A minor has lost her life this Sunday and a 24-year-old young woman has been seriously injured due to a rockfall from the walls of the pools in the Fontcalda gorges, an inland bathing area in the municipality of Gandesa (Terra Alta) in Tarragona.
Israel came close to victory in the world’s most important music contest, boosted by massive popular vote that contrasts with its weakened external image. Neither the thousands of protests against the genocide in Gaza, nor the boycott by five countries — Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland — managed to take away the second place in Eurovision from the Israeli Noam Bettan.
Pedro Sánchez will not participate this Friday in the multiple demonstrations that, on the occasion of May Day, are held throughout Spain and in which a good part of the members of the Government and the PSOE will be deployed. But the head of the Executive has wanted to participate in this Labor Day with a video in which he claims that in Spain “there is more employment and rights than ever,” despite those who he has criticized for announcing the apocalypse for years, referring to the Popular Party and the far-right Vox.
Since its beginnings in 2005 in Mataró, the Cruïlla Festival has always done things differently, a spirit that has been amplified since it moved to the Parc del Fòrum venue. The motto of the 2026 edition, “Cruïlla is home,” reflected its intention from several perspectives: welcoming an audience that feels comfortable with the social and environmental values promoted by the often-called most Barcelonan festival.
In 1973, the advertiser Lluís Bassat was walking down Consell de Cent street when, at the height of the Sala Adrià, which was run by Francesc Mestre, an exhibition by Serra de Rivera caught his attention. Inside awaited Bañista, an enigmatic painting (the naked figure of a woman in a flooded room who sinks an arm into the water that reaches halfway up her leg) that not only stole his heart but changed his life. That afternoon he not only left with the canvas under his arm but also with 35% ownership of the gallery (he later convinced seven friends to acquire another 35%), and until 1980, when it closed its doors, they organized more than eighty exhibitions. “There I began to get to know the artists; and with my wife, Carmen, we bought one or two works from each of them. And so, almost unintentionally, we built a collection that today has more than 3,000 works.”
China has launched its first robotic traffic police squad, which has officially started operating in Hangzhou, one of the country’s main technology hubs.
When the awardees keep missing their attendance at the awards gala, the best thing is for the ingenuity of a stage director to appear who raises the bar of the event. Yesterday there was luck at the 8th edition of the Ópera XXI, which happily returned to Barcelona, with Joan Anton…
An unavoidable reality of the great cycling tours with kilometer-long stages and hours on the saddle is that cyclists must hydrate, something that the International Cycling Union (UCI) accepts and promotes within the rules. Another reality is that this hydration must be released, which makes cyclists need to urinate. And they do so, usually, on the same bicycle and in precarious balance, to avoid stopping and losing seconds and rhythm in the race. And in this regard, the UCI has its reservations.
The first illusion is optical. It consists of believing that an electoral campaign in Andalusia involves environmental tension, social activism, and mass movements (of day laborer inspiration), which is the wet dream in the chancelleries of all political parties. It is not
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, criticized footballer Lamine Yamal this Thursday after images were released this week showing the FC Barcelona player waving a Palestinian flag during the celebration of the League title in the Catalan City.