Inhabitants of a small Spanish town voted Sunday for the region of Catalonia to secede from Spain in a poll which, though symbolic, adds to pressure on the minority Spanish government as it struggles to combat recession.

An offshoot of Mercat in Manhattan will focus even more on Catalonia, thanks to Oriol Sala Colomer, the chef, who is from that region.

The curved and sleek terminal, which was designed by Ricardo Bofill, a native of Barcelona, reflects the latest in airport trends.

Barcelona added the UEFA Super Cup to four other trophies they have won this year when a goal late in extra-time from substitute Pedro Rodriguez secured a 1-0 win over Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk on Friday.

Underground performance art is just one way the industrial landscape of Poblenou is remaking itself.

Barcelona has exposed the long accepted soccer and sports bromide that defense wins championships.

I am looking for suggestions for budget-priced tapas bars and restaurants in Barcelona. I will be there for a week in May and don’t want to break the proverbial piggy bank open if I can help it.

While on vacation in Barcelona with her mother last month, Laura Caddick had seen a lot of people tooling around on red-and-white bicycles. But the bikes that she saw everywhere — part of the city’s bicycle-sharing program — were for use by local residents only. Fortunately, Ms. Caddick’s hotel, ME Barcelona, had several bicycles for guests.

That is not a misprint. At Bernabeu. And Real scored first. Henry, Puyol and Messi in the first half. Henry, Messi and Pique in the second half.

After playing a boring, defensive and utterly unsatisfying 0-0 tie in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal series, Barcelona and Chelsea threw off the shackles and turned on the offense in their league games only hours apart on Saturday.

Translation is a tricky business. You never know exactly where, or how, you’re going to end up.

Chelsea deployed dark arts of anti-soccer to suppress Barcelona, 0-0, in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal.

Frank Lampard scored in the 76th and 89th minutes, and Chelsea withstood Liverpool’s surge to advance to the European Champions League semifinals with a 4-4 tie in London on Tuesday night.

Barcelona produced a stunning display of attacking football to overwhelm Bayern Munich 4-0 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Nou Camp on Wednesday.