Every winter, the city of Girona reconnects with the deep-rooted pulse of fire. The Foguerons de Sant Antoni arrive in the capital of Girona as a ritual that evokes memory, gathering, and community. This festival finds its symbolic reference in Sant Antoni Abat – patron saint of animals, farmers, and the rural world. His presence transcends mere devotion, conjuring a bond between people and their land.

We read in the ARA newspaper what the Sant Antoni neighborhood council's solution is to improve coexistence after complaints from residents about conflicts: "Remove 30% of the furniture from the superblock". That is, planters, benches, or basins that have "the duality of being used during the day by neighbors and at night by addictive consumption."

The illegal street sale of objects taken from containers, drug use and trafficking in public streets, the occupation of urban furniture for sleeping and the increase in filth have been, in recent months, The main complaints of the residents of the Sant Antoni neighborhoodIn response to this situation, Jordi Valls, councilor for the Eixample district, presented an action plan this morning with the aim of "improving coexistence." The proposal is based on three axes: actions on public spaces, increased security, and social measures.

Illegal street vending, drugs on public streets, and skyrocketing filth. This is what many residents and shopkeepers in Barcelona's Sant Antoni neighborhood have been experiencing for months. "We've reached the limit: either we report it now or it will get worse. We want a political reaction," say Sant Antoni Encants, one of the neighborhood associations that issued a letter on Monday to the Eixample and Ciutat Vella city councils to express their discontent over the "deterioration it is suffering." In it, they detail that the increase in uncivil behavior affects neighborhood coexistence and, in turn, has a direct impact on local businesses.

Flour, dough, and the art of working with it have been part of Antonio Verdicchio's life since he was a child. Born near Florence and raised near Naples, his grandparents were bakers who baked bread in the basement of their home, while his father, Mario, made his way as a pizza maker and had a restaurant in San Felice a Cancello, thirty kilometers from the capital of Campania. "He would get up at four in the morning to open the pizzeria, which was next to a school, and people would buy their children's lunch. Everyone knew my father," he recalls. Antonio, in fact, grew up as "the son of the pizzaiolo". From him he learned the trade and the passion for pizza (Neapolitan, of course), the keys that explain why now, at 39 years old, he is successful with La Piccolina, the pizzeria he opened almost two years ago in Barcelona and with which he has won over the neighborhood of Sant Antoni.