Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Born Centre Cultural

(c) Pep Herrero
It's one of the latest to join the huge number of sights in Barcelona, Born Centre Cultural (Born Culture Center; another one being the new old fleamarket Els Encants Vells). During the first weeks since its opening on September 9, a few hundred thousand locals accepted long waits to be able to visit it.
It's official website is here, the English version has got only one page. The Catalan and Spanish versions give a lot more information on the archeological findings, exhibitions, events, restaurant, bookstore, etc. It's Twitter account (pictures) is here.
The Catalan news agency ACN had this article. Some critics believe it to be a propanda project related to the festivities in memory of the third centenary of the fall of Barcelona in 1714, at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession (1700-1714, Wikipedia article).
The international press has not covered it yet (at least to this blogger's research on google news...). For the (hipster) Born neighborhood consult TimeOut Barcelona here...
(c) Marçal Font