The last few weeks have been hard for booksellers in Catalonia. The Diada de Sant Jordi, the most important event of the year for the guild, ..
is just around the corner and the nearly 400 bookstalls and roses on the street that this edition will have, the good weather and the extensive security arrangements put in place by the authorities, predict new record figures.
The Chamber of the Book of Catalonia has announced this Wednesday, during a press conference at the Ateneu Barcelonés, that in this edition the stalls will represent twice as many as in 2019, before the arrival of the pandemic. On April 23, the stalls will be distributed in seven districts of Barcelona, which will occupy more than 3500 meters, not counting the hundred or so stands located in front of the city's bookstores.
