Barcelona sisters run Spain's only shop selling original vintage newspapers

Two sisters run the only shop in Spain selling original vintage newspapers, located in Barcelona's Raval neighborhood. The store, "En la prensa de aquel día," holds around 300,000 copies of newspapers and magazines dating from 1900 to August 2024. Founded by their Italian father 32 years ago after hearing about a similar shop in Brussels, the business began by collecting old papers from Catalan villages. The most popular purchases are newspapers from customers' birth dates, often given as gifts, with many buyers seeking editions from 1936 for 90th birthdays. The sisters preserve the collection in low-light, humidity-controlled rooms, storing papers in plastic bags and ironing them without steam. Notable items include the Titanic sinking and the 1969 Moon landing, while popular requests come from collectors, journalists, and even legal cases.