OLOT WELCOME TO CATALONIA

THE INSTITUTION OF SELF GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA LA GENERALITAT IS THE INSTITUTION OF SELF GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA (EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT). ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION OF 1978, CATALONIA IS A HISTORIC COMMUNITY, A NATIONALITY, WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE, CATALAN -SPOKEN BY ABOUT 7 MILLION PEOPLE.

EL CANIGÓ Symbol of strength for all Catalan people. THE PYRENEES (NORTH OF CATALONIA) BAQUEIRA/BERET SKI RESORT Vielha (Vall d’Aran)

COSTA BRAVA TOURIST PLACE NORTH EAST OF CATALONIA MILD CLIMATE, DIVERSITY OF LANDSCAPE, LIGHT, VEGETATION...AND THE BEST KNOWN CATALAN BEACHES

TOURIST PLACE NORTH EAST OF CATALONIA

MILD CLIMATE, DIVERSITY OF LANDSCAPE, LIGHT, VEGETATION...AND THE BEST KNOWN CATALAN BEACHES

THE BENEDICTIVE MONASTERY, CURRENTLY FORMED BY 80 MONKS, HAS BEEN FOR ABOUT 1000 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF PILGRIMS WHO COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO VENERATE THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK VIRGIN

TARRAGONA (SOUTHCATALONIA) ROMAN REMAINS A SYMBOL OF THE ROMAN CIVILIZATION IN OUR COUNTRY THE DELTA OF THE RIVER EBRO IT IS KNOWN AS THE BIGGEST WET ZONE IN CATALONIA. (Area 320 Km) IT MAKES UP THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT AQUATIC HABITAT IN SPAIN, AFTER THE NATIONAL PARK OF DOÑANA.

THE DELTA OF THE RIVER EBRO

IT IS KNOWN AS THE BIGGEST WET ZONE IN CATALONIA. (Area 320 Km)

IT MAKES UP THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT AQUATIC HABITAT IN SPAIN, AFTER THE NATIONAL PARK OF DOÑANA.

JOAN MARAGALL (BARCELONA , 1860-1911) MODERNIST POET OF ROMANTIC SPIRIT. JACINT VERDAGUER (1845-1902) THE MOST IMPORTANT POET OF CATALAN RENAISSANCE. OUR MOST POPULAR WRITERS

Dalí theatre-Museum in Figueres

Flat neutral backgrounds painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black His surrealist works are some of the most original of the 20th C. JOAN MIRÓ Catalan painter (Barcelona, 1893-1983) Their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy.