Catalunya

Comparteix el català! Share Catalan! This is a slogan of the Barcelona Football Club that has been shared millions of times, and summarises the Catalans’ pride in their culture. They want to share not only their own language with the world, but also their history and architecture, their culinary specialities, their traditional dances and music. Once a powerful Mediterranean state in its own right, then divided between Spain and France, Catalonia is now an autonomous Spanish region between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean – and nonetheless a country in its own right, famous for Antoni Gaudí’s colourful houses, the painter Joan Miró and the cellist Pau (Pablo) Casals, ten-storey human pyramids and Barcelona, the most playful city in Europe. In grey November, the »Catalunya« festival invites you to take a sunny stroll through Catalonia’s 1,000-year-old musical treasure trove.