- Barcelona has been voted Europe’s second best shopping destination, with tourists now spending an average of 40 percent of their holiday budget in the city’s retail outlets.
- Retailers in the centre of Barcelona have turned down the Ajuntament’s offer of opening four hours on Sundays during the summer, protesting that it is too little.
- Cyclists, lock up your bikes. Since January 2014 the police have received over 1000 reports of stolen bicycles in the capital.
- Since 2006, the number of rental contracts in Barcelona has doubled. The report for 2013 identified the financial crisis as the obvious cause for the increasing demand of rental accommodation.
- The World Trade Centre is currently for sale, in the hope of attracting foreign inverstment to purchase the largest office duplex in the city.
- Works on Paral.lel start this month. They will last 10 months and cost €9.5m. The bicycle lane will be moved from the side of the road to the centre, where it will have protection on either side.
- Re-urbanisation work is in progress at Pl.de la Gardunya. Until now the space has been used as a parking, loading and unloading zone connected to the Boqueria market. The plans are to extend the market and also provide open green space in the Raval.
- On Sunday May 18th, Barcelona welcomed a record-breaking 31,000 cruise passengers to the city. €3.5m is said to have been spent in the city by the tourists in that one day.
- The Joan Maragall library in the Vil.la Florida Gardens is expected to open in June. The new cultural space was built under sustainable criteria and designed to be accessible to local residents.
- Some 80 musicians have put themselves forward as candidates to play at some of the 39 reserved points on the metro and streets during the summer. TMB and the Street Musicians Association are assessing them for quality.
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