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Inspectors from Barcelona City Council uncovered a complex of at least 31 illegal tourist flats set up at number 441 Travessera de Gràcia, just a few meters from the modernist complex of Sant Pau hospital. “Ours, if we’re lucky, is twenty square meters – a few customers explained this Friday at the building’s entrance –. The truth is, it’s the shabbiest place I’ve ever stayed.” “Are they illegal apartments? I’m not surprised! – others added – we thought we were booking a kind of apart-hotel, but apart from the cleaning staff, there’s no one here to take care of anything.” “We made the reservation through Booking, and then they wanted to charge us some very strange surcharges.”

Bombers de la Generalitat is working with seventeen units on a fire in an industrial warehouse in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Barcelona), which has forced the evacuation of all personnel, although no injuries have been reported, and is causing a large column of smoke visible throughout the area.

While Barcelona finalizes preparations to receive the imminent visit of Pope Leo XIV and a few days before the Pontiff officiates a mass in the Sagrada Familia basilica, the Lego Group presented this Thursday the largest set in its history by volume of pieces: an exact replica of the expiatory temple, the city’s most emblematic building, composed of 12,060 pieces.

The circulation of Rodalies R3 line has been interrupted this Thursday between Manlleu (Osona) and Ripoll after a train collided with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks, due to heavy rainfall. The incident, which occurred on a single-track section, resulted in no injuries. The Bombers de la Generalitat, who received the alert at 8:07 PM, dispatched six units and evacuated the six passengers traveling on the train.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has assured that they will pay “all benefits” to patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), has denied that her Administration was going to establish a co-payment and has called the state regulation “shoddy.”

From the Vatican to reggaeton. This coming weekend, the visit of Pope Leo XIV and the concerts of Bad Bunny have skyrocketed hotel demand in the capital and also their prices.

They arrive via other Spanish and European destinations, because there is not yet a direct flight connecting any city in their country with Valencia, but American tourists have become the most numerous among foreigners visiting hotels in the capital of the Valencian Community.

How are Valencian teachers? Will there be any progress? When will the strike end? The questions pile up in concentrations, protests, at the school gates, among families… The indefinite education strike that has been shaking public education in the Valencian Community since May 11 -yesterday with a 5.29% follow-up, according to Education- soaks everything, dyes everything green but, for now, with no solution in sight.

The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Carmen Ortí, announced this Thursday her intention to convene the unions tomorrow Friday for a new in-person negotiation meeting at 2:00 p.m. In the corridors of the Corts Valencianes, where Ortí was presenting the budget figures for her department, the head of Education stated that she hopes “the physical integrity and freedom of the attendees will be respected,” which, in her opinion, will greatly help to “unblock the situation.”

The residents of l’Hospitalet are this year the most affected by the usual summer infrastructure renovation cuts in the Barcelona metro. Line L1 will be out of service between Florida and Plaça de Sants stations from July 17 to August 28. It will be six weeks during which users of the closed section of the red line will be without metro service. Those from the rest of l’Hospitalet will have to choose the best alternative to avoid extending their journey more than necessary during the hottest days of the year with fewer passengers on the subway. Around 40,000 people will be affected every day.