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ISSUE 2
NEWSLETTER OF THE 39TH SPR INTERNATIONAL MEETING
Thank you all for your enthusiastic feedback on Issue 1! And thank you as well for your suggestions on what to include in Issue 2 and the forthcoming ones. Following many of these suggestions, we have added more restaurants to the Eating in Barcelona section (p. 2), and have also included a list of websites where you can find many more restaurants reviewed and classified (p. 3). In this issue you’ll also find information on cultural visits (p. 3) as well as an article from TimeOut Online that we thought could help those of you who have not been in Barcelona before to better understand our city and our country. This issue’s I Am From Barcelona section contains an Easter egg (well, it’s not exactly hidden!)—if you are curious about the unlikely duet Mercury‐Caballé, you’ll find it very easily. On a less lyrical and more down‐to‐earth level, we are also including practical information (p. 6), accommodation FAQ’s in p. 7 (please reserve your rooms ASAP, Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe in the Summer), and a special preview of the Banquet (p. 8). Remember that there are a limited number of tickets for the banquet, so please get one also ASAP if you don’t want to miss this very special event. The Local Organizing Team™
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
2
3
•Eating In BCN
•More Restaurants •Cultural Visits
4
•Understanding BCN
5
•I Am From BCN
6
•Practical Information
7
•Accommodation FAQs
8
•The Banquet
Welcome!
Esther Giménez-Salinas i Colomer
Rector of Ramon Llull University
It is my honor as the
Rector of Ramon Llull
University to welcome the
participants in the 39th
International Meeting of
the Society for
Psychotherapy Research.
Consistent with the
main trends in research
and higher education in
Europe and the world, our
University has always had a clear international mission.
This interest has led to establishing increasingly
extensive and intensive research links, as well as to
supporting international conferences such as SPR’s.
Certainly, it is a success and a source of pride for
Ramon Llull University that hundreds of the world’s
best psychotherapy researchers are going to meet in
our city thanks to the organizational support of one of
the university’s most active and prestigious faculties:
Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education and
Sport Sciences. I wish you all a pleasant and profitable
stay in Barcelona and hope that, when the conference
is over, you will feel that this city and this University are
also your home. ™
Esther Giménez-Salinas i Colomer
Rector
•Did You Know That…
MARCH 2008
Newsletter Editor-in-Chief: Luis Botella.
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 1
Eating In Barcelona
(continued on issue 3)
For Cervantes, Barcelona was a "refuge of foreigners, school
of chivalry, and epitome of all that a civilized and inquisitive
taste could ask for." When it comes to eating, “civilized taste”
in Barcelona means not approaching lunch and dinner as just
meals, but as social constructions. They are the perfect time to
dive in a sea of pure relatedness (to borrow Ken Gergen’s
metaphor) and to celebrate friendship and the joy of life. You
cannot do this in 20 minutes and eat at the same time, so we
like to devote to our meals the time that they deserve! The
Catalan word “sobretaula” (“sobremesa” in Spanish) means
“time after meal for socializing during which participants sit
around the table drinking and talking” and, just as the silence
that follows a melody is a part of it, the sobretaula that follows
a meal is at least as cherished as the meal itself. So… relax,
take it easy, and enjoy your meal as well as your friendship!
lunch of cañas (small beers) and no-fuss tapas like herb-infused
steamed mussels, toast topped with luscious duck liver and
caramelized onion, and a hearty four-cheese risotto. The
seemingly endless menu is written on the blackboard at the
bar, and the easygoing servers never seem to be fazed no
matter how many times you call them back to order something
else.
Casa Tejada
Address: Tenor Viñas, 3
Phone: +34 93 2007341
Prices Tapas 3€-17€
Address: Passeig d'Isabel II, 14
Frommer's Review
Covered with rough stucco and decorated with hanging hams,
Casa Tejada (established in 1964) offers some of the best tapas.
Arranged behind a glass display case, they include such dishes
as marinated fresh tuna, German-style potato salad, ham salad,
and five preparations of squid (including one that's stuffed).
For variety, quantity, and quality, this place is hard to beat.
There's outdoor dining in summer.
