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Traffic disruptions due to the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Madrid from June 6 to 9 will begin very significantly at midnight with the occupation of Plaza de Lima, so that traffic will only be allowed around the roundabout and with certain limitations, the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, reported yesterday. The traffic closures due to the Pope’s visit will cause circulation problems for several days. Therefore, last week Almeida recommended teleworking.

Just two years shy of reaching its centenary, the massive festival of the Hogueras de San Juan spreads across all districts of the city of Alicante. There are 92 existing committees, but some neighborhoods still maintain a calm during the celebration of the great ceremony of gunpowder and fire that keeps them isolated from the festive bustle, among them, La Albufereta.

It is hard to believe that, at this point and after years of mobilization by a large part of civil society – yesterday it was the Consell Valencià de Cultura – the Corts Valencianes have not been able to appoint the regional deputies responsible for defending in the Cortes Generales the…

The Consell Jurídic Consultiu (CJC) has made up to five essential observations on the regulations for traditional bullfighting festivities being prepared by the Generalitat Valenciana. The advisory body proposes a series of changes to the executive of Juanfran Pérez Llorca and expresses its doubts about the possibility that the Generalitat, through the Conselleria de Educación, establishes transversal curricular elements or specific subjects on Valencian identity signs and traditional values that refer to the bous al carrer. It would be the educational centers, within the framework of their educational project, that would specify this offer.

A total of 234,000 vehicles, 78% of the 300,000 expected, have returned to the Barcelona area by 8 p.m. this Monday, in the first eight hours of the return operation of the Second Easter holiday, on a day in which traffic jams of up to 17 kilometers have been recorded on the AP-7.

Macro-operation by the Mossos d’Esquadra in Girona against drug trafficking. The Catalan police have deployed 600 agents in at least a dozen operations to dismantle a criminal organization based in the province of Girona dedicated to indoor marijuana cultivation and drug distribution. The organization is also being investigated for possession of weapons and money laundering.

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.