A while ago, in a different medium and format, I wondered how El Vendrell could be the way it is. I don't know exactly what it's like either; it's simply El Vendrell. But it's the birthplace of people like Pau Casals, Àngel Guimerà, the brothers Ramon Ramon i Vidales and Joan Ramon i Vidales, the Andreu Nin brothers, and the Lax'n'Busto family. Something like Reus or Sarral, but in the Penedès region.

"If you ask, some will tell you this is the Penedès, others that it's the Camp de Tarragona, but there are also those who will tell you it's the metropolitan area of Barcelona." Jon Olano is a sociologist and professor at the URV (University of Valencia). He knows El Vendrell very well. He has lived there since he was ten years old, when his family emigrated from a village in the Basque Country. He also wrote his doctoral thesis on this municipality. We listened to him and asked the mayor himself, Kenneth Martínez: "No, no, we are clear about it! We are Tarragona. For practical purposes, we are part of the Barcelona metropolitan area, and everything that happens in Barcelona affects us directly, but by tradition and culture, we look to Tarragona and the Penedès, of course. We are in the middle of everything," he concludes.

The most popular part of El Vendrell is its library, or rather: its libraries. Although, in this article, we will leave aside the Terra Baixa Public Library and focus on the El Vendrell Popular Library – it all starts with p, but one is public and the other, popular.