Inside a Barcelona film studio, a technician cues up a scene from the movie Prisoners, showing Jake Gyllenhaal's latest car chase. Then a local actor — albeit one who's slightly older, balder and ...
Pushing for Catalan to become an official EU language has been one of the key goals of Catalonia President Salvador Illa during his last visit to Brussels. The language, spoken by around 10 million ...
In 1983, the parliament of Catalonia passed a law that would help the region assert its identity, and its autonomy, relative to the rest of Spain. It made Catalan the region’s official language—this ...
CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT Spain (Reuters) - Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near Barcelona, is fighting a linguistic crusade that has fueled a remarkable recovery of the local ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. For many who follow European cultural life—and the continent’s political life, too—it is undoubtedly true that Catalans are a community who are ...
Nicola Prentis moved from Madrid to Catalonia 8 years ago with her then-partner and young son. When she struggles to speak Catalan, she finds locals prefer switching to English than Spanish. Food, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the late twentieth century, there was an extremely successful campaign in Catalonia to create awareness that we are one people. Its slogan: Som ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Inside a Barcelona film studio, a technician cues up a scene from the movie Prisoners, showing Jake ...