Catalan is a Western Romance language that is native to the eastern Iberian Peninsula. It shares official status with Spanish in three autonomous communities in eastern Spain – Catalonia; the Balearic
Casa de Convalescència, Headquarters of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC)
The word noveŀla ("novel") in a dictionary. The geminated L (ŀl) is a distinctive character used in Catalan.
Gender and number inflection of the word gat ("cat")
Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in southwestern Europe, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the sout
Catalan language
…Spain – Catalonia; the Balearic Islands; and the Valencian Community, where it is called Valencian (valencià) – and is the sole official language of Andorra. Catalan also has semi-official status in Alghero, an Italian municipality in Sardinia, and is spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France…
Roc de les Bruixes prehistorical sanctuary in Canillo (detail)
Charlemagne instructing his son, Louis the Pious
Sant Joan de Caselles church, dating from the 11th century, part of the Andorran Romanesque heritage
Apse fresco of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters church, painted by Mestre de Santa Coloma during the 12th century