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celona), buy the specialist dailies Mundo Deportivo ( elmundodeportivo.es ) or Sport (
sport.es ) .
The two most useful weekly city listings publications are GuiadelOcio ( guiadelociob-
cn.es ) , a small paperback-book-sized magazine (in Spanish), and the magazine-format Time
Out Barcelona ( timeout.cat ), both available at kiosks all over the city and also online.
English-language publications
Barcelona Metropolitan ( barcelona-metro-politan.com ) is a free monthly magazine for
English-speakers living in Barcelona, and there's also the free monthly Barcelona Connect
( barcelonaconnect.com ), containing an idiosyncratic mixture of news, views, reviews and
classified ads. You'll find these and other free mags in hotels, hostels, bars and other outlets;
the online versions are pretty comprehensive too. For the style scene look in newsagents for
b-guided ( b-guided.com ) , a painfully cool quarterly magazine, while the excellent le-
cool.com/barcelona is a hip cultural agenda and city guide, available online or as a weekly
e-magazine.
Television
In Catalunya you can pick up two national TV channels , TVE1 and TVE2 (La 2), a couple
of Catalan-language channels , TV3 and Canal 33, and the private Antena 3, Cuatro (ie,
Four), Tele 5 and La Sexta (The Sixth) channels. In Barcelona you can also get the city-run
BarcelonaTelevisió ( btv.cat ) ,whichisusefulforinformationaboutlocalevents,andnews
programmesontheotherwisesubscriber-onlyDigitalPluschannel.TVsinmost pensións and
small hotels tend to offer these stations, with cable and satellite channels available in higher-
rated hotels.
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TRAVEL ESSENTIALS
Admission charges
Admission charges for city attractions vary between €3 and €18, though most museums and
galleries cost around €6 or €7. Many offer free admission on the first or last Sunday of every
month, and most museums are free on the saints' days of February 12, April 23 and Septem-
ber 24, plus May 18 (international museum day). There's usually a reduction or free entrance
if you show a student, youth or senior citizen card. Several discount cards are also available,
that give heavily reduced admission to Barcelona's museums and galleries - worth consider-
ing if you're planning to see everything that the city has to offer.