Catalonia, as it happened in 2019, will once again be a key territory ahead of the next general elections. Three years ago, the socialists managed to retain the Spanish government thanks, essentially, to how the Catalan electorate voted, where the PSC won the elections. Looking towards November 29th, all polls predict another victory for the candidacy that this time will be led by Jordi Hereu, but without it being as resounding as it was three years ago. ERC, for example, is the party that comes closest to it, while the Comuns would plummet, and the left-wing parties would be condemned to lose representatives. The electoral race until November 29th will bring to the surface the disputes in a Catalan key that are not cut from the same pattern as the state ones.PSC vs. ERC: struggle between allies

Since Pedro Sánchez called for elections, it has become clear that the paradigm of this election will be based on the left-right axis, and this is where the battle that ERC and the PSC have maintained over the last decade—especially in the metropolitan area—takes even more shape. Despite the alliance in the Government of the Generalitat and the government pacts in various city councils, the two parties are trying to fish in a part of the electorate that they share. And this is visualized above all in general elections. According to the latest barometer of the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), the socialists have a leakage of votes of up to 11% towards ERC. On the other hand, this leakage is reduced within the republican ranks: 8% of those surveyed would opt for the PSC ballot.

It has taken almost a month since ERC closed its list for November 29th for Gabriel Rufián and Oriol Junqueras to have taken the stage together. In fact, the republicans' first pre-campaign event two weeks ago was shared: Irene Montero and Gabriel Rufián starred in their first joint act in Barcelona –this Saturday they did it in Madrid–. It was not until this Sunday that ERC organized its first pre-campaign event, in Badalona, bringing the party president, Oriol Junqueras, onto the stage. This is the first rally that Junqueras and Rufián have shared after weeks of tension over the lists and over the attempt at a common left-wing front that the republican candidate has defended for months.

The former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, attended by surprise this Sunday the inauguration of the musealization project of Casa Macià in Prats de Molló, an event that also brought together former presidents Jordi Pujol and Pere Aragonès.

Supermarkets with sabotaged refrigeration systems, a blood bank victim of a cyberattack, commercial airplanes threatened with bombs –and now also some media outlets–, banking and personal data of thousands of Moldovan citizens exposed, multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency thefts... Europe has recently been chained by a series of incidents of a very diverse nature that proclaim the same concern: to what extent can a society be destabilized without declaring war on it? Are we European citizens aware of our vulnerabilities, largely derived from the interconnection of our lives?

The 2008 economic crisis ended, at least theoretically, in 2013. It was the last year in which the Spanish economy recorded negative growth. The consequences of the recession still persist today, and are exacerbated by the more recent rise in price of a very specific group of products in the shopping basket. They are fundamentally two: housing and food, as made clear by the Generalitat in the Social Report 2025. These two elements are also the main drivers of the general strike called for November 11th.

Anna Puigdevall (Barcelona, 1968) has worked her entire professional life in the business sector, after studying physics, and for less than two years she has been part of the property owners' association Som Habitatge. They claim that they are financed through member dues and donations, and that they do not receive resources from any large real estate management company.

When Noemí Blazquez saw that the inclusive decree was approved in Catalonia in 2017, she didn't have children yet. "I thought: how advanced we always are here in Catalonia, how good it is that they want to ensure there is no separation of children in special education centers, that there is no apartheid". A couple of years later she became pregnant, and by experiencing it from the inside, her perception began to change. "My son is wonderful, but the educational path we have had to follow has been hard and one also goes through a grieving process," she explains. Her son, who is now seven years old, has level 3 autism (the highest), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and epileptic episodes.

Long before it emerged that James Talarico would be the winner in Texas, the Republican engine room already knew they had lost. Ken Paxton, their candidate for the United States Senate, was not gathering enough support in traditionally Republican districts. For this reason, the watch party that they had organized in Dallas to follow the election night, with popcorn and all kinds of drinks with ice cubes –everything has ice cubes in the United States, even wine–, was anything but a party. Not only did Talarico beat Paxton, but Texans looked to the left in the vast majority of votes that were at stake. This, despite the investment of more than 200 million dollars by the tycoon Elon Musk in the Texas campaign. In fact, the Senate race between Talarico and Paxton has broken the record for spending in a non-federal election.

When in a few years the Camp Nou is finished and operating at full capacity, it is very likely that all the delays and setbacks that have occurred in the remodeling will be forgotten. Or that they will be remembered as simple anecdotes. But a lot of time is still needed to reach that point. Not even now, when the theoretical final stretch is underway, is there any sense of calm in a club that cannot afford any more delays in this last phase of the reform.

Matthew O. Jackson (Elmhurst, Illinois, 1962) holds the William D. Eberle chair in economics at the prestigious Stanford University, in the United States. His research focuses on the decision-making of economic agents and its consequences for society, placing special emphasis on the role played by the connections between the different individuals in society. His research is considered pioneering and extremely influential in this area of study, a fact that earned him an honorary doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) this October.honoris causa by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) this month of October.

A soldier from the land army has died during an instructional activity at the San Gregorio base, in Zaragoza, for causes that are being investigated, as reported this Sunday by the Ministry of Defense. In its statement, the Army headquarters expressed its "deep sorrow" for the death and conveyed its "most sincere condolences" and "unconditional support" to the soldier's family and colleagues.

At 75 years old, Miyoko Seto is not considering retiring. “I would like to be able to continue working until I am 80,” explains this Japanese adult film actress, who debuted in the industry at 70, after spending decades dedicated to her family. Until then, she had been a housewife, but when she tried to find work after her second divorce, she encountered a barrier that closed doors on her even before she could submit her application: age. According to what she explained in an interview published in October by a local magazine, the companies she called rejected her as soon as she told them how old she was.

Monaco is by far one of the safest places in Europe and also in the world. According to the Numbeo index, which is based on surveys of citizens in each location, the principality on the French Riviera ranks eighth in the European ranking. The data provided by this ranking indicate that walking alone during the day can be done with a perception of safety of 82/100 and, at night, 79/100. Furthermore, social concern regarding theft is “low” and regarding assaults is “very low.” If you add to all this that it is one of the places on the European continent that has the most police presence and the most video surveillance presence, imagining that something could happen to a member of the royal family there is practically implausible.

