Lluís Companys' Legacy

Companys is sitting while he waits in the living room. They tell him that someone just knocked on the door. “Lluís, les allemandes sont arrivées!” (Lluís, the Germans are here). Calmly, he turns the page of the book he is holding and keeps reading. The members of the German police find him in his chair, reading Vies des saints (Lifes of...

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Catalan Kings and Counts Portraits Gallery returns to the Catalan Government Palace

Last days, part of the collection of portraits of counts and kings that ruled Catalonia until the seventeenth century is again on the walls of the Palau de la Generalitat. The gallery of portraits, commissioned in 1587 by the Generalitat (Catalan Government) to the Bolonia painter Filippo Ariosto, presided over the Sala Nova (New...

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The Catalan Government: an Historical and Democratic Legitimacy

In the ongoing so-called Catalan process for democracy and in the face of the Spanish government's denial of it —along with that of the vast majority of the Spanish political class— there are some who have tried to focus the debate solely on legality versus legitimacy, ignoring all too often that this is also a debate on popular will versus...

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Catalonia's President Lluís Companys

Arrested by the Gestapo, executed by Franco, still a convict in Spain 2014. At dawn on October 15, 1940, Lluís Companys, then President of Catalonia, was put before a firing squad in the moat of Montjuic Castle in Barcelona and shot. The detail of soldiers executed the sentence of a court martial, pursuant to regulations recently imposed...

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Dr Broggi: a Great Man, a Great Loss

Physician, surgeon, scientist, intelligent, eloquent, decisive, courageous, Catalan, caring, modest, generous, hospitable, friendly and, because of the grand old age he reached, also tender and endearing, he always had a smile and a hand to lend to those who asked him. This is how I would define the man I will talk about and who very...

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A brief history of the repression of the Catalan language

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