Snow is a good thermal and acoustic insulator thanks to the air it contains, which is why igloos are a good invention for spending cold nights. In fresh snow, the proportion of air reaches 90%. The Museum of Snow (Musèu dera Nhèu) dedicates a good amount of space to the scientific aspects of snow, whose germ is curiously hexagonal. This center is located in the small municipality of Unha, near Baqueira, the homeland of downhill skiing in the Aran Valley. The museum's manager, Montse Ademà, who guides me through this space located just a few steps from her home, is precisely from Unha.

If anyone was looking for clues about what might happen at Sant Fèlix, l'Arboç has left a few. The festival has brought together three of the four groups that will meet in Vilafranca, and they have all taken advantage of the event to show some of their cards. The result has been a top-level day, with a 3d10fm from Castellers de Vilafranca, an unprecedented 4d9sf in the square by Colla Vella, and a new 2d9fm from Jove de Tarragona.

Oriol Genís read El extravío de los signos, by Mexican anthropologist Natalia Mendoza (Periférica), because it was a recommendation from the company with whom this season they performed Oedipus and Antigone at the Teatre Nacional. The book "talks about the Sonora desert, immigration, deaths, people who disappear and are not found, and this links it with Tiresias and Antigone," explains the actor. "It's a splendid book, an essay that reads very well and is very interesting," he assures.

Twenty-six years may seem like an eternity in the world of castellers. For La Joves, however, this August 15th has been worth the wait. The 4d9sf that the reds loaded in La Bisbal 26 years ago is no longer an unfinished business: this time, the group has unloaded it. And they have done so with authority, in an afternoon in which they still had the strength to complete a 2d9fm and finish with a pillar of 7 with folre.

The anatomical amphitheater is the jewel of the building of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia, located in the heart of Ciutat Vella, in Barcelona, in front of the Institute of Catalan Studies. In the very center of this amphitheater there is an original rotating marble table where students performed dissections of corpses. The corpses arrived, still warm, from the Hospital de la Santa Creu, located side by side. They were of people who died completely alone and whose bodies no one claimed.

One of the most common routes to get from the metropolitan area to La Seu d’Urgell and Andorra (which avoids the hefty toll of the Cadí tunnel) goes through Coll de Nargó. Almost everyone passes by without stopping. I have stopped there on occasion, to visit the Raiers Museum, the Romanesque church of Sant Climent... Today I stopped to discover another element of heritage, which invites a journey far back in time: Dinosfera. The name already attracts me. Soon, other things will attract me more.

