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3 unusual facts about Catalan people


Gloria Ferrer

The winery is known for its Catalan Festival of Food, Wine and Music in the summer and the traditional Three Kings Day events during the holidays.

Joan Vinyoli

Joan Vinyoli i Pladevall (July 3, 1914— November 30, 1984) was a Catalan poet, born in Barcelona, Spain.

Jordi Folch Pi

Jordi Folch Pi was a Catalan biochemist at Harvard University (McLean Hospital) who is recognized universally as one of the founders of the field of structural chemistry of complex lipids and as a leader in the development of Neurochemistry as a distinct discipline within the Neurosciences.


Comparison of rugby league and rugby union

In France, rugby union is widely played and has a strong tradition in the Basque, Occitan, and Catalan people areas along the border regions between Spain and France.

Hug de Llupià

Hug de Llupià i Bages (Roussillon, ? - ?, 1427), was bishop of Tortosa, bishop of Valencia, and a Catalan writer in Latin language.

Joan Junceda

Joan Junceda, full name Joan García Junceda i Supervia, born in Barcelona in 1881 - died in Blanes, 1948, was one of the most important Catalan artists and illustrators in the first half of the 20th century.

Manzanares Park

The first stage of the project “the Linear Park on the River Manzanares” by Spanish Catalan Architect Ricardo Bofill was completed in 2003.

Marianus IV of Arborea

As a Catalan he partook heavily of that culture, spending most of his life in Barcelona, where he was educated at the court of Alfonso IV of Aragon.

New Barcelona

New Barcelona was the name of a settlement of Catalan-Austrian exiles that existed between 1735 and 1738, created after his defeat in the War of Succession and located in the Banat of Temesvár, the current town of Zrenjanin, in the Serbian Vojvodina.

Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville

Thiéry de Menonville, with the image of Jason and the Golden Fleece constantly in his mind's eye, slipped over the ramparts of Veracruz one evening and set out, in the guise of a Catalan in order to account for his Frenchified Spanish and his dress, for Oaxaca where the best cochineal was produced.

NoWayOut

No Way Out or NoWayOut is a Catalan (from Barcelona - Spain) pop punk band who sings in Castilian and English.

Simona Škrabec

With her translations, she also introduced notable Catalan authors, such as Pere Calders, Jesús Moncada, Josep Vicenç Foix, Lluís Maria Todó and Jaume Cabré to the Slovenian cultural scene.

The Benson Murder Case

Paramount also released a Spanish-language version, El Cuerpo del Delito, written by Catalan writer Josep Carner Ribalta (1898-1988) and co-directed by Cyril Gardner and A. Washington Pezet.


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