2019
A review of the year picking out some of the key moments that featured in the news in the past 12 months, both in Catalonia and further afield
February
The trial begins
February 2019 is dominated by one main theme: the trial of the Catalan political prisoners, which gives rise to mass protests and a general strike
January
Taxis war with rideshare firms
Uber and Cabify quit Barcelona, the Catalan government creates 5,000 new teaching jobs, and a blanket of snow covers inland parts of Catalonia
Apple App Store
Google Play Apps
Helena Bagué
Singer of El Pot Petit band
’Family concert audiences keep on growing’
When she goes up the stage, the singer and actor, Helena Bagué, becomes Jana d’El Pot Petit, one of the most popular bands of the new children’s cançó, or, better, family cançó in Catalonia and...
Technology in the classroom
The government’s STEMcat programme aims to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics by providing material, resources and teacher training
1920. The columns of contention
The four giant columns designed by architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch for the 1929 Universal expo in the Catalan capital were controversial from the first moment. On the following pages, we trace the process surrounding their construction and demolition.
Opinion
News from El Punt Avui
My space
Catalans abroad
Eva J. Daussà
Professor of linguistics at the University of Groningen
Maria Hernández Reig.
Guide to the Sovtintendenza Archeologica di Roma and the Municipal Museums of Rome
Albert Grañó & Aurèlia Marsal
Albert is a consultant. Aurèlia works in a Montessori school
Features
Interview
Begoña Román
Chair of the Ethical Committee of Social Services in Catalonia
David Bañeres
Membre of SOM Research Lab at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Helena Bagué
Singer of El Pot Petit band
Books
Vicent Marqués
Author of ‘History of Catalan and Occitan Cuisine’
Food & Wine
Ruth Troyano
Journalist and sommelier
Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS
The Net
Mar Gutiérrez-Colón
PHD in English Philology (URV) and head of the team developing the new Art of Reading application
The Eye
Horrorland, Cercs 2018
Photo: ACN
Llorenç del Penedès
Photo: Courtesy of town council
