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Damm, from Alsace to the Eixample of Barcelona

Damm, from Alsace to the Eixample of Barcelona

Alen Craig04 mins

Few Catalan industrial companies can boast of having been born in the Eixample of Barcelona. And even fewer of having gone through three different centuries. Damm is one of them. Like most family businesses, it keeps the name of its founder. In 1876, the Alsatian master brewer August Kuentzmann and Joseph Damm, who had emigrated to Barcelona fleeing the Franco-Prussian war, rented a building on Viladomat street. It was a brewery that would end up becoming the seed of a food and hospitality company that today invoices 2.025 billion euros, earns 175 million, and has 16 factories of beers, waters, soft drinks, and other beverages. With a presence in 130 countries, it is one of the best-known Catalan multinationals. Today, as the company celebrates its 150 years of life, the Carceller family is its main shareholder.

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Núria López, chemist: “They asked me to appear in the photos ‘so that it was seen that there was a woman’”

Núria López, chemist: “They asked me to appear in the photos ‘so that it was seen that there was a woman’”

Alen Craig05 mins

For chemist Núria López, being in the top 1% of the most cited scientists in the world according to the latest Clarivate ranking is not a destination but the result of a sustained trajectory at the elite level of research. Her career is marked by intuitions and the idea of turning problems into resources. This logic now guides her work at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) in Tarragona, where she seeks to convert CO₂ into fuel and close the carbon cycle.

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The rift between Florenci and Jordi Pujol comes to light

The rift between Florenci and Jordi Pujol comes to light

Alen Craig06 mins

Florenci Pujol lived with growing anguish in the last years of his life. The use that his son, Jordi, made of Banca Catalana worried him greatly. This is evident from the unpublished entries of the diary of his son-in-law, Francesc Cabana, to which La Vanguardia has had access. Cabana, 91 years old, is the widower of Jordi Pujol’s sister. In 1988, the lawyer and economic historian published Banca Catalana. Personal Diary, a history of the entity of which he was secretary general, general director, and vice president. The volume included some entries from his diary during the time at the bank. Cabana’s personal diary, however, contained more notes that he did not include at that time.

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What if ‘Gernika’ was not Gernika? This is how the most famous painting of the 20th century was created

What if ‘Gernika’ was not Gernika? This is how the most famous painting of the 20th century was created

Alen Craig07 mins

In January 1937, when he accepts the commission from the Spanish Republic to create a large mural for the International Exhibition in Paris, Picasso is living what he would later recall as “the worst time of my life.” The painter is 54 years old and his previously carefree polygamy is showing its teeth: the divorce from Olga Koklova has become a nightmare; Marie-Thérèse Walter, the lover with whom he had started a relationship when she was still underage, has made him a father again (Maya) and he has fallen in love again with the artist and photographer Dora Maar.

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