It all started with a small café opened in the midst of the pandemic in Platja d'Aro for cycling enthusiasts. The first meeting point for professional and amateur athletes on the Costa Brava. And in just five years, it has taken the leap to open a new location in Catalonia's great cycling mecca and also become the first specialty coffee roaster on the Girona coast. This, added to the big step forward in 2026: opening a new warehouse and reaching customers' homes with online sales (ecommerceMaglia Coffee & Co offers subscriptions to whole bean coffee. With a small team of 14 people (20 in peak season), it has just surpassed one million euros in revenue. At the helm of the project is Marc Guinó, the son of a family of restaurateurs from Maçanet de la Selva, who grew up surrounded by the sounds of coffee machines and cups in the family business. "I've always been a big coffee lover, and tasting specialty coffee was the spark that ignited my idea," he explains about the inspiration behind La Maglia. "I saw specialty coffee shops and cyclists growing in Girona, but there wasn't that kind of offering on the Costa Brava, so we created it." That's how Guinó opened his first shop on Juli Garreta street in Platja d'Aro, opposite Plaça del Mil·lenari, taking advantage of the fact that he lived in S'Agaró, and as a cyclist, he named it after the pink jersey worn by the leaders of the Giro d'Italia.

In the emblematic Odeon Theatre of Girona, Recently restored and transformed into a grand cycling venue, the ARA Girona celebrated the launch of its first awards on Tuesday evening. Named afterThe 25 players from Girona who have scored in 2025These new awards aim to give visibility to relevant and interesting people and projects from the region, but little known to the general public. The award winners are not big names or the most illustrious figures from the Girona region, but rather a collection of stories and personalities that readers have discovered through news articles, reports, and interviews published in the newspaper over the past year. The event brought together more than 150 people, including authorities such as the mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas; the president of the Provincial Council, Miquel Noguer; and the Minister of Territory, Housing, and Transport, Sílvia Paneque, as well as the director of ARA, Esther Vera.

In the middle of Girona's egg yolk, facing the Café Le Bistrot esplanade and the Sant Martí steps, in one of the most romantic and idyllic corners of the city, a spectacular new bicycle shop has just opened. It occupies the two floors of the former Odeon Hall and Theatre, a legendary establishment of leisure and culture in Girona since the 19th century, closed more than ten years ago, which was in a state of disrepair and has now been completely restored after 4 years of work. The new premises, conceived as a kind of boutique of select articles with a multidisciplinary space of sofas and a cafeteria, aims to become a new international attraction for cycling enthusiasts, in a city that has long It has established itself as the world epicenter of cyclingThe owner and developer of the renovation—which cost around €2 million in private capital—is Girona businessman Miquel Casals, and the new tenant is the Velodrom Group, one of the city's leading cycling brands.