Arcadia Spain

From February 9 to 12, the streets of Barcelona get filled with festive traditions to celebrate the Feast of Santa Eulàlia, the co-patroness of the city. It is a great opportunity to discover the most popular Catalan traditional culture learnt in class…

The semester is arriving at the end of its first month, and our students who live in apartments are already more than settled. Due to the low number of students during this Spring 2019,  Arcadia Barcelona Housing was able to have all the apartments in…

How couldn't we add this trendy game in our co-curricular activitis program? A physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Players are given a set…

The field trip arranged for the course Gastronomy and Culture in Spain this semester consisted of a visit to the first wine museum in Spain: VINSEUM Museum, which first opened in 1945. This was followed by a visit to nearby Adernats winery, where our…

  One of the pleasures that barcelonins love to do is going out to have a “vermut”. How do we describe the word vermouth? It is a drink and at the same time it is like a social act. Let's see what wikipedia says: It is an aromatized, fortified white…

We have a new upcoming activity, and we are super excited about it! This new activity will take place at the Spanish Village. The Spanish Village was built on the occasion of the International Exhibition of Barcelona in 1929, with the idea of concentrating…

 This week, as part of the Cornerstone courses, students participated in a guided visit to Casa dels Entremesos. This is a specific center of production and dissemination of the wealth of traditional Catalan folk culture that provides the public with…

Two days ago, our recently arrived Spring 2019 session students finished orientation. Today, they have started the Catalan Class intensive week, and are ready to start their adventures in Barcelona! During these days of orientation, our students have…

In Spain Christmas holidays last until January 6, the Three Kings’ Day (also known as The Three Wise Men). They are the ones who bring presents to everybody. According to the tradition, the three kings (Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar) followed a star that…