Angelina Torres, the oldest woman in Catalonia, died this Monday at the age of 112 years and almost eight months. Born in Bellvís, in the Pla d'Urgell region, on March 18, 1913, she was also the oldest woman in Spain and among the 40 oldest people in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which verifies birth and death dates. Torres was the last living Catalan born before the outbreak of the First World War and, as a child, she even spoke with the bricklayers who laid the foundations of the Sagrada Família. When she asked them what they were building, the workers replied: "We will build a church that Catalonia will be proud of," Torres explained in an interview with ACN in March. In that same interview, on the occasion of her 112th birthday, she joked about your genetics"The doctors haven't had to do much work with me." Her mother died just shy of 100, and one of her sisters lived to 93. Torres was the fifth of seven children; her father worked as a barber in Fondarella, and her mother was a housewife in Montblanc. When she was little, her father died in a carriage accident, and the family moved to Barcelona with her mother, who had found work in the capital. She explained that the city has changed a lot in the last century, but she still remembered the street dances people used to do on holidays and festivals: "For Sant Joan, we'd go to Montjuïc, to the Font del Gat, to eat the cake."