We visit the locations of the second season of 'Merlí: Sapere Aude'

10/24/2022

With Carlos Cuevas as the protagonist

Menna Fité returns to direct the second season of this series produced by Nueva Veranda for Movistar +. You can also see it on TV3. Carlos Cuevas, Maria Pujalte, Eusebio Poncela, and Jordi Coll are some of its protagonists.

In the first season of Merlí: Sapere Aude, we see Pol (Carlos Cuevas) in his first year at the University of Barcelona. He met new teachers like Bolaño (Maria Pujalte) and had new experiences. Here, you can read the article we did about this season's locations in Barcelona. In the second season, Pol starts a new course with novelties. Eusebio Poncela and Jordi Coll join the cast. Poncela will be Dino, the owner of the Nuevo Satanassa bar, and Coll, Axel, an attractive carpenter who works on the restoration works of the Paraninfo at the university.

The locator was Bernat Llonch. We review the locations where the action takes place in Barcelona. Attention! There may be spoilers.

 

Chapter 1. A pale blue dot

Pol (Carlos Cuevas) and Etienne (Arnaud Préchac) are in the corridors of the historical building of the University of Barcelona. There is an exhibition with photos of the university's past. There they meet Oti (Claudia Vega) and Arnau (Martí Atance). Later, they go to the university bar in the Ferran Soldevila garden. There they meet Biel (Pere Vallribera) and Rai (Pablo Capuz), who explains that Minerva is not coming back this year and is staying in Argentina with her family.

Pol is in the new part of the building with María Bolaño (María Pujalte), his teacher, and asks her about the Debate League organized by Biel. They walk to one of the inner courtyards of the university. Later, in Bolaño's class, Axel (Jordi Coll) arrives. He is restoring the university's Paraninfo. Bolaño goes to the teachers' room and meets her colleague and friend, Sílvia (Eva Montoliu), and Xavier Vidal (Joan Negrié), the dean.

Biel, Oti, Arnau, and Rai visit the restoration works of the Paraninfo. Meanwhile, Pol is talking to Bolaño again on the patio. He meets the rector, Dr. Llorenç, in one of the corridors in front of the toilet. After this, Pol goes to see the restoration works. Axel, who is working there, gives him a guided tour. They climb the scaffolding. There, we can see the front of the Paraninfo. They have arranged to meet on Saturday. Axel has to go to look for a dog he has adopted from the protector in Palau-solità i Plegamans and asks him to accompany him.

 

 

María Bolaño, her daughter, and her boyfriend visit an apartment they want to rent. Both times this happens, the two flats are in the same building on Pere IV and Badajoz streets. Then we see Oti and Arnau in the shower in their apartment (Bruc street) and Pol calling them. He is at the door of a dog store waiting for Axel. This street is the Pasaje Gaiolà. They both go out together. They are walking with the dog down Napoles Street, around the Arc de Triomf, the stairs of the Ciutadella Park, and the lake, sitting on the Avenida del Paralelo in the Portal de Santa Madrona and with the historic wall of the Baluarte in the background. And then they walk through a park with graffiti. The wall is of the IES Consell de Cent (Carrera Street with Paralelo Avenue). And finally, they walk along the Paseo del Borne.

 

The postman arrives at Pol's house on Bruc street with Ronda Sant Pere. He lives with his father Alfonso (Boris Ruiz), and Glòria (Assun Planas), Alfonso's partner. It's a tax letter to his father. In Minerva's old apartment (Méndez Núñez street), Biel and Oti study together with Amy (Leslie Grant), the American roommate, and Etienne. Meanwhile, Pol and Axel have dinner at a restaurant. It is the Red Fish that is in the Moll de la Marina. That same night Bolaño arrives at her house (Diputación Street) with some pizzas to have dinner with his daughter and her boyfriend. After arguing with them, he goes to see her friend Sílvia, but she is busy with the dean. They are in a relationship. They fight on the stairs of the apartment (Tamarit street). Axel and Pol walk at night towards the door of Axel's house (Riego street, at number 38).

