5+ hour, 7+ min ago  (366+ words) Inflation in Catalonia – as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) – rose by 0.1 percentage points in June to 3.2% year-on-year, according to data released by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE) on Wednesday. Catalonia's annual inflation rate matched the Spanish average, which…...

23+ hour, 38+ min ago  (345+ words) Latest update: July 14, 2026 03:58 PM Panama, Kenya, Hungary, Tunisia, Russia, Australia and even Antarctica are just some of the destinations Carme Lluís and Jaume Sacasas have visited over the past three decades. Sightseeing, however, has always been secondary. Their priority when…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (163+ words) Latest update: July 14, 2026 02:17 PM Catalonia's live music industry earned €244 million 2025, according to data from the 2026 Music Yearbook. It marks a 1% increase on the previous year, 2024, which saw earnings of €242 million. There were a total of 31,900 concerts throughout 2025, and 23.8 million spectators....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (865+ words) One year has passed since the European Union last debated making Catalan an official EU language, with the issue once again absent from the agenda of the final meeting of foreign ministers before the summer break. Spain insisted on Tuesday…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (527+ words) Latest update: July 13, 2026 02:36 PM The average price of new rental contracts in Barcelona city rose 4.61% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching €1,137.35 a month, according to data from the Catalan Land Institute (Incasòl). Across Catalonia's designated "high-pressure housing areas," including…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (796+ words) Anticipation is building ahead of the first total solar eclipse visible from Catalonia since 1905. With one month to go until the August 12 event, ophthalmologists, consumer authorities and specialist retailers are urging the public to take precautions and use only certified…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (232+ words) Barcelona's Fabra Observatory recorded a temperature of 40.7ºC, the highest temperature recorded in more than a century of data. Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 pm, the thermometer read 40.7ºC on the south side of Tibidabo, a value never before seen. The weather station at…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (340+ words) More than 150 wildfires have been recorded in Catalonia since the start of summer, the second-highest figure at this point in the year since 2010, according to data from the Rural Agents and the Department of Agriculture. Almost 3,000 hectares have been burnt…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (453+ words) Latest update: July 2, 2026 01:56 PM The Catalan Parliament has approved President Salvador Illa's first budget with support from the governing Socialists, pro-independence ERC and left-wing Comuns. All other parties voted against. The 2026 budget, which totals €49.162 billion, is the first to be…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (124+ words) Casa Batlló Contemporary and the Joan Miró Foundation are staging a new exhibition, 'Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructed', opening on July 8. The exhibition, the second to open at Casa Batlló Contemporary, will run until January 2027. The project was developed by the creative studio…...