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Barcelona's Gabriel García Márquez library among best of world in 2022
Institution finalist of international award that will announce winner on August 21
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Freemasonry, anarchism, and Sherlock Holmes books fill Biblioteca Pública Arús' shelves
Visitors at first public library opened in Barcelona greeted by Statue of Liberty's replica
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Catalonia's 'Library of Alexandria': a millennium of history and 65 km of shelves
Biblioteca de Catalunya dates back to 889 and is home to 4.7 million documents
Barcelona to limit entry to cultural centers, libraries and sports centers
Mayor Ada Colau announces temporary closure of city's 58 senior citizens centers
Library of US Congress boasts over 10 million documents in Catalan
Institution has begun to digitize recordings by score of major writers from Catalonia, reports Catalunya Ràdio
99.9% of Catalans will be able to participate near their home in the alternative vote on November 9
938 of the 947 existing municipalities in Catalonia will host polling stations for the alternative consultation vote on independence scheduled for the 9th of November, which replaces the original non-binding referendum. According to the Catalan Government, this represents 99.9% of Catalans being able to vote in their own neighbourhood, town or village, without having to go to a nearby municipality. The Catalan Government will be using its own venues to host the polling stations (mainly high-schools), but it lacks them in small towns. For this reason it requested that town halls cooperate and make municipal venues available for voting. 4 additional municipalities could be added to the final list. In addition, civil societies and parties will be able to campaign in 305 Catalan Government's venues between the 30th of October and the 8th of November.
Catalonia’s Shakespeare Festival returns after its cancellation in 2011 due to the crisis
After one year without the Shakespeare Festival, it has now returned. However, it will take place in a new place and with a new partner: La Perla 29, the theatre production company which is directed by Oriol Broggi. The festival will move from the coastal town of Mataró to Barcelona. The event will take place in spring 2013 in the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Catalonia’s National Library), in the city centre. As the event was unexpectedly cancelled last year, this new edition focuses on the adaptation of the festival to the economic crisis and aims to be projected to Europe and worldwide.
Barcelona’s main public library to be built next to the Ciutadella Park
The cultural facility is thought to be an adaptable building, a library of the 21st century. The project comes with more than 13 years of delay and it is the first ever Spanish Government-funded library in Barcelona.