Next week, the first general strike under Pedro Sánchez's mandate in the Spanish government will take place. By a matter of days, the call will be part of this legislative term. The protest is fundamentally driven by an increase in the cost of living, closely linked to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Persian Gulf, which especially affects food. And citizens perceive this when they go grocery shopping. But the other reason that has triggered the discontent has a more distant origin, and has to do with the difference between the increase in wages and that of an element that is a basic right enshrined in the Spanish Constitution. Specifically, in article 47, which defends the right of all citizens to decent and adequate housing.

The Atlantic storm Bruna will continue to send fronts towards our territory and will keep bringing plenty of rain to the west of the Peninsula. In Catalonia, very little water is expected, at least this Sunday, and beyond some drizzle or very weak showers during the afternoon, the day is expected to be quite calm. Nevertheless, a more active front could leave more widespread light rain or weak showers heading into Monday afternoon and during the early hours of Tuesday. Temperatures will clearly rise starting Sunday, as the counter-clockwise rotation of this storm – located off the western peninsular coast – will push warmer south-westerly winds towards us, a prelude to the traditional St. Martin's summer.

The editor of the magazine JotDown, known by the (false) name of Mar de Marchis, caused a revolution in the Spanish press not only with her publication but by becoming friends or a confidante to numerous figures with media power at the time without leaving home, due to agoraphobia and depression. The journalist and correspondent for El País Daniel Verdú wanted to explain who was really hiding behind this pseudonym, but, above all, to show what the media landscape was like a decade ago, which was sensitive to this gale of ideas, shamelessness, mystery, brilliance, and deception that was De Marchis.

“I will leave for Greece and then to Cyprus”. At 22 years old, Reem works in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and already has a plan to leave. She has a job and a stable economic situation, but she does not imagine her future there. Her family lives abroad and she wants to follow her path. “I cannot continue in a country where every other moment we are at war, I want to have better opportunities”, she explains. Her case reflects the unrest of a part of Israeli society that, after three years marked by the conflict, is beginning to wonder if it still makes sense to stay.

131 million bags of potato chips, snacks, and nuts per year and 73,200 kilos of daily production establish Frit Ravich as a leading company in its sector. Its CEO, Judith Viader (Maçanet de la Selva, 1968), who welcomes 'Empreses' at the group's central offices in Maçanet de la Selva, aims to lead the company, which combines the production of its own brand with the distribution of third-party products, to sales of 600 million euros by 2030, compared to the 400 it expects to close with this year. Its roadmap includes a new factory to double production and a distribution center in Madrid with an investment of 115 million by 2030. It bets on digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) as a driver of transformation and business model redesign.

Watching him stroke the lever that activates the mechanism to start the Blue Tram, it might seem as if time has not passed. Lauren Quer was the driver of the last trip of this iconic transport on January 28, 2018. "I tried to make that trip last forever," he recalls more than eight years later in conversation with ARA. He does so from the cabin of that vehicle, which this weekend symbolically returns to tread the city streets, but which continues to await its definitive return.

The Houthis launched an attack this Sunday at dawn against Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the target was an Aramco building, the Saudi oil company. The remains of the intercepted missiles caused damage, but there are no casualties, according to the Saudi government.

The Polish Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation this Sunday for a crime "of a terrorist nature" after this Saturday's shooting at Krakow's Market Square, which left six dead. The perpetrator of the crime, a 24-year-old Pole, is in custody and seriously wounded.

Moscow, late October. A room full of men in suits and ties. The most important ones, seated. The melody begins to play and they recognize the song instantly. They smile and some begin to clap along to the beat. The head of state does not move. The Russian singers, boys and girls with high-pitched voices, dressed in white, begin to sing a song in Arabic, one of the best-known in Sudan: "Uhibbu Makan Watani al-Sudan" ("I love my homeland, Sudan"). It is the ceremony for the awarding of an honoris causa doctorate to the head of state of Sudan and army leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, 66 years old, in the framework of the third Russia-Africa Summit.

In the last decade, Donald Trump has become the central figure of the ultra-conservative movement. But he did not invent Trumpism. The Republican became the catalyst for a deeper phenomenon that began with the Tea Party during Barack Obama's first year in the White House and in the middle of the epicenter of the great economic crisis at the end of the 2000s. Trump is the symptom of a change in the political cycle that had much deeper and structural roots. Once the dog is dead, the rabies is gone, the saying goes. The president has been left wounded, but that does not mean the movement is as well.

The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has tasked Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and main political rival of Benjamin Netanyahu, with forming a new government. The decision was announced this Saturday, after several days of consultations with the political forces that emerged from the October 27 elections. "I will do everything possible to be worthy," wrote Eisenkot on X, where he called for the formation of "a national emergency government."

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assures that if he governs at La Moncloa he will strengthen the "presence of the State" in Catalonia because the PSOE has "withdrawn" it. In an interview with El País, he also announces that if he governs he will repeal the housing decrees because they harm "both tenants and owners".

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has accused the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of not having the capacity to govern: "Will they dare to tell Trump no to 5% of the GDP if they govern? They swallow everything, with the 5%, with the war in Iran, with the genocide in Gaza, with anything at all"

The Junts candidate, Miriam Nogueras, has asserted that her party is "the only one" that defends the interests of the Catalans and has accused ERC and the PSC of "not having done so when they had the chance." She has, therefore, asked to have enough strength to "continue influencing" in Madrid while independence is not achieved.

Salvador Illa was supposed to turn the page on the 'Procés', restore stability in Catalonia, and promote major infrastructure projects, such as the expansion of El Prat airport, the Fourth Beltway, and the Hard Rock complex. Or that was the hope of Foment del Treball and, for this reason, they maintained a frankly good relationship with the President of the Generalitat, especially when he was in the opposition. The honeymoon, however, lasted a short time. The leader of the PSC, who depends on the support of Esquerra and the Comuns, has pushed forward measures regarding tax, financing, and housing that have displeased, and very much so, the business association presided over by Josep Sánchez Llibre. The relationship between the two leaders has broken down and, as sources knowledgeable about the matter confirm to ARA, attempts at reconciliation have failed. Three agenda changes by the Government—by President Illa himself, by Minister Òscar Ordeig, and by Minister Ramon Espadaler—in the last two weeks confirm this, although the Palau denies that it is a pattern and that there is an order to the members of the executive to belittle Foment's events.

A plane carrying a baby a few months old who needed medical assistance made an emergency landing this Sunday at Barcelona airport. Once on the ground, the protocol for the ambulance evacuation of the minor was activated.

