You can now consult Barcelona’s culture data for 2014: a summary of the city in facts and figures with data on museums, performing arts spaces, music, festivals and much more.
In the Data search engine section you can access most of the data as from the year 2010.
Barcelona City Council’s Institut de Cultura (ICUB), in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), has carried out a project allowing it to recreate in 3D the Roman Barcelona and its surroundings of the late 3rd century CE. All the information is georeferenced so that our modern city can be superimposed on Barcino – the Roman Barcelona –, revealing the location of features like the Roman aqueduct, which crossed today’s Plaça Vuit de Març and Plaça Nova. It also shows a domus situated on today’s Plaça de Sant Miquel, for example, and the underground site beneath the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). Additionally, the application proposes various routes through the Roman Barcelona and contains information on all the archaeological vestiges that have been found in the city.
The recreated model is based on the scientific study conducted by a large group of archaeologists, historians, epigraphers and other experts. The starting point has been the documents of all provenances relating to archaeological excavations, heritage studies and research projects published in connection with the Roman Barcelona.
The application is addressed to different types of users and may be downloaded in three languages (Catalan, Spanish or English) from the website of the Servei d’Arqueologia de Barcelona.
It is currently available for tablets and personal computers, and it will soon be made available for smartphones and Google Earth as well.
Video: Barcino 3D
El Born Centre Cultural opened on 11 September 2013. In its first year of operation, with a cultural offering of over 300 activities and coinciding with the commemoration of the Tricentenary of 1714, it has welcomed over 2 million visitors. The figures for this first year seem to indicate that this facility, which links the city’s historic legacy and contemporary culture, has become fully integrated into the life of our people and of the neighbourhood where it is set.
Video: El Born CentreCultural: the balance of one year of operation
The report on La Mercè 2014, Barcelona’s big yearly city festival, is now available online. In the attached document you will find a summary of the festival’s highlights and the main participation figures.
This is a summary of the results of the Òmnibus municipal survey of June 2014. On this occasion, questions were asked about the Barcelonans’ knowledge of the existence of the city’s civic centres and of the activities that are carried out there.
The Òmnibus municipal survey is a telephone survey that is carried out on a sample of 1,000 people aged 16 years or more who live in the city of Barcelona. A stratified random sampling method is applied and the sampling error is ± 3.1% for the overall sample.
The Barcelona summer festival 2014 (Grec Festival de Barcelona) shows a positive balance. About 50% of the festival’s tickets were sold (6 points over last year’s figure), with an increase of 12,000 spectators.
In 2014, tickets were sold out for more of the festival’s shows than ever, with 15 shows selling 100% of their tickets and a total of 42 shows selling over 70%.
You can see the provisional data on the Festival in the attached document (in Catalan).