Sant Joan 2021: How to enjoy the festivity despite the pandemic
Some beaches will be open all night and fireworks and bonfires are generally permitted but with restrictions
Culture
Culture news and stories from Barcelona and Catalonia
Barcelona’s newest literature festival, ‘42,’ will celebrate speculative fiction in November
The first edition this autumn will pay homage to acclaimed writers Víctor Nubla and Ana María Matute
Sagrada Família to extend opening hours and welcome visitors on Fridays from June 18
Staff layoffs expected after seven-month partial closure
Dalí’s former home city to add portraits and screenings of the artist this summer
Figueres, in northern Catalonia, already boasts the Dalí Museum and hopes to increase tourism this year
‘Science friction’: art exhibit questions human supremacy over living world
Barcelona’s CCCB takes on anthropocentrism and reimagines relationship with other creatures
Catalan film sweeps the board at Málaga Film Festival
Agustí Villaronga's The Belly of the Sea wins six awards including Best Picture
Catalan team releases submission for AI song contest
AIMCAT members and AI combine to create ‘I feel the Wires’ for international competition
First weekend of Primavera Sound 2022 sells out
Last tickets for second weekend still available as Phoenix joins line-up on June 11
Small-scale Corpus Christi celebrations return to Catalonia
The UNESCO-recognized Patum de Berga, however, did not go ahead due to the pandemic
Everything you need to know about music festivals this summer
Who’s playing where, what Covid safety measures are in place, and where you can get your tickets
Barcelona's Plaça Reial to host 50 concerts through to November
The performances will take place in Barcelona’s Plaça Reial from this Friday until November
Dani Karavan, sculptor of Walter Benjamin memorial in Portbou, dies at 90
Sculpture ‘Passatges’ in northern Costa Brava honors not only him, but all humans going into exile in search of freedom
First afro-feminist theater being built in Barcelona
Project Periferia Cimarronas aims to build a new creative space for the Afro-descendent community in Catalonia
Sun, beaches and books: Costa Brava's Calonge to become Catalonia's first full-time book town
Municipality encourages booksellers to set up shop in bid to boost local economy
25,000 to attend Cruïlla music festival in Barcelona subject to daily testing
The event returns to the city on July 8, 9 and 10 with mostly local acts performing
Read the latest updates and breaking news on culture and cultural topics from Barcelona and Catalonia. Keep up to date with the city’s museums dedicated to some of the biggest artists in the world such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Antoni Tàpies, as well as other institutions such as the National Art Museum (MNAC), the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), and exhibition spaces like the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona (CCCB), CiaxaForum, and CosmoCaixa.