The conflict between Barcelona residents affected by co-living and the Barcelona City Council will end up in court. This Saturday, the Tenants' Union (Sindicat de Llogateres) announced the filing of an administrative litigation against the city council due to "municipal inactivity" in enforcing the 30% affordable housing reservation in various buildings owned by the Vandor fund.

Enric Aragonès (Reus, 1991) arrives directly from work—in a job that has nothing to do with activism—at the space in the central headquarters of the University of Barcelona from where the Sindicat de Llogateres (Tenants' Union) is organizing the general strike of November 11. Between photographs, he is grateful that we are conducting an in-depth interview to discuss the call to action on the eve of the elections, in a fast-paced world where current events usually move from one statement to the next.

A few years ago, most people preferred cash to pay for and make their day-to-day purchases. Today, with a smaller proportion using it, but still above half, the objective is different, and the option of cash has more to do with turning it into a kind of safety net to face unforeseen events. An important reason is to deal with electronic failures, such as the one caused by the blackout the country suffered on April 28th of last year. Back then, many discovered that it is important to keep cash at home because many ATMs, the main way to obtain money (80% of the citizenry claims to use them habitually); and many card terminals stopped working for hours.

Every day we eat and we decide. But do we really know what we are eating? Surely you will have heard it said that additives are toxic, that eating fruit at the end of meals makes you fat, or that juice loses its vitamins if you don't drink it quickly… All these are false beliefs related to food that are increasingly present among the population. In 'No m'ho empasso' (I don't swallow it), a new video podcast from the ARA newspaper in collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Canal Aliments, we will debunk frequent myths about food.

We have Europe under the effects of an undeclared war that, for the moment, is not causing fatalities but is indeed causing the mobilization of resources, chaos in specific places, and diffused anxiety. I am referring to the bomb threats on commercial airplanes and the breaking of the cold chain in supermarkets or the storage temperature of reserves in blood banks.

Subscriber Eduard Carrera denounces “a very pronounced degradation in the information provided by the sports newspaper”. I reproduce the four examples of what he considers deficiencies:

The topic of the week has been the regularization of half a million immigrants. Although you might think it's not an economic issue, it's a topic that comes up in all my economics classes.

The Climate Change and Energy Transition Law of the Balearic Islands establishes that the Government must develop an Energy Transition and Climate Change Plan to plan policies, objectives, and measures. The Pact Executive drafted one in April 2023, behind schedule (according to the rule, it had to be approved before May 2021) and one month before the elections. That document provided a figure that was left in a drawer: to achieve the energy transition goals, the Balearic Islands had to reduce the number of visitors to 13.5 million people per year. This limitation on the number of tourists was proposed at 16.5 million visitors per year, far from the 20 million that it could end up with by 2026.

The first thing that comes to my mind after reading this eloquent 800-page volume is a question: how is it that the lyrical work of Segimon Serrallonga (Torelló, 1930 - Badalona, 2002) has lived hidden for so long? We knew, of course, some of his accomplishments, but the majority of these poems remained to be discovered. The impression that the work now produces on us is staggering, although it is true that it contains pieces of extremely high lyricism and others of intention –though not of writing– that are rather more rugged.

I remember the date when I signed up for the waiting list to access assisted reproduction treatments through social security. Wait, think about it, evaluate it, the day will come, don't back down despite the uncertainty, even without having a stable job. When my turn came, I embraced the opportunity with all the fear in the world, and it went well. What a small, great miracle, life! Already pregnant, I often thought about the greatness of nature, which had wanted “everything in me to be a yes” at the first attempt, without too many obstacles, although I had counted on great help from science and technology. It remains curious that at that moment I recognized the little wooden figurine in my parents' home study, a Ghanaian fertility deity. It inspired me and I felt protected.

The playwright Àngel Guimerà (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1845 - Barcelona, 1924) took practically two years to give his approval for Terra baixa to be performed in the United States. "I don't think he took this project very seriously and he didn't know who Mrs. Fiske was," explains Sharon G. Feldman, a professor at the University of Richmond (Virginia). For a decade, she has traced the journey of Guimerà's works in North America to confirm their impact on theaters at the beginning of the 20th century. The result is explained in Guimerà a Amèrica. Set dones per a un fenomen transatlàntic (L'Avenç; translated by Pere Bramon), a book that demonstrates that Terra baixa and Maria Rosa made a mark on the North American stage.

This November marks sixty years since the arrival of Snowflake in Barcelona. Hunters sold the then-gorilla infant for 15,000 pesetas to the primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi, and he was transferred first to Ikunde, the center established a few kilometers from Bata (Equatorial Guinea) which supplied collections for various institutions linked to the Barcelona City Council, and then to the Catalan capital. He became an icon and an endearing figure, but behind it there are also some darker episodes linked to Spain's colonial past.

A century after the death of Antoni Gaudí, his work continues to raise questions. From October 22nd to the 25th, La Pedrera hosted the first International Gaudí Congress, featuring more than 40 unpublished research projects, ranging from construction techniques and conservation criteria to historical documentation and the contemporary reading of his legacy. The program also included presentations on the vegetal ornamentation of Palau Güell and the documentation of Gaudí's intervention at the Cathedral of Mallorca. These are three of the featured presentations:

We like mushrooms, and a sign that confirms this is the variation we find in the country when it comes to naming them. To understand each other, all speakers from Salses to Guardamar and from Fraga to Maó, we explain what all these names are.

The first building by Gaudí that is still standing is not a house. They are some toilets he designed for the workers of the cooperative La Obrera Mataronense in the capital of the Maresme. The members of the Premium Club have had the privilege of entering them, and verifying that they are not just any toilets. It is a large brick cylinder, inside which there are four small enclosures (mixed-gender toilets!) with natural light and good ventilation. The kiosk is decorated with tiles. Some of them have eight-pointed stars (a symbol of Freemasonry). "For Gaudí, function, form, and aesthetics were inseparable, even in these latrines," commented the guide, Set Simon, a cultural manager who has conducted significant research into the professional link that Gaudí had with the cooperative La Obrera Mataronense and its director, Salvador Pagès, who commissioned the work from Gaudí. The client, therefore, in this case, was not the Church or the bourgeoisie, as in Gaudí's later works.

