In 1820 the concept of "intelligence" appeared for the first time in France. industrial revolution to refer to all the changes being driven by England and Scotland that would ultimately transform humanity. Inventors were everywhere. Each creation opened its doors to new inventions that transformed jobs, which were increasingly concentrated in cities. Photography was already in the offing, but hadn't yet been invented. If it had existed, perhaps we would have some image of when Joan Coca and his wife, Maria Àngela, opened the Hostal Coca in Torredembarra, which opened its doors that same year as 1820 as a laying house, where the horses of travelers or mail carriers could rest.

"Who writes the scripts for torrential politics?" asks journalist Jordi Salvat Rovira in one of the articles that form part of the compilation he has selected for publication. Various thoughts 2. This is the second part of another work published in 2011, and together they form the best possible guide to understanding Torredembarra. In this municipality of less than 20,000 inhabitants, political reporting, which is Salvat's specialty, has absolutely everything.