Phone +34 93 3193033
Espai Sucre
Price Main courses 18€-35€
Address: Princesa 53
Les Set Portes
Frommer’s Review
Festive and elegant, 7 Portes been around since 1836, making
it one of the oldest restaurants in Barcelona. Pretty much
anybody who is anybody has dined here over the years. While
these days it's more touristy than aristocratic, there is still
enough authentic charm left in the decor (and patrons) to
make it well worth the visit. The white-aproned staff members
are constantly on the go, which in some ways makes it feel like
an upmarket canteen. There is nothing slap-dash about the
food, though: Regional dishes include fresh herring with
onions and potatoes, a different paella daily (sometimes with
shellfish, for example, or with rabbit), and a wide array of
fresh fish, expertly deboned and skinned at the table. You
might order succulent oysters or an herb-laden stew of black
beans with pork or white beans with sausage. Portions are
enormous. The restaurant's name means "Seven Doors," and
it really does have seven doors underneath some charming
porticoes that are typical to this portside pocket of Barcelona.
Bar Mut
Address: Pau Claris, 192
Phone +34 93 2210007
Price Tapas 30€-40€ for two
New York Times Review
This bustling joint is where local people go to feast on a casual
Phone: +34 932681630
Prices: 3-dessert platter 28€ ; 5-dessert platter
35€
Frommer's Review
Espai Sucre (Sugar Space) is Barcelona's most unusual dining
room, with a minimalist decor and seating for 30. For the
dessert lover, it is like entering a heaven created by the sugar
fairy himself. The place has a gimmick, and it works. The
menu is devoted to desserts. There is a short list of so-called
"salty" dishes for those who want to cool it with the sugar.
Actually it's quite good and imaginatively prepared, including
the likes of ginger couscous with pumpkin and grilled stingray
or artichoke cream with a poached quail egg and serrano ham.
The lentil stew with foie gras is first-rate, as are the spicy veal
"cheeks" with green apples. Forget all about those tearoom
concoctions you'd find in a pastry cafe. The desserts here are
original creations. Your "salad" is likely to be small cubes of
spicy milk pudding resting on matchsticks of green apple with
baby arugula leaves, peppery caramel, dabs of kaffir lime and
lemon curd, and a straight line of toffee. Ever had a soup of
litchi, celery, apple, and eucalyptus? If not, you can try them
here. If some of the concoctions frighten your palate, you'll
find comfort in the more familiar -- vanilla cream with coffee
sorbet and caramelized banana. Every dessert comes with a
recommendation for the appropriate wine to accompany it. ™
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 2
Internet Resources To Find Even
More Restaurants
Barcelona has more than 6,700 restaurants. It’s obviously
impossible to try to review a significant sample in this
Newsletter. However, besides our own biased selection of
favorites, here’s a list of websites where you can find a lot
more. Browse them, make your selection and bring a list with
you when you come!
;TimeOut Online—128 restaurants reviewed and classified
by type of food, area, and price:
http://www.timeout.com/barcelona/restaurants_bars/1/
;Gastronomic Routes recommended by Barcelona
Tourism official website—for those of you looking not only
for a good meal but for a better knowledge of our city and our
culture.
http://www.bcn.es/turisme/english/turisme/
;Guía del Ocio—an eclectic and weekly selection of
recommended restaurants, including theme suggestions (e.g.,
romantic dinners). In Spanish.
http://www.guiadelocio.com/barcelona/restaurantes/
;Frommer’s Online—105 restaurants reviewed and
classified:
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/barcelona/45_inddin.html
;BCNShop—128 restaurants reviewed and classified
selected by Barcelona Turisme.
http://bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com/ ™
Did You Know That…
•Barcelona is the only city in the world with nine buildings
which are UNESCO World Heritage: la Pedrera, Park Güell,
Palau Güell, Palau de la Música Catalana, Hospital de la Santa
Creu i Sant Pau, Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló, Casa Vicens and
Cripta de la Colònia Güell?
•Barcelona is the world’s third most popular congress city,
according to the International Congress & Convention Association
(ICCA), and is the seventh city in the world for convention
tourism, according to the Union of International Associations
(UIA)?
• According to the magazine Lloyd’s Cruise International,
Barcelona is Europe and the Mediterranean’s leading cruise
harbour?
