Pablo Sánchez, Manuel Bouzas, Andrés Dotti, Gabriela Asturias, Antoni Forner-Cuenca, and Valentina Agudelo received the Princess of Girona Award this Wednesday for their commitment to the future of the planet, health, education, and sustainable architecture. These six young people—four with Spanish nationality, one Guatemalan, and one Colombian—received the Foundation's awards from Princess Leonor at a ceremony held at the Liceu in Barcelona. The event was attended by the entire Spanish royal family, and Felipe VI called for "strengthening" ties between Catalonia and the Spanish state based on "mutual understanding," "solidarity," and "great shared goals."

In Sant Martí Vell, a tiny village on the border between Gironès and Empordà, at the foot of the Sanctuary of Les Àngels, where barely 300 people live, lies one of the most precious and unknown artistic gems of the most important Girona regions. Tiffany & Co., with an unmistakable and revolutionary style: elegant, functional, everyday, and ergonomic, inspired by the shapes and beauty of nature. Photographers and painters like Salvador Dalí, discovered Empordà and, specifically, Sant Martí Vell. In 1968, he bought a very humble first rural house, when he still had one foot in New York, but in the 1980s, after the AIDS epidemic, he established it as his personal refuge and turned this corner into a home. until his death in 2021.