Mission Statement: to assist the integration of foreign residents living in Spain and this is never more accurate than when you establish yourself as a foreign resident in a new country Being able to quickly familiarise yourself with the culture and customs can help ease the transition during a challenging time This is why Euro Weekly News makes it our mission to provide you with a free news resource in English that covers both regional and national Spanish news – anything that we feel you will benefit from knowing as you integrate into your new community and live your best life in Spain you can forget about translating articles from Spanish into awkward English that probably don’t make much sense Let us be your convenient and essential guide to all things that will likely affect you as a foreign resident living in Spain A new railway line will connect Palma with Llucmajor featuring a 10-kilometre underground section for faster and more efficient travel is set to start in 2028 and be completed by 2032 The new train service linking Palma with Llucmajor has undergone significant modifications including the incorporation of a 10-kilometre underground section between the Palma Conservatory and Son Costa station allowing passengers to travel from Palma city centre to the airport in approximately 12 minutes The planned stations along the route include Miquel Dolç Two new stops have been added at the Conservatory and Bellavista bringing the train closer to emerging urban areas and facilitating future expansions towards Ponent The updated project budget amounts to 811 million euros exceeding the initial estimate by more than 100 million Due to the complexity of the infrastructure construction will commence in 2028 and is expected to be completed by 2032 This ambitious project aims to improve mobility in Mallorca providing an efficient alternative to private vehicles and reducing congestion on major access routes to Palma it is expected to boost public transport usage on the island enabling more sustainable and faster travel for both residents and tourists Read more news around Spain Read more news related to Mallorca Subscribe to our Euro Weekly News alerts to get the latest stories into your inbox Euro Weekly News is the leading English language newspaper in Spain by delivering news with a social conscience we are proud to be the voice for the expat communities who now call Spain home With around half a million print readers a week and over 1.5 million web views per month EWN has the biggest readership of any English language newspaper in Spain The paper prints over 150 news stories a week with many hundreds more on the web – no one else even comes close Our publication has won numerous awards over the last 25 years including Best Free Newspaper of the Year (Premios AEEPP) Company of the Year (Costa del Sol Business Awards) and Collaboration with Foreigners honours (Mijas Town Hall) All of this comes at ZERO cost to our readers All our print and online content always has been and always will be FREE OF CHARGE Download our media pack in either English or Spanish The new Tony Catany Photography Center is the outcome of a competition held in 2018 for the design of a museum space dedicated to the exhibition of the work of the Mallorca photographer Toni Catany the artist collected an image archive – 90.000 negatives and 4.000 prints – as a donation to the foundation that carries his name whose materialization was the project to which he devoted the last years of his life and which was finally founded in 2014 in Llucmajor with the purpose not only of preserving and exhibiting his work but of turning Llucmajor into a reference center in the dissemination of this artistic discipline in the interior of the island and close to Palma the project consisted in the integration of two old buildings – the house where Catany himself was born and the adjacent construction whose work was recovered and preserved by Catany – and in the creation of a new museum space All the spaces that make up the center are articulated around a large central courtyard that welcomes visitors and organizes the different uses of the program for Catany’s work and for other temporary shows like a bridge connecting the two parts of the building with a dark area that offers optimum conditions for the preservation of photographic material The upper floor accommodates management and administration areas Without forgetting that the main objective is to build a contemporary museum where the works on display must have an adequate presence the project explores a type of intervention in which the careful refurbishment of existing elements is made compatible with the creation of a new in the reconstructed fragments of the original facade respectfully restored as if they were objects from an archaeological site; at the same time some elements reveal the contemporary character of the interior used in most of the constructions on the island and that is present also on the walls of the courtyard Video Cliente ClientGobierno de las Islas Baleares Arquitectos ArchitectsJosep Lluís Mateo-mateoarquitectura  Consultores ConsultantsBiel Garcies (arquitecto técnico quantity surveyor); BAC Engineering Consultancy Group (estructura structure); DEERNS (instalaciones y sostenibilidad mechanical engineering and sustainability); Arrevolt (mediciones y presupuesto measurements  and budget) Contratista ContractorObras y Pavimentos MAN Superficie construida Floor area 1.200m² there arent any match using your search terms Josep Lluís Mateo was born in Barcelona (1949) and graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.Mateo’s practice is based in Barcelona and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona the new headquarters for PGGM Pension Fund Company in Zeist Holland and the office building on the former site of Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.Academic collaborations and teaching:Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002 He has also taught and lectured at numerous institutions around the world Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992 Josep Lluís Mateo is President since 2009 of the Board of Directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture He has been a member of a number of juries and expert committees including the Quality Committee of Barcelona City Council (2000-2008) and for prizes such as the European Landscape Award and the Thyssen Award.Recent exhibitions and prizes:The practice’s work has been exhibited on numerous occasions thanks to its international influence New York’s MoMA devoted a space in the exhibition “Spain: On Site” (2006) to its apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project Individual exhibitions include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona Col•legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich 1991).The work of Josep Lluís Mateo has been awarded many prizes including:- Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008 Best International Convention Centre category.Organized by C&IT magazine Project: CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre- 2008 Archizinc Award Project: Sant Jordi Students’ Hall of Residence Barcelona- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005 Project: CCIB- Barcelona International Convention Centre- 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura Archive Architecture Download our media pack in either English or Spanish.