Juan Navarro

Juan Navarro is a reporter for El País.

From The Blog
14 April 2023

Bilbao is the only city I know where colours compete in the mind and the winners vary depending on who you ask. Older people would go for grey and black, the wide palette of shades cast by the soot and murk from factory chimneys and the ships that used to ply the River Nervión.

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