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Cities near Barcelona grow poorer as wealthy move to smaller towns, study finds
Mataró, Terrassa, Granollers, and Sabadell lose higher-income residents to neighboring towns
Several mildly injured in train crash in Mataró
16 people required medical treatment after convoy hit end of the railroad
Major seaside towns to shut beaches for Sant Joan to avoid crowds
Barcelona, Badalona, Tarragona, Sitges, Mataró, or Castelldefels ban June 23 festivities by the sea
Incinerator burns coronavirus-infected hospital equipment
650 tons of personal protective equipment including masks, gowns, and hats destroyed
Injury tally at 639 following renewed unrest on Saturday
Seven more people were arrested amidst more disorder in Barcelona despite a calmer week
How a Catalan town plans to bring down housing prices with co-ops
Mataró launches EU-funded project to turn old buildings into affordable housing
Two arrested in anti-jihadist operation
Raid in the Catalan town of Mataró
Various organizations denounce assault by far-right Spanish nationalist group
Deposed vice president Oriol Junqueras publishes op-ed from prison on Madrid condemning the violence
A new exhibit opens in Gaudí’s first structure
Located in the Nau Gaudí space in the seaside town of Mataró, the exhibit starts a dialogue about humans and architecture
'I know what I'm stepping on,' says amputee testing groundbreaking prosthetics
Catalan hospital, among four in the world to implant bone-anchored prosthetics to its patients
Peret, the 'father' of Catalan rumba, dies from cancer aged 79
Pere Pubill i Calaf, better known as Peret, died at noon on Wednesday in a Barcelonan hospital, aged 79. The singer, guitar player and composer Peret was considered to be the 'father' of the so-called Catalan rumba, a fusion music style mixing Afro-Cuban mambo with flamenco and rock and roll. This rhythm was born in the 1950s within Barcelona's Gipsy community and became increasingly popular in the 1960s thanks to some of Peret's hits. Soon it became part of Catalonia's culture and common heritage, being extremely popular and receiving institutional recognition. Peret started his musical career extremely young in the 1940s. He published a total of 27 albums, and he was about to release his first disc entirely in Catalan. In his last years, he became particularly active in social and political movements, criticising poverty and supporting Catalan self-determination. A few weeks ago, he issued a press release announcing he was undergoing anti-cancer treatment.
Fascist attack against a pro-independence event in Greater Barcelona
The civil society organisation Súmate, bringing together Spanish-speaking Catalans who support independence from Spain, presented its local branch in Mataró, a coastal city in Greater Barcelona. On Tuesday evening, half an hour after the event’s kick off, a group of about six Fascists carrying Spanish flags interrupted the presentation and tried to stop it. They shouted insults against participants and carried banners against the association. “You are a submarine” of pro-independence parties and “You are sold to the ‘nazionalist’ tyranny” were some of the slogans. Ironically, these Fascists called the attendees of a democratic debate on Catalan nationalism ‘Nazis’. Spanish nationalism has compared Catalonia’s claims to Nazism on several occasions, while Madrid’s establishment and intellectuals have barely protested.