Comenius project

1. OLOT WELCOME TO CATALONIA

2. THE INSTITUTION OF SELF GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA LA GENERALITAT IS THE INSTITUTION OF SELF GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA (EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT). ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION OF 1978, CATALONIA IS A HISTORIC COMMUNITY, A NATIONALITY, WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE, CATALAN -SPOKEN BY ABOUT 7 MILLION PEOPLE.

3. EL CANIGÓ Symbol of strength for all Catalan people. THE PYRENEES (NORTH OF CATALONIA) BAQUEIRA/BERET SKI RESORT Vielha (Vall d’Aran)

5. THE BENEDICTIVE MONASTERY, CURRENTLY FORMED BY 80 MONKS, HAS BEEN FOR ABOUT 1000 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF PILGRIMS WHO COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO VENERATE THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK VIRGIN

8. JOAN MARAGALL (BARCELONA , 1860-1911) MODERNIST POET OF ROMANTIC SPIRIT. JACINT VERDAGUER (1845-1902) THE MOST IMPORTANT POET OF CATALAN RENAISSANCE. OUR MOST POPULAR WRITERS

9. Dalí theatre-Museum in Figueres

10. Flat neutral backgrounds painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black His surrealist works are some of the most original of the 20th C. JOAN MIRÓ Catalan painter (Barcelona, 1893-1983) Their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy.