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Nov 04, 2008
November will be the month for the new edition of the Wintercase San Miguel. This festival has been the first itinerant music festival in Spain and it is now at its 7th edition. It always passes through Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia, bringing in these cities some of the biggest names of the independent music.
This year festival will bring on the stage some new bands,
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Sep 10, 2008
Summer is almost over, but Barcelona still has one big festival to go.
From the 19th to the 24th of September takes place the Festes de la Mercè (or simply called La Mercè) to celebrate the Patron Saint of the city.
According to the legend, on the 24th of September of 1218, during the 5th Crusade, the Virgin appeared to King Jaume I, St. Pere Nolasc and St.
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Aug 13, 2008
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Until 1897 Gracia Quarter was an independent village, separated from Barcelona by fields. In the XIX century it grew a lot thanks to the immigration of the new industrial worker class.
In the same years we can find the origins of the Fiesta Major de Gracia, a popular and traditional street festival. If at the beginning it had some religious meanings, soon it became just a
