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The BBC recently ran a feature, viewable in its website here, which asked if Barcelona was being spoiled by visitors.

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Christian Roux, osteopath and musician, has lived in Barcelona for ten years and says he  “intends to stay here forever”. Despite his professional success and love for the city, it hasn’t all been plain sailing since he arrived.

One of the best things about living in Barcelona is the variety of fish and seafood available. The glistening, fresh bounty that is stacked onto stalls in every market and supermarket in the country is an impressive sight. Go to the Boqueria market on Las Ramblas on any weekday morning and you’ll see tourists trying to take photographs of the splendid displays while being elbowed aside by fierce old ladies determined to buy the best of the day’s catch.

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In May we featured a look at the website Robbed in Barcelona which was fighting a lonely battle to try to get Barcelona’s best-known tourist feature seriously addressed, or even acknowledged, by local press and politicians.

One internationally publicised robbery utilising incredible ingenuity, some local newspaper coverage and a new mayor later and things are slowly beginning to change.

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As members of BcnIn will already know from last month’s newsletter, The Economist magazine recently ran a feature looking at FC Barcelona from a business management perspective. At the time of publication, even before Barça’s Champions League triumph, there were plenty of others looking at the Catalan club’s success and trying to learn lesson

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Culture vultures, locals and tourists alike, have somewhere new to queue and swelter outside this summer. The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM)opened its doors last month to take its place alongside Barcelona’s other leading cultural attractions.

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Everyone like to hear a good story. From gossip over lunch to campfire tales and professional stand up comedians, the spoken word can captivate and mesmerise us as much as any blockbuster special effect.