As the Suite Festival returns to the Gran Teatre del Liceu for its second edition it looks set to become a name in Barcelona’s stellar musical line-up to rival Sonar and Primavera Sound. Musically the festival invites diverse artists from the national and international music scene. This year Paul Anka, Chris Cornell, and Julieta Venegas are just some of the artists that will perform. Unlike Sonar and Primavera Sound, Suite Festival unwinds slowly over the space of months. Catalan act Sopa ...

This weekend in Barcelona the fascinating Victors and Vanquished exhibition is running at the Entitat Memorial Democràtic, until February the 26th. The exhibition examines the tragic consequences of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s subsequent dictatorship through a series of photographs, memorabilia and eye-witness accounts of Catalunya’s harsh treatment under Franco. Following the fall of largely republican Barcelona to Francisco Franco’s fascist forces in 1939, Catalan autonomy was ...