Reaction, Restoration by Antoni Puigverd

La Vanguardia

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

The words of grandparents are drowned out by growing noise. Familiar smells disappear beneath a relentless mix of perfumes and stenches. Home grows cold, transformed into a hostile agora. Many foreigners arrive fleeing poverty or war. Many others come as tourists, dazzled by cathedrals and castles that have lost their original purpose. They eat in restaurants where immigrants work for meager wages and long hours, cooking and washing dishes. Zygm…