The presentation of the new director of the Mercat de les Flors, Chilean historian María José Cifuentes (Santiago, 1980), was one of the strangest in recent history. Firstly, because she was not accompanied by any representative of the two institutions that form part of the consortium, neither Barcelona City Council nor the Generalitat (Catalan government). And secondly, because Cifuentes announced the main lines of a program without knowing where it will be deployed. The center for which she was chosen director will ultimately close for two years—not just one as initially planned—in 2027 and 2028, with the aim of reopening in 2029, when the centenary of the 1929 Expo on Montjuïc will be celebrated (the reason this building was built as the Palau de Barcelona). The Mercat will be under renovation throughout the current season, planned by Àngels Margarit, and open to the public until December 2026.