Culture and traditions

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?

With over 100 kilometres of blue Mediterranean coastline, it is easy to understand why the municipalities of Costa Barcelona have such a close relationship with the sea. The origins of many villages, towns and cities in Maresme, Barcelonès, Baix Llobregat and Garraf, lie in fishing, maritime trade and shipbuilding – origins that for many of these places are by no means a distant memory. Along this stretch of coastline, fishing remains one of the main industries – a fact that you can see for yourself, if you visit any of the seafood auctions that take place on the region's quaysides every day.

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.