CATALONIA/ A CULTURAL HISTORY

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, t oo. Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial/ Greek Empuries, lost for c enturies beneath the sands/ medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World Heritage Site) and Poblet and Sant es Creus...[Llegir més]