Barcelona open to fining partygoers at overcrowded Carmel Bunkers viewpoint
Council to keep police patrols in addition to signs forbidding night access to site
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Almost 600,000 cannabis plants seized in 2022
Over 2,100 arrests related to dealing of drug last year in Catalonia, 6% up on 2021
Police take down RansomHouse website after Hospital Clínic cyberattack
Hackers published sensitive data after authorities refused to pay $4.5 million ransom
Children under 2 years old to receive bronchiolitis shot from October
Catalan Covid-19 vaccine to be administered as booster during flu season
UEFA president: Barça's referee payments case 'one of most serious matters' in football
FC Barcelona paid €7 million to former referees official and could be charged with potential continuous corruption
Easter week 2023: What to do in Barcelona and Catalonia
Holy processions, Easter cakes, and Dance of the Death
Remembering Barcelona's past: wartime shelters or 'underground fortress'
Bunkers in city show context of chaos during construction
Unveiling 1,322 Spanish Civil War bomb shelters in Barcelona
New photography exhibition in 'La Model' prison takes visitors underground and over eight decades back in time
Barcelona agrees to name street or square after Freddie Mercury
Queen singer recorded homage to city in duet with Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé
PODCAST: Barcelona's Civil War bomb shelters, 85 years on
Photographer Ana Sánchez on her new exhibition of underground bunkers and 90-year-old Manel Bachs recounts his vivid memories of the war
World's oldest person, 116-year-old Maria Branyas, receives visit from president Aragonès
Catalan president and social rights minister Campuzano meet 'Catalan Super Granny' in Olot care home
'We'd play in the shelter's tunnels': 90-year-old recalls bombing of Barcelona
Manel Bachs took refuge in one of Barcelona's 1,322 bomb shelters during Spanish Civil War
Montserrat mountain closed during weekend due to high risk of wildfire
Government restricts access from Saturday
EMA authorizes Catalan-developed Covid vaccine as booster dose
European medicines regulator recommends Hipra jab for over 16s who have already received mRNA vaccines
RansomHouse cybercriminals publish stolen Hospital Clínic data
Cyberattack on medical center detected in early March, preventing doctors from providing regular service
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