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| BARCELONA BY NIGHT |
This
book will prove to be an invaluable aid to all cusious visitors who wish
to get to know Barcelona when the sun goes down. This is the book of the
Barcelona that never sleeps, when the daytime rush from place becomes
a noisy bustle, full of fun, but no less cultural. |
Introduction When the sun goes down and electric lighting begins to illuminate the city's spaces, Barcelona is no less bright than in the daytime. Night transforms the day's hurries and worries into a busyling late-hour happines, wiping away, if only for a few hours, the memory of the hassle of the day. Darkness doesn't really exist in this welcoming metropolis that never rests and keeps moving to the sometimes frenetic rhythm set by the sea that bathes its feet. But there is also the cadence of the street music, there are the laughs of the night people... Barcelona is an open city, modern and hospitable, and its nighttime is more than a faithful reflection of this cosmopolitan and welcoming spirit that invades and inspires it. In Barcelona there is room for everything. For everybody. Nighttime entertainment here is so extensive, varied, and pluralistic that most of the time it's difficult to limit yourself. So much of the time you forget to do half of it! There is little time and much to do, and choosing is the first task for anybody who wishes to discover and be seduced by what the city has to offer. Activities of all sorts take place in this Mediterranean setting: concerts, dances, spectacles, festivals, fireworks, dinners where the table talk lasts into the morning, interminable pub crawls... there's a place for everything. Barcelona nighlife has changed so much with the passage of time and in such a fast-moving way that places that seemed untouchable 20 years ago have either closed their doors or simply fallen into total oblivion. Every-thing passes and nothing remains, as the poet Antonio Machado said. And yet... this is not entirely true: many things have happened,many have died and many new locales have come into being, bringing with them new ways of having fun, new leisure activities, new ways of living the night, of enjoying... But ont thing, perhaps the most important, main thing, that is still here, is that spirit of enjoying to the full the nighttime hours, that desire to live the night. [..] |
 
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