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Torras i Bages
He did his first studies in Vilafranca and in 1859 he went to Barcelona. He studied law at the University of Barcelona under the mastery of the Vilafranque. He fled to France with his family in 1868 .In Spanish he published El clero en la vida social moderna (1888) He died in Vic on February 7, 1916.
Alfonso X
Alfonso X (23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284), called the Wise, was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284. During the imperial election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be King of the Romanson. He renounced his imperial claim in 1275.
Vía Augusta
(Berytus) was made a Roman colony about 14 B.C. Herod the Great, Agrippa I and II, and Queen Berenice built exedras, porticos, temples, a forum, a theater, amphitheater, and baths here. In the 3d c. A.D. the city became the seat of a famous school of law and continued to flourish until the earthquake of A.D. 551 ravaged the city… in this colony lives Iulia augusta 13/15 a.C
Verdaguer
Jacint Segimond and Ramón Verdager and Santalo was the second child of eght of whom only three survived their parents were of moderate condition , buts with a certain cultural level . The father , Josep , Verdaguer and farmer . The mother Josepa Santalo i planas , was a woman who was very devout , witch had a great influence or verdaguer when directing hem on the one them legguards the priestly career , and , on the other , to the literary , as the same cuther made clear in a letter to has friend an maxtor .
Pep Ventura
José María Ventura Casas (Alcalá la Real (Jaén), 1817 - Figueres (Catalonia), 1875), popularly known by the Catalans as Pep Ventura, was a Spanish musician and composer who consolidated the long sardana and reformed the cobla, adding instruments to give. . He is considered the father of the modern Sardana because of the profound transformation he printed in these compositions.
Palau Reial
The palace has its origin in an old farmhouse called Can Custó or Mas Monterols, which in 1859 had acquired Joan Güell and Ferrer in the municipality of Les Corts (annexed to Barcelona in 1899). Which at time was already known as Torre Güell. Together they formed the so-called Finca Güell, of great extension (30,000 m²).
Ramón Muntaner
Ramón Muntaner was a Catalan mercenary and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company. He was born at Perelada.The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries.
Dos de Maig
The Second of May or Second of May Uprising of 1808 was a rebellion by the people of Madrid against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking the repression by the French Imperial forces The city had been under the occupation of Napoleon's army since 23 March of the same year. King Charles IV had been forced by the Spanish people to abdicate in favor of his son Ferdinand VII, and at the time of the uprising both were in the French city of Bayonne at the insistence of Napoleon. An attempt by the French general Joachim Murat to move the daughter
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