"Coca-cola was formulated as a medicinal syrup in 1886. Since it wasn't very successful, they decided to present it as a soft drink and it worked", Francesca Niubó, a microbiologist and head of the Cusí Pharmacy Museum, explains to me. And it certainly worked! I have a small glass bottle right in front of me, with the letters Coca-cola tilted, the "classic" image of this dark drink, which they say is so thirst-quenching, but I'm not sure. This is one of the many curiosities explained at the museum, a magnificent space full of objects from very diverse eras related to the world of pharmacy and medicine: ceramic pieces, glass, mortars –in bronze and iron–, ex-libris, engravings, and medical and pharmaceutical instruments. The main attraction, however, is an 18th-century baroque pharmacy. It belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria la Real, in Nájera. It is shown in its entirety (although, as there is no documentation, its original layout is unknown). It contains ceramic pots and urns, a cordialer with glass bottles, wooden drawers with the names of medicinal plants, and cabinets decorated with paintings of exotic animals, among other motifs. I am surprised to see these animals painted, which were not found centuries ago – nor are they currently found – in La Rioja: a panther, a crocodile... It is likely that pilgrims or merchants who had been to other countries passed through and told them about them. And the painter, with his craft, would also have wanted to "explain" them. It is one of the many singularities of this beautiful pharmacy that transports you to an era when apothecaries prepared formulas by hand, mixing herbs, minerals, and other ingredients. It is said that the monks of the monastery had a garden solely for cultivating medicinal plants, a place to dry them, and once dried, they kept them in drawers, where they rested until they had to be used. The pharmacy had a short life: Mendizábal's disentailment expelled the monks. But the pharmacist monk had the good idea – and the holy patience – to dismantle it, and he kept it at his brother's house. In 1920, Joaquim Cusí, with the idea of setting up a museum in the laboratories he wanted to build in Masnou, was looking for an old pharmacy. He heard about this one in Nájera, went there, and acquired it. Without seeing it. It was in boxes piled up in a stable. "All the timber from the pharmacy was brought by three train wagons", Francesca explains to me, as I observe old books on general medicine, ophthalmology, anatomy, and pharmacy. We are now inside one of the museum's great treasures: the library. The oldest book deals with ophthalmology – the specialty of the house. It is from 1520. The history of Cusí laboratories begins at the beginning of the 20th century, when Joaquim Cusí opened a pharmacy on Carrer Ample in the capital of Alt Empordà, with the help of his brother Carles. It was much more than a pharmacy. "Quimet" Cusí – they call him this to distinguish him from his cousin Quimarro (they were the sons of two brothers married to two sisters) – was a great defender of the Catalan language. That is why, in addition to medicines, he also had other things for "good health", such as magazines El Patufet. In the back room, long discussions were held, in which participated characters such as the notary Salvador Dalí (the painter's father), the Pichot (or Pitxot) brothers, Rafael, Joaquim and Lluís Cusí, numerous musicians, Marià Pujulà – who later became mayor of Figueres–. Joaquim Cusí was also mayor of El Masnou. Yes, some had political concerns and were encouraged to found a party of a Catalanist and republican character, Aplec Nacionalista Republicà. They wanted Figueres to be a town that shone like those in France: "When we cross the border we see such beautiful towns!", they said. Today, a century later, Figueres continues to be different from those in France. "Cusí was quite enterprising. He made many master formulas. He made a little formula that gave him very good results", Cesca tells me. "Why do you say it in diminutive?", I ask. "Ah!... It's because it's a very easy formula": an antiseptic ointment that cured minor eye infections. Cusí made money – and made a good name for himself – with this recipe from before antibiotics. It began to be marketed under the name Cusí Ophthalmic Ointment with Yellow Mercuric Oxide. In France, a similar ointment was marketed, but Cusí's was finer in texture and did not hurt when applied to the eyes. Its success was resounding. Cusí had "good foresight": he asked the ophthalmologist Barraquer for a list of ophthalmologists from all over the world, to whom he sent samples, and orders soon poured in from everywhere. "He also excelled in dermatology," Francesca explains to me as I notice what a pharmacy jar says: Laboratorios del Norte de España. This is how these laboratories were called for years. The American group Alcon, one of Nestlé's pharmaceutical divisions, bought the Cusí laboratories, which were renamed Alcon Cusí. Subsequently, they became part of the Novartis group and are currently part of the Siegfried company. The building where we are was about to be bombed during the civil war. During the conflict, Carles and Rafel Cusí remained in the country. Joaquim, on the other hand, a staunch republican, went into exile in Paris. Then to Belgium, to the United States (in transit) and to Costa Rica, where he founded some laboratories, he was finally in Mexico and returned in 1945.As I said goodbye to Francesca, she gifted me one last anecdote from the war. This factory in Masnou was a target for Francoist aviation. But the commander who was supposed to order the bombing was a worker and a friend of the Cusí family, so he gave different coordinates. Otherwise, I would not have known this treasure of the pharmacy and medicine world, nor Francesca, nor the first use Coca-cola had.

The Plaça de les Cols experienced one of the most notable human tower festival days in recent years this Sant Magí. On a day marked by heat, with temperatures above 33 degrees and high humidity, the four Tarragona-based teams completed a masterful performance and, above all, without any falls.

There are squares that are small in size and, on the other hand, have enormous capacity to build castles. The Plaça de la Vila del Catllar is one of them. This Saturday, however, the Tarragona square has gone even further: it has been the scene of an unprecedented performance. The three groups have put four gamma extra constructions on the table each and have completed an afternoon of maximums at the gates of Sant Fèlix. The Castellers de Vilafranca and the Colla Vella have completed their four gamma extra. La Jove de Tarragona has unloaded two and loaded two more. The result is unprecedented: never before had three groups managed to gather four gamma extra in a single performance.

