Born in Milan in 1963, Tagliabue exudes Italian genetics all around: her captivating presence and undeniable elegance perfectly combine with an indomitable character and a conviction in describing her life that many would wish for themselves. But perhaps these convictions are not only given by her roots, but also by a very intense life.
There was a time when eating some meatballs did not make you want to buy a Billy bookshelf. Thirty years, in fact. It was on May 6, 1996, when the Ikea mothership landed among us and the extraordinary shockwave did not take long to arrive. It was easy, clean, young, and cheap. And there were (in theory) many possibilities. Some people went, in those early days, to Ikea to get ideas. They entered the stores and left without buying anything, with their eyes and heads full of ideas. That leaving without buying didn’t last long. One fact. 6% of Catalans born in these three decades were conceived in Ikea beds. If that impresses you, and returning to the topic of the meatballs from the Swedish restaurant inside the facilities, you should also know that 8.7 million meatballs have been served and eaten, so that if you stacked one meatball on top of another (and on top of the other, the one) we could build a tower 60 kilometers high.
If the writer Dan Brown were to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) again, the setting of one of the passages in his novel Origin, where he invented the existence of a quantum computer one floor above the chapel of the Torre Girona – which housed the first four versions of the MareNostrum supercomputer – he would be surprised to see that they have taken his idea seriously. On Thursday, the third quantum computer of the facilities was inaugurated. All created by a Barcelona startup, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, led by Marta Estarellas.
Tomás, as he is known, is spending his third summer in the village as just another resident, except that he has the peculiarity of not being a person but a deer with an impressive rack of antlers who has gotten used to living with the few inhabitants of Linarejos (Zamora), in the Sierra de la Culebra.
The very bold and eye-catching signs of the latest bakery mainly aimed at occasional visitors to the green axis of Consell de Cent street are irritating many nearby residents. However, this is not just a matter of taste. The tremendously flashy setup of prominent eyes, yellow color, and different reliefs intended to evoke the happiest cheese blatantly violates the urban landscape regulations of the Barcelona City Council. They might even get fined.
On April 30, 1983, Seville took to the streets. In the church of Nuestro Padre Jesús del Gran Poder, María Isabel Pantoja Martín, radiant in her satin dress with a seven-meter train, became the wife of Francisco Rivera ‘Paquirri’. She was the popular tonadillera and he, a bullfighter on the podium and recently divorced from Carmen Ordóñez. The crowd, devout and uncontrollable, stepped on her bridal train causing the very artistic bride to faint on the way to the ceremony. Many years later, another would come upon her leaving the Málaga Court for very different reasons. That was one of those weddings that paralyze Spain but also the prologue to a tragedy that would forever mark the artist.
The new law of the Community of Madrid, which recognizes the conceived unborn as an additional member of the family unit to access certain public aids, has once again brought to the table what the legal recognition of the unborn (nasciturus) is in Spain. The question takes on special relevance in extreme situations, such as when a woman loses the pregnancy due to a traffic accident or a terrorist attack. In those cases, the legal treatment of that loss is not always the same and varies depending on the area of Law.
Finding a rental apartment in Mollet del Vallès seems like a treasure hunt. No sign of offers in the windows of the real estate offices in the city center. Inside, there is no better luck either. “To rent, sign up on the waiting list,” they explain in one of them. Among the information they request are marital status, salary, or possible guarantors.
Ramon Espadaler faces one of the decisive moments of his term, in the midst of the implementation of the Efficiency law. Major changes in justice, he says, require time, resources, dialogue, and full institutional respect.
This has to start with a confession: only one of the journalists who make up the sanctuary of the ‘Living’ section of ‘La Vanguardia’ has climbed to the viewpoint of the Columbus monument in Barcelona, and it was just a few days ago, precisely for the report you are reading. The statue is largely unknown to the local public despite being one of the most recognizable figures in the city. It is, as things stand, and although the views are great from its 50 meters of height, a tourist attraction with little rooting. Although it does not lack emotion and feeling for that reason. A couple of years ago, Oriol Espuny, one of the attraction’s reporters, proposed placing a guestbook at the small reception so that people could write or draw whatever they wanted. They have already filled three volumes and the idea, he says, has become a “wonderful analog Instagram.”