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In this video section we recommend some cultural events so you can enjoy the Christmas festivities to the full, here in the city.

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This Christmas, give someone a Picasso Museum card!

It only costs 10 euros and means you can visit the permanent and temporary exhibitions as often as you like for one year.

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The Mayor regrets the attacks on Gaza City

Jordi Hereu advocates solving problems through dialogue and announces the City Council is planning to send medicines to the de Gaza Strip.

Barcelona plans to improve its public spaces and facilities

The City Council Government Commission has approved the first 65 requests, valued at 89.9 million euros, from the central government's local investment funds.

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Agenda we highlight

Picasso's living objects

Some sixty works at this temporary exhibition explore the correspondence between figures and still life in Picasso's work.

Art supermarket

Collecting works of art is within everyone's reach here, where the aim is to make known today's new creators.

Cinderella at the Liceu

This musical is an adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale and follows last season's production of Rossini's Cindarella opera.

'Spamalot', the latest medieval parody from Tricicle

'Cancún' is on at the Teatre Borràs

What passes through your head when you are 50 and start thinking what your life could have been?

'Beauties of the 19th century'

The Barcelona Photographic Archive is dedicating an exhibition to the photographer Joan Martí i Centellas, who produced an album called Bellezas de Barcelona (Beauties of Barcelona).

'The History Boys' is on at the Teatre Goya

The Barcelona theatre is back with this Alan Bennett story directed by Josep Maria Pou.

Modern art from the USA at the Joan Miró Foundation

The exhibition explores the development of modern art in the US with more than 100 works from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century.

The photography of Joan Fontcuberta at Palau de la Virreina

The 'De Facto' exhibition offers a selection of work by a photographer who sees the photograph as a document.

Urban transformation and Chinese cities at the CCCB

The CCCB has turned its gaze on the historical roots and present features of Chinese urban culture.

"Juli González. Retrospectiva"

The exhibition on at the MNAC has more than two hundred pieces, with sculptures in iron and bronze, paintings, sketches and jewellery.

Eugenio Lucas at MNAC

The National Art Museum has organised an exhibition of 70 drawings that show the Goya side of the artist.

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Date: 09/01/2009

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