Arcadia Spain

In Barcelona, as in the rest of Spain, luck, love and prosperity come together with superstitions and traditions. Let’s learn some of them so you can start 2019 with the best good fortune.   Last dinner: Last dinner of the year is one of the most important…

Have you noticed that all markets and supermarkets have their stands full of a kind of sweet candies made with almonds, honey, sugar, and even chocolate? The popular sweet Turrones are the typical Spanish dessert during the Christmas holidays. Nowadays…

Last week, students taking ISCS310 Sports, Culture and Society course made presentations about their  Research Projects. These projects are based on students´ experiential learning, within a theoretical framework reflecting the reality of sports and culture…

The Fira de Santa Llúcia is a Christmas market that is set up every year around Barcelona Cathedral. Although it’s not the only fair or Christmas market in the city, it’s certainly the oldest, so it’s a tradition for locals and tourists spending Christmas…

As part of the SOCG210 Gastronomy and Culture in Spain course, students prepared some typical tapas helped by the well-known chef Adrià Llenas. While enjoying, preparing and eating them, they also learned the origins of each ingredient, the region where…

For those who never hear about the Catalan tradition of Caga Tió it can sound a bit weird and at the same time funny, but it is real and it has an ancient history. But, what is Caga Tió? The literally meaning of it is the Pooping Uncle and it is originally…

Our semester in Barcelona is coming to an end, and that means the beggining of our PHOTO CONTEST!!!! We invite every student to enter to our Arcadia contest by submitting a picture. This particular picture, must be a photograph of Barcelona that reflect…

  Sant Esteve is the day after Christmas, this is the 26th of December and it is only celebrated  in Catalonia, the rest of states in Spain don’t have holiday and the reason come from the nine century. In the Carlistas times families used to gather in…

Last weekend, we took the BUSP370 Brand Barcelona students to Valencia as part of the embedded excursion of the course. Valencia is located in the east coast of Spain in the Comunidad Valenciana region and is the third biggest city in Spain after Madrid…