Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Teresa de Jesús, Carmelo, Barcelona.
“What is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north”
Posted: November 23rd 2008 20:02. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 20:27
JD had a bit more Time than I did and kindly sent me an article from 1930 which turns the tables on the filthy Swedes discussed this morning. It seems that towards the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship the Spanish postal service issued a stamp of Goya’s unshaven maja desnuda. Time writes:
The stamps (29,800) [...]
Catalan Venus skinned
Posted: June 16th 2008 08:06. Last modified: June 16th 2008 08:07
Check out some local talent (@Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya) over at Morbid Anatomy. (Via Tecnología Obsoleta)
Groin’s
Posted: May 24th 2008 19:43. Last modified: May 24th 2008 09:59
Is not a gay bar but a lingerie-and-that-kind-of-stuff shop on the street in Barcelona named after Pi i Margall, Mr Pine and Wall barley:
On this day
Barcelona
- July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
- July 5 1844
I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...
- July 5 1848
En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos... - July 5 1899
SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.
- July 5 1909
MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.
Palafrugell and thereabouts
- Sorry, nothing doing today.
The peepul's choice
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- When the Japanese ruled Spain
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