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The author stated that Almeida and Florentino Pérez had obtained a great real estate benefit in Madrid through the urban reclassification of the city of Real Madrid. He argued that this was supported by a false report that, as he wrote, miscalculated and misleadingly exaggerated municipal benefits, and he described the case as "pure mafia." https://t.co/Lawo4PHu6O #Madrid #Urbanismo #Corrupción #ES (translated)

The author stated that Almeida, from the PP, had facilitated a highly beneficial real estate operation alongside Florentino Pérez and had approved the urban rezoning of the city of Real Madrid. He also claimed that a false report was used that incorrectly calculated municipal benefits, increasing the figure from 1.46 million euros to 98.6 million. https://t.co/y8Pcab5evQ #Inmobiliaria #Corrupción #Madrid #ES #PT (translated)

The political world bids farewell to Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, former mayor of Seville, who passed away at the age of 69, remembering him as a municipal leader who dedicated his life to improving the city and its people. #AlfredoSánchezMonteseirín #Sevilla #LutoPolítico (translated)

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, justified the reclassification of land in Valdebebas for Real Madrid based on an erroneous economic report that inflated the projected municipal benefits from 1.46 million to 98.6 million euros annually. #RealMadrid #Valdebebas #Madrid (translated)

THE “BATTLE OF CERIGNOLA (1503)” ON “POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA” (by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA) SOURCE 1: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ SOURCE 2: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-2026-battlefield-archaeology-of-the-battle-of-cerignola-1503/ __________________________________________________________________ CERIGNOLA (FG) — On 28 April 1503, at sunset, a shallow trench cut through the vineyards outside Cerignola rendered heavy cavalry obsolete. For five centuries its exact position has been merely conjectured, its archaeology ignored, its most important sources never translated into English. We are on the Puglian Tablelanda, a corridor of battles for two thousand years: from Cannae in 216 BC to Frederick II’s falconry from Torre Alemanna. Cerignola, at that time, was not a town but a rural hamlet of 350 families at 120 metres above sea level, guardian of the Mena of the Dogana delle Pecore, the great customs system of transhumance that financed the Kingdom of Naples. It was for its possession that the battle was fought. Opposed, two worlds. Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Viceroy of Naples for Louis XII, thirty years old, splendidly armed, certain of victory. On the other side, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, who on 27–28 April marches from Barletta with some 9,000 exhausted men and decides to entrench himself upon a low ridge. In front of it he has deepened what was already there: not an invention, but an agrarian ditch. The French gendarmes, the last heirs of the mediaeval knight, lower their lances and never reach the line. From behind an embankment reinforced with vine stakes, more than 1,000 Spanish arquebusiers open fire. Nemours falls, almost certainly the first European army commander to die by a portable firearm. With him dies the cavalry charge as a dominant tactic. And here lies the scandal denounced by the article: no cartographer of the seventeenth or eighteenth century ever mapped the field. No memorial stone recalls it. It is not protected as a cultural landscape under the Code of Cultural Heritage. Every deep ploughing of the Tavoliere, standard practice since the Bourbon reforms, destroys an archaeology never recorded. Yet the perimeter is reconstructable. By cross-referencing sixteenth-century descriptions of “slopes covered with vineyards fifteen miles north of the Ofanto” with the Via Traiana, the engagement zone is a rectangle of 3–4 sq km to the north-east of the present settlement. With ISPRA’s 1m DTM LiDAR, anomalous linear depressions could be revealed, and the lower fill of a 2–3 metre ditch, beneath the ploughed layer, is still legible by magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar. Why have we arrived so late? Not for lack of sources, but for lack of translation. The Comune di Cerignola and the Centro Studi e Ricerche Torre Alemanna of Prof. Matteo Stuppiello, who in 1978 obtained the first monumental protection for Torre Alemanna, have digitised a corpus that has never entered Anglophone historiography. Here are the 3 pillars: 1. The letter that still smells of powder. The “Letter of Consalvo da Cordova to the Sovereigns of Spain of 29 April 1503,” edited by Stuppiello in 2003 and updated in 2025 on comune.cerignola.fg.it/biblioteche-digitali. A manuscript page written at Cerignola the day after the battle, “rich in flashes, twilight gleams, and gunfire.” Not a polished chronicle à la Giovio, but a field dispatch: the exhaustion of the night march, the decision to entrench upon arrival, the recovery and honourable burial of Nemours, the intact capture of the French artillery. 2. The graffito, a monument within the monument. In the fourteenth-century church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, known as the Incoronatella, on the Via Trinitapoli Vecchia, where tradition holds the body of Nemours was taken. On the triumphal arch, a graffito of 1503 gives in quasi-notarial form the date, sixth indiction, Friday at the twenty-third to twenty-fourth hour. It truly was a Friday, as confirmed by Cappelli’s perpetual calendar. Deciphered in 1995 by Prof. Francesco Magistrale, Latin palaeographer at the University of Bari, in La Battaglia di Cerignola (1993) and in the municipal monograph S.M. delle Grazie (1999). It is now fading through damp and neglect. 3. The cadastre that explains the ditch. The Apprezzo of 1672 preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Napoli, fondo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes, Scanzia 63, fasc.1: “At the time of the battle, dense vineyards covered the hill reaching down to the plain, and were clearly separated from the rest of the countryside by a not very deep ditch”. Córdoba did not improvise; he adapted. This is confirmed by the Giustiniani cadastres: 277 hearths in 1532, 699 in 1595. The landscape of 1503 was one of intensive horticulture, not the deep-ploughed cereal monoculture of today. To these are added the first monograph by Vincenzo Buonassisi, La Battaglia di Cerignola (1908, died at Via Fanfulla 10 on 27 June 1928), and the first modern military analysis by Piero Pieri, “Consalvo di Cordova e la battaglia di Cerignola”, Archivio Storico Pugliese 1952, which 30 years before the Anglophone rediscovery of “pike-and-shot” defined Cerignola as an engineered killing ground. While Cerignola forgot, others remembered. The “Regimiento de Infantería Cerinola n.42”, later “Fuerteventura n.56”, bore the name of Cerignola until the twentieth century. Its coat of arms, described in Heráldica e Historiales del Ejército, Tomo V (Madrid, 1981): argent field, a dying white swan entangled in a hedge, a gold mural crown, with scroll “Cerignola”. Dossier officially transmitted on 30 April 1986, prot. 4565/509, by the Servicio Histórico Militar in Madrid to the Centro Torre Alemanna through Col. Alessio Antonutti and Gen. José Cifuentes. And in Amsterdam, in the Rijksmuseum, the anonymous commemorative bronze medal: Hercules with lion-skin and club and Janus with keys beside an eagled coat of arms, legend “Consalvus Agidarius… Janum clausit”, on the reverse a battle scene “Consalvi Agidari Victoria de Gallis ad Cannas” — an error by the artist who confuses Cerignola with Cannae. It belonged to Mrs J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff, donated in 1885. The author’s conclusion is unequivocal: Gonzalo’s ditch is the most consequential earthwork in European military history. It inaugurates the infantryman armed with a firearm and conditions the Mediterranean for 160 years. It may still be there, infilled, ploughed over, invisible to the naked eye but accessible to a magnetometer. It is not a question of mediaeval archaeology but of the will to protect.

