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New opportunity for our students: volunteering at the Our Lady of Mercy School in Granada, Spain

We all know that being abroad is a unique experience. Depending on their preferences and interests, some of our students start planning their adventure even before their program starts. This can help us understand and see how a student plans or wants…

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Embedded Excursion to Sabadell

The Photography class students went last weekend to Sabadell, one of the largest suburban towns in Barcelona. A city of over 200,000 inhabitants, Sabadell was known in the past as the “Catalan Manchester” due to the proliferation of textile factories…

Sílvia Serra

Director's Corner

Open House Reception at Barcelona Center

“A country’s cuisine is its landscape in a cooking pot.” - Josep Pla, Catalan journalist Arcadia Barcelona Center staff and faculty and Arcadia vice president Lorna Stern, are hosting an Open House reception during the CIEE Conference on Thursday, November…

Dr. Jaume Gelabert

Around Barcelona

IN-EDIT Barcelona 2018

Do you like music? Do you like cinema? Have you ever hear about In-Edit? Did you hear about it or see some announcement around the city? There are a lot of things to experience and discover in Barcelona and I am not just talking about it's amazing architecture…

Elena Lázaro

Barcelona Center

Useful apps. Don’t miss them!

How many times do you check your smartphone at home? And how many of them are for using an app? Very often in your day-to-day life right? Here are some of the most useful and important apps that you need to help you navigate in Barcelona, travel better…

Sílvia Serra

Urban Museum

To see art in Barcelona, you should not necessarily go to museums, you can find it through the streets of the city and you are lucky if you like urban art! Here you will find a selection of the most interesting urban works  =) COMIC MURAL (Daniel Torres…

Agustina Balacco

Activities & Events

When Your Study Abroad City Becomes Meaningful

Once the study abroad adventure begins, students spend a limited amount of time in the town they chose for their semester abroad. They already have plans for traveling “abroad from abroad,” and there are only so many places they can see. For Granada students…

Marta Cabrera

Activities & Events

Sitges

We visited Sitges with our Fall 2018 students! This popular coastal town remained as beautiful as always! We had such a great time walking through the historical streets of Sitges and enjoyed the good weather, that this town is known for. One of the…

Agustina Balacco

Academic News

Embedded Excursion to the Güell Colony

Students taking BACL250 Rags to Riches: The Transformation of Barcelona course had the opportunity to visit The Güell Colony, a small working colony located in the municipality of Sana Coloma de Cervelló (Barcelona). It is considered one of the references…

Sílvia Serra

Academic News

Embedded Excursion to the Land of Wine

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…

Sílvia Serra

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