This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.

Esparreguera ( ) is a municipality in Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona, Spain.

In many secessionist regions, like Catalonia in Spain, they are de facto the official idiom.

It is in the south western part of the Barcelona metropolitan area and is part of the wider urban area.

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

In Spain, independence movements, especially in Catalonia, have revived, while neo Nazism is on the march in Greece.

Why should they work for them ? And, of course, a growing number of Germans speak about the rest of Europe the way Catalans speak about Spaniards.

Global Voices Català has won an award at the Catalonia Blog Awards held annually in Catalonia by the association Societat de Tecnologia i Coneixement (STIC) (Technology and Knowledge Society) in the category of communications and new media.

One of his ancestors, Joan Gaudí, a hawker, moved to Catalonia in the 17th century possible origins of Gaudí's family name include Gaudy or Gaudin.

But, like supporters of the Northern League in Italy, a significant number of Catalans are starting to oppose their supposedly serious, hard working character and relative success to the laziness of the Spaniards.

But the mutually reinforcing recession and debt crisis that Spain now faces have reinvigorated Catalonia s long standing secessionist movement austerity has transformed a chronic, though manageable, problem into an acute existential question.

Noting the convening of the second session of the World Urban Forum, organized by UN Habitat in cooperation with the Government of Spain, the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the Municipality of Barcelona, in Barcelona, from 13 to 17 September 2004,

But entropy in Belgium has sent tremors into Spain, in Catalonia, where last November s elections to the regional parliament turned out the left wing alliance that had dominated for seven years in favor of a pro sovereignty coalition.

But the Spanish parliament voted overwhelmingly against allowing the Catalan government to hold a referendum on independence, and the central government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional. Artur Mas, President of Catalonia s regional government, has vowed to go ahead with a non binding referendum anyway.

Even in Europe, where Catalonia and the Basque region push for secession from Spain, some in Flanders want an end to Belgium, and Scotland s ruling Scottish National Party wants eventually to break away from Britain, support for Kosovo s independence is far from universal.

A state is far more likely to go to war to defend its unity. The United States and Spain did it in their civil wars, and today s Spain would go to the outer limits of its capacity to prevent a Catalan or Basque referendum, let alone independence.