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Spaniard is oldest in world
Randon) on Tuesday January 17 at the age of 118.
Branyas, who is a resident of Santa Maria del Tura in Olot, was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco after her Catalan family moved there in
1906.
At the age of seven, they returned to Catalonia where she lived through two world wars and the Spanish civil war.
Although she is confined to a wheelchair Branyas is strong, having overcome Covid19 in 2021.
She even has a Twitter account under the name of Super Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) and where a sentence states: ‘Soc vella, molt vella, però no idiota’ (I’m old, very old, but not idiot).
A daughter of a journalist from Pamplona who worked for the American magazine Mercurio, she married Joan Moret a Llagostera doctor in 1931. Maria is 115.
