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Josep Torras i Bages (in current normative Catalan, Josep Torras i Bages, Las Cabañas, September 12, 1846-Vich, February 7, 1916), bishop and a Catalan writer, was the main driver of Catalan regionalism, traditionalist and catholic.
The sagrera is the name that, in Catalan receives the place that is around the churches. It was considered sacred territory, protected by the feudal violence.
Santa Eulàlia (also called Olaya, Olalla, Eulària or Laia) was a Christian martyr. She is considered holy both by the Catholic Church and by the Orthodox Church. She is the patron saint of the municipalities of Barcelona, Pallejá (Barcelona), Perpignan (France), Esparraguera (Barcelona), Santa Eulalia del Campo (Teruel), Riudecols (Tarragona) and the towns of Villagarcía de la Vega and Ribas de la Valduerna (Lion).
Alfons X de Castilla was the Leon and Castilla’s king. When is father died, he restarted the push against the arabic people and he occupied Jered, he razed Rabat’s port. He conquest Jaén.
Pep Ventura was born in Alcalá la Reial, 1817, his mother died and he went to live with his father to Figueres. He worked as an apprentice of a tailor. He learned to play different musical instruments and singing of scales. He worked as a orchestra director, 1848. He’s considered the Sardana’s father.
Jacinto verdaguer y Santaló ( May 17, 1845¡- June 10, 1902) was a Spanish writer regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late romanic era. He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto verdaguer because of his carrer as a priest.
James I the conqueror, 2 February 1208-27 July 1276 was king of Aragon count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276, King of Mallorca fom 1231 to 1276 and Valencia from 1238 to 1276.
(Palau Reial) The palace has its origin in an old farmhouse called Can Custó or Mas Monterols, which in 1859 had acquired Joan Güell and Ferrer in the municipality of Les Corts (annexed to Barcelona in 1899)
Andrew the Apostle (beginning of the first century - middle or end of the first century), also known as Saint Andrew, was probably the first apostle of Jesus. In the Orthodox Church it is known as Protocols. He was the older brother of the apostle Peter.
According to tradition, Andrew's successor is the patriarch of Constantinople.
Glòries is the name that Víctor Balaguer, an historian from the XIX century, gave to a new square from Barcelona remembering the Catalan Glories during the Middle Age.
11th of Septembre. The Army of Catalonia that initially fought in support of the Habsburg dynasty claim to the Spanish throne were finally defeated at the Siege of Barcelona by the army of the Borbón king, Felipe V of Spain on 11th of Septembre 1714 after 14 months of siege. It meant the loss of the Catalan constitutions.
The 2nd of May of 1808 was a rebellion by the people of Madrid against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking the repression by the French Impierial forces.