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Penedès News Summary – February 2012

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Gran Penedès

Generalitat introduces the so called VAO3+ discount for highly occupied vehicles on the payroad C-32, connecting Baix Penedès and Garraf with the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Read more in Catalan

Garraf: Sitges, Vilanova i la…

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Penedès News – Summary January 2012

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

This is a selection of local Penedès news from the month of January, 2012.

Gran Penedès

The new motorway C15 is used by 16.000 vehicles per day between Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) and Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès), and by 10.500 …

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Penedès News – Summary December 2011

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

This is a selection of local Penedès news from the month of December, 2011. Click on each headline to read the full article, usually in Catalan or Spanish.

Gran Penedès

Thanks to the now opened new C15 (Eix Diagonal) the travel time from Vilanova…

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Penedès News in a different format

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Penedès News has been one of the main pillars in the editorial line of this blog for the last few months and the time has come to evaluate the results. By now, I consider that I have been running project long enough to make conclusions and decide on …

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‘Minyons de l’Arboç’ and ‘Jove de Vilafranca’ end the season with nice human towers

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

The Diada de la Colla which Bordegassos de Vilanova organised on November 13, did not become the success the team had hoped for, but the two guest teams partly compensated for that and offered the spectators in plaça de les Cols of Vilanova i la Ge…

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MOST – the Penedès Wine and Cava Film Festival – is here to stay

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

During the days November 10-13 – and coinciding with the European Day of Wine Tourism – Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès) housed the first edition of MOST – a festival dedicated to films related to wine and cava. The organizors are very con…

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Vilafranca lodges administrative dispute with ADIF regarding noice levels

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Ever since the highspeed train (AVE) service started to operate on the railway lines going through Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès) there have been severe complaints about noise. Now Mayor Pere Regull (CiU) has announced that he will lodge an a…

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Alt Penedès and Garraf now officially ‘Costa de Barcelona’

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Four comarques to the north east and south west of Barcelona are now officially united under the tourism brand Costa de Barcelona (the Coast of Barcelona) – a measure intended to streamline and reinforce the marketing activities of these destinatio…

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‘Diada del Roser’ – a great day for ‘Xicots’ and guests

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Xicots de Vilafranca – the second team of human tower builders in Vilafranca del Penedès – have had a difficult season, not the least since quite a few of its former members now make up the core of the third team, Colla Jove Xiquets de Vilafranca,&nb…

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Female strength in Bellprat (Anoia)

Friday, November 4th, 2011

With less than 100 inhabitants, Bellprat (Anoia) is the smallest municipality in Penedès, and its claim to fame is that it was here, during the so called second republic in 1934, Natividad Yarza Planas (ERC) became the first democratically voted fema…

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