis històries amb protagonistes femenines que han viscut al llarg de totes les èpoques. Les seves biografies demostren que van ser pioneres en diversos àmbits de la vida social, política i cultural de les comarques de Barcelona.
Sabies que l'última moda esportiva és practicar la marxa nòrdica? Doncs sí: sortir a caminar a ritme alegre recolzant-se en uns bastons similars als que s'empren en l'esquí de fons és una activitat física que té cada cop més adeptes. Segons els entesos, és una manera fantàstica de posar-se en forma, gaudir del contacte amb la natura i conèixer nous amics. A més, es pot fer en diferents tipus de terreny, a diferents èpoques de l'any i amb diferents nivells d'exigència atlètica. Així que, vinga! Una experiència tan diferent no te la pots perdre!
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