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2 unusual facts about Generalitat of Catalonia


Barcelona Supercomputing Center

It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (51%), the Government of Catalonia (37%) and the UPC (12%).

Generalitat of Catalonia

Most of these offices are located in major world cities like London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and others.


Catalan Revolt

Pau Claris, head of the Generalitat of Catalonia, turned the social unrest of the Catalans into a political cause and proclaimed a Catalan Republic.

Pere Puig Subinyà

He actively participated in the events of October 1934 (the 1934 revolution in Spain - in Barcelona, the government of the Generalitat of Catalonia, chaired by Lluís Companys from Republican Left of Catalonia, proclaimed the Catalan State within a non existent Federal Spanish Republic in the night of 6 October), for which he was subjected to martial court.


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