Do you have fantasies about what kind of renovations you would do if you had 250,000€ to spare?
There is a visual answer to the fantasy. One businessman took and spent that amount to renovate a penthouse. Douglas Lowe bought the house in the Eixample neighborhood in 1999 for 500,000€. In 2017, he decided the house needed renovation. In a year he turned a 2-bedroom penthouse into a 3-bedroom penthouse, the house is now worth between 1.7 and 2 million euros.
What do you think of the result, is it worth the money?
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#housing
There is a visual answer to the fantasy. One businessman took and spent that amount to renovate a penthouse. Douglas Lowe bought the house in the Eixample neighborhood in 1999 for 500,000€. In 2017, he decided the house needed renovation. In a year he turned a 2-bedroom penthouse into a 3-bedroom penthouse, the house is now worth between 1.7 and 2 million euros.
What do you think of the result, is it worth the money?
@settleitbcn
#housing
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We went to the Picasso Museum, to the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, too. Do you want a cultural diversion from the paintings? You can visit the Cannabis Museum
Hash Marihuana&Hemp Museum about the past, future, and present of cannabis in a branch in Amsterdam and in Barcelona.
Tickets are on the official website, cost 9€, cheaper if you come as a group of 10 people. Been there?
@settleitbcn
#places
Hash Marihuana&Hemp Museum about the past, future, and present of cannabis in a branch in Amsterdam and in Barcelona.
Tickets are on the official website, cost 9€, cheaper if you come as a group of 10 people. Been there?
@settleitbcn
#places
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Monday News ⚡️
The authorities of Catalonia want to create a «water circle» around it. The drought has forced to think about the optimization of water resources and their preservation. The task of the «circle» will be to collect wastewater from towns and industrial plants, purify it, return it to the rivers and then collect it again to pass it through «filters» of drinking water and use the water again.
An Ikea has opened in Barcelona! It has 2 floors, over 1500 m2 and a meatball restaurant. Before that it was only in Badalona.
The beaches of Badalona have banned «annoying music» and camping. It is also forbidden to fish, street trade without a permit, drawing on the walls. Fines for violations.
@settleitbcn
#news
The authorities of Catalonia want to create a «water circle» around it. The drought has forced to think about the optimization of water resources and their preservation. The task of the «circle» will be to collect wastewater from towns and industrial plants, purify it, return it to the rivers and then collect it again to pass it through «filters» of drinking water and use the water again.
An Ikea has opened in Barcelona! It has 2 floors, over 1500 m2 and a meatball restaurant. Before that it was only in Badalona.
The beaches of Badalona have banned «annoying music» and camping. It is also forbidden to fish, street trade without a permit, drawing on the walls. Fines for violations.
@settleitbcn
#news
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Two pieces of news, one a preview and the other a reminder 🇪🇸
The Cruilla Festival starts tomorrow. The lineup is powerful, we wrote about it here.
The Mecal Pro 25 internacional short and animation film festival is in town through July 9. It's the 25th time it's been held, outdoors, and the program includes 350 entries (out of 5,000 submissions) from around the world. View the program here. No tickets, everything is free.
📍Can Framis, Voraport i FX Barcelona Film School
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#news
The Cruilla Festival starts tomorrow. The lineup is powerful, we wrote about it here.
The Mecal Pro 25 internacional short and animation film festival is in town through July 9. It's the 25th time it's been held, outdoors, and the program includes 350 entries (out of 5,000 submissions) from around the world. View the program here. No tickets, everything is free.
📍Can Framis, Voraport i FX Barcelona Film School
@settleitbcn
#news
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Now a tourist spot, formerly the main meeting place for Catalan modernists.
4 gats is a bohemian café in the medieval quarter of Barcelona, opened in 1897 in the image and likeness of the Black Cat in Paris. Originally it was a small hotel and cabaret and frequented by Picasso and Gaudi. There is an atmosphere of the past and an interesting interior. You can book a table on the website.
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#places
4 gats is a bohemian café in the medieval quarter of Barcelona, opened in 1897 in the image and likeness of the Black Cat in Paris. Originally it was a small hotel and cabaret and frequented by Picasso and Gaudi. There is an atmosphere of the past and an interesting interior. You can book a table on the website.
@settleit_bcn
#places
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Thursday News ⚡️
This month Spain will have new 2€ coins.
Starting next Tuesday, people over the age of 65 in Málaga will be able to go to the movies for 2€. All to help this age group get back into the pre-pandemic habit of going to the movies. Fourteen cinemas, that is, almost all cinemas in Málaga, will participate in the action.
Spain set a new historical record for foreign tourists in May. The country was visited by 8.2 million foreign tourists.
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#news
This month Spain will have new 2€ coins.
Starting next Tuesday, people over the age of 65 in Málaga will be able to go to the movies for 2€. All to help this age group get back into the pre-pandemic habit of going to the movies. Fourteen cinemas, that is, almost all cinemas in Málaga, will participate in the action.
