Spain became a unified country in the 15th ... At the beginning of the 20th Century, Catalonia had gained and lost varying degrees of autonomy a number of times. Catalan pro-independence ...

In Spain's northeast region of Catalonia ... "We have clients like 20th Century Fox, HBO. A lot of films, European and American, and lots of Japanese cartoons," says Miguel Torres, the technical ...

This fueled a fierce Catalan separatist movement beginning in the 19th century. When Spain became a republic in 1931, it granted Catalonia semi-autonomous status. But during the Spanish Civil War ...

Initially retaining its own institutions, the Catalonia is ever more tightly integrated into the Spanish state. 19th Century - Emergence of a renewed sense of Catalan identity. 1931 - When Spain ...

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.