Aran is an autonomous administrative entity in northwest Catalonia, Spain, consisting of 620.47 square kilometres in area, located in the Pyrenees mountains, in the Alt Pirineu i Aran region and in th
Panorama of Aran, with Bossòst to the left
Garonne in Val d'Aran near 1840 by Eugène de Malbos.
The Catalan independence movement is a social and political movement with roots in Catalan nationalism that seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain and the establishment of a new Catalan Republ
Val d'Aran
…the powers of the Conselh Generau and recognized Aran as an "Occitan national reality". The population of Val d'Aran has generally been opposed to the Catalan independence movement due to lack of a strong Catalan identity. Aranese is the standardized form of the local Gascon variety of the Occitan language. Aranese has been regularly…
A Catalan independence protest in July 2010
Francesc Macià, leader of ERC and President of Catalonia between 1931 and 1933, proclaiming the Catalan Republic on 14 April 1931
The 2010 Catalan autonomy protest in the intersection of Passeig de Gràcia and Aragó Avenues, in Barcelona
Artur Mas and Oriol Junqueras, signing the 2012–2016 governability agreement on 19 December 2012