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April 2024

  • 'All of them were against us': Xavi rails against referees and rules out staying at Barça – video

    The Barcelona manager also ruled out staying on as manager for the long term
  • A view from Park Güell

    Barcelona bus route removed from map apps to tackle tourist overcrowding

    Residents welcome removal of number 116 route, often used to get to Park Güell
  • Artist Maggi Hambling being photographed for her exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in London in 2020

    Marlborough Gallery: ‘blue chip’ art institution to close after nearly 80 years

    Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shut ‘after long and careful consideration’

March 2024

  • Lots of pigeons congregating in a city square.

    Eagles and falcons deployed to scare away pigeons in Barcelona

  • Sagrada Familia aganst blue sky

    Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’

February 2024

  • man in a white shirt photographed in profile

    Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves denies rape as Spain trial wraps

  • White text on pink background reading: ‘I am not “the Chinese on the corner”. You can call me Cai Qin/Jessi.’

    ‘I’m not the Chinese on the corner’: Barcelona’s shopkeepers reclaim their names

  • Dani Alves.

    Former Barcelona footballer Dani Alves’s rape trial begins

  • Dried-up reservoir bed.

    Catalonia declares drought emergency, extending restrictions to Barcelona

December 2023

  • Long exposure photo of busy Barcelona road

    Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car

    In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution

October 2023

  • Silence Rouge et Bleu by the French-Algerian artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah.

    ‘A triumph of freedom of expression’: censored art museum opens in Spain

  • The group of bicibús school commuters, including Genís Domínguez (in yellow vest)

    Euro visions
    The bicibús: how Barcelona got kids cycling safely to school – and loving it!

August 2023

  • People walk under a spray of water on the seafront at La Barceloneta at night-time

    Barcelona gives hats to homeless people as heatwave sweeps southern Europe

  • Gabriel García Márquez library interior

    Barcelona community resource named world’s best new public library

July 2023

  • It's complicated
    Why Barcelona’s beaches are disappearing – video

  • A cannabis shop in Barcelona, Spain.

    Barcelona traders demand action over rise of CBD shops ‘posing as florists’

June 2023

  • About everything and nothing … Alba Cros and Rocío Saiz in Girlfriends and Girlfriends

    Girlfriends and Girlfriends review – charming and excitable lesbian sex comedy

    It’s a tiny bit hard to keep up with the ups and downs of this winning story, complete with an adorable indie soundtrack
  • An old man smiles as he sits under a pergola in his roof garden

    The age of extinction
    Still nurturing love and vines: the centenarian who built Barcelona’s first roof garden

    When environmentalist and pacifist Joan Carulla came to the city after growing up during Spain’s civil war, he created an ‘allotment in the sky’ that helped pioneer organic farming
  • Eduardo González de Molina

    Spain’s snap election could kill its housing revolution before it even gets started

    Eduardo González de Molina
    The country’s new housing law could change so much, says Eduardo González de Molina, a policy adviser at Barcelona city council

May 2023

  • Ada Colau, clapping and smiling, surrounded by people clapping in an open space in Barcelona

    ‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term

    The city’s first female mayor is reviled by the elites and pro-car lobby, but embraced by others for her social policies
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