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CHRISTMAS  Christmas day  is one of the most important days for catalan families on christmas festivities. Everybody wake up with a good attitude, dressing up nicely and get ready with all the stuff need for that day. Families use to meet in a house…

CHRISTMAS EVE Christmas Eve or Nochebuena (literally translated as a” The Good Night”), is very important for the most of the spanish families. They join all together to have dinner, enjoying with all members of the family, some of them maintain the…

On November 9th, our International Finance course had an embedded study at Fàbrica DAMM at El Prat de Llobregat, in Barcelona. The beer industry has been very important to the Spanish economy, producing 6,000 direct jobs in agricultura, but also it has…

The Arcadia University Barcelona Center celebrated an Open House on Thursday, November 8th, coinciding with the CIEE Annual Conference in Barcelona. We had the pleasure to have with us, Lorna Stern, Vice President of Arcadia University and Executive Director…

We visited the Shelter 307, one of the shelters that were built during the Spanish Civil War, to protect from the indiscriminate bombing to which Barcelona was subjected. Our students traveled back to the 30s to see how the citizens of Barcelona protected…

  Are you ready for an exciting semester abroad? Granada and Spain are full of co-curricular opportunities, and Arcadia wants to offer you all the best! We have some excellent co-curricular activities planned for the spring. Take a look at what’s on…

This field study of the History course is a one day excursion to the Spanish-French border town of La Jonquera and its Exile Memorial Museum (MUME) and the sea-side village of Colliure on the French side of the Spanish-French border. The Spanish Civil…

As a traditionally Catholic country, most festivities in Spain have a religious origin. For instance, Labor Day which is celebrated on May 1, was originally the day of San José Obrero, celebrating José de Nazaret as the patron saint of all workers. In…

October 31st is a well-known date in many different countries. It’s widely known that one of the most popular celebrations –Halloween– takes place on this day. However, there are other celebrations around the world that take place on this date. For example…