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Thousands of fans support footballer, who turned 17 years old on Saturday

Mataró, Terrassa, Granollers, and Sabadell lose higher-income residents to neighboring towns

16 people required medical treatment after convoy hit end of the railroad

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

650 tons of personal protective equipment including masks, gowns, and hats destroyed

Seven more people were arrested amidst more disorder in Barcelona despite a calmer week

Mataró launches EU-funded project to turn old buildings into affordable housing

Raid in the Catalan town of Mataró

Deposed vice president Oriol Junqueras publishes op-ed from prison on Madrid condemning the violence

Located in the Nau Gaudí space in the seaside town of Mataró, the exhibit starts a dialogue about humans and architecture

Catalan hospital, among four in the world to implant bone-anchored prosthetics to its patients

Pere Pubill i Calaf, better known as Peret, died at noon on Wednesday in a Barcelonan hospital, aged 79. The singer, guitar player and composer Peret was considered to be the 'father' of the so-called Catalan rumba, a fusion music style mixing Afro-Cuban mambo with flamenco and rock and roll. This rhythm was born in the 1950s within Barcelona's Gipsy community and became increasingly popular in the 1960s thanks to some of Peret's hits. Soon it became part of Catalonia's culture and common heritage, being extremely popular and receiving institutional recognition. Peret started his musical career extremely young in the 1940s. He published a total of 27 albums, and he was about to release his first disc entirely in Catalan. In his last years, he became particularly active in social and political movements, criticising poverty and supporting Catalan self-determination. A few weeks ago, he issued a press release announcing he was undergoing anti-cancer treatment.

The civil society organisation Súmate, bringing together Spanish-speaking Catalans who support independence from Spain, presented its local branch in Mataró, a coastal city in Greater Barcelona. On Tuesday evening, half an hour after the event’s kick off, a group of about six Fascists carrying Spanish flags interrupted the presentation and tried to stop it. They shouted insults against participants and carried banners against the association. “You are a submarine” of pro-independence parties and “You are sold to the ‘nazionalist’ tyranny” were some of the slogans. Ironically, these Fascists called the attendees of a democratic debate on Catalan nationalism ‘Nazis’. Spanish nationalism has compared Catalonia’s claims to Nazism on several occasions, while Madrid’s establishment and intellectuals have barely protested.