Marisol Galdón (Sabadell, 1962) is one of the pioneering voices of Catalunya Ràdio, one of the first women to work as a DJ on the nights of the Catalonia of the 80s, an icon of television in the 90s and 2000s, a cultured, passionate and vehement person, who has always gone her own way and who was sought after by the best programs of all the networks. But all that changed one day. In 2021 she posted a video explaining her precarious economic situation and asking for work. This conversation comes five years later, now that she has returned to live in Catalonia.

Barça deactivated Río Breogán in time (99-91) and added their seventh consecutive victory. The blue and garnet team, which lost Kevin Punter to injury, recovered from an eight-point deficit. The game was tied with five minutes left, but the 60 points scored in the second half were decisive. "We did many things well to overcome the injuries," said Sekulic. Darío Brizuela celebrated his birthday with 16 points.

When he finished his shift from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rieju factory, August Castellà (Figueres, 1992) would go out for a ride on a motorcycle. The next day, all his colleagues already knew they would have work to do. Castellà, a mechanical engineer and head of development for the Rally and Trail projects of the Empordà-based brand, would return with ideas to improve the Rieju 307 Rally that he himself had developed. And after testing it, he would tweak things to make it more competitive. At first he didn't know it, but he was beginning a path that this January will take him to the Dakar Rally. Always on top of the Rieju 307 Rally he has been working on for nine years.

Luck smiles on Marc Márquez. The rider from Cervera could be world champion for the tenth time this Sunday (5 pm / DAZN). The Catalan has seen everything go his way in the sprint race of the Qatar Grand Prix, a race in which the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia RS-GP) tried to put up a fight, but ended up crashing when he tried to overtake Márquez on the fourth lap in a very controversial action. Márquez ended up winning the sprint race and on Sunday he will have the first match point to become champion. He would have to win the race and Jorge Martín would need to score no points.

Throughout her life, writer Laila Karrouch (Nador, Morocco, 1977) has had to unlearn and relearn a series of things that were instilled in her from childhood. "I come from a culture where we have learned things that don't fit with the life I have here. Over time, I have sought forgiveness from the people I have constantly judged. I've spent many years shedding labels, and it's unfair for me to put them on others," reflects Karrouch. Around this intimate exercise, the writer has built the novel Swear You'll Return (Univers), a love story between two women in the Rif in the 80s and 90s. "Homosexuality between women in the Muslim world is taboo, it's not talked about. But different love has always existed and will always exist. Denying it is absurd," argues the author.

"Ruins tell what people keep silent about," affirms archaeologist Alfredo González Ruibal (Madrid, 1976), who has spent two decades excavating the remnants of the Civil War and Francoism. He has explored mass graves, trenches, concentration camps, and shacks, and has eaten a pizza in the kitchen of the Pazo de Meirás, the summer residence of the Franco family until very recently. Pazo de Meirás, the summer residence of the Franco family until very recently. He has followed the trails of hunger and abundance. In País en ruinas (Crítica), he demonstrates that Spain is a great archaeological site of the repression of the war and the dictatorship, and that, indeed, many "treasures" that rebel against silence are hidden there.

In Memuro, a small town on the island of Hokkaido, there are Sunday nights when a cafe specializing in French toast relights its lamps when the city is already asleep. Inside, there are no customers looking for a last coffee before going home, but rather mothers in pajamas with crying babies. Some sit in silence while a volunteer takes the child in her arms for a few minutes. Others simply rest lying on mats after hours of sleeplessness. The place reopens at nine in the evening and does not close until six in the morning. It is one of the new yonakigoya, literally houses for night crying.

Eva Tenorio Álvarez, 47, says that she only drank with friends, at social events, when she went out to party… She didn't do it every day and she didn't have alcohol at home either. In fact, her acquaintances didn't consider her to be an alcoholic, but rather a drunkard.

Searching on any of the major real estate portals for lofts or studios on the ground floor in Barcelona generates a results page full of listings for properties without a certificate of habitability available for purchase –mostly– or for rent, some of which at prices far above the market average and that can reach 760,000 euros. Despite being a legally required document to live in a dwelling, when asked by ARA, Catalan administrations –such as the Generalitat or the Barcelona City Council– do not currently provide data on inspections and sanctions for this matter.

The whole scene gives off an unreal light. Four black men with bare chests and in precarious trousers hold candelabras and a clearly feminine figure rises imposingly at the top of some red stairs. In the gloom, one can already distinguish the curve of a breast and the angle of a hip, which the dress – champagne-colored, scaled, increasingly resplendent as the light grows – and the cape – green, perfectly straight – enhance with precision. The close-up finishes drawing a time and a country: the anti-gravity pompadour, the painted beauty mark, the watermelon-pink lips, the jaw-dropping neckline, the jewelry that wouldn't last half a walk down La Rambla and, above all, the face, so mythical, of Sarita Montiel.

The Frankfurt police take away a protester dressed as Batman during the Gen Z Regelt movement protests that have affected the entire country. The photo could perfectly well be a comic strip panel. Photographer Kai Pfaffenbach took several portraits of this character during the night that coincided with the Halloween celebration. Some of the scenes he captured were full of epic, with a triumphant Batman emerging from the flames of the dumpsters making the victory sign with his fingers. Images that exuded a poetic drama. Traditionally, Batman has defended order in the face of chaos, but that night he was participating in the agitation and lack of control. The superhero who wants to do justice outside the law was demanding on the street improvements in education, healthcare, and social services, and protesting against the rising cost of living. But this time he didn't have the Batmobile to escape.

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The project is named Casa Bosc (Forest House) because that is what it is. This dwelling not only looks at the forest but, by letting it in so much, it becomes the forest. In Camprodon, the house ensures that nature is not just the landscape contemplated from the window, but a constant presence in domestic life. Sliding openings widen the limits of a home that is no more than 60 square meters and connect the interior spaces with the trees that surround it. When they are opened, the forest extends inside; when they are closed, the light and shadows continue to be part of the house.

Two years ago she climbed aboard El 47 and since then she has not stopped circulating through cinema. Her debut journey was also that of her consecration. The vocation came from afar and the projection now seems infinite. She is premiering Ruega por nosotras, the film by Daniel Monzón that denounces a new shame of Francoism: the Patronato de Protección de la Mujer, an institution where women considered conflicting or rebellious were locked up and mistreated. Solid social cinema with the luminous face of this 22-year-old woman, who is empathetic, analytical, and combative.

