Santa Eulalia:
Santa Eulalia was a Christian martyr. She is considered holy both by the Catholic Church and by the Orthodox. She is the patron saint of the municipalities of Barcelona, Pallejá, Perpignan, Esparraguera, Santa Eulalia del Campo, Riudecols and the towns of Villagarcía de la Vega and Ribas de la Valduerna.
Arc de triomf:
The Arc de Triomf is a monument in the city of Barcelona. It was designed by the architect José Vilaseca as the main entrance to the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888. This work is inscribed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest
Unlike other triumphal arches, it has a military character, the Arc de Triomf of Barcelona has a greater civilian component, characterized by artistic, scientific and economic progress.
Jaume 1
Was the king of Aragon in 1213 the first 15 years of his reign, some struggles with the Aragonese nobility was prisoner. In 1224 he conquered: Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formenter, Valencia and the Kingdom of Murcia
After a reign of sixty-three years, he died in Alcira on July 27, 1276. At the time of his death, in the royal residence of this city, and as he had arranged.
The remains of the King were in Santa Maria of Valencia until May of 1278, in which they were transferred to the monastery of Poblet for his definitive burial.
SANT ANDREU
The first written notice of the site that Sant Andreu occupies today dates from the year 992, in a swap document of an inheritance, between Na Mel and Abbot Otó, where a place called Palomar is consigned. It was not until 1034 when the names of Sant Andreu, patron of the parish, and Palomar appeared together, and the name of Sant Andreu de Palomar was formed from there.
LA SAGRERA
The origin of this name goes back to the eleventh century, when the peasants of Catalonia live under the threats and aggressions of the nobles. agree with the nobles the creation of the sagrers, a space of 30 steps around the churches in which people and goods would be safe from any aggression. In these spaces the peasants built small buildings called sagrers, which were used to store the crops of the parish priest and the people of the area. Thus the district of La Sagrera is born, as the protected zone of the town of San Martín de Provensals.
PEP VENTURA
Orphaned by his mother at six, Ventura stayed to live with his grandfather, a sergeant in the company of Roses, while his father was assigned to the garrison of Tarragona. At the age of thirteen he went to live with his father in Figueras and two years later he became a tailor's apprentice in the workshop of Joan Llandrich, who, in addition to being a tailor, was also a military man and director of the Figueras cobla. Pep Ventura would marry his daughter, María, in 1837. He also learned to play various instruments and music theory, practicing in the cobla, first as a musician and then, in 1848, as director.
Torres i Bages
Born in Cabañas on September 12, 1846 and died on February 7, 1916. In addition to apostolic activity, he also devoted himself to literary work.His work La tradició catalana (1892) is a study and interpretation of the mentality of the Catalan people through the study and analysis of its most representative historical figures. The thought of Torras and Bages is aligned in the right wing of the political and intellectual movements of the Catalonia of its time.
Glóries
It refers to the victorious / glorious echos of the medieval era that expanded the Aragonese Catalan crown.Formerly it was called Glories Catalanes but Franco changed it and I remove it from Catalans.
Dos de Maig
It represents a scene of the May 2 uprising against the French, the beginning of the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon, who had occupied Spain in 1808 and was going to put his brother, José Bonaparte, as king.
Pedro IV of Aragon, called the Ceremonious in the Punyalet, II of Valencia and Ampurias, I of Mallorca and Sardinia and III of Barcelona, King of Aragon, Valencia and Count of Barcelona; King of Mallorca, Duke of Athens and Neopatria and Count of Ampurias, Son of Alfonso the Benigno.
Date of birth: October 5, 1319, Balaguer.
Death: January 6, 1387, Barcelona.
Place of burial: Monastery of Santa María de Poblet
Spouse: Sybil of Fortiá (m.1377-1387)
Children: Martín I of Aragón, Juan I of Aragón, Leonor de Aragón
Once de Septembre
The day Once de Septiembre in Cataluña is this the Diada Nacional the Cataluña there is name’s Day of Cataluña
The primer day of the 11 de septiembre in 1886 when various young Catalan nationalists, members of the Center Català presided over by the republican Valentí Almirall,, where supposedly many of the defenders of Barcelona in 1714
In memory of does who died in defense of the Catalan liberties destroyed by Felipe V with the taking of Barcelona, on September 11, 1714