Twenty years ago three friends decided to organise an electronic and experimental music festival, today this festival has become the premier electronic music event in the world, attracting the biggest names in the electronic and experimental music scene over 90,000 electronic music lovers .Sonar 2013 will be the 13, 14 and 15 of June.

Neither Messi or Ronaldo were match deciders in the first leg of the Copa del Rey 2013 semi final, that honour belonged to young French defender Raphael Varane. A late inclusion into the Real Madrid squad to cover the absence of Pepe and Ramos in defence, he capped an impressive performance leaping between Puyol and Fabregas to head the ball into the back of the net equalising Fabregas’s opener. Barcelona will go into the decider with an away goal; Madrid will feel that they too can sneak in an away goal in the return leg of the Copa del Rey 2013 to played in Camp Nou on Wednesday 27th of February. Which of these teams will make it into the final?

The X games are back in Barcelona on May 16-10 2013. Don’t know what the X games are? Well I’ll give you a quick rundown, it is a bunch of young men and women who have ditched football, basketball and whatever other traditional sport you can think in favour of skateboards, BMX bikes, motorbikes and rally cars. And what they can do on these things is truly amazing!

The organisers of the popular independent music festival, at a special gala event in Sala Apolo, announced the lineup for this year’s Primavera Sound 2013. Now that we have seen the lineup we can honestly say it is one of the best in the Festival´s history even surpassing last year’s Primavera Sound.

Find accommodation for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013 From the 25-28 of February 2013 the Mobile World Congress will take place in Barcelona, it is the most important new mobile phone technologies and wireless communication trade fair in the world.

As in many other large cities, in Barcelona local traditions interweave with spiders, bats, costumes and typical Halloween skulls. Here are some of the places you can celebrate Halloween 2012 in Barcelona.

From the 21st to the 24th of September 2012, there is no excuse for staying in: everyone in Barcelona has a date with the city. So put on your best clothes and most up-for-it attitude, and get ready to be lead astray by the concerts, explosions, traditions and large quantities of inhibited crazy fun that you’ll find in the festival of La Mercè 2012 in Barcelona.

In this celebration, the streets of the popular district of Gràcia are filled with music, colour, performances, laughs… and visitors.

“Sant Joan” (in Catalan) is also known as “San Juan” or, incorrectly, as “San Joan”. This refers to the summer solstice on the 23rd of June. Those from more wintry climes may be surprised to discover that, in hotter countries such as Spain and Portugal, this overtakes New Year’s Eve in the competition for biggest party of the year.

Do you dream about zombie apocolypses? Congratulations! Barcelona is being infested by the zombie hordes… and there’s only two possible options: run or join them!