A group, led by Barcelona’s Comisiones Obreras trade union movement, are fighting a proposal to turn Pablo Picasso’s old art school, the Escola d’Arts i Oficis de Barcelona, which is in the city’s Gothic quarter and is owned by the regional government, into a Woody Allen museum.

A 13-year-old student was detained by police on Monday for an assault on a Barcelona school that left one dead and four injured, the BBC reports.

Are you drunk? Naked? Then please stop going to Barcelona. It's pissing everyone off!

Woody Allen is griping that New York is too expensive to film in and that he prefers working in Europe anyway. Maybe that's because the only way he can get a movie made is by using European funding?

Today lawmakers in the Catalonia region of Spain voted to ban bullfighting — to take effect in January 2012 — on grounds of animal cruelty. The vote comes shortly after large protests in Barcelona for greater Catalan autonomy.

It is safe to reawaken the guy from Vanilla Sky: The Spanish recipient of the world's first full face transplant unveiled himself—and his all-new skin, muscles, nose and lips—for TV cameras today in Barcelona. He looks pretty good!

Over a million people turned out in Barcelona, Spain today to rally in support of more regional autonomy for Catalonia. One protester told AFP: "This demonstration is the start of independence that we want for our country." Image via AP.

[Fans support their beloved Barcelona fancy football team, on their way to defeating Manchester United to win the UEFA title today, which is one of the few days Gawker will ever mention sports; image via Getty]