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The Guardian

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Kicking back in Catalonia: a new eco-retreat in Spain with yoga, ebikes and volcano hikes

Set within a volcanic nature reserve, this charmingly repurposed 17th-century farmhouse has all bases covered for a relaxing, rustic microadventure

www.theguardian.com

October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

Left in blue

Montseny, Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain

#SkyAndEarth #Montseny #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #LeftInBlue #clouds #sky #blue #green #scape #chatgpt

Blue and green hills fading into distance beneath a calm evening sky with rose-tinted clouds.

October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

The mirror sea

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #mural #murals #StreetArt #sea #sun #TheMirrorSea #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Mural on a black background showing a white comb and scissors reflected in a mirror with a dark sea, an island, and a white sky.

October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

In slow time

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #alley #InSlowTime #bougainvillea #sea #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Narrow street lined with white houses, a red and purple bougainvillea climbing the wall, pale blue sky and soft afternoon light.

October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

The still hour

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #mural #murals #StreetArt #sea #sun #TheStillHour #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Mural of a round table and two chairs on a balcony above the sea, sunlight reflecting on the water and the town in the distance.

October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Trilobyter

@trilobyter.bsky.social

On the #CostaBrava

#MeerMittwoch #photography #seascape #travel #beach #Mediterranean #Catalonia #Spain

Color photo of a seascape with a sandy beach in the foreground and a rocky headland with a few trees on top extending into the sea on the left side of the photo.

October 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Porn Club

@pornclub.bsky.social

𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 : Susy Gala
𝗔𝗴𝗲 : 32
𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 : 11th November 1992
𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 : Catalonia, Spain
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗯𝘀 : 36D
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗮𝗶𝗿 : Shaved/Brazilian

#susygala #pornstar #profile #nsfw

October 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

After the noon

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #mural #murals #StreetArt #sea #beer #cellphone #AfterTheNoon #AfterTheNoon #JetSet #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Mural of an older man with sunglasses and a beer walking past, a young woman in bikinis behind green plants talking on the phone, the blue sea and hills in the background

October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Trilobyter

@trilobyter.bsky.social

#Medieval bridge at Besalú

#TravelTuesday #photography #travel #travelphotography #MedievalArchitecture #Catalonia #Spain

Color photo of an old stone bridge with three arches and a tower spanning a river, with green hills in the background

October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Empire Podcast

@empirepoduk.bsky.social

Episode 2 of our Orwell miniseries out NOW..

🪖Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War🪖

Like Hemingway and Laurie Lee, the idealist writer George Orwell joined the Republican forces in Spain to fight General Franco, with his experiences inspiring Homage To Catalonia...

October 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

Before memory sleeps

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #mural #murals #StreetArt #sea #memory #cat #sub #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Mural of a cat sitting in sunlight on a windowsill, white wall with pink flowers and shadows, the white town of Cadaqués by the blue sea through the window.

October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

In thin air

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #mural #murals #StreetArt #sea #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Black-and-white mural of a man hanging from a streetlight in Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain.

October 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM Everybody can reply

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Trilobyter

@trilobyter.bsky.social

Besalú

#FensterFreitag #photography #travel #travelphotography #Catalonia #Spain

Color photo looking up stone steps that lead to a plaza with colorful streamers hanging.

October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Caustic Cover Critic

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social

bloody hell

Wikipedia screen grab:

"The body of a 39-year-old man was found wedged inside the hind leg of a papier-mâché statue of a Stegosaurus in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Catalonia, Spain. Initial police reports did not suspect foul play. A police representative hypothesised that the individual may have crawled inside headfirst to retrieve a lost mobile phone before his leg became stuck, trapping him inside. Firefighters had to cut the statue apart to extract the body; police observers believed that he may have been trapped in there for "a couple of days". Local media claimed that the family of the victim had reported him missing only hours prior to the discovery. The body was discovered when a man and his son noticed an unusual smell from the statue, and saw the body through a crack in the statue.[255][256]"

October 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

Within the blue

Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain

#Cadaqués #CaboDeCreus #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #WhiteCity #blue #night #lights #reflections #sea #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Indigo-blue sea with yellow lights reflecting on the water and boats floating in the night.

October 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM Everybody can reply

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lookforplace

@lookforplace.bsky.social

#Sant #Pere #de #Rodes #Monastery #Catalonia #Spain

October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Brian Finucane

@bcfinucane.bsky.social

Unfortunately, it is an evergreen.

Read a lot of Orwell as a kid and hitchhiked around Spain as a teenager after reading “Homage to Catalonia.”

October 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM Everybody can reply

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VoxEU @ CEPR

@voxeu.org

David Martinez-Miera & Carlos Sunyer examine how an increase in political polarisation impacts a region's capacity to attract human capital. They leverage Spain's centralised system of medical resident placements and the 2017 Catalonia referendum as a case study.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Graph showing average medical residents’ score in Catalonia vs rest of Spain. The points represent yearly mean residuals from an individual-level regression of score on province and specialty-year fixed effects, disaggregated by region. Lines represent the linear fit to the scatterplots, separately estimated before and after the shock.

Given the growing prevalence of political and social polarisation, understanding its effects on society is of paramount importance. This column discusses the effects of an increase in political polarisation on a region’s capacity to attract human capital. The evidence shows how an increase in polarisation results in lower attraction of human capital, especially for individuals with higher human capital scores.

October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

After all

Punta de Cap de Creus, Catalunya, Spain

#PuntaDeCapDeCreus #CapDeCreus #CaboDeCreus #NationalPark #Cadaqués #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #coast #road #summer #mountains #Mediterranean #sea #clouds #sky #rain #nature #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Cracked asphalt road cutting through rugged hills with low green shrubs, fading into a misty blue-grey horizon.

October 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Zinitaz

@zinitaz.bsky.social

There is light

Punta de Cap de Creus, Catalunya, Spain

#PuntaDeCapDeCreus #CapDeCreus #CaboDeCreus #NationalPark #Cadaqués #CostaBrava #AltEmpordà #Girona #Catalunya #Catalonia #Spain #coast #path #summer #Mediterranean #sea #clouds #sky #rain #light #nature #SkyAndEarth #scape #chatgpt

Dark clouds filling the sky above a rocky landscape, with a narrow band of light stretching across the horizon.

October 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM Everybody can reply

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Lee

@leemartxn.bsky.social

Back home in Newcastle after my trip to Spain! Spent most of my time in Barcelona, but spent a day at Sitges as well. I really really loved it, and honestly coming back to the UK was hard

#spain #catalonia #Barcelona #sitges

The sagrada familia, on the left corner is the old side

The inside of a church, with a stand of golden various coloured candles, in front of a shrine with lights on it

Palm trees, on some grass with the sea in the background

October 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Memnon of Rhodes

@johngage1.bsky.social

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie”

- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)

October 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM Everybody can reply

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