“Permanently closed.” This is how some signs look at the historic pizzeria La Pava. Located on the Castelldefels highway, it is one of the remaining examples of what was once a large leisure complex in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
The feeling here is that we are not facing the opening of just another museum, but that the opening of Faro Santander, the former headquarters of Banco de Santander now inhabited by Titian, Velázquez, Rubens, Tàpies, Cristina Iglesias, Frida Kahlo, or Leonora Carrington, is not only the culmination of one of the most ambitious projects of recent years, but the starting point of a transformation that will turn the Cantabrian capital into one of the most vibrant and unique cultural hubs in Spain. “We are part of what is about to come, we open the door to everything that follows,” says its director, Daniel Vega, who this Monday, after the inaugural event, was responsible for guiding King Felipe VI through the different spaces of the building renovated by architect and Pritzker Prize winner David Chipperfield: 10,000 square meters of cultural center with views of the bay and the Centro Botín by Renzo Piano, which since 2017 has marked the new direction of a city that is betting its future on art.
The judge of the National Court María Tardón has agreed to investigate the massive irregular entry in Ceuta on July 30 and 31 as a serious attack against the territorial integrity of Spain and affecting the peace or independence of the State.
Once they have completed Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), Spanish students must begin to decide their academic and professional future. However, six out of ten students reach the university entrance exams without being clear about what to study the following year, just a few months before deciding whether they want to pursue a university degree or a Vocational Training course.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has scheduled a preliminary hearing for tomorrow after the defense briefs were submitted by Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and his advisor, Cristina Álvarez.
The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, has put the bull in Pedro Sánchez’s court, warning of the “terrifying result” of the German far-right in the regional elections on Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt: “We are more necessary than ever, we are their only brake. Only we remain to stop them, there is no one else with enough strength and conviction to stop them.” At the same time, almost all polls insist every day on predicting the electoral victory of the Popular Party and the far-right Vox in Spain, as the last regional electoral cycle already forecasted, but Patxi López has assured that the socialists “have the best captain” to try to stop this right-wing wave sweeping Europe and the world, and to try to reverse the demographic forecasts.
The public affordable rental portal is now available. The Government has presented today the tool from Casa 47, the state public company, where citizens interested in accessing public housing under a low-rent lease can consult the available offer, with images, and submit the application to become tenants. The portal starts with 638 properties, although the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that “soon” 1,500 more properties will be added.
The former president of Plus Ultra Julio Martínez Sola has confirmed today, as he had already stated in writing, that he agreed with the Zapatero group on the payment of a 1% commission in case of success for the aid so that the Government would grant the airline a bailout of 53 million euros.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has once again called on the teachers who will start the school year this Tuesday with a new day of strike, to also “respect” the right to education and mobility. That is why he has asked them to make a “pause” in their protests to face a “serious debate” around the education model of Catalonia, and has announced a new program with which he intends to end the excessive heat that students face in schools.
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), elated after its overwhelming electoral victory on Sunday in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, hopes to gain the support of individual CDU deputies in order to govern this sparsely populated eastern state, which has become the epicenter of a tremendous shake-up in German politics.