•According to the German Sport+Markt the Football Club
Barcelona is the most popular football team in the world with
more than 50 million fans worldwide.
Source: Turisme de Barcelona. Press File. 2007 ™
What To Do In The City Of Culture
Barcelona has always been a city with strong cultural and
festive traditions. Its more than 50 museums and many art
galleries stage permanent and temporary exhibitions that are
part of a stimulating, year-round, calendar of events. The
recently extended Museu Picasso; the Fundació Joan Miró; the
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya-MNAC, with its unique
collection of Romanesque art; the Museu d’Art Contemporani
de Barcelona–MACBA; CaixaForum, housed in an old artnouveau factory; or the Fundació Antoni Tàpies are must-see
landmarks which trace culture throughout the ages.
Music in Barcelona is a fiesta. All the musical genres can be
enjoyed in the city, from classical to contemporary music,
from ethnic music to jazz. Modern concert venues−which are
also landmark buildings−such as L’Auditori, the Palau de la
Música and the Gran Teatre del Liceu offer prestigious
performances throughout the year. Theatre-going is another
activity that enlivens the cultural life of Barcelona, which
features prestigious internationally-known theatres. The
opening of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya consolidates the
range of entertainment on offer in Barcelona.
Barcelona is a cultural hotspot. Every year, the city’s museums
and cultural centres are a melting pot of people. Last year,
Barcelona’s main museums attracted some 14,000,000 visitors.
The Sagrada Família is the most popular cultural attraction and
over two million people visited it last year. La Pedrera, also
designed by Gaudí, and the new CaixaForum also proved
popular with 1,500,000 visitors.
Source: Turisme de Barcelona. Press File. 2007
•Museu Picasso: http://www.museupicasso.bcn.es/
•Fundació Joan Miró: http://www.bcn.fjmiro.cat/
•Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya-MNAC:
http://www.mnac.es/
•Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona–MACBA:
http://www.macba.es/
•CaixaForum:
http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/caixaforumbcn_es.html
•Fundació Antoni Tàpies: http://www.fundaciotapies.org
•L’Auditori: http://www.auditori.org/index.aspx
•Palau de la Música: http://www.palaumusica.org/
•Gran Teatre del Liceu:
http://www.liceubarcelona.com/teatre_liceu.asp
•Teatre Nacional de Catalunya:
http://www.tnc.es/ca/index.html
•La Pedrera: http://www.gaudi2002.bcn.es/english/index.htm
•Sagrada Família: http://www.sagradafamilia.org/ ™
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 3
UNDERSTANDING BARCELONA
This text from TimeOut Online summarizes quite
accurately the recent history of BCN and captures
nicely the way many of us feel about it. See a
slideshow of more than 250 amazing pictures of
BCN to illustrate it—try to find the Conference
Venue among them! Slideshow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcnbits/sets/620757/show/
According to every poll worth its clipboard, Barcelona
is the European city best loved by visitors, and to the
current generation of cultural dilettantes and easy
Jetsetters it is almost impossible to imagine that it
wasn’t ever thus.
This is the city’s triumph, and its own self-assurance is
fortified with the quiet knowledge of how it got here.
Over the centuries it has been buffeted by invading
forces, fleeced by trade restrictions and strangled by
autocratic central governments—and every time has
bounced back prouder and more audacious. After the
‘grey years’, the interminable period between the end
of the civil war and Franco’s dying breath, there was a
huge zest for change, to move on to a new era. It
stoked the desire to transform the city itself, while the
Olympic bid and then the Games themselves provided
extra incentive, not to mention cash.
I love going to Barcelona because it is cosmopolitan,
(post)modern, active, welcoming, and lovable at the
same time … what else can one ask for?
Mark Beyebach.
Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca.
The finest architects and urban planners were
persuaded to take part in this vision. The axis upon
which the project spun was the idea to ‘turn Barcelona
around’ to face the sea, creating whole swathes of
beach from virtual wasteland. Ugly high-rises flung up
during the Franco regime were pulled down, derelict
blocks razed to provide open spaces and parkland,
and world-class artists and sculptors—Roy
Lichtenstein, James Turrell, Claes Oldenburg and
Eduardo Chillida among them—commissioned to
brighten up street corners. Along with the creation of
the new Barcelona in bricks and mortar went the
promotion of Barcelona-as-concept, a seductive
cocktail of architecture, imagination, tradition, style,
nightlife and primary colors.
