Plaça de Catalunya
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Plaça de Catalunya is a large square in central Barcelona that is generally considered to be both its city centre and the place where the old city and the 19th century-built Eixample meet.
Plaça de Catalunya
A Neoclassical equestrian statue
The square in August 2014
Catalunya metro station.
May Days
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The May Days, sometimes also called May Events, were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street ba
Plaça de Catalunya
…an area of about 50,000 square metres. The square played a significant part in the Spanish Civil War, in particular as a site of key events of the May Days. After the medieval city walls were demolished in the 19th century, ambitious designs for the city's public spaces were conceived under the guidance…
A demonstration held by POUM and FAI in honor of formation of the "Revolutionary Front" between the two organizations, 1937
Casa Milà was seized by the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in 1936. During much of the civil war it housed the Catalan Ministry of the Economy and Agriculture
Telefónica building in Barcelona, which heralded the beginning of the May Events