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The Barcelona City Council is developing a new strategy to stop the group dedicated to the most active illegal tourist accommodation in the city. The idea is to obtain prison sentences against those responsible. They are the Peruvian Swedes, the kings of clandestine boarding houses. This scheme basically rents large apartments to divide them into rooms and sublet them through platforms in a systematic way until the owners manage to evict them. For some time now, their supposed leaders have not been so calm.

It is hard to imagine today that Just Marlès Avenue in Lloret de Mar, popularly known as “la riera” and which concentrates much of the nightlife and an important hotel offer, was decades ago a wild place. In the sixties, the riverbed had not yet been paved and the sand reached the doors of the first hotels that were located there. Back then, that space which today is the core, was the outskirts.

Bouba and Lamine, both from Guinea Conakry, have spent a long time outdoors after being expelled in 2026 from a youth center of the Direcció General de Prevenció i Protecció a la Infància i l’ Adolescència (Dgppia) when the prosecutor’s office ruled that they were adults, although their passports indicate that they have not yet turned 18. “Every Tuesday, about 35 new people arrive at the Santa Anna field hospital asking for help, of which an average of three are young migrants who have ended up outdoors,” explains the rector of this parish in Ciutat Vella, Peio Sánchez. Bouba and Lamine have been taken in by this entity for a few weeks.

Lluïsa Moret (Barbastro, 1965), in addition to holding the vice-first secretary position of the PSC and serving as the mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat, which she hopes to renew in the elections on May 23, 2027, presides over the Diputación de Barcelona, an institution that seems to inhabit a world very different from that of other public administrations, immersed in permanent stability.

The 35-kilogram walnut wood cross that a young Frenchman placed on the summit of Aneto on May 9, following the disappearance in April of the original aluminum piece that was located at the top in 1951, has been vandalized.

Called by all the unions of Valencian Education, including those close to the PP, and supported by federations of families of students, thousands of people, shouting “councilor resignation,” have joined a large demonstration to demand salary, labor, and working condition improvements for a group that has been on indefinite strike for eleven days. In the previous demonstration, held on Friday, May 15, more than 35,000 people took to the streets, according to data from the Government Delegation, making it the most significant public mobilization since those called due to the effects of the dana tragedy.

The word “empowerment” made no sense but there was Rosa Esteva to exercise it in 80s Barcelona at the head of her Mordisco, the first of the 26 restaurants of the Tragaluz Group. On Thursday, Barcelona paid tribute to the person and her vision in a Saló de…

The Minister of Health of the Valencian Generalitat, Marciano Gómez, has filed a complaint before the Supreme Court against the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities and Secretary General of the PSPV, Diana Morant, for accusing him at an event of “profiting from the privatization of public health,” according to sources familiar with the decision who have confirmed to Europa Press.

This is one of those municipal projects that generate a certain sense of déjà vu in anyone who follows urban planning information in Barcelona with some interest. The City Council announced this Thursday the awarding of the Landskrona project in the ideas competition to define the Magòria complex, in Sants-Montjuïc, on the mountain side bank of Gran Via. The works, which include sports facilities, a new garden, and the underground work and cleaning center of Parc i Jardins, should start in January 2028. The fact is that something similar happened in the previous decade, with the expectation of being able to cut the ribbon in 2022.

The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested the alleged investor of Lleida CF, who had an order from the Provincial Court of Barcelona, and whom the club has also reported for alleged fraud and document forgery, according to sources from the Catalan police.