Barcelona Photoblog

February 27, 2006

Stained Glass


Inside Gaudi's Sagrada Familia fantasy travels at the speed of light. Stained glass windows are so sophisticated and futuristic in design that for a moment you might think you are dwelling Tolkien's most surrealistic dreams.

February 26, 2006

Eager for Light

Eager for Light

Picture taken on my way to market. To see a plant that size, out of the wall searching for the light of the sun against the sky so blue gave me new strength for the rest of the day.

February 25, 2006

Two Little Nuns



On my way to the market of Horta I saw these two nuns in a narrow alley and I thought it would make a nice picture.

February 24, 2006

Carnival in Barcelona



Carnival is a name for any kind of revelry or festivity. By tradition, it is the season just before Lent celebrated by merrymaking, processions, dancing, and feasting. During Carnival week masked balls, processions of decorated floats through the streets, costume parades, and feasting generally mark the celebration. The word "carnival" probably comes from the medieval Latin carnelevarium, meaning to take away or remove meat (in the past, Catholics were forbidden to eat meat during the 40 days of Lent). The first day of the carnival season varies from country to country. Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, from the custom of using up meat and fats in the home before Lent, here in Spain is Fat Thursday.


Barcelona's Carnival is not very important, there is no central parade - individual districts organize and hold their own. At night-time, during the week before Ash Wednesday the streets are full of people dressed up and many parties are held (the most popular of which is usually held in the Spanish Village - Poble Espanyol - on the Saturday night). During the day children's carnivals are organized and most schools let the children go in fancy dress on the Friday before Ash Wednesday.

December 22, 2005

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Barcelona Photoblog has been around since 2006, the year when the first international Blog Day was declared. Blogging in Spain was just starting. No wonder I was able to keep barcelonaphotoblog.com domain since then. From that strike of luck an impressive amount of content came to life. Hours and hours of dedication to build a name in my niche. Such dedication was paid with visits, millions of them. 

All over this time, this site grew up to be a respectable personal guide, gallery and travel journal about Barcelona. There are about 1500 posts in here and part of my life in words and images. 

Many sponsors have chosen my blog to advertise, mainly those who want to promote a product within a local website with a voice in social networks and not so commercial as those big companies we all know that buy their place in top rankings. 

The fact that Barcelona is such a popular travel destination makes my content a good opportunity for travel agencies, hotels, restaurants and brands interested in making their product stand out from the crowd in local SERPs or simply send more visitors their way. 

Although Google has been very harsh on blogs, obviously to sell their own ads and not to provide better content to users, Barcelona Photoblog has managed to always have a good online presence with numerous well ranked pages and keywords and survive the infamous Google algorithm updates. 

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1. You can be featured in the way of a link to your website on the sidebar for a year. 

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