Barca may have won the tie, but Madrid — which has long had an inferiority complex about Barcelona — is catching up in the culture war battle between the two cities. There’s an architectural and urban renewal renaissance in Spain’s capital, it’s the commercial center of the country, and some Catalan intellectuals are moving to Madrid, repelled by Barcelona’s annoying tourism and Catalan nationalism. “Madrid is beginning to be Barcelonised,” says one writer. (Giles Tremlett/The Observer)
(Image: Madrid sunrise. Image credit: eschipul/Flickr through a Creative Commons license.)
