You can see a hanging chain model in the basement of Sagrada Familia; it's extremely impressive and an enormously clever form of analog computational architecture!
I completely agree. I recommend everyone visiting Sagrada Familia to make a point of visiting the basement and checking out this model. It's almost as mind blowing as the actual church.
This is a huge thing on Wikipedia. Nationalist factions on both sides endlessly edit-war about this. "Spanish Catalan" is a blatantly constructed compromise that somewhat keeps both sides happy enough not to break the truce.
It’s only absurd due to the insistence of adding qualifiers to an official citizenship. We might as well say that Gaudi was Earthling European Spanish Catalan Cadaquesian. His citizenship was Spanish, his culture multidimensional. As stated above, this tag is a compromise due to political movements endlessly changing it.
No, because [Great] Britain is comprised of three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales, which is a level of respect Madrid has yet to afford Catalonia.
Perhaps Spain will one day become a republic of states, in which case Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia will be the first three in line along with however else the rest of the autonomous communities organise themselves.
Better yet, those three will regain their independence and Madrid can rule over those regions which have traditionally (well, since the Moors left, anyway) spoken Spanish.
(As an aside, ever since the Partition of Ireland, the UK is more formally known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.)
Perhaps! But calling the current constitutional arrangements that favour Catalonia or the Basque country over other regions of the country a lack of respect is some mental gymnastics. UK and Spain don’t have the same history, so there might be other reasons apart from “respect” that make the status quo. Also, ask the northern irish about their general concept of british respect of nationalities…