We see an aerial view of the city with the port, the sea, and the two towers. Pol's father goes to the Treasury for the letter he has received. He is at the Administrative Campus of the Generalitat at 8 Uranio Street. Later, Oti, Pol, Rai, and Biel walk along the pedestrian section of Enric Granados Street between Diputación and Consell de Cent. They sit on the terrace of a café. It is Café Cosmo (Enric Granados, 5). Alfonso appears there, and he and Pol go into the bar to discuss the problem with the Treasury.

We see a new aerial view of the city with the cathedral's towers. Oti walks towards her apartment with shopping bags in hand in Sant Pere square. There she meets her parents. She has broken up with Arnau, so her parents are angry with her.

Pol goes to a supermarket where he worked to ask if they have a job for his father.The Plusfresc supermarket on Teodora Lamadrid, 21. There he meets an old co-worker Efra (Nao Albet), and they meet for a drink when he finishes work. They are in a bar. It is La Monopol (Rbla. Poblenou, 74). Efra tells him that he is HIV positive and to get tested. Pol leaves. He gets on the motorcycle, and we see him drive along Paseo Taulat. He stops in front of a pharmacy (Provençals, 12). There he enters and takes the test. He tests positive. He walks bewildered down the street to the motorcycle and ends the chapter.

 

Chapter 2. O fortuna, velut luna

Pol visits the doctor to start his treatment. Later, we see him walking through the hospital and going into the street. He waits for Etienne, and they walk together. He has tested negative. These scenes are in Mataró.

We see a group of students making a tour through the Call of Barcelona with a teacher named Octavi (Pere Brasó). They leave through Salomó ben Adret street and stop at Marlet street. Among the students are Oti, Rai, and Biel.

Pol waits to cross the traffic light in front of the university's historic building in Universitat square. Meanwhile, Axel argues with the rector on the scaffolding of the Paraninfo works. Students walk through the courtyard and corridors of the university between classes. Biel talks to the rector about the debate league. Oti asks Rai to pretend to be her boyfriend.

We see Pol enter the front door and find Rai. Today they have a Bolaño exam. Pol is off-center and ends up fighting with Biel. He leaves the university for work. He passes through San Agustí el Vell square and Les Basses de Sant Pere street until he reaches the car park where he works. Meanwhile, Oti and Rai are sitting in Sant Josep Oriol square in front of the monument to Àngel Guimerà. Oti has a meeting with her mother there.

 

 

Shortly after, we see an aerial view of the Historical Building of the UB. Bolaño discovers that Sílvia has changed offices. She later goes to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. These are at the Rafató Theater (Pujades, 107). After class, the boys meet for a drink in the apartment that used to be Minerva's. Pol gets angry with Rai and leaves. At the door, he meets Axel. From there, he goes to the Plusfresc Supermarket. Alfonso, Pol's father, starts working at Rai's house (Pearson Avenue).

After visiting Bolaño at her house to blow off steam, Pol walks down the street at night until he runs into his father, and they go to the door of his house. They are at Bruc street, 7. Although, the interior of the flat is in another place. That day they have a visitor who stays for dinner, Pol's old literature teacher, Millán (Ferran Rañé). He is the only one to whom he explains that he has HIV.

 

 

Chapter 3. The Stork

Pol is running along the Paseo Marítimo de la Barceloneta when Oti calls him on the phone. He stands before Rebecca Horn's Wounded Star sculpture on San Miquel Beach.

 

 

Pol returns to the university. After class, he visits Axel at the Paraninfo, where Axel's father (Lluís Marco) arrives. Then we see an aerial view of the towers of the Cathedral.

Pol asks for a job at a bar, the New Satanassa (Tinta Roja bar at Creu dels Molers, 17), where his friend Àngel (Carlos Indriago) works. Pol meets the owner Dino (Eusebio Poncela).  We see an aerial view of Barcelona at night with the sea in the background. Dino has tested Pol today serving drinks, and in the end, he hires him. Pol takes the containers out onto the street in front of the bar.

