The strong imbalance between rental demand and supply is fueling the mortgage boom in Catalonia. The community is the only one, along with Castilla-La Mancha, where the granting of financing to buy housing is increasing, according to data published yesterday by the Notarial College of Catalonia.
Gaudí took Montjuïc as a reference to build the Sagrada Família: it should not exceed the height of the divine work that is the mountain, so its tallest tower, that of Jesus, measures half a meter less than the place where, among other things, the Teatre Grec is located. Two perspectives, the divine and the classical humanistic past, that this Friday converged in a sacred and profane performance, between the sacred mountain of Montserrat and the spirit of the Grec festival, combining the Baroque music of Joan Cererols, composed in the 17th century, with the present voices of Lídia Pujol and Maria Arnal.
I don’t know if you have noticed the disproportion with which we usually respond to a complex question that we adopt lightly and pronounce as a greeting. Some applications for learning English warn that you should never ask “How are you?” if you don’t want to…
The forest fire declared in Orés, in the Cinco Villas region (Zaragoza), remains active and the provisional affected area has already reached 14,000 hectares. During the early hours of Friday, ground efforts intensified, although the fire remains very active.
Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron held a summit yesterday to advance defense agreements, following the fiasco caused by the cancellation of the joint FCAS fighter project due to disagreements between the German and French industries. The two most powerful countries in Europe…
With the endorsement of the European justice system for the amnesty, the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, raised a glass of cava on Thursday before the party leadership: “May the next toast, here or on Mallorca street, be made by the president and the consellers.” Junts has become accustomed to…
“I hope the next article I write is in New York, without knowing how a final between Spain and, for example, Argentina ends. Just imagining it seems crazy to me.” That’s how my article ended last week. And here we are, living all this, caught in a story that has something of…
The list of FIFA’s mistakes is long and this World Cup is a new example. Balogun, hydration breaks, halftime shows… but Infantino and his henchmen don’t do everything wrong. In fact, there are some things others could learn from. When it comes to the final of a World Cup, the most important match that can be played, it’s not a matter of experimenting and playing around. Everyone gets serious. So before the showdown, the coaches and captains of the finalists must appear at a press conference. They are the most authoritative voices. And in New York, as far as Spain is concerned, that responsibility fell on Luis de la Fuente and Rodri Hernández.
No one would have said, a priori, that the tenor Benjamin Bernheim – pure technique, exquisite phrasing, and perfect diction – and the soprano Ermonela Yaho – all passion and vibrato – would form a colossal operatic duo. But this was proven on Friday at the opening night of the 40th edition of the Peralada Festival, an event that makes real the popular saying that 40 is the new 30, as it maintains its essence with youthful dynamism and improves with age.
The former Catalan footballer Joan Capdevila, who was crowned World Champion with the Spanish national team in South Africa 2010, has asked for help on social media after being denied entry to the United States to watch the World Cup final that Spain and Argentina will play on Sunday.
