Carles Fabró could have a shadow role in Tom Holland’s next movie. Or Jota Bayona, a prophet of Barcelona as well as a great filmmaker. Ask Xavi Casinos.
There is never a good way to replace a person if he is a remarkable professional who has perfectly fulfilled his obligations. I say this because this week we learned that Carles Fabro He leaves his position as director of the Office of External Relations and Protocol of the Generalitat de Catalunya after 20 years in office. made he is an example of what a chief of protocol should be. Educated, discreet, elegant and has always treated everyone with the same standards. In other words, he acted with the same professionalism with a head of state as with an intern.
However, his great merit is having gallantly endured six different presidents. started with Jordi Pujol and is done with Pedro Aragonese. So he has lived with personalities as different as Pasqual Maragall, Jose Montilla, Artur Mas, Carles Puigdemont or Quim Torre. Now, as it is not to everyone’s taste, the Palau de Pedralbes, on Barcelona’s Diagonal, is going to be updated to make it the second headquarters of the Generalitat. He will do it well, although to begin with six or eight months of work await him, which is what they calculate it will take to rehabilitate the Saló Sant Jordi del Palau. Well nothing, what Carles Fabro, ‘caporal’ on leave from the second promotion of the Mossos d’Esquadra, will have time to get bored.
He will take his place Anna Teixido, person close to Oriol Junqueras, and hitherto attached cabinet. Finally, what made It has resisted two converging presidents, two socialists and two from Junts, but it has not been able to defeat the first from ERC. Bad times for the mossos.
The Bayonas and Tom Holland
The brand image campaign that the British actor has done this week in Barcelona Tom Holland priceless. He has spent a couple of days here to present his new film ‘Uncharted’ and everyone has been able to listen to the excellence of Barcelona in his words. Up to five scenarios appear in the film of the famous actor who plays ‘Spider-man’. The Sagrada Família, the Gòtic neighborhood or Montjuïc are some of the places where he filmed Holland.
We cannot forget the key role in the career of Tom Holland of the Barcelona film director JA Bayonne. They are friends now, but it was ten years ago when Bayonne discovered it in a theater in London’s West End. There he saw him act in the play ‘Billy Elliot’ and chose him for his film ‘The Impossible’. One year later and when Holland He was only 16 years old, he was one of the stars of the film’s presentation in Sitges. There, Charles Bayona, The director’s twin brother, renowned DJ, music producer and inveterate culé, gave him a Barça shirt. Since then the British boasts of culé. Bayonne He explains to me that he did the same with all the Argentine actors who recently visited Barcelona to shoot part of his new film ‘The Snow Society’. And that he also dressed in Barça Lewis MacDougall, the protagonist of ‘A monster comes to see me’ also directed by Jota. Well, that, perhaps Barça should thank the Bayonne his active barcelonismo.
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Barcelona with Casinos
The journalist, writer and current communication director of the Barcelona Provincial Council, Xavi Casinos, He has just published a new book where he discovers different secrets of the city. Under the title ‘Secret Barcelona’ (Viena Edicions), casinos Take a tour of the B side of the city. A total of 60 chapters with 60 stories where the reader can discover completely unknown anecdotes and stories that do not appear in conventional guides. This is the fourth book on Barcelona stories by a colleague who started out as a journalist in the guts of the El Periódico archive in the 1980s. I imagine he’s already on his fifth.