The hygrometer and the hygrograph serve to measure the same thing – humidity – but they are not synonyms. The first records humidity at a specific moment and the second over time. This same distinction is found in many other devices, such as the barometer and the barograph, the thermometer and the thermograph. The incorporation of time as a measurement variable represented a revolution, because it allowed the evolution of several phenomena to be studied. It was especially important in the field of meteorology: continuous records made it possible to identify cycles, compare observations, and better understand and predict the weather. These two instruments are located in a showcase dedicated to Eduard Fontserè at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona (UB). They are part of this faculty's collection of instruments, which consists of about 600 pieces. There are items related to optics, mechanics, electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, fluids, astronomy, meteorology... Many of the instruments come from the laboratories and classrooms of the Faculty. Both the displayed hygrometer and hygrograph date from the late 19th century. They have clockwork mechanisms, pens, and cylinders covered with paper. They are the direct ancestors of current data acquisition systems; only the technology has changed. Joan Manel Hernàndez, professor in the department of condensed matter physics and curator of this splendid collection, acts as my host and guide. Pili Mateo, a cultural and heritage technician at the UB, also accompanies us, reminding me of the existence of the UB Virtual Museum, where these pieces and many others are housed. In addition to scientific instruments, the online platform (museuvirtual.ub.edu) contains information and images of works of art, documentary and bibliographic collections, natural science collections, and architectural heritage.The origin of the collection of physics apparatus can be traced to the development of physics cabinets in the 19th century. The designation "physics" in a sense similar to the current one was not established until that century. The first treatises date from the late 1900s, when physics began to be associated with the experimental method. Before that, it was referred to as "natural philosophy". Fontserè is not only honored with this display case, but also with his name on the Faculty's Sala de Graus. He was fundamental in the history of Catalan science, the main driving force behind modern meteorology here, founder of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia in 1921. He also worked in astronomy, seismology, and earth physics, and promoted meteorology based on systematic observation and rigorous data collection. Among his contributions, the Elemental Atlas of Clouds, translated into several languages, stands out. Furthermore, he was one of the main promoters of an astronomical observatory on Tibidabo: the Fabra Observatory. He did so many things! He had time to do them: he lived for 100 years.I have the privilege of going down to a warehouse where there is a string of instruments stored. I notice some rudimentary computers. The screens are cathode ray tubes. They resemble old black and white televisions. Despite their size, they had much lower power and memory than a current mobile phone. "I enjoy playing instruments," reveals Joan Manel. He dedicates himself to cataloging, researching... Practically alone. "Now I have managed to get an intern for two hours a day," he says. The history of instruments is also the history of progress in the ability to measure. Over time they have gained sensitivity, precision, and automation. Today a student can record hundreds of measurements with digital sensors, whereas before they had to read them one by one on a graduated scale and write them down by hand in a notebook.The materials have also changed: before, brass, wood, and glass were used, and often the cables were covered in colored silk. There was a clear intention to make precise and beautiful objects. Today they are much more powerful and precise, but beauty has ceased to be of interest. Plastics, aluminum, and electronics predominate.We leave the warehouse and go to see the star piece: a Grubb telescope, an Irish company, one of themost prestigious in the world for large astronomical telescopes during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is inside and, therefore, does not work. After all, seeing the sky from Barcelona's Diagonal – an area with significant light pollution – is of little interest.

Eight months pregnant, Mar Reguant (Súria, Bages, 1984) took her bicycle to buy her first electric car. She already had a daughter, lived on the outskirts of Chicago, and got around by pedaling alone, but she was soon to be a mother for the second time, and a big snowfall was predicted. “The car was very small and had a maximum range of 100 kilometers,” she recalls. When she returned from the United States after the pandemic, she moved to a development in Bellaterra with her two young children. And unlike her neighbors, for a year and a half she also lived without a car. “Now I think about it and I don't know how we did it – she explains, laughing –. The children were very young and it shows that it can be done, but sometimes activism weighs us down a bit.”

"Tremp is the largest municipality in Catalonia," Xavier Boixadós, a guide for this town, assures me, so as soon as we see each other, he says almost before telling me: "Did you manage to park easily?" I am taken aback. I thought I had ventured into the most depopulated, emptiest Catalonia. He immediately explains it to me: "Larger in surface area, not in number of people. It has 300 square kilometers, more than Barcelona." Tremp has been adding abandoned or semi-abandoned villages, and that's why it has been growing. Many of these villages are built on high ground – defense was the number one element for settling there.

