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The team of surveyors from Sostremetries, who have been reviewing the altitudes of the peaks of the Pyrenees for years, has certified a new three-thousander in Catalunya, the South Needle of Malavesina, at 3,012.9 meters altitude and a prominence of eleven relative to the last saddle, in the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, according to measurements taken on July 5. In this way, Catalunya goes from twelve to thirteen summits exceeding this elevation: Pica d’Estats, Verdaguer, Punta de Gabarró, Sotllo, N. subpeak of Sotllo, Rodó de Canalbona, Comaloforno, Besiberri Sur, Besiberri Norte, Punta Alta de Comalesbienes, Tuc de Mulleres, North Needle of Malavesina, and now the South Needle. In the entire Pyrenees range, the number will increase from 216, of which 125 are main and 91 secondary, to 217.

Tomás, as he is known, is spending his third summer in the village as just another resident, except that he has the peculiarity of not being a person but a deer with an impressive rack of antlers who has gotten used to living with the few inhabitants of Linarejos (Zamora), in the Sierra de la Culebra.

The very bold and eye-catching signs of the latest bakery mainly aimed at occasional visitors to the green axis of Consell de Cent street are irritating many nearby residents. However, this is not just a matter of taste. The tremendously flashy setup of prominent eyes, yellow color, and different reliefs intended to evoke the happiest cheese blatantly violates the urban landscape regulations of the Barcelona City Council. They might even get fined.

This has to start with a confession: only one of the journalists who make up the sanctuary of the ‘Living’ section of ‘La Vanguardia’ has climbed to the viewpoint of the Columbus monument in Barcelona, and it was just a few days ago, precisely for the report you are reading. The statue is largely unknown to the local public despite being one of the most recognizable figures in the city. It is, as things stand, and although the views are great from its 50 meters of height, a tourist attraction with little rooting. Although it does not lack emotion and feeling for that reason. A couple of years ago, Oriol Espuny, one of the attraction’s reporters, proposed placing a guestbook at the small reception so that people could write or draw whatever they wanted. They have already filled three volumes and the idea, he says, has become a “wonderful analog Instagram.”

The public company Planifica Madrid, which manages the real estate assets of the Community of Madrid, does not have the acquisition of the controversial penthouse on General Martínez Campos promenade registered on its website. It was said to be for temporary office use for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her closest team, but the regional government had to announce the divestment in less than 24 hours after the operation was uncovered.

The President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has announced that the plenary session of the Consell has approved a package of extraordinary measures to mitigate the consequences arising from the La Vall d’Uixó fire. A line of aid worth 67 million has been activated for the affected residents.

The sum of PP and Vox approved this Friday the law of fiscal measures, administrative and financial management, and organization of the Generalitat Valenciana, also known as the accompaniment to the 2026 regional budgets, against the rejection of PSPV-PSOE and Compromís.

PP, Compromís and Vox have criticized that the ‘former president’ of the Generalitat Ximo Puig has hired the nephew of his partner, the former councilor Gabriela Bravo, as his driver in his ‘former president’ office, while the PSPV has defended the figure of the one who was his secretary general and has recalled that this is a position of free appointment in which a person from the family environment can be hired, just as politicians from other parties do in other administrations.

A PP deputy, present in the negotiations of the amendments with Vox, was complaining this week about the impression that their party says yes to everything their partners propose without protest. “We fight a lot, you don’t know what they propose to us and not everything goes through,” she pointed out. The truth is that, despite the parliamentarian’s words, PP and Vox end the political term in total harmony in the Corts Valencianes. Last Monday, the Populars voted in favor of every single one of the radical right’s amendments (both the negotiated ones and those that were not touched) to the law on fiscal measures, administrative and financial management, and organization of the Generalitat. At the same time, Vox did the same with the PP, except on one issue.

La Guardia Urbana evacuated early Friday morning 32 people settled in tents and some very precarious constructions built on the slope of Montjuïc that faces the Ronda del Litoral, right next to the Firefighters’ park, on Josep Carner Avenue… We are talking about what would practically be the most precarious, unsafe, and on top of that unhealthy shantytown neighborhood in the city that this mountain has become for some time now.