At the Pień cemetery, Poland, the dead were forbidden to return; the living made sure of it. Local residents buried their relatives face down, with heavy stones placed on the body, arms, neck, or between the thighs, and with chains on their ankles or sickles at their necks. All this to prevent vampires, the undead, or creatures of the night from returning to bring plagues and diseases. The first undead appears in fiction with The Vampyre by John William Polidori in 1819, decades before Bram Stoker’s celebrated Dracula (1897). In the reality of Eastern Europe, however, the Slavic word was used a century earlier. In 1725, the Austrian newspaper Wienerisches Diarium already mentioned vampires to describe medical reports of alleged cases of the undead in Serbia and Hungary.

The challenges from Putin, Trump, and Xi have led Europe – including the United Kingdom – to formulate a policy, which has been called "strategic autonomy," that will have consequences for the competitive framework in which our companies operate, both those that exist and those that may come.

Coincidence (providence, some believe) has meant that Barcelona will host more than 2,000 executives on November 26, two days before the day of reflection and three before the day to vote in the general elections, at the congress organized by the CEDE Foundation. Management of uncertainty, digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI), geopolitics, and the experiences of high-level executives are matters that concern the 170,000 executives who are part of this organization, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary and is presided over by Isidre Fainé, president of the La Caixa Foundation and its investment arm, Criteria. Politics will not be the subject of the meeting, organized many months ago, but it will surely hover over the sessions, which have the motto "Creating value, building the future".

Consell de Cent street, especially in the section between Passeig de Gràcia and Balmes street, has had a fabulous distinction for many years: art. No joke. And this personality still endures today thanks to a few art galleries: Mayoral, Joan Gaspar, Toni Tàpies... Some historic ones closed down, like Prats, Dalmau, and René Metràs. We focus on Jordi Barnadas, right next to Passeig de Gràcia, a privileged location that has hosted it for forty years now. Jordi speaks with enthusiasm about his profession, the trajectory of coherence he has always tried to maintain, and what the new times are like within the Barcelona gallery scene. He shows us paintings by some of the artists he keeps with affection in his permanent art collection.

"Let's go to Pryca". For decades, for thousands of families, saying this phrase was equivalent to doing the big weekly shop: taking the car, parking in front of an immense warehouse and walking through aisles full of all kinds of products. In 1973, in El Prat de Llobregat, one of the first hypermarkets of this type in the State opened. More than fifty years later, that establishment continues to operate, but no longer under the name Pryca. On the facade, it now reads Carrefour. What happened to that chain that marked the consumption habits of an entire generation? And what did the French giant that gives the establishment its name today have to do with it?

Massive cuts at Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) in the face of the telecommunications company's dire results, which operates in the British market and is 50% owned by the Spanish company Telefónica. A debt of 25.6 billion euros and a continuous loss of customers over the last year and a half threaten its business model in the United Kingdom. The presentation of the third-quarter results this Tuesday confirmed the crisis, and reports that appeared in the London press last week indicated that the company is preparing a workforce adjustment of 4,000 jobs, 25% of its staff.

From being born in Prussia to managing the finances of the English Crown, being a friend of Winston Churchill and having a granddaughter married to Louis Mountbatten. There is no doubt that the life of Sir Ernest Cassel was fast-paced.

The mushrooms have arrived and this treasure cannot be missed. For this reason, the chef of Semproniana, Ada Parellada, proposes three techniques to preserve them.

On October 12, 1972, a 15-year-old boy with very bright eyes entered the La Plata bar to ask for work. Half a century later, Pepe is still behind the bar of this establishment in the Gothic Quarter, where everyone knows him. "The more I give, the more I have," he says. He learned the phrase from Pepito, the founder of the tavern. "Better to do four things well than to do many things poorly," he adds. That phrase isn't his either; it was always said by Quimeta, Pepito's wife. The couple who opened this bar on October 31, 1945.

It is a rainy autumn Monday, but what might seem like an inconvenience becomes a luxury when we sit down to have lunch right by the sand of Bogatell beach. We are in a restaurant specializing in fresh fish, seafood, and rice dishes from the Ebro Delta. The location is fantastic and, even though the weather is not quite cooperating, dining by the sea is always comforting.

Bittor Arginzoniz is better off in the woods looking for firewood than at large social events. He is also more at ease in front of glowing embers than in an auditorium. But this grill master of 66, born in Axpe, in Atxondo (Biscay), where he has lived his whole life and has the restaurant Asador Etxebarri, has managed to position himself at the very top of the most prized list this Wednesday night in Lima. It is the same ranking that two years ago placed Disfrutar at the top and the same one in which, to achieve a good position, some restaurants invest large sums of money inviting people who could be voters.

“This is for you. We have done it from Catalonia. And it had never been done before. It is the most important encyclopedia in the world of wine and we should be proud of it,” said Ferran Adrià. And the fact is that at elBullifoundation they have reason to celebrate because they have put an end to one of their most colossal works. An ambitious investigation that has required a lot of effort and more than 100,000 euros per volume.

"I don't understand how I could have separated myself from you. I am just like this! It is my lamentable nature. If you didn't love me I would die, you love me and here you have me writing to you that enough is enough. I am repulsed by my own imbecility." That is how passionate and forceful Gustave Flaubert (Rouen, 1821 - Canteleu, 1880) sounded when, at 25 years old, he communicated by letter with Louise Colet, the great love of his life. Eleven years older than the future writer, married and mother of a girl, Colet began a relationship with Flaubert that lasted for almost a decade and grew above all at a distance, thanks to the correspondence that the two authors sent each other.

Carles Sans is back at it. After closing his silent stage with Tricicle, he flew solo with the help of the spoken word in a highly successful show that toured for five years: Finally alone! And he keeps on talking. Even a bit too much, because his verbal gags work less well for him than his gestural ones. He says I'm leaving, but in the end, he might act like bullfighters who never quite leave the bullring. The leitmotif of the new proposal is precisely what to do when he stops performing and has time to do whatever he feels like.

