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This week we offer you to discover our terraces top 5 in Barcelona. So you know where are the best places to enjoy the sun, with good drinks and atmoshpers.

1- Terraza 83.3

This terrace is located on the Hotel Royal Passeig de Gràcia’s roof. This is the perfect place to enjoy the Barcelona’s Skyline. With a glass roof, this terrace is entirely climatised and is a perfect place to enjoy good cocktails and tapas with an amazing view.

2- The Wet Deck

If you like enjoy sun, cocktails and electronic music, this place is made for you! Located in the hotel W swiming pool. This place host every Sunday electronic music session with a guest DJ. If you want to know the programation you can have a look on their website.

3 – Torre Rosa

Open since 1987 in a wonderfull hold indian house, this place specialized in cocktails create a special and pleasant atmoshpher with its palmtrees and architecture to spend good time.

4 – Buenas Tardes Pulitzer

Located on the ultimate floor of the Pulitzer, each summuer from May to October this terrace offers comfortable seats and a beautiful view on the city.

5 – El Terrat del DO

In Plaza Reial is the Hotel DO last floor, a refined place with local cuisine that offer a beatiful view on the Barrio Gotico and the Ciutat Vella. With a swiming pool to refresh itself if needed, this place also offers a wonderfull view on the famous Las Tres Gracias, one of the Gaudi’s master pieces.

Tomorrow in Barcelona starts the Gracia’s neighbourhood célébrations! This is one of most festive events in the city!Those celebration are a one week party whith a lot of parades into the decorated streets, local food stands, children’s activities and more.
We recommend you to assist at least once in your life to a typical Spanish atmospher like this.
You can find the celebrations detailed prgram on : https://lameva.barcelona.cat/culturapopular/en/festivals-and-traditions/festa-major-de-gracia

🍹 Do you like cocktails? 🍹

This week in Barcelona happen the World Class Cocktails Festival which is a competition where the best bartenders in the world are trying to create the bests cocktails as possible!

As you know, we never miss an opportunity to make you discover this amazing Barcelona city and this is why today we offer you to discover three bars in which the festival is occuring.

1 – The Paradiso
You will be able to enjoy your cocktails with smoked in-house charcuterie.
For the Festival, their offering is called El Quiche. It is a cocktail inspired by elements of both Spanish and Mayan culture

2 – The London Bar
Opened in 1910, this is one of the oldest bars in Barcelona. The place is really enjoyable with a modern and original decor.
Here you will be able to try The Voice, a soft and sweet drink that, according to his creator “should be served in clay base made to measure, with the shapes of the female body”.

3 – Bar De la Rosa

This bar is specialized in locally sourced ingrédients. Into a classical decor, you will be able to apreciate The Toucha, an imaginative creation of the bartender with manzanilla sherry citric acid, seaweed soda and others secrets.

Now you know where to find the finest cocktails in Barcelona!

And if you are looking for great places to rent in order to enjoy and discover more Barcelona, you can visit our website to find your location : https://akiraflats.com/

Come to discover La Mare de Déu del Carme en Barcelona!

On 16 July differents towns along the coast of Catalonia celebrate the Mare de Déu del Carme (Our Lady of Mount Carmel), the patron saint of seafaring communities. Sailors, fishermen and all sorts of seafarers revere the saint as she protects them from the most common dangers of the sea.

In Barcelona the festival takes place mainly in Barceloneta, the city’s quintessential nautical neighbourhood. The festival is organised by the local fisherman’s fraternity, which every year, on the first Saturday after 16 July, takes the image of the saint from the local parish church out around the neighbourhood in a procession. After going around the waters of the port, the saint is placed on an improvised altar on the wharf while mass is held and offerings are made to her. Finally, the festivity concludes with a performance by a Barceloneta choir, a very traditional element in the neighbourhood.

Reason

The ritual is more or less the same everywhere: the local fishermen’s fraternity take the image of the virgin out in a procession as far as the port, where she is put on a boat. The procession continues at sea, with a varied fleet of vessels in tow. The boats normally sail as far as a significant point or landmark on the coast, landing there and holding a mass presided over by the virgin.

The aim of the ritual is to honour the Mare de Déu del Carme and ask her for protection against the most habitual dangers of the sea, such as storms and shipwrecks.

Origins

The origin of the festivity honouring Carme as the patron saint of seafarers lies with the legend explaining how she saved an English boat adrift in the middle of a terrible storm. Amid the desperation, one of the sailors started to pray, wrenching off the scapulary of the Carmelite order he was wearing and throwing it into the sea. The act immediately ended the storm. It seems the spreading of the legend helped consolidate the Mare de Déu del Carme as the patron saint of sailors and seafarers.

In the 18th century the Majorcan Admiral Antoni Barceló Pont de la Terra promoted the festivity among his men, who adopted her as their protector straight away and dubbed her ‘Stella Maris’. Little by little the devotion spread among sailors and gradually substituted Sant Elm, who had traditionally been the protector of Catalan sailors and seafarers.

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