 

 

Chapter 4. Smart Cars

In the UB Library, we see Biel and Octavi talking about the philosophy books and magazines they take. We see an image of the city with the Collserola antenna in the background. Biel and Pol cross the traffic light in front of the historic building. They ask to make the debate in the Paraninfo during the teachers' meeting. After class, we see Pol and Oti leaving the university on Diputación street until they reach Pol's motorcycle, parked at the beginning of Enric Granados street.
Pol goes to the Superfresc supermarket to see Efra. After that, they talk on a bench in Terenci Moix square, with the basketball courts in the background. After the conversation with Efra and another in the New Satanassa with Dino, we see Pol driving the motorcycle at night. We can see him on Marina Street. He stops at a 24-hour grill restaurant to eat a good steak. It is the Vermut i la Gàbia bar (Pl. Huesca 7).
 

Chapter 5. Cry

Ángel serves drinks at the New Satanassa. Pol takes Bolaño to meet Dino. After that, Pol and Ángel go to the Philosophy faculty party. We can see them on a motorcycle around Marina Street at night. The party is in the Ferran Soldevila Gardens and the main hall of the faculty. It's a costume party. Bolaño and Dino talk and get to know each other better at the bar over a non-alcoholic drink. Rai falls into one of the fountains in the courtyards of the faculty, and Alfonso has to bring him clothes. They meet at the door of the historic building. W can see how Alfonso gets out of the taxi and gives Rai the clothes. The costumed students make a race with high heels through the corridors of the Paraninfo gallery. They end the party at the front door of the building.

 

 

After closing the bar, Dino and Bolaño go to eat churros. They are at the Churrería J. Arcillas on Marina street, 107. Afterward, they walk over the bridge through the Estación del Norte park and the Los Tilos park and exit along Cerdeña street.

The boys, meanwhile, end the night watching the sun rise on San Miquel Beach.

 

 

 

Chapter 6. Normal Life

Pol visits the doctor, and everything's fine. We see an aerial view of the university and Bolaño's class. Axel invites Pol to go to the Ampurdán to see his parents. They talk at the stairs of the landing of the doctorate.

Bolaño continues visiting and looking for a flat to rent for her daughter and her boyfriend. Alfonso and Gloria go to see a nurse at a hospital. She is a friend of Gloria. They talk with her at the entrance of the center. These scenes are on the premises of La Maternidad de Barcelona (Sabino Arana Street, 1).

Sílvia and Octavi walk through the hall to the university's front door and go to the street. Meanwhile, Pol, Oti, and Rai are studying at the CRAI Library of Letters. Rai tells them to go somewhere else, and they end up at Bar Eclipse, which is in the W Barcelona and has views over the Barcelona coast (Rosa de los Vientos square, 1 Floor 26).

 

Chapter 7. Burn the Book
 

María Bolaño walks down Diputación street at the height of Enric Granados. She meets Pol, who parks the motorcycle at the back door of the college. They walk through the door and talk about the debate. Since the dean doesn't want to do it, Pol talks to him. He finds him in the Gardens of Ferran Soldevila. They enter the building, and the dean walks up the stairs to the rectors' landing. Later, the students talk about what to do to be able to hold the debate. They are on the terrace of the Café Cosmo (Enric Granados, 3).

When classes finish, Oti and Pol walk from Cortinas street to Les Basses de Sant Pere street and sit down to talk on some stairs while they eat ice cream. Later we see a night image of Barcelona. Rai stays with some friends that he has not seen for a long time. They go to the Sutton nightclub (Tuset Street, 13). Later, we see Rai at the door when he leaves. He is drunk. He tries to get a taxi but can't find one free and walks down Marina Street on the bike lane. Later we see him by the Glòries tram stop. We can also see the Agbar tower illuminated in the background. He comes across a bachelor party. In the end, Rai goes to Somorrostro Beach to sleep it off.

 

 

We see a night image of the university. Axel's father visits him in the Paraninfo. He will help him finish the play in time for the debate. Alfonso goes to the parking lot where Pol worked (Calabria, 105).

 

Chapter 8. Teachers

Oti, Biel, and Pol walk through the Paraninfo gallery and meet Axel's father. Finally, they can make Plato's banquet debate. They have a celebration afterward at the New Satanassa with friends and family. Alfonso arrives home with Gloria, and they find a package for him in the doorway. Pol goes to Axel's house down the ramp, and they meet at the door on Riego street.

 

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