La Boqueria dressed up in solemnity to pay tribute the most special tribute that was missing for Juanito Bayén, Pinocchio. The police in full dress, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​​​close friends and also restaurateurs like Pedro and Josep Monje from Via Veneto They sat on chairs placed in one of the corridors of the Mercat de la Boqueria to listen to the memories told by those who knew him. At the end of the glosses, the mayor, Jaume Collboni, gave his widow, Carme Celdran, the Gold Medal for civic merit, which she raised with pride and with the gesture that some remembered from the day when friends took Pinocchio in their arms, dressed as a bullfighter, and paraded him around the market. He was a man who represented humility and effort in equal parts, and who was loved by everyone for his human qualities.