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.
Vito Quiles is now formally the first ultra agitator sanctioned by the Congress of Deputies after months of files, complaints, and altercations accumulated in parliamentary premises. The Lower House has decided to withdraw his parliamentary accreditation for three months due to his repeated irregular practices, provocations, unauthorized recordings, and interruptions to deputies and journalists. The decision, adopted with the votes of PSOE and Sumar, has also represented a further step in the practical application of the regulation reform promoted last summer to try to contain this type of behavior.
The PNV spokesperson in Congress, Maribel Vaquero, announced this Tuesday that her group will abstain this afternoon in the plenary vote on the decree-law extending rental contracts.
La Audiencia Provincial de Madrid has confirmed that it sends Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to trial before a jury court for the crimes of embezzlement and influence peddling, both subject to being tried by a popular jury.
There will be no meeting between Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sánchez. Palazzo Chigi and La Moncloa had been working for days on a meeting at the Italian Government headquarters for Tuesday afternoon, but in the end “the schedules did not coincide,” diplomatic sources explain, adding that there is a commitment to organize a bilateral meeting at the first European summit where both coincide.
About 400 people demonstrated this Sunday in Serra de Daró (Baix Empordà) to demand more safety on the roads of Baix Ter. They did so in a slow march on foot, by bicycle, or with tractors to Mas Bahí, heading towards Gualta, to denounce the lack of investments in the road network.
The 35-kilogram walnut wood cross that a young Frenchman placed on the summit of Aneto on May 9, following the disappearance in April of the original aluminum piece that was located at the top in 1951, has been vandalized.
The number of Catalan schools and institutes that have decided not to schedule trips or school camps for the 2026/27 academic year as a pressure measure to achieve educational improvements continues to increase. The platform that counts the centers that have joined the claim is about to reach 800: There are already 771, to be exact. All this continues to add uncertainty about what will happen with this activity in the next academic year.
The total solar eclipse that we will see on Wednesday, if there are no clouds, has become the center of attention. Astronomy enthusiasts have been preparing for months, but the general public has been receiving a flood of information for only a few weeks. You can never have too much…
The fire declared last Thursday in La Mierla, in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, has devastated 26,000 hectares and has forced the evacuation of 34 towns and inhabited areas, with more than 1,200 people having to leave their homes. It is the most significant fire of the summer and the largest area ever recorded in the Castilla-La Mancha community.
