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Clàssic Penedès: A new name in sparkling wine
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Glass and iron container suspended over a river showcases the best Catalan cuisine in Girona
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Catalan Grup Peralada is pre-accepted in the tender to win a BCN World mega-casino license
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Pickpocket theft on Barcelona's metro down by 34% since 2011 as police initiative succeeds
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Foreign tourists spent €6 billion in Catalonia during the first half of 2014, 4% more than last year's same period
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Catalonia reaches a new tourism record with 7.1 million foreign visitors in the first half of the year
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Barcelona Olympic facilities to host a 66.000 m2 sports theme park in 2015
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Barcelona is among world's top 10 places to do business and first European city for shopping tourism
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The Ancient site of Empúries to host a festival of chariot races and gladiator fights this summer
The site of Empúries’ ruins will this summer include a new activity to complement your visit to the Greco-Roman site: the Emporiae Road to Rome Festival. The Road to Rome, organised by the Drakonia company from Figueres, will run from the 25 to 27 July 2014. The fast-paced and dynamic show will feature over 30 artists, ranging from riders, charioteers, dancers and legionaries, and 14 horses. Highlights of the festival will include a chariot race, something that has not been held in Spain for over 40 years. A circular stand has been installed right next to the Forum, with capacity for 2,500 people. Tickets to the festival, which will be held in the afternoons, will include a visit around the ruins of the site.
Culture
Costa Brava Girona Music Festival, a single brand for 65 music events
In Girona there are 65 music festivals and more than 250 performances scheduled throughout the year. Often, however, these festivals are not marketed effectively abroad and there is a lack of international promotion. Therefore, the Costa Brava Tourism Board has facilitated the creation of a single brand, through a website that brings together all of the different musical delights on offer in the region, in order to make these events more accessible and better advertised. For now, the site costabravagironafestivals.com gives the music festival programme for Girona, but has a goal to expand to include theatre, circus and dance events.
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New book offers 25 routes across 145 Catalan towns which appear in dozens of movies
A newly published book, 'Catalunya de Pel·lícula' offers 25 trails, covering 300 sites across 145 Catalan towns that have together featured in over 175 films. The work aims to be a reference guide for all those tourists interested in the world of cinema, who want to learn famous Catalan destinations through thematic routes linked to films. The book, written by author Eugeni Osácar and published by the Department of the Catalan Tourism Agency, was presented on Thursday at the Palau Robert by Catalan Minister for Enterprise and Employment, Felip Puig.
Society
Tourism in Catalonia up by 2.3% in May
In the first five months of 2014, the number of foreign visitors increased by 8% to almost 5.5 million people. Catalonia is the autonomous community in Spain that attracts the most tourists, one in four of all foreign visitors to Spain. This is according to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The strongest increases in visitors came from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Asia, although the UK, Germany and France are still the three countries that sent more tourists to Catalonia.
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Shops in Barcelona to open on Sunday during the summer to increase revenue from tourists
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