Barcelona Cultura
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Data for 2014 now available 08/05/2015

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.

New: Barcino 3D – an application to travel to, walk through and fly over the ancient Roman Barcelona 25/11/2014

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 –, […]

El Born Centre Cultural. Balance of one year of operation 18/11/2014

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 […]

Report on La Mercè 2014, Barcelona’s big yearly city festival 03/11/2014

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. (Document only available in Catalan)

Civic centres survey 2014 (Òmnibus municipal survey) 19/09/2014

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 […]

Barcelona summer festival Grec 2014. Provisional data 31/07/2014

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 […]