As Catalonia Goes to The Polls, Could Its History Predict Its Future? Published Sep 25, 2015 at 1:19 PM EDT Updated May 14, 2017 at 12:16 AM EDT. By Lucy Draper . Deputy News Editor. FOLLOW.

Catalonia has its own cultural identity and a robust separatist movement, ... But its recent struggle for an independent nation of its own reflects its distinctive history within Spain.

This is just one example in Catalonia’s history of defiance and resistance: from the peasants and urban masses of Barcelona resisting the Franco-Spanish siege in 1713–14, to the worker uprisings ...

In his book “Homage to Catalonia,” published in April 1938, George Orwell wrote that when he arrived in Barcelona, Catalonia, in Loyalist Spain, in late December 1936, he witnessed a true workers’ ...

The Pyrenees of Catalonia — the granite mountain range in northeastern Spain that separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe — is perhaps best known for its winter sports.

On June 26th this process went a step further when the country’s constitutional tribunal endorsed an amnesty law which ...