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Van Van - Gastronomad MarketVan Van is an itinerant gastronomic market consisting of a convoy of food trucks, offering a wide range of quality gastronomy. Van Van aspires to be an authentic popular festival, a party in which to enjoy the gastronomic culture in the public space. On Sunday the 29th there will be a special day of Van Van because the Lost&Found Market will also be celebrated.

BCN Film FestThe BCN Film Fest focuses on popular films for the general public with special attention to those related to the world of literature and history. This event aims to establish a close relationship with the cultural and popular character of the Diada de Sant Jordi, the most emblematic day of Barcelona. The festival opens with the film "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mike Newell that will be present during the event, and closes with "Roman J. Israel, Esq." by Dan Gilroy.Cinema, Festival

Live Research FairIn the framework of the 16th edition of the Live Research Fair, scientists from various centers in Catalonia will leave their laboratories to transfer part of their equipment to CosmoCaixa Barcelona.

La Casa dels EntremesosLa Casa de los Entremeses brings together in a free exhibition historical and innovative elements of the festive imagery of the city. The exhibition consists of fifty figures representing giants, dwarfs, big heads, bestiary and puppets, which can be seen parading during the year in popular festivals in Barcelona such as Santa Eulàlia or La Mercè.

Mapping on the modernist facade of Can SerraEvery day, from March 19 to April 1, a video mapping is projected on the modernist façade of Can Serra by the architect Puig i Cadafalch. Through a mapping of eleven minutes long and in three sessions during the afternoon, the Diputación de Barcelona highlights some of the most important places of interest around Barcelona.

A couple of weeks ago we launched, renewed, two important sections of our website: the events section and the home page. The events section had some problems that we have solved: in the general list the events that took place on several non-consecutive dates were repeated; now they only appear once. The other problem had to do with the section "Things to do in Barcelona today" that showed events that could not really be celebrated that day. This happened mostly in medium or long duration events. Also solved, and if the CCCB is closed on Monday its exhibitions will not be shown on Monday. As for home, now it is presented as a logical route to help visitors organize their trip to Barcelona.

Cinema on demand in movie theaters of Barcelona - CrowdticketingScreenly is a web platform that allows anyone to organize projections on demand in movie theaters through crowdticketing. With this tool, viewers take control and become promoters of events to decide what to see, where and when. But Screenly is something else, it is a research platform for creators, distributors and exhibitors to create new ways to distribute in movie theaters, using the internet as an ally and not as an enemy. If Movistar +, Netflix and others put us through the Internet in front of the television and mobile devices, Screenly takes us in front of the big screen.

The International Vintage Car Rally Barcelona-SitgesMarch 3 and 4The International Vintage Car Rally Barcelona-Sitges began in 1959. It is called a rally, but it is not surprising that the most important thing is to participate and more appreciated are the aesthetics than speed. All cars are manufactured before 1931 and both the driver and passengers are dressed according to the era before 1931

The surroundings of BarcelonaExcursions of one day or more in the province of Barcelona: four essential places to visit in 55 km around Barcelona.

Carnival in BarcelonaFrom February 8 to 14For a week Barcelona will be filled with parades, masked balls, popular meals and sardine burials. The party will begin at 18:00h in the Plaza Sant Jaume with the distribution of masks. At 18.30h the retinue of King Carnival will arrive and then, in the middle of the festive apotheosis, the King Carnival will make its stellar appearance to proclaim, from the balcony of the Town Hall, its temporary reign of a week of wildness