"Everywhere we go we are welcomed in an incredible way, but truly you have something that is completely different, I swear it". That is how Amaia Montero opened up at this Friday's concert in front of a sold-out Palau Sant Jordi. It is clear that the vocalist is no longer the same as she was eighteen years ago, when she decided to leave the group, but she does not pretend to be either. "The energy here cannot be compared," proclaimed the singer, who since the start of the tour has been analyzed and questioned on social media. The criticisms –especially harsh at the beginning of the tour– have gradually dissipated and the feeling is that La Oreja de Van Gogh is starting to feel a little more comfortable on stage. Montero, mainly in the second half, passed the test of leading one of the most listened-to bands in Spanish pop after the controversial split with Leire Martínez in October 2024.

Shock in Chilean cinema with the sudden death of Sebastián Lelio, the director of the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, among other films. Lelio was one of the great Latin American directors of his generation, a regular name at festivals such as the Berlinale and Toronto who made the jump to Hollywood in 2017. According to sources from CNN Chile, the filmmaker was found lifeless at his home, in the Las Condes neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. The family has confirmed his passing: "With great sadness we announce the death due to health reasons of the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio. We are living through a moment of great pain and his memory will be with us forever". The director was working on his next film, the film adaptation of Alejandro Zambra's novel Poeta chileno, which began filming at the end of September with a cast led by Felipe Zepeda and Clemente Rodríguez.

In recent weeks, the release of the film La bola negra in the United States and Canada has not stopped bringing good news to Spanish cinema. The success has been unstoppable and has spread among film critics, and some media outlets have even come to consider the film a strong candidate for the Oscars in various categories. And the success is also reflected in the audience's reception. As reported by the specialized media outlet The Hollywood Reporter, this weekend the film will be shown in 465 movie theaters, after premiering in only four theaters on October 16th.

The celebration of the second Night of Catalan Letters will present significant novelties. The event, led by Òmnium Cultural and the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC), will repeat its venue, the Oval Hall of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), but it will be brought forward by almost a month –moving from March 15 to February 20, to distance itself as much as possible from Sant Jordi–, it will incorporate two awards, and it will increase the prize money for several historic awards.

It is Wednesday morning at the Estany de la Ricarda Institute in El Prat de Llobregat. Today, groups of 3rd-year secondary school students are training in media and information literacy (MIL) with an activity that has them very intrigued: an escape room. These teenagers are part of the so-called alpha generation, characterized by being digital natives, having grown up surrounded by screens and having no analog frame of reference. Today, however, they are not accompanied by mobile phones, but by journalists from local media and Learn to Check, a non-profit association that promotes media education across different age groups.

My son is one of the few who still goes to high school by bicycle. The neighbor who always accompanies him was recently bought an electric scooter and, as a consequence, has left the bicycle in the storage room (perhaps forever). We are lucky that we live relatively close to the high school and most of the streets are safe for cycling, even with sections of bike lanes.

Susanna Ramírez worked at a school in l'Escala based on the Montessori method. She liked it so much that, when later on she had to join another faculty, with a very different way of working, she contributed ideas and activities she had learned back then. She saw that they were well-received, to the point that a colleague encouraged her to post them on social media and share them. From this, the Instagram profile @propostes.per.infantil was born, a space that Susanna feeds with what she puts into practice in the classroom, with the simple goal of "weaving a network and helping each other out".

The afternoons are getting shorter and it's cold, but the weekends are full of plans to do as a family. As always, we have prepared a selection of plans for you to do with your children on November 6th, 7th and 8th, such as enjoying the first screenings of My First Film Festival; being amazed by the light installations of Lluèrnia, the Fire and Light Festival of Olot, and tracking small mammals at the Ivars and Vila-sana pond, in Urgell.

This school year is abnormal for a large part of the student body in Catalonia. More than 1,000 educational centers have been left without school camps or field trips –or with significant cuts– by decision of the teaching staff. This movement is part of a pressure strategy by teachers to demand that they be paid for these trips and overnight stays (last year it was already established that they would be compensated with 50 euros per night, but the unions see it as insufficient) and, above all, to urge the Department of Education to sit down and negotiate the unions' demands. This Tuesday, families made their move: 391 Student Family Associations (AFA) have sided with the teaching staff and joined forces to demand "concrete measures" from the government to recover these activities.

Parenthood came to me at a time when I was beginning to go birding quite a lot. But when you are a parent, and of twins in an augmented way, you have to put aside, even if only temporarily, certain things. This meant that for a few years I went out into the field less to see birds, but it has also made me develop a passion for explaining birds to my children, to my friends, on social media and in the book.

Although electric cars have been among the winners of the Car of the Year in Europe award for several editions (in 2011 it was won by the Nissan Leaf, the 2012 edition by the Opel Ampera, in 2019 by the Jaguar I-Pace, in 2022 by the Kia EV6, in 2024 by the Renault Scenic and the 2025 edition by the Renault 5 E-Tech), this year's edition is the first in which all seven finalist candidates are fully electric vehicles, without internal combustion engine versions.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have published on their social media the photograph of a motorcyclist who was driving on October 31st, around four in the afternoon, at over 200 km/h on the C-17 road. A radar installed at kilometer point 64.4 –near Gurb– caught the motorcyclist driving at a speed that doubles the maximum speed allowed on this stretch, which is 100 km/h.

Electric cars finally seem to have found the necessary momentum in Catalonia. According to data from Faconauto and ANFAC, registrations of electric vehicles this past October have grown by 100.52% compared to the month of October in 2025. In the year-to-date total, with data from the months of October to November 2026, the growth percentage stands at a surprising 57.71% compared to the 2025 figures. In other words, throughout 2026 more than 22,000 new electric cars have been registered in Catalonia, and the market trend suggests that this year the psychological barrier of 25,000 new electric cars sold in Catalan territory will be surpassed.

After the family made their request public this same week, the Spanish government has committed to recognizing Guillem Agulló as a victim of terrorism. In fact, the commitment was adopted by the Spanish president himself, Pedro Sánchez, before the family, with whom he met this Friday in Valencia before the pre-campaign event, as reported by Cadena SER and confirmed by ARA. This week, Guillem Agulló's family sent a letter to Pedro Sánchez and also to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in which they demanded that the young anti-fascist murdered 33 years ago at the hands of the extreme right be recognized as a victim of terrorism. In fact, until now the request has received the support of more than 200 personalities from the legal, political and media worlds.

