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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Ildefons Cerdà. The engineer and urban planner laid the foundations of modern Barcelona after the demolition of the walls, a process that lasted for years, from 1854 to 1873. In the General Theory of Urbanization of 1867, Cerdà promoted a humanistic and egalitarian urbanism that was meant to provide the “public happiness” of its inhabitants, regardless of their origin or social class. In addition to avoiding differences between neighborhoods, conditions of hygiene, healthiness, and green areas occupied a prominent place.

Los Castellers de Barcelona are preparing to export the castellera tradition to an unprecedented altitude. This June 25, the group from the Catalan capital will travel to the Swiss Alps with the goal of completing what is announced as the “highest castell in history,” in the words of their public relations manager, Jordi Planas, to La Vanguardia.

Professionals from the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid have successfully performed robotic surgery on a baby just three months old who had a kidney obstruction, the first intervention of this type in Spain on a patient so young with this kidney disease.

The Community of Madrid raises to 12.367 billion euros the consolidated debt of the central Government with the region for public services, benefits, and unmet legal commitments, an amount that represents 40% of the total regional budget for 2026.

The judge overseeing the case of the public housing at the Les Naus residential complex in Alicante has once again summoned the three City Council officials who did not appear last Friday, following an initial summons, to testify on May 20.

To the shout of “strike, strike, educational strike” or “the fighting teacher is also teaching,” among other chants, a thunderous green tide – because of the t-shirts that claim public school, “quality and in Valencian” – has marched through the streets of the Valencian capitals on this first Monday of indefinite strike in the education of the Valencian Community.

The tragic episodes of citizen insecurity that occurred in Catalonia a week ago, resulting in three deaths in Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, and Salt, had an institutional response that seemed taken from a manual prepared by Intelligence…

The sample taken yesterday afternoon from the woman who is under monitoring in Alicante for having been a passenger on the plane in which a person died from Hantavirus is already at the National Center for Microbiology. This Saturday, the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat Valenciana reported that it sent the sample of the person who is hospitalized last night.

The judge overseeing the dana case has issued an order rejecting the holding of a confrontation between former councilor Salomé Pradas, under investigation in the case, and the Deputy Director General of Emergencies of the Generalitat, Jorge Suárez, at the request of the private prosecutors.

Aitana Forcén Vázquez, the Valencian trapped on the ‘Hondius’, has posted a message on Facebook stating that “I am fine and the patients have been evacuated. The atmosphere on the ship remains positive and we are taking care of each other.” In the shared text, the oceanographer expresses her gratitude for all the messages received by her family: “Thank you for all the messages and affection. I have received them and appreciate them very much.”