It is not easy to interview Joan Pujades, from the La Puntual bakery. He does not like the spotlight. The long queues in front of his bakery in the Devesa neighborhood have not come from major marketing campaigns, but from consistency, good products, friendliness, and, above all, humility. When he agrees to do it, after much insistence, he sets only one condition: that it be while he is delivering bread. This means spending an hour chasing his tricycle through the streets of Girona. At every corner, someone greets him. A customer, a shopkeeper, an acquaintance. He exchanges a few words with everyone, always by name. He gives away a fritter, a slice of cake, or simply a “good morning!” “I’m a bit like Girona’s Snowflake. And they haven’t thrown peanuts at me yet, but it’s not far off. Since there are few bicycle delivery people in Girona...”, he says, laughing.

Today I'm talking about the Geological Museum of the Barcelona Seminary, a treasure located in the center of Barcelona. It is little known. I myself was unaware of it. And this is despite having visited a lot of museum centers in the country. In some texts you will read that it was born in 1874. No, that is not correct. Its seed was sown much earlier: in 1818. It was an initiative of Bishop Fèlix Torres Amat, who wanted the natural sciences taught in seminaries and religious schools to be explained with plants, animals, fossils... That first center had an original title: Museum of ancient and precious things from the same province. It was located in the Seminary building which was on the Rambla dels Estudis. It was a natural history cabinet, made up of donations from collectors and more modest contributions from students, seminarians, and missionaries. Yes, it was common here, and in other parts of Europe, for missionaries to become infatuated with some piece from the land where they preached, be it masks, fabrics, necklaces, musical instruments. And they would take it without hesitation, as if it were a free souvenir.The biologist Joan Barrull, curator of vertebrates at this museum, is in charge of managing the collection and the exhibition hall. He also offers guided tours there. Barrull has set up an interesting replica of a small natural history cabinet, made from a mishmash of pieces that have no relation to each other, as was the case in the early days of the museum. The pieces were stored in different corners of the center and were completely undocumented. Variety is one of the essential elements of any collector's cabinet, and this one is no exception. Thus, we find a plastic gorilla, a stuffed squirrel, a coconut crab, a giant clam that was used as a baptismal font... There are also glass jars with animals insidea liquid that must be formaldehyde or alcohol: a salamander, a newt, a loach, a snake... "I've tried to open the lid of these jars, but I can't; the years have hardened the screw," Joan Barrull explains to me. "Our museum started out very eclectic. Like the Darder Museum in Banyoles and many other natural history museums", he says. He uses the our because he feels it is his own: he dedicates a lot of hours and passion to it. Later, under the leadership of Father Jaume Almera – you see this is about religious figures – the museum turned towards paleontology. Almera was a great defender of experimental science. Explaining the lesson was not enough for him: it was necessary to go out into the field and collect samples. Furthermore, he created the geological map of the province of Barcelona and collected numerous fossils.Enric Aragonès, a scientific collaborator of the museum, also accompanies me, who explains to me that during the civil war some "unknown people" threw practically all the pieces out the window. During the war conflict, a marble bust of the prestigious doctor and geologist Carles de Gimbernat was also lost. Mostly the library, everything was destroyed. The religious character of the institution had something to do with it. And, of course, the museum had to start all over again.In the museum there are pieces to entertain for hours and hours. We find fossils from the Alcover and Mont-ral site, an almost complete sirenian from Montserrat, an enormous mastodon from Polinyà... and many fossils and ichnofossils (footprints left by organisms that have fossilized). The jewel of the room is a cabinet full of holotypes (unique and original specimens, which serve as a reference to name a new species).which serve as a reference to name a new species).We enter the reserve areas, where books and various curious pieces are kept. I am surprised to see a fisherman's handle in a room crowded with publications. And a whole human skeleton. Well preserved, and standing upright, inside a closet all to himself.The museum is very strict when accepting donations. Francesc Carrasco, deputy director, a specialist in sea urchins from the Eocene epoch, tells me: "If someone brings me a fossil and says 'I've never seen this!; it's not enough to accept it.' They must be paleontologists specialized in each field." And the date and place where each item was collected must be known. "Four directors have passed through," Francesc Carrasco tells me. "In so many years? That's few, right?" I say. "It's because they are lifetime positions," he replies. And he recites them like someone saying a team's lineup: "Almera, Batallé, Via, and Calzada." Now Calzada is very old and hardly comes. Will the new director be Francesc Carrasco? That is decided by the archbishop of Barcelona (after consultation)."As I leave the museum, I notice a sign that says: "Reverse box". Yes, this is a very original museum, in that regard too. At the end of the visit, depending on your degree of satisfaction, you pay what you want. The system is already quite common in plays. But I had never seen it in a museum. The sign is also in English. I didn't know it's called Honor box. It is a great honor that we have this museum in Catalonia.A building by Elies RogentTo access the Geological Museum, you must pass through some of the corridors of the building that houses the Seminary of Barcelona, the Conciliar, because it is the fruit of the Council of Trent (1545-1564), where the creation of seminaries for the training of priests was established. Today there are fewer aspiring priests than in previous years. But they are well cared for. Walking around, I see a ping-pong table. It is a good resource for spending leisure hours. The Seminary building, where the Museum of Geology has been located since the end of the 19th century, was designed by the prestigious architect Elies Rogent, author of the main building of the neighboring University of Barcelona.

