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World Environment Day

World Environment Day. Join us for the 2024 #WorldEnvironmentDay celebrations. World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event celebrated on June 5th that encourages global awareness and action for the protection of the environment. Established by the ...
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Tips disabled access

Tips disabled access Some tips abouts disabled access kindly submitted by Alies de Bruijn. 'We have something to share about disabled people in Barcelona. My daughter has a wheel chair and we went to the Park Guell. The best way to get into the parc is at the north side ...
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Spanish Property Insight - Guide to property

Spanish Property Insight - Guide to property SpanishPropertyInsight. Online guide to Spanish property by journalist and property specialist Mark Stucklin. His website and newsletters can tell you "everything you need to know about buying, owning, and selling property in Spain."
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Punt Verd - recycling

Punt Verd recycling centres. There are two kinds of Punt Verd recycling centres in Barcelona - Punt Verde de Zone (district) and Punt Verde de Barrio (neighbourhood). The Punt Verde de Zona are bigger, the Punt Verde de Barrio ones can be reached on ...
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BioCultura fair in May

BioCultura fair in Barcelona is an annual 3 day fair every May at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Biocultura promotes ecologically healthy and sustainable products for consumers with inspiration from over 500 exhibitors showing a wide range of eco ...
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Barcelona residents - queuing in Spain

Barcelona residents - queuing in Spain. Many places like banks, post offices, medical offices etc do not have a number system for queues and do not seem to have queue lines. How do you know when it is your turn? It works like this. When you come come ...
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Barcelona residents - library card.

Barcelona residents - get a free library card. If you live in Barcelona, get yourself a library card. It's free and apart from giving you access to books (including a range of English and other foreign language novels), libraries have free internet a ...
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Barcelona residents - holiday puentes

Barcelona residents - holiday puentes. What are puentes? It is common in Barcelona and Spain is to take the day off that comes in between a public holiday (dia festivo) and the weekend if the public/bank holiday is on a Tuesday or Thursday. That way ...
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Barcelona residents - TV subtitles

Barcelona residents. A good way to practise learning Spanish is to watch Spanish TV and movies. 
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Barcelona green - recycling batteries

Punt Verd. Barcelona green - batteries. You can dispose of batteries at Punt Verd centers in Barcelona or at civic centres. Many supermarkets have used battery containers at the entrance.
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Barcelona Green - furniture disposal - Barcelona

Furniture disposal. Disposing of large rubbish items in Barcelona is easy and free. Barcelona has a number of special waste collection services, including furniture and junk. Once a week you can put large rubbish items outside your front door an ...
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