Why Barcelona

WHYBARCELONA

Since the 1992 Olympic Games, Barcelona has established itself as a unique place for organising major sports, cultural and technological events. It is a top-class setting for international sports events such as the World Swimming Championships held here in the summer of 2013. Recently the city also hosted the World Handball Championships and in 2014 the Palau Sant Jordi will be a venue for the World Basketball Championships.

Aside from sport, Barcelona also hosts international music and cultural events like Sónar, Primavera Sound and the Grec Festival. With 21 editions behind it Sónar is global event which brings together, every year, established artists and talented newcomers from every music and audiovisual scene.

When it comes to international meetings, Barcelona has been playing host to for the Mobile World Congress - the biggest international meeting on mobile phones - since 2006 and will will continue to do so until 2018. Every year the city holds other big meetings besides this one and it is currently the number-one city in the world for delegates, the third for international congresses and the seventh for trade fairs and congresses.

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The renowned ‘Barcelona style’ is an explosive mixture of cultural/histori-cal tradition & avanguard design architecture. Barcelona is bohemian & fashion, rebel & innovative, but at the same time is tradition, history & culture. This sparkling mix (very well retailed in the Woody Allen movie Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona) attracts, nowadays, million tourists every year to visit the new cosmopolitan Medi-terranean capital.

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Five miles of coast with 9 beautiful & hospitable beaches is an added value that few European metropolis can offer.

The climate is worm for 9 months a year and the rain very unusual. The medium temperature from April to October is 25 degrees.

These positive meteorological conditions make of Barcelona an ‘summer oasis’ for the delegates coming for corporate events, meetings & congresses.

CONFERENCEFACILITIES

FIRAHas over 400,000 m² of exhibition floor space, the 2nd largest exhibition area in Europe, spread over 2 venues: Montjuïc and Gran Via. Fira has a portfolio of over 70 fairs & exhibitions (annual, biennial, triennial & qua-drennial), which bring together 30.000 companies, and receives 2,5 million visitors. The Fira counts with 60 rooms that host in 2012 362 events, 90 exhibitors, 127 conference, 10.000 expositors.

CCIBIt is the best positioned in the Mediterranean and has established itself as the best business platform between Europe and Latin America.With a surface area of 100.000 m2 which includes the Convention Centre building and the Fòrum Auditorium, the CCIB has ample space to welcome up to 15.000 visitors and to house the most challenging association, corpo-rates, meetings & congresses.

PCCThe building itself is a symbol of contemporary Barcelona, designed by the architects Ferrater and Cartañá and has received the National Architecture Prize in 2001. The Palau de Congressos de Catalunya has 35 halls and rooms of varying sizes. The grandiose Auditorium can hold over 2.000 attendees. The maximum exhibition space is over 4.000m² with a capacity for banquet up to 3.000 participants.

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GAUDIOPERAS

Barcelona is famous all over the world for the magnificent opera of Antoni Gaudí, one of the most internationally recognized architects of all the times. His whimsical vision and imaginative designs have brought a bit of magic to the city, and the temple of the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batlló & La Pedrera, & Parc Guell are just some of the icons of his genius. Gaudi culmination of traditional elements with fanciful ornamentation and brilliant technical solu-tions paved the way for future architects to step outside the box. The vision and genius of this world famous architect earned Barcelona, home to nearly all his buildings, a privileged place in the annals of the history of art.

The FC Barcelona is the best football team of all the times, and, with over 200.000 members all of the world, is the media phenomenon of the XXI century.

The FC Barcelona is ‘mes que un club’ (more then a club), it represent the good values of sport & life in the five continents.

The Camp Nou Museum is the most visited sport museum of the world and its structures offers modern & sophisticated meeting & conference facilities.

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