Helped, in large part, by the legacy of Gaudí and the
other Modernists, which provided the city with a
unique foundation both architecturally and in spirit, this
was perhaps the most spectacular, and certainly the
most deliberate, of Barcelona’s reinventions; it
succeeded in large part because this image of
creativity and vivacity simply fitted well with an idea of
the city already held by many of its citizens. Thrown
into the mix were the core values of cultural pride and
a delight in traditional ways, from dancing the sardana
in front of the cathedral, to wheeling out the papier
mâché giants at the first hint of a celebration.
Barcelona’s love of eccentricity had already brought
about a wealth of quirky museums (such as those
devoted to shoes, perfume, sewers, funeral carriages
and mechanical toys), to which more were added. Its
handsome but grimy façades were buffed up, its
streets renamed and its churches restored. To see it
nowadays it’s as if the drab decades were just a
collective bad dream. ™
http://www.timeout.com/barcelona/feature/2098/Introduction.html
Jean Nouvel’s futuristic
Torre Agbar is
cylindrical in form and
completely covered by
glass. With a height of
142 meters, it can be
seen from practically
anywhere in the city. It
is representative of
Barcelona’s
commitment to
continue at the
forefront of world
architecture and it has
become a tourist
attraction, not only
during the day (its
viewpoint, at 142
meters high, is an
enviable vantage point),
but also at night (the
tower is illuminated
from top to bottom
with a combination of
various colors).
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 4
I Am From Barcelona!
(continued on issue 3)
Montserrat Caballé was born in Barcelona on
12 April 1933. She has become Spain's greatest living
soprano. Her voice has a creaminess and power which
is unsurpassed. Her ability to float a note pianissimo is
unrivaled. She is considered to have become the
leading Verdi and Donizetti soprano of her time.
Montserrat Caballé is one of the few operatic singers
to have had a pop record on the charts. Freddie
Mercury, the late lead singer of the rock band Queen,
was a fan of her work and on meeting her they sang at
the piano all night. They became firm friends and the
album Barcelona was recorded with lyrics by Tim Rice
amongst others. The single from the album charted
twice in the UK and was a success the world over
bringing new fans to this remarkable woman.™
http://www.divasthesite.com/Singing_Divas/Montserrat_Caballe.htm
Floquet de Neu (c. 1964–2003) was an albino
gorilla, the most popular resident of the Barcelona zoo.
Ethologist Jordi Sabater Pi found the only white gorilla
known so far outside the Equatorial forest of Nko, near
the river Campo, in Spanish Guinea (Rio Muni now
Equatorial Guinea), on October 1, 1966. Floquet
(snowflake) was known worldwide, mentioned in tourist
guides and shown on postcards, becoming a mascot
for the city. Snowflake is also known for being the most
solicited real animal to be cloned by the public and
media—which is possible since his DNA was kept after
his death in November 2003 at the Barcelona Zoo.
http://www.floquetdeneu.es/ ™
WATCH FREDDIE & MONTSERRAT
SINGING “BARCELONA”
Other famous Catalans:
•Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891-1974), anthropologist,
archaeologist and prehistorian.
•Pau Casals (1876-1973), cellist.
•Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), musician.
•Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), artist.
•Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1927), architect.
•Pau Gasol (1980-), NBA basketball player.
We have edited a webpage with selected audiovisual material.
In this month’s issue we have included Freddie Mercury &
Montserrat Caballé’s performance of “Barcelona” in 1988.
This was one of the last performances of Queen’s lead singer
before his untimely death.
