Comments on: Mad Lord Peterborough takes Barcelona

By: kalebeul » Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero

kalebeul » Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:47:02 +0000

[...] its cathedral, and its scenery, the bridge over the Huécar, and in jingoistic recollection of Peterborough’s capture of it during the War of the Spanish Succession. If you want to see the Casas [...]

By: kalebeul » Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence

kalebeul » Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:19:58 +0000

[...] recalled by Francesc Candel from pre-war infancy spread between the old port of what is now the Zona Franca, the Casas Baratas on the fringes of Montjuich, Vallvidrera and Sant Hilari de Sacalm: Ja és de [...]

By: kalebeul » Blog Archive » Duck hunting in the nature reserve on the Llobregat

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:59 +0000

[...] We’ve been going out early on Sundays with a couple of artichoke farmers from el Prat to bag wildfowl for lunch, but it seems the bloody ecologists are onto us. No sooner had Jordi opened up with his RPG on a cloud of Anas platyrhynchos than the ba$tards mortared us from Montjuïc castle, which they apparently now control. However, we know a shepherd. [...]

By: kalebeul » Blog Archive » Zombie manufacturing

kalebeul » Blog Archive » Zombie manufacturing — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:30:41 +0000

[...] documentation and photos of the area and its people, including this history of Seat by José Sanz. This walk traverses briefly one of the district’s stranger residential developments, but things are a [...]

By: » Pig foot gypsy charm

» Pig foot gypsy charm — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:24:53 +0000

[...] but they have the same function as the hand (and the eye, and perhaps the left nipple) of Fatima. Here’s a trinity of them on a garage door in a place dedicated to Francisco Franco’s [...]

By: » Dunkirk-Barcelona triangulation charts

» Dunkirk-Barcelona triangulation charts — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:45:57 +0000

[...] here and [...]

By: » Brilliant gypsy grave in Montjuïc cemetery

» Brilliant gypsy grave in Montjuïc cemetery — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:40:32 +0000

[...] Montjuïc cemetery publishes a little map which, interested in historical renown, guides you past the generally terribly tedious tombs of well-known Barcelona citizens (good, bad, ugly) and thus omits the quite extraordinary artistic achievements of some of its less well-documented residents. Here is one of the finest funeral monuments, built by people who have clearly inherited something of the spirit of the pharaohs of the land whence they say they came: There’s another splendid example nearby dedicated to a young man–strong as a horse, ringed by them–who shares his name but little else with an ex-foreign minister of Chile, and there are many more. It would be a nice irony if these folks were to be remembered after all the bloody Batllós and Ferrer i Guardias are forgotten. [...]

By: » Justo Bueno chiselled out of historical memory

» Justo Bueno chiselled out of historical memory — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:37:47 +0000

[...] don’t often take groups around Montjuïc cemetery, but we were there this morning and found his name had been removed from the list of executions for [...]

By: » The official contemporary British take on 1714

» The official contemporary British take on 1714 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:55:42 +0000

[...] along the coast should no rebellion be forthcoming. Charles was uninterested in the project, so when Peterborough took Barcelona in 1705 it was as an accessory to the Catalans, and as a result no guarantee with respect to Catalonia can [...]