1977, When we stopped praying and started laughing In Barceloneta, over the course of nearly three centuries, there have been many shortages, but there
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AL RICO CHIVIRICOQUI, COQUI The term “chiviricoqui” refers to a traditional sweet that was popular in Barceloneta in the ’60s and ’70s. It was
The Barceloneta newspaper wasn’t a dream. It was as much a part of our reality as the Torín bullring or the San Sebastià baths.
He spoke highly of Barcelona and made it known throughout the world, but the city has forgotten him. Cervantes visited Barcelona twice, and on
We kept repeating this phrase from the water, with our heads above the surface and our right hands waving in the air like a
How exciting and nerve-wracking! It was the most magical night. The night they sent us to bed early, but we weren’t sleepy. We had
At Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima, a replica of the locomotive that ran on the first railway line in our history: Barcelona-Mataró was built, with
Lo Pola at the NODO The Marina Cinema was one of those huge theatres with a sloping floor from the entrance to the screen,
The laundries In the 1950s and 1960s, most apartments in Barceloneta did not have running water or had it from a tank, and we
El Tipa imported it from the French “Mr. Mayor, we want the cannon! Mayor, we want the cannon!” This is how the arrival of
Statues that are boats Robert Limoso’s Miraestels float in the waters of the port looking for stars and something else Buoys, fishing boats, merchant
“In Barceloneta, the train always gives us a hard time .” There was a time, between the 1950s and 1980s, when the freight train
What can happen when you touch something you shouldn’t At the Can Solé restaurant, Ramon Homs, who had come from studying hospitality in Switzerland,
February 22, 2018. I’m having a coffee, as I usually do every morning, on the terrace of the market bar, right on the corner
The Oriental Baths People had a great time at the Oriental Baths. There was a women-only area where they could go topless during the
The most surprising match at Barceloneta’s stadium Before social media gave us the chance to argue with a New York tweeter, the only ones
The royal carriage stops in the middle of the parade. On both sides of the avenue, the crowd throngs, flanked by security forces, trying
The arrival of television platforms has filled our homes with mind-blowing series and films more varied than a politician’s excuses. A fabulous convenience that
He worked in Almirante Churruca street in La Barceloneta as a driver in a tricycle rental shop run by a national policeman who called
On May 26, 1948, Dr. Alexander Fleming arrived in Barcelona. Three years earlier he had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for one of
“You Catalans are meek people” The words were not spoken, but spat out, spat in my face by a man who looked as if
One windy winter afternoon I went into the Bodega Sergio, where it is common to find fishermen, dockers and other salty people. There was
The sky was blue, clear, cloudless. After several days of Levante, the streets were covered by a thin layer of humidity that the Mistral
EB-From your native Florida to Barceloneta, and travelling around the world for quite a while in the middle. Tell us more about you. CG-The
The watchman who whispered poetry. At the Moll de la Fusta, boards and planks are piled up in front of the docked cargo ships.
Beyond what today is the Hospital del Mar, began the sandy areas of earth and rubble of Somorrostro, where emigrants and gypsies were raising
It was in the middle of the 19th century, one of those afternoons when the day was already at an end, when those who
“Iconophilia”, exactly as it sounds, our city is iconophilic, and there seems to be no intention of finding a remedy to cure it. Since
At the end of Passeig Joan de Borbón, near where there used to be an aquarium with the fish which had grown crazy eyes
Cities like Cork (Ireland), Jeddanh (Saudi Arabia), Valencia and Malaga (Spain) were eliminated from the bid to host the Americas Cup, some due to