We have also included a video from the song Boig per tu (Mad
about you) by Sau & Luz Casal. The also untimely death of
Carles Sabater, Sau’s lead singer, in 1999 turned this song into
the anthem of a whole generation. Boig per tu is a slow tempo
torch song in Catalan. Played live with a chorus of thousands
of fans at the Palau Sant Jordi it makes you feel… well, judge
for yourself.
http://recerca.blanquerna.url.edu/constructivisme/barcelona.htm ™
•Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), architect.™
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 5
PRACTICAL INFORMATION (COMPILED
FROM RELIABLE WEBSITES)
Online Reservations and Discounts
Exchange
for many attractions, museums, and shows, as well as
Through the BCNShop webpage you can buy online tickets
You can exchange cash or travelers checks at any bank or
reserve a table at restaurants. You can also benefit from
exchange office. Rates are not fixed and vary from one
discounts in such interesting products as the following:
place to another. Banks generally take a 0.30 %
•Barcelona Card: City card featuring free travel on public
commission. The exchange offices do not, but the rate is
often less favorable. In some offices, you can negotiate a
better deal on exchanging large amounts. Savings banks
open from Mon. to Fri. in the morning and Thu. afternoons.
Banks also open on Saturdays. The exchange offices are
transport, discounts and free offers at museums, cultural
venues, theatres, leisure facilities, night-clubs, shops,
restaurants and entertainments, other services, and unique
means of transport.
found mainly in the centre of the city (The Ramblas), at the
•Articket BCN: Single ticket which allows you to visit the 7
airport and at the railway stations. Their opening hours
leading art centers in Barcelona.
vary, but some remain open till late, including weekends. If
•The double-decker Barcelona Bus Turístic: the most
you are in need, you can also exchange money at hotels,
convenient way to discover the city's most interesting and
although probably at a poorer rate. Also, Tracy Eells
attractive sights.
pointed to us that ATM (Automatic Teller Machines) offered
the best rates and lowest commissions.
•Guided scooter tours: a guided panoramic tour of the
city's main tourist landmarks, on automatic 125 cc scooters,
Taxes
escorted by a guide who talks about the history of the sights
Value Added Tax, (in Spanish IVA—16%), is charged on
on the route.
the consumption of products in the European Union.
•Guided walks: Gourmet, Modernist, and/or Picasso.
Electricity
•Barcelona Zoo.
The most common electric current is 220 volts and 50 hz.
•Olympic and Sports Museum: Barcelona is the first major
Post
European city to have a museum dedicated to the
You can buy stamps to send letters in any tobacconist's
("estanco"), in some hotels or in post offices. They can then
be posted in any of the yellow post-boxes spread around
the city.
Olympics— the Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport. The museum
is located next to the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium and offers a
unique visitor experience centered on the Olympic
movement and sport. ™
http://bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com/
Phone Calls
You can use any telephone booth or public telephone to
make phone calls. Most work with phone cards worth 6€ or
12€, which can be bought in tobacconists. Calls made
between 22h and 8h of the following day, Saturdays from
14h and Sundays all day are subject to a reduced charge
(30 to 50% cheaper). Local and inter-provincial calls:
Province code + number. International: 00 + country code
+ area code + number. To receive a call 34 (Spain) + 93
(Barcelona) + No.
NEWS•NEWS•NEWS•NEWS•NEWS
The high-speed train line which links Barcelona with Madrid
(AVE) was inaugurated on 20 February. A total of 17 highspeed trains will run between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. every day,
seven from Barcelona and eight from Madrid, linking the
two cities. Trains circulate at speeds above 250 kilometers
per hour, on occasion reaching 300 kilometers per hour.
From Sants Estació the AVE will take you to Madrid in 2
Internet Cafes
hours and 40 minutes. ™
There are cybercafes of all sizes spread all over the city.
http://www.renfe.es/
They are really not very hard to find. Prices are modest
(3€/h) and most of them have great coffee, too.
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Accommodation FAQ’s
Q: I want to stay at the congress venue.
What need I do?
A: The congress venue is at Hotel Barceló
Sants**** and is a short metro ride from
many tourist, dining and shopping destinations
in Barcelona. The hotel is located above the
railway station, Sants Estació, which is also a
subway (metro) station served by two metro
lines; L3 and L5. To reserve a room there, go
to the conference website and follow the
instructions you’ll find.
Q: I want to stay at another hotel near the
congress venue. How do I find one?
A: There are several other hotels located near
the Barceló Sants. On the conference website
you’ll find details and contact information for
more than 30 (ranging from youth hostels to 4
stars hotels). Because SPR has not a contract
with these hotels, room prices may vary
depending on circumstances that are beyond
SPR’s control, so the best way to know is to
contact them directly.
