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Barcelona residents wake up to clean beaches on Wednesday morning after the facilities were closed for the night

Catalonia’s biggest nocturnal festival of fire and food will look different due to Covid-19 but will still be celebrated

Barcelona, Badalona, Tarragona, Sitges, Mataró, or Castelldefels ban June 23 festivities by the sea

Barcelona beaches will be closed, fireworks will be allowed but groups will have to be of maximum 20 people

Sant Joan de Déu to look into disease transmission at kids' summer camps

Chance to finally close scars of tragic incident as judge greenlights trial of two people accused of causing blaze after decade of delays

Five firefighters lost their lives in southern Catalonia event; only survivor talks about lessons learned and challenges pending

For the first time, sick children will also be able to enjoy the release of a big summer blockbuster when the Disney Pixar movie opens on June 21

Roger Torrent avoids mentioning Slovenia after president's remarks on Balkan country

Catalan interior department to deploy 3,197 officers and 172 extra firefighters for annual midsummer celebration

Sales for the ‘coca de Sant Joan’ cake might even see a 2% increase since the holiday falls on a Saturday

Bonfires and firecrackers are the most characteristic elements of the June 23 celebration, in which the Catalan language also plays an important role

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, the Leo Messi Foundation, the FC Barcelona Foundation and the IESE business school have joined forces to launch a campaign to get companies and the general public to help finance the new SJD Pediatric Cancer Center that is being planned for the city of Barcelona. The hospital, which is set to be Europe’s largest dedicated to infantile cancer and the third-biggest worldwide, will cost 30 MEUR. Once functioning, the centre could care for around 400 patients within its 5,137m² installation, which will be located next to Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. If the deadlines are met, the construction of the new centre will start in the second half of 2017 and be ready by 2019. The facility will allow the increase of the recovery rate for infantile cancer, which is currently around 80%, help develop new drugs and reduce the side effects of treatments used. 

A team of surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in the Catalan capital successfully removed a tumour from a five year old child by first preparing and practicing the “highly complex” procedure on a 3D printed tumour. The child had neuroblastoma, a difficult cancer to extirpate because of the surrounding blood vessels and arteries. In such cases, testing the procedure in advance "is key" because it allows surgeons to study the most effective way of extracting the tumour without damaging other tissues, and to test the method before surgery. This has been possible thanks to the use of a 3D replica of the tumour.

The German chemical and pharmaceutical company has picked Barcelona to provide shared services to its subsidiaries in Greece, Turkey and Latin America, which account for 25% of the total group sales. Bayer’s Shared Service Centre in the Catalan capital will expand its tasks and responsibilities by taking over the accounting, controlling and IT services for these geographical areas. The expansion will take place over 2014 and the centre will pass from being in charge of 11 countries to 22, managing over 50 Bayer subsidiaries. The General Manager of Barcelona’s Centre, Erik Schonebeck, stated the project would “consolidate” the 300 existing jobs in the Catalan capital but no further new jobs would be created in the short-run. Barcelona hosts one of Bayer’s 5 global headquarters.