#Spain is held hostage by a faction of breakaway regional extremists https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/31/spain-elections-sanchez-puigdemont/ [Thursday's Washington Post editorial is unusually clear eyed about #Catalonia]
Temple of Augustus.
#Barcelona, #catalonia #spain
#roman #sightseeing #tempel
#tempel #sightseeing #roman #spain #catalonia #barcelona
1668 mm broad gauge, 3000 V DC. Trains run every 30 min to/from Barcelona which is 1 h away.
Torredembarra, #catalonia #spain
#renfe #rodalies #train
#train #rodalies #renfe #spain #catalonia
Cyclists in La Vuelta have to deal with pins on the road as the race goes through Catalonia https://as.com/ciclismo/numerosos-pinchazos-en-la-vuelta-a-causa-de-unas-chinchetas-n (In Spanish) #Spain #Catalonia
Four Catalan separatists are arrested after planning to disrupt the Tour of Spain cycle race by spilling oil on the route https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/5167349/0/detenidos-cuatro-independentistas-que-planeaban-verter-aceite-para-colapsar-una-etapa-vuelta-cataluna/ (in Spanish) #Spain #Catalonia
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez has been much criticised for his concessions to Catalan separatists. What his critics (including me in the past) often fail to realise is that the concessions are part of a wider system. Check out my analysis on my personal blog after the jump. https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/sanchezs-subtle-synergy-based-solution #Spain #Catalonia
First #POTA activation edited on video at park EA-0295, Serralada de Marina, #CATALONIA - 200 meters high in front of the #Mediterranian see.
72 contacts: 20 in 20m and 52 in 40m #HamRadio
#hamradio #mediterranian #catalonia #pota
Day 4 ( Travel to Spain (Barcelona) - June 2023 )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/53131018374
#2023 #43Mm #Barcelona #Barcelone #Catalonia #CreatedByDxo #Dxo #DxoPhotolab #DxoPhotolab6 #E28-200mmF2.8-5.6A071 #EditedPhoto #Espagne #FocalLength-43Mm #FocalLengthIn35mmFormat-43Mm #HighIso #HistoryOfCatalonia #Holiday #Ilce-7c #Iso20000 #Musee #Musees #MuseuD'HistoriaDeCatalunya #Museum #MuseumOfTheHistoryOfCatalonia #Museums #Sony #SonyIlce-7c
#43mm #Barcelona #barcelone #catalonia #createdbydxo #dxo #dxophotolab #dxophotolab6 #e28 #editedphoto #espagne #focallength #focallengthin35mmformat #highiso #historyofcatalonia #holiday #ilce #iso20000 #musee #musees #museud #museum #museumofthehistoryofcatalonia #museums #sony #sonyilce
In #Catalonia during 2017-2019 the Spanish police routinely infiltrated peaceful demonstrations to incite violence, so as to justify police violence against demonstrators. The secret police was caught on tape, repeatedly; the videos are all over the web, a well documented and recurrent event, and there were no consequences for anybody on the executive or legislative branches. The Spanish government simply pretends it didn't happen and is getting away with it.
I am not able to understand how can any "consolidated democracy" (as per the Financial Times table and nomenclature) retain or merit such a title with these sort of iron fist tactics over its very own citizens. The European Union's treaty, Article 7, says that any state that applies violence against its own citizens will be expelled from the Union, and yet this didn't happen either. In light of these events it's hard not to entertain the idea that the whole political system is a kind of farce.
#policeviolence #spain #catalonia
Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan exile who holds the key to the Spanish government.
Prosecuted for declaring Catalonia's independence in 2017, the Brussels-based MEP controls the fate of Socialist Pedro Sánchez, who hopes to form a new government. Puigdemont has already set out the conditions for his highly unlikely support.
#Spain #Catalonia #Puigdemont #MEP #Politics #PSOE #PedroSanchez
#pedrosanchez #psoe #Politics #mep #puigdemont #catalonia #spain
Canary letters: ULEZ, 'ghost children', Catalonia, and poverty
https://www.thecanary.co/letters/2023/07/29/letters-to-the-canary-ulez-lies-ghost-children-catalonia-and-manufactured-poverty/
#ulez #ghostchildren #malnutrition #catalonia #poverty
Sánchez takes his time to solve the Catalan ‘Rubik’s cube’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/sanchez-takes-his-time-to-solve-the-catalan-rubiks-cube/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AlbertoNúñezFeijóo #Catalonia #PartidoPopular #PedroSanchez
#albertonunezfeijoo #catalonia #partidopopular #pedrosanchez
Las elecciones españolas: Podemos/Sumar y el regreso del franquismo
#espana #Espanolas #Madrid #Barcelona #Catalonia #Bilbao #EleccionesGenerales #elecciones23J #Podemos #Sumar #PP #noVox #VOX #Fascisme #Franquistas #franquismo #Guerra #inflation #huelga
https://www.wsws.org/es/articles/2023/07/23/pers-j23.html
#espana #espanolas #Madrid #Barcelona #catalonia #bilbao #eleccionesgenerales #elecciones23j #podemos #sumar #pp #novox #VOX #fascisme #franquistas #franquismo #guerra #Inflation #huelga
Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry
#openaccess #travelwriting #modernlanguages #romantodons #minoritylanguages #minorityculture #tourism #history #travelguide #diary #Wales #ireland #germany #france #sPAIN #catalonia #caribbean #derekwalcott #poetry
At last, it's publication day for the 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection in the Modern Languages Open journal edited with an intro by yours truly -- and all available Open Access.
Allow me to share each paper in this thread as they get published one by one.
First up,
“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
by David Miranda-Barreiro
Abstract
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. [...] Drawing on studies on state nationalism (Billig 1995) and Spanish nationalism (Taibo 2014, Delgado 2014) this article examines not only Camba’s own views but the response from contemporary scholarship to his texts.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.199
#TravelWriting #Spain #Catalonia #ModernLanguages #OpenAccess @histodons @academicchatter
#travelwriting #sPAIN #catalonia #modernlanguages #openaccess
The government of Catalonia's Department of Climate Action announced today that it will spend €9m "to reduce the environmental impact of lighting in areas of special protection against light pollution".
Details (in Catalan): https://govern.cat/gov/transformacio-verda/accio-climatica/522542/destinen-mes-9-m-euros-reduir-contaminacio-luminica-zones-despecial-proteccio
#europe #eu #spain #catalonia #lightpollution
#AmazingWorld
#Spain
#Catalonia
#Barcelona
#CasaBatlló
Author: @travellingwithus [IG]
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid036EEaLYCkfyZR9D1RK1wEZZLeb91agFg7ttBjezd9r3RTTMR2bbzfbSSKmhKTcqmtl&id=100053299813345&post_id=100053299813345_pfbid036EEaLYCkfyZR9D1RK1wEZZLeb91agFg7ttBjezd9r3RTTMR2bbzfbSSKmhKTcqmtl
#casabatllo #barcelona #catalonia #Spain #amazingworld
📢 New #HiCN Working Paper!
The newest Households in Conflict Network Working Paper has just been released!
In it, Laia Balcells Ventura, Lesley-Ann Daniels, and Alexander Kuo study territorial issues in #Catalonia, #Scotland, and #NorthernIreland. Their research reveals intriguing findings about the weight voters place on territorial matters compared to other important political dimensions such as redistribution.
#hicn #catalonia #scotland #northernireland