Barcelona's Plaza Reial has hosted the Sunday stamp and coin market for over a hundred years. A century of history could disappear this fall. The reason: the City Council's new requirement for renewing licenses, which aims to align this activity with the rest of Catalonia's street markets. This would mean having to sign fifteen-year permits, instead of the annual license that stallholders have had until now. This type of concession poses a certain difficulty because most of them are over sixty years old. "We don't make a profit or live off of it; we're collectors and we do it because we like it," laments José María Ríos, president of the Plaça Reial Philatelic and Numismatic Association.

And suddenly, when they least expect it, a bucket of pixum falls on them. It's the height of the night; the alcohol has completely uninhibited them. But suddenly, they're soaked and smell bad. The shouting and chanting they've been doing in the middle of the night in the middle of the street has astonished the neighbors, and the response makes one of them lose his temper: he breaks down the door of the building and goes upstairs to look for the culprits. He can't find the apartment in question, and his friends—those who haven't been splashed with urine—talk him into reason. He leaves the building he's vandalized and continues the party, for this is Barcelona and the night is young.