Separatists were Friday staging a muted celebration of Catalan national day with their traditonal mass rallies backing independence from Spain banned over a sharp hike in virus cases.
Around one million people rallied in Barcelona on Tuesday, banging drums and blowing whistles in a show of support for Catalan independence nearly a year after a failed attempt to break away from Spain.
Catalan separatists will seek to put on a show of strength and unity at celebrations of the region's national day Tuesday, nearly a year after a failed attempt to break away from Spain.
On the eve of "Diada", Catalonia's "national day", which traditionally brings hundreds of thousands of
separatists out on the streets, lets review the region's independence crisis.
The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain, by NYT correspondent Raphael Minder, is published just a month before Catalan leaders will push ahead with an October 1st referendum on independence that has been ruled illegal by Madrid.
Catalan youths, who have grown up during a time of surging support for independence, turned out in droves for a huge rally on Monday to demand their region break away from Spain.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans were expected to rally on Monday to demand their region break away from Spain, in a show of strength three weeks ahead of a secession referendum banned by Madrid.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets on Sunday to demand their region break away from Spain, pressuring pro-independence leaders to unite and iron out differences over their secession plan.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans were expected to rally on Sunday to demand their region break away from Spain, as leaders of the pro-independence movement try to iron out differences over a secession plan.
Tens of thousands of Catalans are expected to protest on Sunday to demand their region speed up its drive to break away from Spain and form its own country.
As crowds prepare to take to the streets for 'La Diada' on Sunday, the Catalan National Day. The Local's Barcelona correspondent Steve Tallantyre has put together an essential guide to the festival that's grabbing international headlines.
Hundreds of thousands crowded into Barcelona to mark 'La Diada', just weeks before the region goes to the polls in what has been billed as a de facto vote on independence.
Catalans fired up by Scotland's independence referendum massed in Barcelona's streets in red and yellow shirts Thursday, forming a giant "V" to demand a vote on breaking away from Spain.
Red and yellow flags filled the streets of Barcelona on Thursday as Catalan nationalists fired up by Scotland's independence
referendum rallied to demand a vote on breaking away from Spain.
Catalonia's president warned on Wednesday it was "practically impossible" to stop the region voting on secession from Spain and looked to Scotland to smooth the way with its own independence referendum.
A kids' news programme which featured interviews with Catalan children who supported last week's human chain for independence has been highly criticized by Spanish politicians for its "shameful" exploitation of minors for political ends.
A massive rally by Catalans demanding independence from Spain has forced the hand of the country's political leaders on the issue of a referendum on the region's future, analysts say.
Catalan folk music and yellow-and-red flags filled towns across Catalonia on Wednesday as locals prepared for the 5.14pm start of a vast human chain to demand independence from Spain.
