Spring has come! Let's start it with a new festival: Brunch Electronik Barcelona '15

Spring has arrived, and with it a new great festival starts here in Barcelona! Temperature are rising, hot sunny days are coming, so it is the moment to put aside plaids and dvds and spend the weekend outdoor instead of staying at home.

The Brunch Electronik Barcelona offers you a different plan to enjoy this beautiful season of the year with music, cuisine and culture, so if you are bored of wasting your time on the sofa come and have some good fun! In fact in the Brunch Electronik Barcelona you will have the chance to join culture and leisure together, you can rest under the sun and at the same time you can be involved in a lot of cultural activities like shows, cinematic projections, flea markets where you can buy second hand books and vinyls, reading spaces, activities for children and more. Moreover, as you can understand from the name of the festival, you will find a tasty brunch menu if you're hungry, and you will have the chance to dance to the music of the best national and international djs of the moment.

The festival will be hosted at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, in the heart of the city, then it is an opportunity to visit it and get seduced by its beauty, since the entrance ticket will allow you to visit the museum as well.

So, from the third sunday of March, every two weeks, all the families with children, all music lovers, "nihilists", people that love culture, vintage markets addicts, but in general to all the people that want to spend a different sunday, you already have a plan for the weekend: the Brunch Electronik Festival.

For further information, don't waste time and visit the website!

Día de Sant Jordi

Sant Jordi, Christian martyr, lived in the 4^th century and is famous for being the allegory of the good beating the wrong. In Barcelona, city of which he has been the Holy Patron since 1094, the legend says that some day, he arrived in a city where the population was terrorized by a dragon that demanded the daily sacrifice of two young people selected at random. That day, the king's daughter was drawn but through the Christ, Sant Jordi could beat the dragon and save the princess.

In Catalonia, Sant Jordi has been celebrated on the 23^rd April since the 15^th century and the women are given a rose during the day. At the beginning it was just about giving a rose to the women who attended Mass at the Sant Jordi's chapel at the Palacio de la Generalidad de Catalunya at that date, but the tradition was expanded over the years to all women. Nowadays, they receive from their boyfriend, fiancé or husband a rose that refers to exclusive love, red-coloured that is symbol of passion, and a ear of wheat that is symbol of fecondity.

In 1926, Vicent Clavel i Andrés, a catalan writer, offered to the Barcelonians booksellers to develop a day that would celebrate books. They aggreed on the day when Cervantes, the most famous Spanish writer, was buried: the 23^th April. Thus, from the moment when this day became the official “Día del Libro”, in 1929, people have been used to giving books as well. Today, women receive a rose with a ear of wheat when the men are given a book.

The tradition is so well known that UNESCO turned the day into Wold Book and Copyright Day from 1995.

Now that you know more about this day, that can be compared to Valentin's day in Catalonia, I hope for that you're being given a rose or a book on the next 23^th April!