Barcelona City Council has dismissed Jaume Muñoz as Director of Cultural Heritage. Muñoz was appointed on November 30, 2022, following a public competition held during Ada Colau's term in office. This competition was contested by two of the sixteen candidates. Barcelona's 16th Administrative Court ruled in their favor with a binding ruling. However, nothing is definitive. Muñoz filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, which has yet to be resolved, and therefore the city council, which highly values ​​the work he has done during these three years as Director of Cultural Heritage, could reinstate him.

The Ministry of Culture, the Generalitat (Catalan Government), and Tarragona City Council will invest €39.7 million in the city's Roman heritage through the Tarragona Heritage Management Consortium, established this Wednesday at the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona. The event was attended by the President of the Generalitat (Catalan Government), Salvador Illa; the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun; the Mayor of the city, Rubén Viñuales; and the Regional Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández. The consortium entities are the Generalitat (Catalan Government), the City Council, and the Catalan Cultural Heritage Agency. The ministry, the Provincial Council, and the archbishopric may also participate, initially participating through agreements. "This consortium is a good example that collaboration between administrations is the only way forward," said Salvador Illa.

There was a time, we could say foundational, when cultural policy mattered a lot in Catalonia. Despite having little money, as always. It was a battlefield and a showcase. It generated passions and citizen controversies. It was necessary to build the country that Franco's regime had erased. It was time to resume the work of the Mancomunitat and the Republican Generalitat: libraries, museums, archives, theaters... Pujolism put its national stamp on that process.

On February 26, 2001, the Taliban, then in power in Afghanistan, decreed the destruction of all non-Islamic sculptures in the country, including the so-called Buddhas of Bamiyan: two huge sculptures that stand 38 and 55 meters high, respectively, representing two giant Buddhas, which had been excavated between the 6th and 7th centuries on a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan. Hence their name. Unesco pleaded with the Taliban not to perpetrate this madness, sent a representative to Afghanistan to try to negotiate and succeeded in getting the majority of Muslim countries to support it and to demand that the Taliban not destroy the Buddhas. However, to no avail. In early March, the fundamentalists blew up the sculptures, which were smashed to pieces.