SubjectCulture and leisure
![Llibre: Muñoz Ramonet. Retrat d’un home sense imatge, Manuel Risques (ed.)](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre-munozramonet.jpg?itok=GWp8OZ0c)
Julio Muñoz Ramonet, the invisible prince of the black market, left his palace on Carrer de Muntaner to the city of Barcelona, along with the extraordinary collection of art that hung...
![Older women singing while performing a choreography with their hands. © Laura Guerrero](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/plec-debat-01-concert-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=2TPa2QcK)
If culture is to help us to create a community, the consumer of art must also be a participant and not a mere spectator. Participation enables us to broaden our point of view and...
![© Laura Guerrero. Views of Barcelona from the sea to the mountains from Barcelona City Council's Novíssim building.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/plec-intro-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=szvQn2my)
Against the strength of the market, which spins people outside the city, culture can be a tool that helps them to overcome marginalities and puts them on equal footing without making...
![La cantant Rosalía © Berta Pfirsich](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/tendencies-rosalia-obertura-1100ok.jpg?itok=4uHZ8RO3)
Rosalía studied in the classrooms in the Taller de Músics, as well as on the patio, and in the street, with artists, teachers and students. She was always sure about what she wanted to...
![Retrat de Marta Marín-Dòmine © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista-marta-marin-domine-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=vK_MethN)
Marta Marín-Dòmine
Do we come from where we were born, where we live or where our ancestors came from? These are the questions that Marta Marín-Dòmine explores in Fugir era el més bell que teníem...
![Retrat de Joan Margarit © Camilla de Maffei](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista-joan-margarit-retrat-1100.jpg?itok=GzofycbO)
Joan Margarit
Joan Margarit is travelling through old age with a complete published oeuvre that grows as he writes new poems and books such as Per tenir casa cal guanyar la guerra [To Have a...
![Il·lustració d'uns micos en un parc vestits com científics © Ana Yael Zareceansky](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/relat-ilustracio-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=AWIEYGEv)
Similar: we see the little hands and little fingers (oh, the defining opposable thumb) and they seem so human. Then we look them in the eyes and the familiarity is complete. When we look...
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