SubjectCulture and leisure
![Audience at the 2010 Sónar festival. © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_tendencies.jpg?itok=82U68War)
Festivals have become the ultimate popular spectacle of our times. They have built themselves from scratch in just three decades. In Barcelona, we have gone from a tentative and...
![The 3D digital space allows visitors to explore each and every one of the construction phases of the monastery grounds. © Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes. 2019](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/projecte_nou_3d.jpg?itok=CzZCtv1e)
The exhibition Rere els murs del monestir. Set-cents anys d’una història en femení [Behind the Monastery Walls. Seven Hundred Years of a Female History] allows us to...
![Photo credit: © Frederic Camallonga](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_entrevista_oriolbroggi.jpg?itok=eeXinOnV)
Oriol Broggi
The theatre production company La Perla 29 has celebrated two decades of existence in full swing, with new challenges and great performances. In recent years, Oriol Broggi has...
![Inside the Documenta bookshop on Carrer de Pau Claris in Barcelona.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_debat.jpg?itok=cb8LYWd-)
In recent years, more bookshops have opened than have closed in Barcelona. Ona, Finestres, Byron, Fahrenheit 451, Restory, Nocturama, La Insòlita, ECC Cómics… are just some...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_jldevicente.jpg?itok=ytmJbfm9)
Creative skills can currently be reproduced using deep learning and neural networks, but their true potential...
![Book: Survey Barcelona. Una mirada fotogràfica sobre les transformacions de la ciutat, 2015-2023. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2023. Llibre: Survey Barcelona. Una mirada fotogràfica sobre les transformacions de la ciutat, 2015-2023. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2023.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_llibres_survey_1_.jpg?itok=T_pfpXNX)
Valentín Roma, Adrià Goula and Susan Sontag all concur on the fact that photography needs objectives, but it is not objective. Survey Barcelona, a family album in which...
![Book: Altres Brosses. Joan Brossa i la poesia d’acció, el parateatre. Joan Maria Minguet. Fundació Joan Brossa and Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2023. Llibre: Altres Brosses. Joan Brossa i la poesia d’acció, el parateatre. Joan Maria Minguet. Fundació Joan Brossa i Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2023.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_llibres_foto_general_altres_brossesok.jpeg?itok=BN1hKWea)
The Fundació Joan Brossa – under the baton of Joan M. Minguet and with a large team of collaborators as its orchestra – is presenting the book Altres Brosses. Joan Brossa i...
![Portrait of Maruja Torres. © Javier Barbancho](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_entrevista_marujatorres.jpg?itok=AVgfwdjs)
Maruja Torres
Maruja Torres arrives at our interview on foot with the aid (more mental than physical) of a wooden walking stick. She says that walking is good for her, and she counts her steps...
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