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How we treat animals reflects our society

anna vicens
PRESIDENT OF THE CATALAN ASSOCIATION OF SOMMELIERS

“Sommelier is a highly sought-after profession”

There are some very good sommeliers in Catalonia. One example is Ferran Vila, the maître sommelier of La Banyeta restaurant in Palol de Revardit, who was named the Best Catalan Sommelier in 2018 and last...

Sílvia Congost
PSYCHOLOGIST

“Every relationship can end up becoming toxic”

What is a toxic relationship?Basically a relationship that makes us suffer. Either because it doesn’t allow for aspects important to us because we think in a different way about essential issues, or...

The voice of the Catalan Picasso

The artist, who died half a century ago, will be the protagonist of Barcelona’s cultural programme in 2023

Utopian mission: revive La Rambla

Architect Itziar González charges 44 artists at the Santa Mònica art centre with restoring the essence of the iconic Barcelona boulevard and reclaiming it for local residents

The ’boom’ of rural tourism

Rural guest houses in Catalonia last year welcomed 487,766 people, who stayed 1.25 million nights, 3.1% more than before the Covid outbreak

Barney Griffiths
THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
Barney Griffiths

A CITY OF TWO FACES

Martin Kirby
HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Martin Kirby

Spell it out

Matthew Tree
Long-term resident
Matthew Tree

Simple twists of fate

Neil Stokes
THE LAST WORD
Neil Stokes

IT’S A DOG’S LIFE

Martin Kirby
HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Martin Kirby

MIRAGES

Matthew Tree
Long-term resident
Matthew Tree

TWO

Catalan clubs in good shape

Utopian mission: revive La Rambla

BARCELONA TO TALLINN

“Kennedy Slain on Dallas Street”

A year of filming in Catalonia

Jazzy usual suspects

The voice of the Catalan Picasso

The ’boom’ of rural tourism

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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

oriol Romeu
Girona midfielder

“I’m rediscovering myself” and enjoying it

anna vicens
PRESIDENT OF THE CATALAN ASSOCIATION OF SOMMELIERS

“Sommelier is a highly sought-after profession”

Sílvia Congost
PSYCHOLOGIST

“Every relationship can end up becoming toxic”

ABEL RIU
POLITICAL SCIENTIST AND SPECIALIST IN POST-SOVIET AFFAIRS

“The EU is one of the losers of the war in Ukraine”

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through Tarragona

Basket
Text: CUINA MAGAZINE Photo: Anna Garcia Frigola

Tarragona’s top treat

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through... DO Terra Alta

APART in English returns with the Roca brothers at the helm

The state of the Spanish State

Cruel lovers

Cooking against barbarity

No medication

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!