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This book celebrates one of Europes greatest citiesa cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the citys founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century, to the lives of Gaud, Mro, Casals and Dal. It also examines the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years, and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tibn witnessed in the 1970s.

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