Juan Antonio Samaranch said of the 1992 Olympic Games that they had managed to change the mentality of the people of Barcelona. “Now they are more optimistic, less whiny,” he defended, in an interview with La Vanguardia in March 1996. The social – almost Olympic – sport of overseeing each and every one of the 73 neighborhoods of Barcelona has not been lost, but if that summer achieved anything, everyone who made it possible agrees, it was to establish a confidence that never left. At the forefront of the metamorphosis, with permission from Maragall, was precisely the now deceased president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who passed away in 2010, a figure who was honored yesterday just in the year that marks 40 years since his “a la ville de… Barcelona.”

A fire declared this afternoon in the Murcian districts of Los Garres and Lages has triggered the Infomur Plan in emergency phase, at level two. At 3:10 p.m., 1-1-2 received more than 200 calls alerting about a tongue of fire on the mountainside, according to the Emergency Coordination Center.