Ouigo, the new operator of high-speed trains, has put on sale today the tickets to travel on its first route in Spain, from Madrid to Barcelona, ​​starting next May 10, coinciding with the end of the alarm status programmed for the previous day. In this way, the ‘low cost’ brand of the French public operator […]
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T2 at El Prat airport is closed again due to lack of flights
The passenger operation of the airport of Barcelona concentrates again from this week on the terminal T1, just as it happened during the alarm state. The reason is the same: the lack of air traffic in facilities that, far from managing between 700 and 800 daily flights as they were used to at this time […]
Coronavirus raises costs without help for disabled families
“Nothing is known about these kids like my son. They are totally invisible. We were aware that we were forgotten, but with the pandemic the maximum has been reached.” Montserrat she is the mother of Pol, a 22-year-old young man, affected by cerebral palsy and spastic tetraplegia. It is 98% dependent. “He cannot dress or eat […]
Twenty days with up to ten hours without light in the Raval of Barcelona
There are houses in the neighborhood of Raval, in the center of Barcelona, which chain 20 days of blackouts. “We can be between five and ten hours without light, depending on the day,” calculates an affected neighbor of the Salvador street, where the damage completely affects several buildings, including businesses, and extends to buildings on […]
The Government urges those who leave the Constitution bridge to remain confined in the second residence
The mobility restrictions due to the health crisis caused by the coronavirus do not seem to affect the majority of Catalans who want to enjoy the next Constitution bridge since, according to data from the Government, trips to second homes could increase. To circumvent the municipal perimeter lockdown, which begins Friday, drivers could choose to […]
Barcelona’s iconic Tres Chimeneas probing the UN and WHO to be their headquarters in southern Europe
The investment of the EU to go back after the Covid is also longed for to unravel one of the main urban projects in the making in Catalonia: the remodeling of the inoperative power station of the Three Chimneys, between Sant Adrià de Besòs and Badalona, ​​which aspires to host a headquarters of international relevance […]
The other evictions: “They offer us 3,500 euros if we leave the house”
Isabel She sells socks on the street to ensure that at home they do not depend only on the little more than 700 euros that her husband charges. They meet a rent of 235 euros since they could no longer take on a mortgage that climbed to 1,200 euros a month. Your flat, in Badalona, […]
Dive into a cloud pool or swing on a donut: Open the happiest museum
“We are the dreamers of dreams” said Willy Wonka’s character in Roald Dahl’s mythical book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and in the novel he had a special place to make it possible: a full factory of Candys. Now a museum designed to be happy lands in Spain, also with many goodies and activities that […]
A plan to build 8,000 homes in El Prat generates mistrust among residents
At the same time that the largest urban development project in years in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) has suffered a double judicial setback caused by the neighborhood opposition and several municipal political groups, citizen misgivings have set their sights on the plan of the City Council of El Prat de Llobregat to widen its urban […]
The coronavirus drives the urban exodus in Catalonia
Gabriela his life was perfectly organized. She ran a cocktail bar that she owned and earned extra income from the cute crafts she made from home in her spare time. Enough to pay the 900 euros in rent that the apartment in which he lived with his two children cost him. But the arrival of […]
