Barcelona picks itself up after protests as Spain goes to the polls once more
Catalan question again dominates campaign with fears over rise of far-right Vox party
Barcelona no longer goes to bed to the smell of smoke, the whoop of sirens or the clattering of helicopters.
Three weeks after the violent unrest that greeted the Spanish supreme court’s decision to jail nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition over their roles in the failed push for regional independence two years ago, the city is slowly returning to something resembling normality.