Catalonia is an autonomous community located in northeastern Spain with a population of 7.5 million. The main languages spoken are Catalan and Spanish. The flag of Catalonia features four red stripes on a yellow background representing its history. Barcelona is the capital and largest city, known for its architecture including works by Antoni Gaudi like Park Güell and Casa Batlló. Catalonia has geographic diversity from the Pyrenees mountains to coastal areas and rivers like the Ebro. Important symbols include the Montserrat monastery and La Moreneta statue. Traditional dances, foods, and holidays are also described.

2. Location:
Catalonia is located at the north-east of Spain.
It has got 31895 km² and its coast is the
Mediterranean sea. Our country has got
7.500.000 habitants.

3. Languages:
Our language is the Catalan and it’s a roman
language, with 11 million speakers.
Here are the percentages of the speakers in Catalonia:
•The 48,8% speak Catalan
•The 44,32% speak Spanish
•And the 0.02% Occitan
Although more than 52% of the Catalan population have
parents who use the Spanish as his language.
The only country where the Catalan is the official
language is Andorra.

4. Flag and Symbols:
The Catalan flag is yellow with four red
stripes.
The origin of this flag became from the
history of “Guifre el Pilós”.
He was a brave warrior, who was
wounded at the war. For that the king of
Catalonia poured his fingers on his blood
and paint Guifres blond escutcheon with
the red fingers of blood, forming four red
stripes.
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5. The symbol of our county is a donkey

6. Barcelona is a city and a metropolis. This city is the
capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in
Spain. It has a population of 1.628.090 habitants so
is the most populated of the principality and the
eleventh of the European Union.
Barcelona
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7. BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE
Barcelona has a rich long architectonic history,
starting with the oldest rests of the roman
settlement who establish this incredible city.
From the medieval period has been conserved
a lot of architectonic buildings, we attach a great
important to a wonderful church in this city:
“L’esglèsia de Santa Maria del Mar”.
In Barcelona there are a lot of important buildings
because some famous architects lived there and
they built beautiful buildings during her live, like “Parc
Güell” and “la casa Batlló” by Antoni Guadi.

8. ESGLÈSIA DE SANTA MARIA DEL MAR (CHURCH)

9. PARC GÜELL

10. LA CASA BATLLÓ

11. TOPOGRAPHY
• Topography
Catalonia has an important geography diversity, and
knowing that it has a relative small size of its territory.
The Catalan geography it’s constituted by:
• “Pirineus”: is a range of mountains that connects the
Iberian Peninsula with the European continental territory.
They are situated at north of Catalonia.
• The Catalan coastal ranges : are an alternation of
elevations and parallel flats on the Mediterranean coast.
• The Central Catalan depression: is an structural unit that
conforms the oriental sector of “Vall de l’Ebre”.

12. Rivers
• All the rivers that flow through Catalonia end
at the Mediterranean sea except “Garona”.
The most important river in Catalonia is
“Ebre”.

13. MONTSERRAT
Montserrat is a very important mountain in
Catalonia. It has been highlighted for its
characteristic geology and topography . The
Monserrat monastery it’s situated near Bages,
Anoia and Baix Llobregat (counties of Catalonia).
In Montserrat there is a train who takes you to
its cave and there you can see the Montserrat
mother of god it’s called “la moreneta”.

14. “LA MORENETA”

15. La sardana
• “La Sardana” is a Catalan folk dance and is
the national dance of Catalonia. We dance it
doing a circle. The music is typical from
Catalonia, “la cobla". “La Sardana” has only
two main steps, there are two different rolls
to dance it, one of them is called the short
roll and the other the long roll. Short and
long rolls are alternated until completed 7 or
10 rolls in total.

16. the11th of September
The 11th of September is an important national
day. This day we celebrate the lost war in
1714, we lose the counties of
“Conflent”, “Rosselló” and “Perpinyà”. The king
“Felip V” was the cause of this was because he
attacked us with his French army.

17. Saint George’s day:
• Saint George's Day is a popular day in
Catalonia. A lot of people go to the streets of
his towns and villages to buy roses or books.
The tradition says that this day the man give
to the woman which is in love with and she
gives him a book. Occasionally, some persons
not only gives roses or books to the persons
who are in love with, they sometimes give
presents to some members of his family too.

18. Pà amb tomàquet:
• How to prepare?
• Cut the tomatoes in half.
• Slice the bread.
• Squeeze the tomato and rub it on the bread
starting from the edge, continue rubbing until
the skin of the tomato is left. Pour the olive oil
on top and let it sink into the bread.
• Sprinkle a little bit of salt on top.

19. CATALAN ECONOMY
At this moment the Catalan economy depends on
Spanish economy which is really in a bad situation
and that’s why, together with some other reasons,
that Catalonia wants to be independent. But Spain
doesn’t let Catalonia be independent, because if
this would happen Spanish economy will get
worse.

20. Thanks for
your attention
Ariadna Bonet
Alvaro Martil
Anna Mocunill
Joan Roca