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Barcelona's reputation as a world centre for art, architecture and design is growing yearly with a plethora of cultural activities on offer. As if it needed confirming, in 1999 the entire city was awarded a Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The seminal ghosts of such artistic luminaries as Antonio Gaudí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies permeate Barcelona's cultural scene. Barcelona is also a showcase for home grown Catalan traditions: dozens of festivals, religious holidays and special occasions are celebrated in Barcelona each year, the most important of which are detailed below
The Guía del Ocio provides information on cultural and other events in the city, and contact details for ticket agencies. Alternatively, there is a cultural information desk at Palau de la Virrena, La Rambla 99 (tel: (93) 301 7775). Caxia Catalunya run the central ticket agency Entrada (tel: (90) 210 1212; website: www.telentrada.com).


Home grown stars include the cellist Pablo Casals and the international opera singers Josep Carreras and Montserrat Caballé. The latter celebrated her native city in a highly theatrical duet (Barcelona) with the late Freddie Mercury of Queen ...


Barcelona's theatre scene does not enjoy the same international reputation as Madrid's, but what it lacks in literary authority, it makes up for in the visual and audio spectacle of its performances ...


The city's main venue for ballet and contemporary dance is the L'Espai de Dansa I Música de la Generalitat de Catalunya - referred to simply as L'Espai ...


There are a growing number of cinemas in Barcelona that show foreign-language films in the original with Spanish subtitles ...


Theatre, music and dance are performed at venues throughout the city, including the open-air auditoria at Teatre Grec on Montjuïc and Convent de Sant Augustí ...


La Ciudad de los Prodigios (City of Marvels) by Eduardo Mendoza fictionalises the life of the city between its two international exhibitions in 1888 and 1929 ...

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