"Immigration is out of control and if Aliança does not run, we have no alternative in these elections." David, a middle-aged man from Reus, will vote for Sílvia Orriols' party when elections are called in Catalonia, but on November 29th he will choose the Vox ballot, as one in five Aliança voters will in fact do, according to the latest poll by the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO). "We have a party against immigration in Spain and another in Catalonia," he celebrates to defend this dual vote. Until now, he had always voted for the PSOE. ARA has spoken with several people who have decided to cast this dual vote, and the migratory factor is the main reason.

This time, polling experts are more cautious than in 2023, but the majority opinion is that for now the PP and Vox can maintain hope for a victory wide enough to govern on the upcoming November 29th. Even so, the voices of the left do not falter and are intensely looking for a foothold. They do so with the usual arguments, such as Pedro Sánchez's capacity for resistance and survival, but above all with the idea that Spain cannot have changed so much and that the center-left sensibility continues to be the majority. They are aware, in any case, that this time it will not be enough to rely on the increase in pensions and the minimum wage as the central appeal for the vote. We are living through a pre-campaign marked by tragedies and at the same time accompanied by outbursts and flashes. Everything happens at hypersonic speed, and almost every day the main focus of attention shifts.

Six people have died and sixteen others have been injured in a shooting this Saturday at the main square of the Polish city of Krakow, the second-largest city in the country. According to police reports, officers managed to shoot the perpetrator, who has been admitted to the hospital in serious condition. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski detailed that the attacker, a 25-year-old Polish citizen, has "very radical views" and that "everything points to the fact that he was influenced by far-right ideology, a matter that will be the subject of investigation"

The former president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, was arrested this Saturday at dawn at his residence in Asunción, where he has been placed under house arrest, a few hours after the Senate removed him from office in a political trial for “misconduct in the performance of his duties.” The Public Prosecutor's Office has requested pretrial detention for Peña after formally accusing him of alleged "breach of trust and administration for personal gain" in relation to the collapse of Ueno Bank, a conglomerate where he held shares until March 2025 and where millions in funds from state pension funds went during his mandate. The judge has accepted the request and imposed pretrial detention.

Donald Trump's 2020 defeat did not bury Trumpism. It only made it take root. Evicted from the White House by a seven-million-vote margin, but by the thinnest of margins in a handful of decisive states, Trump incited his supporters to insurrection and, when the mob's assault on the Capitol failed, he retreated to his Mar-a-Lago mansion to plot his extraordinary comeback.

First it was various supermarkets in Northern Europe and, later, the refrigeration system of a French blood bank. Europe is experiencing a wave of cyberattacks that the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Commission describe as "serious" due to the impact it may have on essential services and infrastructure and the significant economic losses it may entail. The authorship of none of the incidents has yet been confirmed, and national and community authorities have not verified whether they are part of any coordinated operation. However, the temporal coincidence has alerted one of the sectors that accounts for two out of every five cyberattacks in Europe: the healthcare system. The Cybersecurity Agency managed about 2,200 incidents against the Catalan healthcare system last year, although none forced a disruption of activity, according to government sources.

Police crackdown on human trafficking in Catalonia. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested fifty members of a criminal network that is estimated to have earned more than three million euros by irregularly bringing Pakistani immigrants into the country. Three have been sent to prison. The organization charged its victims up to 30,000 euros, who often ended up in jobs verging on exploitation. The network made use of business owners who faked fraudulent contracts.

The Italian magistrate Lorenzo Salazar has a long career in the Italian judiciary – he has been, for example, a prosecutor in Naples – and is also completing an extensive stint in European institutions, currently leading the European Committee on Crime Problems of the Council of Europe. He is in Barcelona these days for a conference of the European Notarial Academy on international crime, which is being held at the Notarial College of Catalonia.

The 2.9 million clients of Ueno Bank, one of the most popular financial institutions in Paraguay, are experiencing the uncertainty of a corralito that has blocked their savings and pensions. The bank's collapse has simultaneously caused an earthquake in the country's government, given the business ties of President Santiago Peña, who has resigned, with the bank. These links have triggered an impeachment trial against the far-right leader, a friend and ally of Vox leader in Spain, Santiago Abascal. A tweet from the president's daughter, Constanza Peña, wearing a t-shirt calling for taxes to be imposed on the poor, has also sparked controversy.

The Catalan economy grew above the Spanish and European average in the third quarter, a common trend since the recovery after the pandemic. Thus, the gross domestic product (GDP, the indicator that measures the size of an economy) of Catalonia maintains an upward trend despite the adverse international context caused by tariff tensions, high inflation, and the energy crisis derived from the war in the Middle East.

Being the son of a film star has obvious advantages, needless to say, but also risks, as evidenced by the long list of broken toys found in Hollywood families. Kyle Eastwood, on the other hand, seems comfortable with his surname and his nearly three-decade career as a jazz double bassist. So comfortable that this Tuesday, as part of the Barcelona Jazz Festival, he will pay tribute to his father's career with a concert at the Paral·lel 62 venue, where his quintet will perform a selection of tracks from the soundtracks of Clint Eastwood's films, some of which were co-written by Kyle Eastwood himself.

More significant movements towards business concentration in the publishing world. Grupo Planeta has announced the incorporation of the historic Barcelona-based publisher Joventut, a benchmark in comics and children's and young adult literature since 1923, which has in its catalog classics such as The Adventures of Tintin, The Famous Five and Pippi Longstocking.

Villa Denise, a 240 m² manor house in Prats de Molló (Vallespir), begins a new life this Sunday. The property where, in November 1926, a hundred years ago, Francesc Macià settled to lead the liberation of Catalonia in the midst of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, opens its doors as Casa Macià, with a museum proposal and different spaces for cultural activities.

Barça visits Atlético de Madrid in a duel to decide the lead of La Liga. It will be the first clash between both teams this season, after a last campaign in which the Madrid side eliminated the Catalans from both the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

The Eder Sarabia era began with the Basque coach in a grandstand at the RCDE Stadium and his assistant, Jon López, directing from the bench due to the one-match suspension the new blue and white manager was carrying. The perspective granted by the height of Cornellà-El Prat allowed him to scrutinize the strengths and weaknesses of a team unaccustomed to taking the initiative, which lacked a bit of ruthlessness to turn the good football shown against Deportivo de La Coruña (0-0) into three points. It became clear that from now on the blue and white fans will be entertained, though it remains to be seen if they will also celebrate victories. With the first diagnosis in hand, Sarabia now has two weeks of the international break to polish the details of a proposal that, for the moment, is more convincing in its play than in its results.