"Antarctica is a good sentinel of climate change", says Rafel Simó, a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC), who has been to this virgin, fragile, and silent area of the planet several times to conduct research with the Hespérides, a ship managed and crewed by the Spanish Navy. –Wouldn't it be logical for a research institution to do it?–. "And it shows that climate change is accelerating", he assures. "It is also a window into the past climate: deep continental ice contains trapped bubbles from the atmosphere of the last million years", he emphasizes. «In Antarctica there is practically no green, but there is a lot of life. It is marine life. It may seem a paradox that in such a hostile place there is great biodiversity», says Rafel. When we think of the animals of this remote continent, we immediately get the image of penguins, but there are many more: orcas, whales, seals... and an infinity of fish, all of them fed by microscopic plankton. "It is beautiful to see how life adapts to an extreme environment", says Simó, who knows the Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base very well. –And why isn't it named after Josefina Castellví, who directed it? Simó highlights some positive things that are happening in this far south: the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement signed in 1959 that establishes that Antarctica must be used only for peaceful purposes and scientific research. –"It's a geopolitical miracle in the midst of the Cold War", he says– and that some of the data collected are hopeful, such as those that say the ozone layer hole is closing.As soon as I enter CosmoCaixa, I head to the space dedicated to Josefina Castellví (1935-2026) and research in Antarctica. There is the module-laboratory where Castellví worked, and many others, including Antoni Ballester, the driving force behind the base. I see a lot of equipment that is noticeably old –— I don't like the word 'antiquated'. Most are for microbiology, to analyze the chemical composition of water and its organisms.The director of CosmoCaixa, Valentí Farràs from Cardona, former director of CaixaForum Barcelona, accompanies me. He explains to me that after it fell into disuse, this laboratory –a container made in Tarragona– was repatriated: yes, it made a round trip to Catalonia, and CosmoCaixa "welcomed" it.Before showing me how the origin of the universe is explained here, Valentí indicates the origin of this museum that opened its doors in 1980. "First we opened it to schools and universities for them to test it," he explains. In the beginning it was called the Science Museum of the Social Work “la Caixa”. It occupied a building from the early 20th century, by Josep Domènech i Estapà –some called him, with malice, "Domenech the bad", in contrast to Domènech i Montaner–, which had housed a shelter for blind women, characterized by an innovative pedagogy. Later it became the Science Museum and since 2004, after a major expansion, CosmoCaixa. Today it is a giant of scientific dissemination for all ages, a must-visit. It is a museum to go to for a few days because in one "you won't finish it". "Hold on!", says one girl to another. They are playing at trying to hold their palms out for as long as possible on a large block of ice. Next to them, one of water's curiosities is explained: its three states –solid, liquid and gaseous– can coexist simultaneously at 0.01 degrees. Not so in Antarctica, where water freezes below zero degrees (approximately -1.8 °C) because it is salty.Another curiosity about water that catches my attention is shown in an experiment. We approach it and an educator says to a series of students: "See? Water is not continuous." There is a stream of water that forms a bridge and is illuminated with stroboscopic light, which allows it to be seen broken down into drops.We enter the so-called flooded forest. It is hot, 26 °C and 80% humidity and it's raining –it's rather drizzling– every quarter of an hour. Of course: we are "in" the Amazon rainforest, specifically in the Santarém region. I watch an anaconda move slowly. "It eats two rabbits every fifteen days. It's a slow-digesting animal," says Valentí. Suddenly, my host looks at his mobile. It's not that he wants to ignore me. He wants to show me the number of people visiting the museum. It's a "tracker" that is constantly updating. "There are 1,410 people." It's more or less as if the entire population of Puigverd de Lleida –even very old people, who only leave the house occasionally–, were attending CosmoCaixa.I stop in front of a fossilized skeleton of a woolly mammoth, of considerable size. They made good use of many things from the mammoth: the skin for clothing, the body for food or for making tools. "If they explain it to you, you remember it; if you experience it, you learn it. This is the basis of CosmoCaixa," remarks Valentí. "Accompanied by educators, knowledge is consolidated," he adds as I review the names of great female researchers that fill a wall. The first, Hypatia of Alexandria, philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician (4th century AD). Of course, Josefina Castellví is not missing.