Barcelona: plural and overwhelming
microcosm of light and colour, shapes,
smells, touch and sounds. A sum conquered
to time. Built in stone. Drawn in crystal.
Isabel Caro. Universidad de Valencia.
Q: I want to stay at another hotel, but I
don’t mind if it’s not within walking
distance of the Barceló Sants.
A: Staying at a hotel in another area of
Barcelona is not too much of a problem in this
case, because the metro will take you to the
Barceló Sants in a matter of minutes. To locate
a hotel of your liking, use the search engine
that you’ll find on the conference website and
choose according to your preferred criteria. If
you want to make sure that the hotel you
choose is near a metro station, look at the map
that most of them display in their websites.
Q: I want to stay at a student’s residence or
youth hostel.
A: At the conference website you’ll also find a
list of 8 students residences, plus the youth
hostel mentioned before. Because some of
them are not exactly near the Barceló Sants,
we have also included detailed instructions on
how to get from the residence to the
conference venue by public transportation.
Some of the residences offer the possibility to
share the room with up to 4 or 5 roommates, so
if you know of a group of people coming to the
conference you might be interested in
organizing your stay together.
Q: I want to stay at an apartment.
A: For those traveling with their family or in a
group, renting an apartment can be a smart
plan, giving you the unique experience of
living in a foreign city and saving money with
a cheap weekly rate and cooking in your own
kitchen. At the conference website you’ll find
the contact information of an apartment rental
company we recommend. If you don’t like this
one, or you don’t find apartments available, try
this web (go to “members”): http://www.apartur.com/
Again, apartments can be shared, so try to
organize yourselves if you’re a group planning
to stay together.
Q: Need I reserve my accommodation
early?
A: You definitely do. Barcelona is quite busy
during the summer. Its many attractions make
it a number 1 tourist destination, and if you
wait you are likely to have difficulties finding
an accommodation within your preferences. ™
See you soon BCN fins aviat! 7
Synopsis
Part I
CosmoCaixa isn’t a museum for the
mere onlooker. Visitors are invited to try
things out. The room which has the 65-metre
Geological Wall, with all kinds of geological
formations and rocks—some of them formed
by erosion and sedimentation—even
includes part of a Brazilian glacier. A 1,000
m2 exhibition room takes you to the biggest
crowd pleaser, The Flooded Forest, a living,
breathing Amazonian rainforest inside the
museum with over 100 species of animal and
plant life where you can experience tropical
rain and 80% humidity levels, surrounded by
the typical flora and fauna of the zone. All in
all, the new CosmoCaixa is a unique and
highly entertaining window to the world of
science.
That night, the museum will open
exclusively for us. So, our own Nuit Au
Musée will surely take place in a very
congenial atmosphere!
Part II
The spectacular CosmoCaixa is an
enlarged, much improved version of the
1980 original. Funded by a major bank (La
Caixa) the Museu de la Ciència closed in
1998 and embarked on a 6-year overhaul. A
100-million € refurbishment transformed the
La Caixa Foundation’s Science Museum
into CosmoCaixa, a totally new concept in
museum design which makes science an
accessible and appealing discipline; the best,
most high-tech, and certainly most handson, science museum in Europe. Located
above the Ronda de Dalt ring road, it
occupies a modernist building (originally a
poorhouse) at the foot of the Tibidabo
mountain. CosmoCaixa is an extremely
interesting museum: it is educational,
interactive and attractive to look at.
The museum visit begins with the
After visiting the museum, dinner will
Room of Matter which has four different
be served at the Museum’s Restaurant…
areas: Inert Materials shows the beginning
featuring surprise special guests!
of the universe some 13,700 million years
Part III
ago, the Big Bang and the creation of
matter, energy, space and time; next comes
Living Matter, which began around 3,800
million years ago with the origin of life;
thirdly we find Intelligent Matter, which
explores neurons and the way in which life
responds to environmental changes; lastly
And after dinner… let’s dance! The
we come to Civilised Matter, which spans
party will go on at The Rosebud, a club just a
the period from the Australopithecus, the
few meters from the CosmoCaixa.
first genus to walk on two legs, to today’s
DON’T MISS IT!
Homo sapiens, who learnt how to
create
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matter.
GET YOUR TICKET!