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The voices in front of the Barcelona Cathedral were never heard so much. The Santa Llúcia Christmas Fair, which has just closed its 235th edition, is being dismantled. Shortly before midnight, and less than an hour before the new curfew in the capital comes into effect, Avenida de la Catedral resists the rhythm of life in Barcelona at night: workers chatting with laughter while dismantling the stalls, walkers who walk in a hurry, the suitcase of some tourist that crawls while looking for an address on Via Laietana.
Half an hour earlier, in the old town of Sarrià, Jordi has been guarding the door of the Sotavent bar, as almost always, for eight years. “We did not expect him to return again,” he says about the curfew and the new restrictions decreed by the Government in the face of the rebound in covid infections in Catalonia. The bar where Jordi works has a reduced capacity of 50% and now only 70 people can enter. “I understand that it is difficult,” he maintains, and recalls that he has also lost a relative due to the pandemic. But he clarifies: “I think we should hold out [la apertura del ocio nocturno], even if it’s 50%. We can still shoot, because we are a bar, but I don’t know how the discos are going to hold up ”. Next to him, a young woman smokes what was left of her last cigarette.
For Gonzalo Moncloa Allison
Photo: La Rambla de Barcelona, during the first night of the new curfew ordered by the Government. (Albert Garcia)
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