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In
recent years Barcelona has been the
place to be for the best New Years
Eve parties - the options are vast
from beach parties, street
celebrations, clubbing and fine
dining. At midnight to mark the end
of and beginning of the
church bells ring 12 times and with
each chime you are supposed to eat a
grape – at best on one of
Barcelona's many places. This will
bring you luck for the new year.
If you
want to celebrate outside, you could
go to Plaza Catalunya which is
mostly crowded. People countdown and
celebrate the beginning of the New
Year and a lot of foreigners go here
too. Alternatively, instead of
checking out the fireworks
Barcelona, you can check out Torre
Agbar. This futuristic building will
be lit with a special light show
welcoming .
The
Torre Agbar is a 38-storey tower
located between Avinguda Diagonal
and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de
les Glòries Catalanes, which marks
the gateway to the new technological
district of Barcelona, Spain. It was
designed by French architect Jean
Nouvel in association with the
Spanish firm B720 Arquitectos and
built by Grupo ACS. The Torre Agbar
is located in the Poblenou
neighborhood of Barcelona and is
named after its owners, the Agbar
Group, a holding company whose
interests include the Barcelona
water company Aigües de Barcelona.
Since 2006, TV3, the main Catalan
regional television service, has
used the capabilities the special
lighting system at the Agbar Tower
offered to show end of year
celebrations. This has become the
venue chosen by thousands of locals
and visitors to the city to welcome
the New Year. This choice of the
tower as an icon of the city for New
Year celebrations have allowed
Barcelona to begin to appear on
television around the world
alongside those of famous landmarks
in cities such as Sydney, Madrid,
Paris, London or New York. Prior to
2006 this did not occur because the
places chosen by TV3 lacked the
international recognition that the
Jean Nouvel tower provides.
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