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Franco and the golden ages of the sardana

Posted: January 5th 2004 17:13. Last modified: May 17th 2009 11:05

The sardana was encouraged by the Francoist state and suffered its greatest difficulties during the period of revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist and Stalinist control

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Categories: Dance, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Music, Theatre

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  • March 15 1401 

    Barcelona’s five small hospitals meet in the Colom Hospital [part of the current Santa Creu building], called after its founder [Guillem de Colom, 1219], and take the name of the Holy Cross.
    Los cinco hospitales pequeños que habia en Barcelona se reunen al...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 15 de març de 1919 El mecanisme de la penya. La primera persona que sol arribar a la tertúlia, havent dinat, és Enric Jardí. Arriba caminant pausadament, portant sota el braç dos diaris: «L’Action Française» i «L’Humanité». És un home que segueix amb una gran lucidesa i un agut esperit dialèctic els moviments extrems de les idees –únics que en [...]

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