While more foreign tourists than ever arrive in Catalonia, domestic tourism is falling. Excursions and trips by Catalans within the territory are down 25.6% compared to before the pandemic, 2019. According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) compiled by ARA, trips are down 19.1%, and day trips are down 28.3%.

Héctor and Magnolia work in luxury hotel establishments. He holds a position of responsibility in the kitchen of a well-known hotel in Barcelona, and she cleans rooms in an exclusive tourist establishment near the city's beach. Despite living daily with tourism, Magnolia is part of the 28.8% of Catalans who, according to Idescat, cannot afford to take a week's vacation away from home, and until six or seven years ago, Héctor was also one of them.

How many Barça players have served as mayor? How many matches has the club won while wearing white shorts? What is the highest altitude stadium where Barça has played an official match? How many Barça players were born during the Third Carlist War? Which Barça player was born in the southernmost part of the planet, and who is the only footballer to have played for both Barça and Barcelona de Guayaquil? Knowing how to ask questions is perhaps as important as having the answers. And journalist Oriol Jové (Lleida, 1998) knows how to do both, so now he publishes Barça in figures (Almuzara), a book in which he compiles the most surprising figures from the club's 125-year history. "The player born furthest south and the only one who has also played for Barcelona de Guayaquil, the Ecuadorian club founded by Catalans, is the same person, the Argentine goalkeeper Carlos Medrano," he explains.