Spain set a new historical record for foreign tourists in May. The country was visited by 8.2 million foreign tourists.
@settleitbcn
#news
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Montjuïc is not only the name of our editor's future indie band
It's a 173-meter hill in Barcelona. There's the MNAC Museum of Catalan Art and the Bernat Picornell Pool. It's a whole sports complex with 3 pools: a 50-meter indoor pool, a 50-meter outdoor pool and a diving pool. They are open all year round.
If you don't want to go to the museum or the pool, there are gardens and parks. And even the Magic Fountain! It's at least nice to wander around, look at the city from above and go into the castle. Here you can see what goes on in the castle. In the evening you can go watch an open-air movie, just take a plaid.
Do you like being here?
@settleitbcn
It's a 173-meter hill in Barcelona. There's the MNAC Museum of Catalan Art and the Bernat Picornell Pool. It's a whole sports complex with 3 pools: a 50-meter indoor pool, a 50-meter outdoor pool and a diving pool. They are open all year round.
If you don't want to go to the museum or the pool, there are gardens and parks. And even the Magic Fountain! It's at least nice to wander around, look at the city from above and go into the castle. Here you can see what goes on in the castle. In the evening you can go watch an open-air movie, just take a plaid.
Do you like being here?
@settleitbcn
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Friday News ⚡️
Málaga has been named Spain's best tourist destination of 2023 by the Condé Nast Traveler Awards.
Wednesday was the hottest day on Earth, the weekend will be no cooler. Meteorologists warn that temperatures this weekend will reach extremes, up to 45°C in the south and eastern half of mainland Spain.
EasyJet suggests going back to long-term planning and scheduling travel for next year. The airline has published a flight schedule for spring 2024, with 100,000 flights already bookable, with prices for some starting at €23.99.
@settleitbcn
#news
Málaga has been named Spain's best tourist destination of 2023 by the Condé Nast Traveler Awards.
Wednesday was the hottest day on Earth, the weekend will be no cooler. Meteorologists warn that temperatures this weekend will reach extremes, up to 45°C in the south and eastern half of mainland Spain.
EasyJet suggests going back to long-term planning and scheduling travel for next year. The airline has published a flight schedule for spring 2024, with 100,000 flights already bookable, with prices for some starting at €23.99.
@settleitbcn
#news
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The Social Hub is a cool place and initiative
You may know the place as The Student Hotel, as it used to be called. The guys position themselves as a hub and a community - you can live here (in a hotel or in a student room), come eat, work and socialize, hold an event.
They have Spanish classes, yoga, and other classes. On Mondays they have Monday Morning Coffee — drinking coffee and socializing. Announcements of events the guys are posting on the Instagram.
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#places #events
You may know the place as The Student Hotel, as it used to be called. The guys position themselves as a hub and a community - you can live here (in a hotel or in a student room), come eat, work and socialize, hold an event.
They have Spanish classes, yoga, and other classes. On Mondays they have Monday Morning Coffee — drinking coffee and socializing. Announcements of events the guys are posting on the Instagram.
@settleitbcn
#places #events
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Macba — Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona
For those distracted by cannabis and ready to look at paintings again. A large part of the collection are works of art from the second half of the twentieth century, and works by contemporary artists.
Tickets and information about current exhibitions on the website.
📍 Plaça dels Àngels, 1. 08001 Barcelona
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For those distracted by cannabis and ready to look at paintings again. A large part of the collection are works of art from the second half of the twentieth century, and works by contemporary artists.
Tickets and information about current exhibitions on the website.
📍 Plaça dels Àngels, 1. 08001 Barcelona
@settleitbcn
#places
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News Monday 🇪🇸
Madrid is investing about 800 million euros in upscale international hotels to attract tourists «with expensive tastes». Ten years ago there were no international hotel chains in the capital. In 2021 there were 21 hotel brands in the capital, 8 of which are luxury, now there will be even more.
Spain is fully booked for the summer, despite the highest holiday prices ever. Hotels have already sold 52% of available rooms for the summer in June, in July and August occupancy will exceed 80%.
What about the weather? The whole week will be hot, especially on Tuesday. Already in some areas the temperature reaches 40 degrees, somewhere this week it will exceed that number.
@settleitbcn
#news
Madrid is investing about 800 million euros in upscale international hotels to attract tourists «with expensive tastes». Ten years ago there were no international hotel chains in the capital. In 2021 there were 21 hotel brands in the capital, 8 of which are luxury, now there will be even more.
Spain is fully booked for the summer, despite the highest holiday prices ever. Hotels have already sold 52% of available rooms for the summer in June, in July and August occupancy will exceed 80%.
What about the weather? The whole week will be hot, especially on Tuesday. Already in some areas the temperature reaches 40 degrees, somewhere this week it will exceed that number.
@settleitbcn
#news
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