How many lives can a book have? In Celrà, straddling Girona and Empordà, for 16 years a recycled reading project has been beating, giving a new life to more than 300,000 books. It shares space with the town library in the old Pagans Factory, a gem of Catalan industrial modernism converted into a municipal space, where the Town Hall coexists with the municipal swimming pools, the library, the music school, art school, and a civic center with a bar and restaurant, and a free indoor play area for children and babies.

The Girona-based company Tradeinn, headquartered in Celrà and specializing in the online sale of sportswear and equipmentIt continues to grow. In 2024, it closed the year with a record turnover of 555 million euros and Decathlon entered the race to buy it and create an e-commerce giant in Spain. Extraordinary figures that continue to rise, with a volume of around 150,000 orders per day. Driving from the Pont Major neighborhood of Girona towards Celrà, the Tradeinn warehouses are visible from the roundabout and occupy a large part of the industrial park at the entrance to this small town at the foot of Les Gavarres. where the CUP has historically governed