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Cirque du Soleil signs additional 5 year deal with PortAventura theme park
Politics
Left-wing independence leader wants separate lists in early elections and national unity government
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30,000 cardiologists arrive in Barcelona for the world's largest heart specialist conference
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Veremonte affirms it “has everything ready” to start construction of $6 billion BCN World mega-resort
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Legal framework for $6 billion mega-casino and amusement resort BCN World approved
Society
Seven Nobel Prize winners participated in Universitat Rovira i Virgili’s chemistry days
From Sunday to Wednesday, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), located in Tarragona, hosted a chemistry conference in order to discuss the latest discoveries in this discipline. Six chemistry Nobel Prize winners participated in the ‘Southern Catalonia Nobel Campus’, as well as Finn Kydland, who won the Nobel Prize of Economics in 2004. Kydland gave the opening speech. The chemistry days took place at the PortAventura conference centre, located next to the Costa Daurada amusement park.
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Lleida’s theatre and congress centre La Llotja gets Chicago’s International Architecture Award
Lleida’s unique building receives one of the world’s most prestigious architecture awards. The city’s Mayor, Àngel Ros, is said to be proud and highlighted that 75,000 people have already gone through the cultural and business facility since its opening in 2010. La Llotja, designed by the Dutch firm Mecanoo and the Catalan Labb Arquitectura, can be used as a theatre or a conference centre.
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The new Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret, a new concept for leisure, culture and gambling
A new concept casino has recently opened in Lloret de Mar in Catalonia. The Gran Casino Costa Brava consists of 2,000 square metres of gambling space and a conference centre next to the Mediterranean Sea.