During the first part of the 20th century, the main nationalist party was the right-wing Lliga Regionalista, headed by Francesc Cambó.
In 1931, the left-wing Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party won the elections in Catalonia, advocating for a Catalan republic federated with Spain.
Under pressure of the Spanish government, the leader of ERC, Francesc Macià i Llussà, accepted instead an autonomous Catalan government, which was called Generalitat de Catalunya.
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March 1948 saw the completion of the edition of the first Bible -and the only complete one on record- in our language.
That was the initial task of the Fundació Bíblica Catalana, which was created and sustained by the great vision of Francesc Cambó.
The Fundació thus crowned its two-fold aim of disseminating the Scripture in the lands of Catalonia and building a monument to the language through the Bible.
Tate Fonds at the Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes, Secció Francesc Eiximenis (1994 donation)
With his first study of Cardenal Margarit, in 1950, he earned a master's degree at the University of Belfast and in 1955 he obtained his doctorate from the same university with a dissertation on the impact of humanism on Hispanic historiography since the XV century.
In 1954 he won the Francesc Cambó award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans for his work on Margarit.
In order to draw parallels between these cases and Catalonia, the young lawyer Francesc Cambó, in his capacity as a special editor of the new weekly La Veu de Catalunya (1890), reported on minority nationalities in the rest of Europe.
Enric Prat de la Riba, Ramon d'Abadal, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Lluís Duran i Ventosa, and Francesc Cambó--one architect (Puig i Cadafalch) and four lawyers.
Francesc Cambó i Batlle, from Verges, was a member of the Col·legi d'Advocats and a career politician from the founding of the Lliga Regionalista in 1901.
The collection includes some of the most significant works in painting, sculpture and decorative arts which set off Catalan art against coeval works from other areas.
An outstanding component in this category is the heritage left by Francesc Cambó, comprising Renaissance and Baroque paintings, covering the history of painting in Europe from the 14th to the 19th century.
Cambo’s compilation groups artists from this period, such as Rubens, Tintoretto, El Greco, Juan Enríquez de Herrera y Bassano, amongst others.
After Pope Pius IX declared the Virgen of Mercè the patron of the city, Barcelona started to celebrate the festival in September.
The festival of La Mercè really took off in 1902 when, driven by Francesc Cambó, it was converted into the festival which is a model for those which take place, today, all over Catalonia.
The history of La Mercè is full of ups and downs, from the time of the civil war through the years of Franco.
I was born in *Verges a little and funny village in Catalonia, a small village with no more than one thousand and few more people.
My first school days (EGB) went in the Escola Pública Francesc Cambó that it is in the same village.
But then I wasn't satisfyed with my acknowledge (the reality was that I need to get out of the school becouse I had fourteen) and was the moment to go to the Institute (in the Institut de Batxillerat de Torroella de Montgrí), To be continued.....
This hotel is a recently refurbished classic building of Girona which enjoys a privileged setting in the midst of a lush setting with gardens and pine trees.
C/ FrancescCambo, 10 Girona Cataluna Spain 17310
Hotel Samba is situated on a hill overlooking Lloret de Mar. It is aprox 400m away from the city centre/beach.
Shortly after its foundation, a trio of young nationalist lawyers, Enric Prat de la Riba, Lluís Duran, and Francesc Cambó, all educated at the University of Barcelona and once prominent within the Student Center, rose to the peak of its leadership pyramid.
The political ideology of nationalism began to make its presence sharply felt by the turn of the century.
Francesc Romaní endowed the "Roman law thesis" with more ideological venom in his book, The Antiquity of Spanish Regionalism (1891).
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PANEL I (38 K) Panel I (83x138 cms)
These three were donated to the Prado Museum in 1940 by the Catalan politician Francesc Cambó; the fourth is part of a private collection in the United States.
In them Botticelli illustrated one of the stories told in Bocaccio´s Decamerone.
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Bolero Park is a modern apartment complex overlooking the beach and set in tropical gardens, 400 metres from the centre of Lloret de Mar on Spain's Costa Brava.
From the airport head in the direction of Girona and take the C-32 road.
Take the Lloret de Mar exit and continue until arriving on FrancescCambo street
In opposition to this measure, the Lliga was joined by some Catalan Republicans and by Catalan Carlists in a regional electoral alliance, Catalan Solidarity, that won forty-one of the forty-four Catalan Cortes seats in the 1907 elections.
The Lliga's astute political leader, Francesc Cambó, then worked closely with the Maura government of 1907-1909 to try to legislate local government autonomy, and hopefully, a broader regional auton- [606] omy bill for Catalonia.
However, the left wing of the Catalanists walked out on this tacit alliance in 1908 because the Maura government refused to revoke the Law of Jurisdictions "immediately" and because of provisions for corporate suffrage in the local autonomy bill.
The Constitutions of Catalonia, which the King himself had sworn to respect, guaranteed the right of Catalans to do this freely, but never under duress.
The Generalitat, and particularly its president, Pau Claris, came under considerable pressure, and Francesc de Tamarit, the military envoy, was imprisoned.
Lluís Companys and Francesc Macià (hiden), two Catalan presidents who were prohibited.
