President Donald Trump expands his Donroe doctrine. His new strategy involves the complicity and cover of allied countries in the American continent to justify interventions in other nations of that territory under the pretext of “increasing operational effectiveness against threats that undermine regional security and affect the United States.”
The architect Luis Pérez de Prada, director of real estate and natural environment of National Heritage, walks the roof of the Royal Palace in an exceptional site visit to explain how the 19 million euros of European funds destined to improve the building that Philip V ordered to be built on the rugged terrain next to the river that had occupied the old alcázar, burned down in 1734, are being spent.
London’s Shakespeare’s Globe has embraced flamenco to reinvent one of William Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedies, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ (1598), in a production that combines Elizabethan verse, singing, and dancing with a cast that includes several Spanish artists.
This is one of those municipal projects that generate a certain sense of déjà vu in anyone who follows urban planning information in Barcelona with some interest. The City Council announced this Thursday the awarding of the Landskrona project in the ideas competition to define the Magòria complex, in Sants-Montjuïc, on the mountain side bank of Gran Via. The works, which include sports facilities, a new garden, and the underground work and cleaning center of Parc i Jardins, should start in January 2028. The fact is that something similar happened in the previous decade, with the expectation of being able to cut the ribbon in 2022.
About a hundred teachers and educational community staff blocked the N-240 in both directions in Tarragona on Thursday morning, at the height of the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood, as part of the teachers’ strike in Catalonia. The teachers also block vehicle access to the roundabout leading to the N-240 and the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood from the A-7 highway, where the Sescelades campus of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) is located.
They are eight dolia or small containers that the Romans used to store products. They have just appeared on Hostal d’en Sol street, next to the historic headquarters of the Post Office on Via Laietana in Barcelona. The nearest ship is today – thanks to Google Maps – 310 meters away. Two millennia ago, when the Roman city was just founded, the sea must have been closer. Because those dolia are very likely used to store products ready to be shipped to the empire; the Roman one, of course. And because right behind is the wall that the city’s founders built to protect themselves.
They say the soul weighs twenty-one grams. But how many square meters does it have? And what is the population density per square meter at the Alma hotel during the Sant Jordi festival? At least enough so that, the next day, many people discover through the
Nicola Maggiotto, a 21-year-old young man from Asolo, an Italian municipality in the Veneto region, is in an induced coma in a hospital in Barcelona after suffering an attack last Wednesday night, while on vacation with a group of eight other people his age.
Spain has an educational problem. It is not an impression, nor nostalgia for EGB (oh, if only it would return), nor a reactionary conspiracy. The PISA report presented today represents a crash without any cushioning because the excuse of the pandemic, this time, no longer holds. The…
The red steps of Cannes lead to the Olympus of cinephilia, and Victoria Luengo (Palma, 1990) climbed them twice in the past edition. The late Marisa Paredes was the only Spaniard who could boast such an honor. Luengo climbed them with Pedro Almodóvar and his Bitter Christmas, and again arm in arm with Javier Bardem for The Beloved, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, an original from Movistar Plus that arrives in theaters on August 15.