Arcadia Spain

Scrumptious dinner at the Cooking Workshop! Today we went with our students to a cooking class where they learned how to cook some of the most authentic local cuisine, and we had a lot of fun! The students had to prepare four well-known Spanish and…

Last weekend, the Brand Barcelona class went to Bilbao as part of the field study of their course. Bilbao is located in the north of Spain in the Basque Country region. The city shares some characteristics with Barcelona and other post-industrial cities…

We had a wonderful night going to a classical music concert in the Palau de la Música Catalana! Our students had the opportunity to live one of the best experiences that many locals in Catalonia have experienced at least once in their lives: attending…

Last Friday there was a field study that dealt with the uneasy history of 20th Century Spain. Our day trip was to the Spanish-French border, the Museum of Exile and the small seaside village Colliure. The trip was planned in order to show students the…

Time sure flies in this winterless Spring semester! Students are enjoying yet another unseasonably warm February and are now ready to decompress after Midterm week! This February has been quite eventful… Our dear Maria Bascón, who had been our Student…

As part of the Spanish language courses, last weekend we went to discover the city of Zaragoza, its gastronomy, history and culture. How different it is from Barcelona and the region of Catalonia! Depending on the Spanish level the students have, we…

Last Friday, we had a wonderful sunny day in Sitges! Sitges is one of the most well-known coastal towns of Catalonia, and nowadays it is worldwide famous for its Carnival and its Film Festival. However it has always been an important historical reference…

Over the weekend, Professor Anderson took students on a Documentary Photography Field Study to Sabadell, which is a small city that is less than an hour's drive from the international city of Barcelona. They had the chance to creatively reconstruct the…

written by Kelsey Maddock, a rodger williams university student who studied on arcadia in barcelona in spring 2016. When I decided to go on a guided tour of Morocco I didn’t really know what to expect. I’d done little to no research on the African country…