The Ministry of Culture, the Generalitat (Catalan Government), and Tarragona City Council will invest €39.7 million in the city's Roman heritage through the Tarragona Heritage Management Consortium, established this Wednesday at the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona. The event was attended by the President of the Generalitat (Catalan Government), Salvador Illa; the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun; the Mayor of the city, Rubén Viñuales; and the Regional Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández. The consortium entities are the Generalitat (Catalan Government), the City Council, and the Catalan Cultural Heritage Agency. The ministry, the Provincial Council, and the archbishopric may also participate, initially participating through agreements. "This consortium is a good example that collaboration between administrations is the only way forward," said Salvador Illa.

Two fires, one at the mosque in Córdoba (Andalusia) on Friday night and another on Sunday at the Las Médulas site (Castile and León), where the remains of a gold mine from the 1st and 3rd centuries are located, have put experts and heritage lovers on alert. These are two of the fifty sites in Spain registered in the UNESCO World Heritage ListBut that hasn't made them immune to the flames.