Next to the Portal de Porrera, formerly the only carriage access to the now-disappeared medieval walled enclosure, there is a beautiful sundial. It is the largest in the town and one of the largest in Catalonia. One of its curiosities is this text: "You who are looking at me pay good attention to what I tell you, this has great meaning (...), if you don't understand what I say you will go to Salamanca". It refers to the University of Salamanca. Back then (19th century) it was quite far from here!

A good way to grieve is to gather memories. When, a few months ago, my father, an architect, died, rummaging through documents, I learned that the lineage of architects who preceded him was much more extensive – and notable – than was said at home.The lineage has ended (for now). None of the seven siblings have dedicated themselves to architecture. The industrial engineers lineage on my mother's side (Cornet) has also become extinct, one of whom directed the Maquinista Terrestre i Marítima.Among the buildings preserved from the lineage of architects of my father, Vil·la Urània stands out, the work of my great-grandfather Magí Rius (grandfather of my grandfather, Magí Romaní Rius). Magí Rius Mulet built it when he was thirty years old. He had not yet reached his professional peak.Vil·la Urània is one of the oldest and most beautiful houses in the Barcelona neighborhood of Farró. It is single-story and slightly elevated (to access it, you have to climb eight steps), which gives it a temple-like air. It has a few ornamental details in the neoclassical style. It was built in 1868 – the year of the Glorious Revolution–, precisely the date on which Josep Comas i Solà was born: I will tell you about it now. The house was commissioned to Magí Rius, Comas i Solà's father, but he lived there for a short time because he died young. His son, the astronomer, inherited it and named it Vil·la Urània, in honor of the muse of astronomy. He lived there until his death, in 1937.I visit Vil·la Urània accompanied by Ricard Martínez, a great astronomy enthusiast, who presided over Aster, Barcelona Astronomical Association, for a few years. "As a child, Comas i Solà already looked at the sky. His hobby became his profession. He did good work on the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars (he thought he had observed a volcanic eruption on Mars; we now know it was a dust storm). He had an enormous capacity for work. He took many photographs, and where photography couldn't reach, he made drawings," says Ricard. And he adds, with a smile: "There are astronomers who have been terrible drawers"."He was very keen on looking through the telescope from the roof of this house, where he spent hours and hours. He made several discoveries: eleven asteroids – including Hispània – two comets...", details Ricard, while we have a coffee at Vil·la Urània. It is now a café-restaurant. "He had a great capacity for communication. He gave many lectures and often appeared on the radio. Before graduating in physical-mathematical sciences, he was already collaborating with La Vanguardia –l’ARA did not exist yet–. He wrote for the Godó newspaper regularly throughout his life. He also published articles in numerous foreign magazines. And he promoted the so-called Festes del Sol (Sun Festivals), which have been revived at Vil·la Urània."

I suppose the miller's mill, in Balaguer, was called that because the person who operated it was left-handed. And I suppose that when he went to school, as a child – if he went at all – the teachers must have wanted to correct his "anomaly", without success.

Tarragona is already living the countdown to the Sant Magí festival. The city's four groups are facing the final days of preparation with rehearsals and tests that will finalize the programs they will bring to Plaça de les Cols on Wednesday, August 19. The event, starting at noon, will once again bring together Jove, Xiquets, Sant Pere i Sant Pau, and Serrallo in a festival with very different objectives but with a common denominator: reaching the highest possible level in one of the most important events of the Tarragona summer.

Today I visit the science place closest to my home. And despite that, I had never set foot there. It is located on Carrer de la Llum – yes, they have given it a tailor-made name – in Cerdanyola del Vallès, bordering Sant Cugat, where I have lived for many years.