Marc Pubill will meet Barça again this Sunday (9 pm, Movistar LaLiga), this time from a place that only a few years ago seemed difficult to imagine. The Atlético de Madrid defender is now a starter on a Champions League team and has just been proclaimed world champion with the Spanish national team. In front of him will be a club that knocked on his door several times and was interested in him both during his time at Levante and after winning the Olympic Games. Pubill's path to the elite had begun long before, when Espanyol decided to let him go and he had to return to Manresa.

Broken English was the opening film of the magnificent In-Edit festival that is just ending today. The immense luck is that you can recover the documentary on Filmin. It is a true treasure, for its approach and for the originality and sensitivity of its directors, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. The protagonist is Marianne Faithfull, but even if you do not know anything about the artist, it is very much worth it. It has nothing to do with any audiovisual biography you have seen before, because it is not just about reviewing someone's life, but also about understanding how memory about someone is built. And the way to do it is a stroke of genius.

I asked five artificial intelligence agents to help me decide my vote for the 29-N election. It is not that I need it –outsourcing judgment, as popular as it is becoming, is not in my DNA–, but I was curious to see what they would answer. As expected, all five (Grok, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT) acted very dignified and told me that under no circumstances would they tell me which ballot to pick. That they cannot interfere in elections. Once I recovered from my fit of laughter, I asked them, “In what way can you influence people's votes through the algorithm?” and here they could not avoid admitting that there were multiple ways in which, whether intentionally or not, AIs have the ability to put their finger on the scale and favor one political option over another.

“Data kills narrative!”, exclaimed Javier Ruiz, editorial director of the new channel La Séptima on the day of its premiere. But this is an empty mantra, with the same truth as “Cat crushes duck with a cheap shoe”, because just because something rhymes doesn’t make it any truer, Bertha. The first impressions of the new channel have already been written by comrade Mònica Planas, with her usual precise scalpel. I only want to point out the intensive use of electoral polls: every night, the channel presents a tracking that presumably captures the moment, as if voters en masse thought one thing on Monday and something very different the next day. On the debut night, Ruiz said that media polls seek more to shape reality than to describe it. And that his –in which, oh surprise, the PSOE was winning–, on the other hand, was indeed accurate. The favored party rushed to retweet it, of course. But the viewer had no resources to evaluate its reliability. At least El País, for example, has the good habit of offering the data in the raw, in case someone wants to try to unravel the cooking that has been applied to them.

L'ARA suggests some plans throughout the country for this weekend.

The week ahead, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will remember one of the most unusual and, occasionally, brilliant groups in the country's music: Umpah-pah. And all because Montgrí, the record label of Cala Vento, has just reissued the LP Bordell, the last album in Catalan by this unclassifiable combo from Salt led by Adrià Puntí. An album that we can equate to their career: it has as many moments of genius as others that are absolutely incomprehensible. In any case, an edition to celebrate (and buy).

The Ideal Centre for Digital Arts inaugurates this Friday, November 6th Dinosaurium, an immersive experience that combines art, science, and technology to reconstruct the ecosystem of the dinosaurs. The production, which has the scientific advice of researchers from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont (ICP), proposes a route of more than 2,000 m² distributed across seven spaces. The proposal reopens the Ideal space in Poblenou, after eight months of renovation, with the immersive room, the metaverse, and the interactive spaces updated, and has incorporated 400 m² previously intended for internal use to create a new virtual reality room in 360° format.

Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle's father, has been arrested in Florida for alleged possession of child pornography, as reported by the CBS News network. Last month it emerged that Markle, 82, was being investigated by Philippine authorities for allegedly possessing graphic child abuse material after his son, Thomas Markle Jr., reported him for files he found on a computer. The Duchess of Sussex has not had a relationship with her father, a figure who has always been controversial, for years.

For years, German model Heidi Klum has become the queen of Halloween. Every time All Saints' Day arrives, Klum manages to capture media attention thanks to her penchant for dressing up in surprising and bold options. This year she has done it again with a costume of her own hand. It is an immense limb, nearly two meters tall – Klum is 1.77m and was wearing heels – which reproduces the model's left hand, amputated at the wrist, bloodied and full of viscera. In this way, she appeared at her traditional Halloween party (dubbed Heidiween), which took place this Saturday at the Cathédrale restaurant at the Moxy East Village Hotel in New York.

Prince Harry was in the midst of an operation to get closer to the British royal family, whom he has been denouncing –for a price– for years on screens around the world, when a media bombshell exploded in his hands. In his hands and also in those of his wife, Meghan Markle, who has had, because of her father, a media collapse like the one when shortly before her wedding it was discovered that the man had sold staged photos of himself trying on suits to attend the royal wedding to the tabloid press. That was the trigger for the traitorous father, who before arriving at Buckingham was already doing business, to end up not being invited to the wedding and for the bride to have to arrive at the altar of St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on the arm of her father-in-law, the then Prince of Wales, Charles, now King Charles III.

Just past the border between the Costa Brava and the Vermilion Coast begins the most protected stretch of sea on the Roussillon coastline. It is a zone where navigation is prohibited and even an exclusion area where divers are not accepted. It is part of the Gulf of Lion Natural Marine Park, between Cerbère and Leucate, which covers more than 4,000 km² of French coastline. It is the area with the coldest water in the entire Mediterranean.

More than two thousand years ago, Greek medicine attributed some women's ailments to a uterus that moved through the body as if it were a restless and mischievous animal. It was believed that it could cause choking, convulsions, pain, or fainting depending on the place where it moved. It was even recommended to use pleasant or unpleasant odors to make it return to its place. Over the centuries, hysteria, a word derived from the Greek hystéra (uterus), became a label that grouped together very diverse manifestations, often interpreted based on the gender stereotypes and prejudices of each era. When medicine did not know how to explain what was happening to women, it seemed that the answer was always found in the fact of being women.

Catalonia is preparing for the historic total solar eclipse that will take place on August 12. A phenomenon that had not occurred in our land for 121 years, but that will not be seen completely everywhere. We must imagine a straight line approximately between Vilanova i la Geltrú and Lleida: the municipalities and regions located south of this line will see how the sun is totally hidden by the Moon, while those that remain to the north will witness a slightly partial eclipse. On this interactive map you will be able to discover how this spectacular phenomenon will be seen from your municipality and which will be the best areas to enjoy it to the fullest.