from the editor

Research at risk

Borja de Riquer
editor OF the book ’The memory of the Catalans’

“In a nation without a state, symbols are also constructed against it”

Borja de Riquer (Barcelona, 1945) is Professor Emeritus at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a specialist in the history of political Catalanism and Francoism; and, above all, teacher, a vocation...

“Kennedy: I am a Berliner”

A strong wave of anti-Europeanism is growing on the other side of the Atlantic. And it is not a harmless temporary fashion. It is a serious attempt by the current American administration to split, neutralise...

A tour of some of Catalonia’s food treasures

Catalonia as theWorld Region of Gastronomy 2025 promotes cuisine as a form of cultural expression and offers an array of fairs, exhibitions and experiences linking food to a unique landscape

Letters to Monsieur Printemps
The unpublished memoirs of Tom Sharpe

When did you have your first sexual experience?

This instalment of the comic writer’s memoirs is the first half a letter from February 2010

In Search of Humanity

Citizens or Bystanders

’We will transmit this City not only not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us’ Ephebic Oath, 5th-4th century BCE The quotation above is part of an oath taken by eighteen-year-old...

Barney Griffiths
THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
Barney Griffiths

SMART BY NATURE

Martin Kirby
HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Martin Kirby

UP ON THE ROOF

Matthew Tree
Long-term resident
Matthew Tree

MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER

Neil Stokes
THE LAST WORD
Neil Stokes

I DID IT MY WAY

Barney Griffiths
THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
Barney Griffiths

Sant Jordi’s: A Britalan’s Guide

Martin Kirby
HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Martin Kirby

FLYING FLOCK

THE LAST WORD

JUST GOOGLE IT

“Kennedy: I am a Berliner”

In Search of Humanity

Citizens or Bystanders

In Search of Humanity

Prophecy and REMEMBRANCE

Javier Martín-Vide
Climatologist and professor of physical geography at the UB

“The drought has been exceptional, without precedent in two centuries”

Agnès arbat
Co-founder and CEO of the biotechnology company Oxolife. EU Women Innovators Award 2025

“We have made the biggest breakthrough in fertility research in 30 years”

Daniel Crespo
Rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia - Barcelona Tech

“Companies are not interested in the complexity of the university”

Strong health sector makes Catalonia leader in patents

SOME SUGGESTIONS:

Mireia Vilanova. marcela topor. mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat
is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, TV and digital media. She has led numerous projects in the US and Europe that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Tribeca, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Outfest and Palms Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently in pre-production on her debut feature, I Live Here Now, directed by Julie Pacino

City of opportunity

JOSEP PRAT.
Journalist and author who has worked with newspapers like La Vanguardia and the South China Morning Post. With his wife he is the owner of the PIZZA HERE chain of pizzerias in Vietnam

Landscape and culture

Christian Rodrigo
Actor, producer, director and acting coach from Barcelona

Hard work equals success

Borja de Riquer
editor OF the book ’The memory of the Catalans’

“In a nation without a state, symbols are also constructed against it”

Asami Miotani
Japanese Association of Friendship with Catalonia

“We have been waiting for a Tokyo-Barcelona flight for many years”

David bueno
Specialist in neuroeducation, author of ‘The art of being human’

“We have lost the art of conversation and we no longer talk to each other”

Joaquim Uriach
President of the Palau de la Música Catalana

“Some people still don’t know the Palau”

The bakery without croissants

Oil the most stolen food

Cherries time

A tour of some of Catalonia’s food treasures

Letters to Monsieur Printemps
The unpublished memoirs of Tom Sharpe

When did you have your first sexual experience?

Volunteers against fascism

Letters to Monsieur Printemps
The unpublished memoirs of Tom Sharpe

A patchwork life

Paradise lost

Ingrid Teixidor
Celler Oliveda

Ingrid Teixidor

Joan Mateu
Painter

Making the ordinary extraordinary

Basketmaker
Tortellà (Garrotxa)

Dani Iglesias

Actors, co-founders of escapade theatre
(Barcelona)

Sue Flack & Caspar

Digital classrooms

Blockchain, far beyond bitcoin

The never-ending search for digital talent

Mar Gutiérrez-Colón
PHD in English Philology (URV) and head of the team developing the new Art of Reading application

Learning English through fun

Pla de la Seu, Tarragona, July 2022
Photo: Xavi Vicente

The sky is the limit

Barcelona, January 2021
Photo: Juanma Ramos

Return of the Kings

The best coming art

Blanes, 2019
Photo: oriol duran

Make way for the Carnival King!