One of the many wonderful things about exploring Barcelona is happening across curious portraits of well-known, and not so well-known, people in unexpected places.
Here's another portrait of the singer, Amy Winehouse which appeared on Carrer Mozart during the Festes de Gràcia, 2017.
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The graffiti is on a door in Carrer de Mozart, Vila de Gràcia.
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Day 2, 10:30pm: After yesterday's exertions we planned to spend most of our time on one street, Joan Blanques, split into two decorated sections and with two stages featuring two very different crowd pleasing bands: A Contrablues and Dani Nel·lo's xxxxxxx
Carrer Joan Blanques de Baix
11pm: We found two chairs and a table and installed ourselves on Joan Blanques de Baix.
Carrer Joan Blanques de Baix de Tot
1am: Having decided we all needed a halfway decent mojito the four of us wended a way through the streets to Raïm. I ordered a mojito made with an oscuro (dark rum) 7 year-old Flor de Caña.
Visca Cuba! Visca Nicaragua!
Advertising poster for cigars in Raïm
2:30am ish: Having joshed and chatted with the Italian chef from a well-known and popular (or, should that be 'polpolar'?) Gallego restaurant, we left Raïm and headed down Carrer Progrés…
Collage of posters from USSR on Carrer Progrés
…and a huge statue of Lenin….
Mr. Vladimir Ilyich Ulaynov on Carrer Progrés
…where we encountered a handsome looking bloke wearing an Augusto Sandino t-shirt chatting with his poet girlfriend.
Visca Nicaragua! Visca Catalunya!
Carrer Progrés
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Skellies on Carrer Llibertat
5am: We finally called it a night and headed for bed.
Festes de Gràcia, 2017 — and we're off!
Day One:
8am: A group of eight of us assemble for coffee and pastries at La Corrala before setting off to Plaça de la Revolució de la Revolució de Septembre 1868 to catch the start of the parade which announces the start of the festes.
En route we caught a look of Carrer de Puigmarti.
Carrer de Puigmarti
8:38am: and the Trabucaires prepare to fire their guns to launch the parade….
Trabucaires
And then…we were joined by…the Lord of the Flies himself…
Beelzebub
And, so to Plaça de la Vila — now transforned as The Little Prince square…
Plaça de la Vila during festes de Gràcia, 2017
While the morning correfoc reached a climax…
Then off to explore the streets…
Plaça Rovira i Trias
… picking up a few stragglers along the way. Now we were 10.
VW camper van in Carrer Providencia
But, before Carrer Verdi we lost two fainthearts. We were again 8.
Carrer Fraternitat
Carrer de Puigmarti
After visiting every decorated street we wended a way home via Carrer Perill…
Carrer de Perill
…and a bar on Bailén before getting home for a shower, lunch and a nap.
6pm: And, four of us strolled out again to watch the cercavila.
Mean looking hombres from outta town looking to party
And here comes the T-shirt man…
…and the Castellers…
Castellers on Travessera de Gràcia and Torrent de l'Olla
11pm: And, so, after mazing and grazing around, and after choripans and empanadas at Plaça Joanic, the four of us ended up on Passeig Sant Joan to see A Contrablues and meet a few friends.
From the very first vibrato chords the band had all assembled in the palms of their sticky hands. A brilliant band who never fail to deliver.
A Contrablues on Passeig de Sant Joan
All in all a great day out in the 'hood.
Bones Festes!
One of the many wonderful things about exploring Barcelona is happening across curious portraits of well-known, and not so well-known, people in unexpected places.
Here's a portrait of the actor, Bryan Cranston as Walter White — AKA Heisenberg — from the TV series, Breaking Bad, on Carrer de Rabassa in Gràcia.
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The graffiti is on a private garage door.
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It’s August 15th — it’s Plaça de la Revolució de Setembre de 1868 — it’s 8:40am. Time to get ready to party.
One of the many wonderful things about exploring Barcelona is happening across curious images in unexpected places.
Here's a graffiti I came across on Carrer del Perill, a few metres from Nou Can Codina and directly opposite Restaurant Gut.
I really like it. Makes me smile.
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Well…here it is… the winning entry of the competition to design the poster for this year’s festa de Gràcia.
One of the many wonderful things about exploring Barcelona is happening across curious portraits of well-known, and not so well-known, people in unexpected places.
Here’s a portrait of Hollywood star, Betty Grable. Thanks to O.P. [see comments]. I had previously erroneously attributed the portrait to Rita Hayworth.
Came across it on Carrer Lleida, just off Avinguda Paral·el, not so very far from Albert Adrià’s restaurant, Pakta.
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Graffiti portrait of Picasso & Dalí in Ciutat Vella
