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...traveler wants: to shed the dorky veneer of American-ness and dissolve easily, like sugar in coffee, into the city. We had ducked out of the rain into Mesón del Café, a century-old coffeeshop hidden within the narrow, winding streets of Barcelona’s Barri...
Will he go for a chic pied-a-terre in Barcelona's Barri Gotic? A hacienda amid the Andalusian olive groves? Or will Omar bin Laden discreetly opt, as so many of his countrymen already have, for a marble and gilt-clad villa in Marbella...
...chips away." Asia isn't the only table in the global casino game. Europe, where many countries allow small casino operations, is a new frontier for gaming firms seeking to replicate Vegas-scale entertainment - and profits. In Spain, for instance, property developer Gedeco and French resort operator Groupe Lucien Barrière are collaborating on a hotel-casino complex in the La Mancha region (Don Quixote country) that will also have five restaurants, a 500-seat theater and an 1,800-sq-m conference center. Says Heliodoro Giner, secretary of the European Casino Forum, an industry group: "There is nothing...
Nine students are receiving the Robert G.Wilmers State and local Public Service Fellowship: Brett W. Barri, katherine D. Collignon, John Q.Doan, Heidi T. Glunz, Slavatore D. Monteleone, Joseph I.Mulligan III and maks S.Wise...
...second boom occurred at the height of Barcelona's industrial prosperity and misery, between 1860 and 1910. Its main frame, the huge grid of chocolate- square blocks that stretches from the Barri Gotic up the slope toward the Collserola hills, was designed in 1859 by a socialist engineer named Ildefons Cerda. It is known as the Eixample, or Enlargement, and is the ancestor of all the Utopian schemes of 20th century architecture. The cultural contents of this grid, as it developed, proved no less remarkable. The trade-obsessed city of powerful clerics and stuffy businessmen was the closest place...