Gregorio’s bar terrace looks out over Sant Adrià de Besòs although their tables and chairs, halved by pandemicThey returned to the usual sidewalk in Barcelona on Wednesday. The administrative border that divides the two municipalities is Calle Badajoz. Despite being a festive yesterday, squid legs and bravas, abundant, without restrictions and at the usual price, were served to a loyal clientele who yesterday crossed the line with more tranquility than usual, knowing that they were no longer in breach of the rules.
The tradition of filling the interior and exterior of the bar with neighbors from Sant Adrià and Badalona it comes from old. Gregorio, who lifted the blind no more and no less than 53 years ago, sponsored the Sant Adrià basketball team with the name of the venue, Lafuente. First were the fans of basketball and little by little entire families who made the pilgrimage to the bar that Gregorio’s son, Jordi, now runs with his grandson, Victor, who at age 26 and with a law degree in his pocket, has decided that will continue between tapas and portions with the family business.
Squid legs
The tables on the terrace of the Lafuente bar are in Barcelona and face Sant Adrià
Another family, the Moreno, the parents, the daughter, her husband and the three children from the marriage, live entirely in Sant Adrià. Specifically, in the first blocks of the Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes that can be seen from the table that everyone occupies on the restaurant’s terrace The fountain in which yesterday they met for the first time to eat in three months. It is half past three, they are about to order coffee and there are still bravas with mayonnaise on the table. “We are going to burst, we have asked more with the desire than with the hunger”, he recognizes
the daughter.
Those streets are the scenes in which they move. They have never been aware of going through a border between the two cities. Grandpa adds. “All this you see on one side and the other of the Gran Vía is the same: The neighborhood . You can jump from Barcelona to Sant Adrià without knowing it several times a day ”. Even these past few days you couldn’t. “You have the pharmacy on one side and the bakery on the other.”
People from Sant Adria de Besos have tapas at the Lafuente bar in Barcelona
(Llibert Teixidó)
The street signs make the difference. The easiest thing in these parts to know what city you are in is to look at the top of the corner walls of the streets. If the sign is red, it is Sant Adrià, while those of white marble continue to be those of Barcelona.
Another family, they with their faces covered and him with the mask in one hand, the man and the strap Toby is holding in the other, cross a crosswalk in Sant Adrià in search of the car they parked in Barcelona. They are from Bon Pastor and it is the first time in all this time that they cross the health frontier to visit the man’s parents. Amparo and Manolo each live in a flat in Sant Adrià. The woman at number 10 on the Gran Vía and the man in a building next door. During all this time they have strictly adhered to the confinement rules and have not visited them. “Like all of us, it has been difficult for us to comply with the standard, because if my mother had lived a couple of blocks in the direction of Llobregat, I could have visited her. Instead where it is, until today I have not been able to see it ”, Carlos explains. The man admits that more than once he thought about running across the road until he reached the goal. But Ana and Eva, his wife and daughter, scold him for thinking about it and congratulate him for not having done it.
Medium gas shoreline
The confusion stops the arrival of locals to the Maresme beaches
On the Maresme beaches, an increase in the influx of visitors from Barcelona was not especially noted. A retention attributable to the confusion generated by the fact that half a region is divided. While from Canet de Mar to Santa Susanna they have already entered phase 2, from Arenys to Barcelona they are still in phase 1 and it is forbidden to enter the water to bathe. The heads of the different municipalities assure that a greater presence of neighbors has been noted in the second residences, but still not daring to be seen on the beaches.
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