The yellow vests announce a new mobilization for Saturday, October 31, with gatherings and "casserolades" in front of the National Assembly and municipalities, in response to the rise in social discontent and the restrictions imposed by the government. #GiletsJaunes #Mobilisation #Casserolades (translated)

The author stated that he was present at Place Masséna alongside the prefect and the mobilized law enforcement forces, including the RAID, CRS, gendarmerie, national police, and municipal police. He estimated that the presence of a water cannon was indicative of the means deployed to prevent further violence and called for the protection of Nice without backing down. https://t.co/sUc3VtcxJX #Nice #Sécurité #Violence #FR (translated)

Finland has obtained the operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository, located in the municipality of Eurajoki, which will provide a long-term storage solution for radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. #deseurinucleare #Finlanda #depozitnuclear (translated)

Iberdrola categorically denied any connection between the donation of 156 thousand euros to the Lisbon City Council and the energy supply contracts worth 50 million awarded since Carlos Moedas' presidency, stating that the entities involved are different. #Iberdrola #CâmaraMunicipalLisboa #Transparência (translated)

Sarah Knafo managed to establish herself in the media landscape during the municipal elections in Paris, using colorful and omnipresent communication, although her electoral success was modest, finishing fifth with 10.4% of the votes. #SarahKnafo #Reconquête #ElectionsMunicipales (translated)

The current and former president of the Valongo City Council were sentenced to loss of mandate for abuse of power by limiting the circulation of trucks, while the Left Bloc and other left-wing parties protest against the proposal to amend the rental law, calling for mobilization and the repeal of legislation they consider harmful in the housing sector. #habitação #Política #Valongo (translated)

The author announced that the municipal police deployment in Nice would be more than tripled on Saturday, with over 270 municipal police officers and 42 vehicles mobilized to protect residents and businesses. He added that the curfew for minors would remain in effect and that there would be no leniency towards vandals. https://t.co/xdqtgQMKvw #Nice #Sécurité #Police #FR (translated)

The municipal government of Barcelona, led by Jaume Collboni, has decided not to evict the campers in Plaza Catalunya for the moment, considering it irresponsible, although the Urban Guard is ready to act if intervention is decided in the future. #PlazaCatalunya #Desalojo #DerechoALaManifestación (translated)

The Left Bloc questioned the president of the Lisbon City Council, Carlos Moedas, about Iberdrola's donation of 156 thousand euros and the contracts worth around 50 million signed with the company since 2022, asking for clarifications on the relationship between these events. #CâmaraMunicipalLisboa #Iberdrola #BlocoDeEsquerda (translated)

The author claimed that the man had already co-signed a text that he deemed excessive in its apology for crimes against humanity and which had been removed from the PS website. He added that he had nonetheless been endorsed for the municipal elections. #politique #municipales #PS #FR (translated)