El Gran President, Pujol, led Catalonia from dictatorship to democracy, while the Socialist Mayor of Barcelona, Pasqual Maragall, set about repairing the damage done to the Catalan capital. In 1985, Barcelona won the nomination for the 1992 Olympic Games and, in the run up, the city was covered with the slogan ‘Barcelona, Posa’t Guapa’ – ‘Barcelona, Make Yourself Beautiful’.

18/06/2020 · During the high of its extent, Catalan reached from regions of France down the coast past Valencia, and into the Mediterranean Sea towards parts of Italy. However, despite the rise of Catalonia as a regional power in some moments throughout history, we also see the community fall under the rule of others. For example, for many years, Catalonia ...

Catalan identity. In 800, Charlemagne's troops wrested parts of today's Catalonia from the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula and gave birth to the Catalan nation. The Carolingian Empire established the Spanish March, which included the counties of Gerona, Ampurias, Barcelona-Ausona and Urgel-Sardagne.

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Catalan literature. Jaume I wrote his own Llibre dels Feits (Book of Deeds), and Pere el Gran’s conquest of Sicily in 1282 was described in glowing terms in a chronicle of Catalan history written by Bernat Desclot around 1285. The great Catalan poet Ramon Lull (1232– 1315), born in Mallorca, was the first to use a vernacular language in ...

14/05/2018 · Catalan become the joint official language of Catalonia with Spanish. 1980 - Centre-right moderate nationalist Convergence and Union wins first elections to …

01/11/2019 · After Franco’s death in 1975, Catalonia regained much of its freedom, and four years later it became an autonomous region of Spain with …

Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently out of the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the Tarragona area.