On September 11, the National Day of Catalonia is celebrated. The reason for this celebration is often simplified by saying that Catalans celebrate a defeat but, in reality, what we do is commemorate the day when, after 14 months of siege, was made a point and followed in a story …
In 1908, archaeological excavations began in Empúries. The Junta de Museus, under the direction of Josep Puig i Cadafalch and with the support of Enric Prat de la Riba, had bought the land with the intention of studying the first Greek settlement on the Catalan coast. The team of archaeologists, …
In a natural bay between the rivers Ter and Fluvià there is the monumental complex of Empúries, about 30 hectares where the remains of a Greek city and another from romans are preserved. It seems that the settlement of Empúries dates back to the Bronze Age, in the ninth century …
The bombings suffered in Barcelona during the Civil War left the Plaza de la Villa de Madrid of Baarcelona in very poor condition. In 1954, while the repairs were being done, they found the remains of about 85 tombs from the Roman period of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD. …
In 1938 Barcelona was heavily bombed and many parts of the city were badly damaged. Once the Civil War ended, during the 1940s, the restructuring of the area around the cathedral began to make way for an avenue. The interventions of 1957 exposed the foundations of the aqueduct that was …
On March 31, 1492, the Decree of the Alhambra was signed in Granada. It established the expulsion of Jews from the Hispanic kingdoms. The edict of expulsion by the Jews from the Crown of Castile was signed by Queen Elizabeth, while King Ferdinand II of Aragon signed the one corresponding …
