The preparations for the mass to be presided over by the Pope, which will culminate with the blessing of the tower of Jesus, continue at full speed in the Sagrada Família. The general director of the Construction Board, Xavier Martínez, explained this morning some of the details of the ceremony that has generated so much expectation and that will be held on June 10 in a basilica filled to capacity.
The administrative litigation court number 23 has halted the construction works of the mega cleaning depot in Montecarmelo that the Madrid City Council started in February, by granting the precautionary measures requested by the neighbors who have been fighting for almost three years against what they consider an “industrial mega-installation”.
If the deadlines are met, in the second half of 2028 the apartments in the Benidorm skyscraper will begin to be occupied, which will then have become the tallest residential building in Europe, TM Tower, surpassing the Złota 44 tower in Warsaw. The largest group of clients for the luxurious apartments are precisely Polish, and most come from Eastern Europe, although it is a Spanish businessman who has acquired the penthouse located on the 63rd floor for 3.4 million euros, according to sources from TM, the company originally from Torrevieja that builds and markets this new giant that will dominate the characteristic Alicante skyline.
The double murder that occurred on Monday night in the El Canalillo neighborhood, in El Ejido (Almería), has taken a turn in just 48 hours. What was initially investigated as an episode of domestic violence within a family marked by marginalization and police records now points to a possible case of gender-based violence and vicarious violence.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have opened an investigation to clarify the facts of a new shooting without injuries in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. This time, the firearm incident occurred this Wednesday at around 9:30 p.m. on Siglo XXI Avenue in Viladecans. According to sources from the Generalitat of Catalonia Police, there are no reported injuries. Other sources aware of the events claim that everything happened after an argument on the terrace of a bar.
The Community of Madrid denounces that the City Council of Rivas (IU-PSOE) keeps publicly displaying a model of its project to cover the metro tracks, despite the fact that the action “currently does not have” the favorable report from the technical services of the regional Directorate General of Infrastructures.
A middle-aged man died after being trapped between his vehicle and a column in a garage located on Alcántara Street in Madrid, the capital’s Emergency service reported early this morning.
The Minister of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid, Mercedes Zarzalejo, and the Labor Platform of Nursery Schools will meet this Thursday at 4:30 p.m., after more than a month of indefinite strike in the region.
The delay in obtaining major construction permits in Alicante has been a constant in recent times, which developers and professionals in the construction sector denounce wherever they find interlocutors. This happened at a recent technical conference organized by the Colleges of Architects and Technical Architects together with representatives from the Urban Planning Department. The aim was to bring together those who draft the technical documents with those who supervise and approve them, in order to streamline procedures and administrative processes.
Neither the words of businessman Juan Roig asking to monetize the arrival of tourists nor the possibility of opening the debate on the tourist tax hinted at by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, after the Fallas, have affected the positioning of PP and Vox in the Valencian Courts. Both parties will reject this Thursday the proposals from PSPV and Compromís to recover this tax on tourist overnight stays that was approved by the Botànic but never implemented. A moratorium was established and, after the regional elections, the new parliamentary majority repealed it.
