Everyone thought that this was just another room in an ancient Roman villa built in Fuente Álamo (Puente Genil, Córdoba). Some speculated that the room could even be a mithraeum, a temple dedicated to the Persian-origin god Mithras and built to imitate a cave. But the space was actually the oldest library on the Iberian Peninsula.
The Official Bulletin of the Ministry of Defense has published the promotion to colonel of Antonio Balas, who will continue to lead the anti-corruption department of the central operational unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on secondment, as requested by the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno.
Despite it being a literary night, there was no music for chameleons at the Sant Jordi party, nor could one dance to the music of time due to the large number of people gathered in the gardens of the Alma hotel. Instead, one could listen to the melodies performed by the Quintet de l’Alma, which, as on previous occasions, was in charge of providing the soundtrack for the event. Led by Edu Miralles on clarinet, the Barcelona-based group combined jazz standards with Italian lyrical songs, featuring Iñaki Rodríguez on drums, Jairo Ortega on piano, Brady Lynch on double bass, and the voice of crooner Stefano Riva, a familiar face from the Barcelona Jazz Festival who didn’t forget to sing Elvis’s Can’t Help Falling in Love, nor Fly Me to the Moon, so appropriate this year when Earth’s old companion has once again received a visit from humans.
Doctors and medical professionals from the Community of Madrid resume this Monday the third week of an indefinite strike called to show their rejection of the Framework Statute agreement reached between the Ministry of Health and several unions and to demand their own text for the collective that recognizes the singularities of these professionals.
A joint operation by the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Ertzaintza, and the Guardia Civil has made it possible to arrest a 17-year-old minor in Guipúzcoa, considered a “very active member” of the 764 network in Spain, an extremist organization dedicated to recruiting and exploiting minors online.
Starting the course is always a good opportunity to ask questions. The book sector constantly asks them and will put them on the table at the XI edition of the Forum Edita, which was inaugurated this Monday with a tribute to the editor Beatriz de Moura – who passed away last April – and will continue until next September 9.
The investment consortium agreed between Esquerra Republicana and the PSC will not pass the parliamentary examination. In the first procedure, the consideration, the JxCat group, key with its seven votes, will vote against, so the initiative will die in the Congress of Deputies this Tuesday.
The United States Department of Homeland Security collaborated with the Spanish police in the money laundering investigation that led to the case opened by the National Court against the former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, according to a department spokesperson, a fact that already appeared in the order of the National Court judge who charged him with allegedly leading a network of influence peddling and money laundering, which represents a new setback for the left-wing Government, already harassed by other corruption scandals.
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.
The luxury cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, will finally dock in the Canary Islands, where it is scheduled to arrive next Sunday at twelve noon with more than 140 people on board, who do not show symptoms of the disease. The three sick people on the ship, one of them the doctor and in serious condition, were evacuated yesterday on two medical planes and transferred to Amsterdam, where they are receiving the necessary medical care.
