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Did you know ...

• the Columbus Monument (pictured) in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
• the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat is a manuscript of medieval music made in a Catalan monastery for pilgrims to sing?
• the Catalan municipality of Alcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having a charter signed in 1239?
• an argument between a Catalan woman and a soldier over a chicken helped inflame the Revolt of the Barretinas against the Spanish government?
• PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia, Spain in 1997, as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
• according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?
• Mury, a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia, became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity?