Culture
ALFONSO X
Alfonso X the wise one promoted the reconquest taking places like Jerez, Medina-Sidonia, Lebrija, Niebla and Cádiz (1262), and repopulated Murcia and Baja Andalucía. He faced an uprising of the Muslims of their kingdoms, promoted by the kings of Granada and Tunisia (1264), and even continued the advance against Islam by moving to North Africa, sending an expedition to Salé (1260). Another part of their efforts had to devote them to suppress internal rebellions, such as the one led by the infante Enrique and several nobles (1255), the revolt that occurred in Vizcaya (1255) or the one led by the infante Felipe (1272). In the Strait of Gibraltar (1278), forcing Alfonso to agree a truce.
MARAGALL
Joan Maragall i Gorina was born on October 10, 1860 in Barcelona. After completing the baccalaureate, his father wants to incorporate him into the family textile industry, but he is confronted with his resistance. From 1874 to 1878 he published the first composition and made two trips that the poet describes as "two oases in his life", one in the south of Spain and the other in France. From this time they are the poetry When I see the whole soul and when I get close to where I am. In autobiographical notes he explains this confrontation with the father, who makes him forever conceive literature as a passion and as a defensive reaction.
SANTA EULÀLIA
Santa Eulalia is one of the most famous saints in Spain. The data about his life and his death are found in a hymn that, in honor of her, is written by the poet Prudencio in the fourth century. And there the following is told. When Eulalia turned 12, the decree of the emperor Diocletian appeared, prohibiting Christians from worshiping Jesus Christ, and commanding them to adore the false idols of the pagans. The girl felt a great dislike of these laws so unfair and she proposed to protest among the delegates of the government. Seeing the mother that the girl could run some danger of death if she dared to protest the persecution of the rulers, she led her to live in the country, but she came from there and arrived in the city of Merida.
EL PALAU REIAL
The Royal Palace of Pedralbes is a building located in the middle of a large garden area, in the district of Les Corts, in Barcelona. Between 1924 and 1931 was the residence of the Spanish Royal Family in their visits to the city. Currently, the palace remains closed to the public, being its only tenant the secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. Previously, the building housed the Museum of Ceramics, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Textile and Clothing Museum, until they were transferred to the new Design Museum in 2014.
JAUME l
The reign of Jaume I encompasses a long period of the thirteenth century, when Catalonia consolidated itself as a nation-state, the Catalan Parliaments and the Consell de Cent were formed, and the country, with the incorporation of Valencia and Mallorca , laid the foundations for the formation of the Catalan Countries and gave a definitive boost to the economic expansion of the Mediterranean. Jaume I extended Catalanity to this new area and gave final form to the Crown of Aragon, a confederal and plurinational state that survived until the defeat of 1714.
Torres i Bages
José Torras y Bages 1 was born on 12th of september 1846 in Vich and died on 7th of february 1916. He was bishop and writer in Catalan, was the main promoter of Catalanist regionalism, Traditionalist and Catholic. The thought of Torras and Bages is aligned in the right wing of the political and intellectual movements of the Catalonia of its time. The motto of his work, ”Cataluña será cristiana o no será”, has been assumed by different generations of conservative political Catalanism and is sculpted on the facade of the monastery of Montserrat.
Verdaguer
Jacint Segimon Ramon Verdaguer i Santaló was the second child of the eight born of the marriage, although only three survived, given the limited means of the family. His father was a master builder and his mother worked at home as a spinner. The religiosity of his mother made him enter, at age ten, in the Seminary of Vich. While studying ecclesiastical studies, he lived in a country house near the city -Can Tona-, where he taught the children and helped with agricultural tasks.
Pep Ventura
José María Ventura Casas, popularly known in Catalan as Pep Ventura was a Spanish musician and composer. He is considered the father of the modern sardana because of the profound transformation he imparted to these compositions, based on providing it with greater musical extension, in the inclusion of new instruments, especially the tenora since 1849 and its disposition in the cobla, which will imitate other musical formations of this type. He widowed in 1864 and, in honor of his wife, composed the sardana "Per tu ploro" ("Por ti lloro"), which premiered in Cabanas in 1875, a few months before his own death, and which is one of his works more popular.
Arc de triomf
The Arc de Triomphe is a monument located at the confluence of the Paseo de Lluís Companys, the Paseo de San Juan and the Ronda de San Pedro, in the city of Barcelona (Spain). It was designed by the architect José Vilaseca as the main entrance to the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888. The sculptural decoration was carried by Josep Reynés, Josep Llimona, Antoni Vilanova, Torquat Tasso, Manuel Fuxá and Pere Carbonell. Unlike other arcs of triumph of marked military character, the Arc de Triomf of Barcelona has a greater civil component, characterized by artistic, scientific and economic progress.
Glòries
Víctor Balaguer's name historian of the late nineteenth century gave a new place in Barcelona in memory of the Catalan Glories or glorious events of Catalonia during the Middle Ages.
Numància
Numancia is not only an archaeological site, but it is also a symbol of resistance and struggle of a people for their freedom. It was the Roman writers who elevated the behavior of Numantinos heroic deed giving it a universal dimension.
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is a station on line 1 of the Barcelona underground located in the San Andrés district of Barcelona. The station is very close to the San Andrés Condal Station, which allows you to transfer to the line R2 and the R11 line of Media Distancia. The station has two exits: Plaza de Orfila and Torras i Bages street. It has three platforms, which allows the opening of the doors on both sides of the wagons.
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