Catalonia [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Michael Eaude

• Autore: Eaude Michael
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 946/.7
• Soggetto geografico: Catalonia (Spain) Civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Birth and rebirth of a nation -- The first town in Spain (Portbou) -- Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona) -- Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees -- Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens -- The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer) -- The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró -- I Come from a silence : Raimon -- Tourism and war -- The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret -- Plain and river. Lleida and the Ebro -- The anarchist dream : George Orwell -- The landscape in the pot -- Cradle and refuge : FC Barcelona.
• Sommario/riassunto: Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this history and it monuments: roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World Heritage Series) and Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries. He tells the stories of several of Catalonia's gr
• Titolo autorizzato: Catalonia
• ISBN: 1-283-12121-2; 9786613121219; 0-19-804392-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461624703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Landscapes of the imagination.