SubjectCulture and leisure
![Cuando la riqueza se codeaba con el hambre. (Vida nocturna de la Barcelona de posguerra, 1939-1952), Paco Villar. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/expos_llibres_1100x548_2.jpg?itok=zTC9EHKq)
The lights and shadows of the 1940s and 1950s in Barcelona, collected in Paco Villar’s latest book. From the restaurants Los Caracoles on the street Escudellers to La Puñalada and La...
![Barcelona, Fotògrafes/Fotógrafas, d`Isabel Segura.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/expos_llibres_1100x548__0.jpg?itok=FM9i7FT6)
For a long time, Spanish photographers saw their creative aspirations determined by the role society assigned to them. The book Barcelona, fotógrafas, by Isabel Segura – which...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/dossier_1100x548_18.jpg?itok=N7VBvXGc)
The lockdown triggered by the pandemic has revealed the shortcomings of urban living as we knew it to us. The rural world now offers tranquillity and contact with nature that we do not...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/dossier_1100x548_17.jpg?itok=rrQuaNcY)
COVID-19 has spread faster in dense urban areas, resulting in a higher mortality rate compared to rural areas. By drawing the diagram of the virus’s behaviour and its spread in cities,...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/relat.jpg?itok=0b84GnLo)
When her friends started getting into the habit of splitting taxis to get home, for the first time she thought that she’d have to give up the night bus.
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/dossier_1100x548_9.jpg?itok=WLBztRwA)
If the presents and futures of our everyday urban life are entwined and unravelled in digital entanglements, knowing how to listen to them is crucial. But the right to be heard also...
![Retrat de Laura Huerga al seu despatx. © Clara Soler Chopo](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/c_entrevista_.jpg?itok=7OEKp2_Q)
Laura Huerga
The publisher Laura Huerga (Barcelona, 1978) is an unusual case on the Catalan literary scene. With professional beginnings far removed from the cultural world, it was her reading habits...
![Retrat de Carme Portaceli. © Clara Soler Chopo](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_1_1.jpg?itok=D89r79TS)
Carme Portaceli
Carme Portaceli is to be the forthcoming director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya [TNC, the National Theatre of Catalonia], making her the first woman to run the institution since...
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