Some 3.5 million people in Spain have some kind of disability. The social integration of such people is a problem underlying the present context of our society, and although progress has been made in recent years in the design of integration ...

"la Caixa" Foundation has signed 20 agreements with Spanish research teams within the framework of its competitions for research grants in the fields of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer for 2003. Twelve scientific teams will be awarded grants ...

Showing the work of Rubens and his contemporaries within the context of one of art history's most brilliant periods, Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens... 17th century Flemish master painters from the Hermitage Museum collections, produced by "la Caixa" ...

On Friday 3 October, the Iranian vocal and instrumental group Masters of Persian Music will launch this year's World Musics Festival, an event organised annually by "la Caixa" Foundation. On this occasion, the Festival will highlight Persian ...

To open a Montmartre-style cabaret in Barcelona. That was the aim with which Els Quatre Gats bar opened its doors on 12 June, 1887 on the ground floor of a neogothic building designed by Josep Puig i Cadalfach. Managed by Pere Romeu, former ...

The Greeks called their inhabitants Ethiops, the "burnt-faces". Herodotus described the population as the world's most slender, handsome and even-tempered, and their archers as strong and skilful. It is no coincidence that the region was known as ...

"Photography a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight." Henri Cartier-Bresson (Chenteloup, France, 1908) left an indelible, highly personal mark on the world of photography. Blessed with a subtle, intelligent ...

"I've selected the shots that stimulate, please or move me. Photographers with a commitment, poets, geometricians or simply talented observers. The list is long, and it would take several exhibitions to show them all," Henri Cartier-Bresson thus ...

Printing with woodcuts was invented in 9th century China, and became established practice in Europe at the outset of the 15th. Artists such as Dürer, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Matisse and Picasso turned engravings into true works of art. To ...