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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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‘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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Heavy rain causes flooding in Igualada and Òdena

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

The autumn rains are here and on November 3 they were especially heavy in the central parts of Catalonia. During one hour (between 7:00 and 8:00) parts of Anoia registered as much as 40 L/m2 and firefighters had to rescue a few drivers stuck in their …

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Human tower builders ‘Moixiganguers d’Igualada’ are ‘Colla de 8′

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

On October 23, in plaça Pius XII of Igualada, Moixiganguers d’Igualada did their best exhibition ever in human towers. It could have ended totally differently, because they had a difficult start with two constructions which were dismantled before b…

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Crisis hits Baix Penedès and Garraf especially hard

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

An annual economic study of the 41 comarques of Catalonia, published by Catalunya Caixa, reveal a weak 0,1% general growth for the year 2010, but there are big geographic variations.

All parts of Gran Penedès end up in the second half of the list …

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Masquefa scarred political violence

Friday, October 14th, 2011

The little town of Masquefa (Anoia) has attracted a lot of attention in Catalan media this week. It all started on October 12 – el día de la Hispanidad -, when García Mora, a town councilor from the local party Força Masquefa, put up a Spanish fl…

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