Carla Simón, Eugenia Balcells, Loles León and Mercè Ibarz, Cruces de Sant Jordi 2025

BarcelonaFilmmaker Carla Simón, actress Loles León, journalist and writer Mercè Ibarz, the Lleida Puppet Center, and La Cubana are some of the personalities and organizations that will receive the Creu de Sant Jordi 2025. This is one of the highest recognitions awarded by the Generalitat (Catalan Government). Other winners include visual artist Eugenia Balcells, journalist Rosa Maria Calaf, dancer and choreographer Montse Colomé, playwright Lluïsa Cunillé, musician and cultural manager Marc Lloret (posthumously), orchestra conductor Josep Pons, and businessman and editor Francisco Javier Moll (founder of Pren and Planeta).

The Government grants these awards to 21 personalities and 10 organizations that, "due to their merits, have provided outstanding services in Catalonia in defense of its identity or in the civic and cultural sphere." Carla Simón's sensitivity is highlighted: "Her films demonstrate a great talent for capturing, through cinematic language, the lives and struggles of ordinary people." Actress Loles León (who two months ago saw how the Barcelona City Council plenary session rejected his Gold Medal) value that over the course of five decades she has managed to "constantly reinvent herself" and that she "stands out for her constant public defense of feminism." The musician and cultural manager Marc Lloret, who passed away a few months ago, They have awarded him above all "for his great artistic sensitivity and his outstanding role in the promotion and dissemination of Catalan music." And the philologist and sociolinguist Isidor Marí is highlighted for his "dedication to the normalization, promotion, and dissemination of the Catalan language."

Creus de Sant Jordi 2025

• Josep Manuel Anglada, mountaineer
• Montserrat Baiget, pharmacist and researcher
• Eugenia Balcells, visual artist
• Joan Caball, farmer and union leader
• Rosa Maria Calaf, journalist
• Montse Colomé, choreographer
• José Creuheras, businessman
• Luisa Cunillé, playwright
• Ramon Folch i Guillén, biologist and ecologist
• Mercè Ibarz, writer
• Loles León, actress
• Marc Lloret, musician and cultural manager
• Isidor Marí, philologist and sociologist
• Josep Maria Mata-Perelló, geologist
• Francisco Javier Moll, businessman and editor
• Mireia Montané i Tuca, pedagogue
• Josep Pons, musician
• Laura Roigé, businesswoman
• Manuel Roure Arnaldo, optician and optometrist
• Joan Saura Laporta, politician
• Carla Simón, filmmaker
• Lleida Puppet Center
• College of Civil Engineers of Catalonia
• The Cuban
• Federation of the Three Tombs of San Antonio de Barcelona
• Gay Liberation Front of Catalonia (FAGC)
• Catalan ALS Foundation Miquel Valls
• Jaume Huguet Institute - Former Valls School of Labor
• Taste of Grace
• Union for the Mediterranean
• Venerable Congregation of Our Lady of Sorrows of Vic