The Llavorsí Bronze Deposit is one of the most valuable and complete sets of objects found in Catalonia , hidden in the 7th century BC in a natural area near the town of Llavorsí .

In 1985 a group of 148 bronze objects was found near Llavorsí , the set consists of ornaments, bracelets, axes and weapons , among other things. Most of the objects feature elaborate engraved decorations consisting of a combination of geometric, herringbone, line and groove patterns.

This jug was found in the castellum of Sant Julià de Ramis , in the year 2000, together with other objects from the same period, that is the moment when the place was peacefully abandoned.

The vase is in bronze and has been completely recovered. It is elongated and consists of a globular belly and a truncated cone foot and neck with a handle which in the lower part, where it joins the belly, has the shape of a snake.

The function of a niche in addition to being decorative , is to contain an image, an urn or an altar, which in this case would have been lost.

The execution of the Niche of the Palau of the Generalitat of Catalonia is of great delicacy , and is formed by an ogival arch intertwined with plant and geometric motifs, crowned by a cross.

The cut was made of Montjuic stone and was part of the chapel of Sant Jordi in the Palacio de la Generalitat, a building of great historical significance of late medieval institution.

The royal sarcophagus cushion of Peter II the Great is a rectangular cushion with three side seams made of high quality silk taffeta , reddish in color and without decorations. Found inside the royal sarcophagus of Peter II el Grande , Count of Barcelona and King of Aragon.

It is the only funerary monument of the kings of the Crown of Aragon , which has arrived partially intact until today. It is one of the few tombs of the European royal lineage that has not been exhumed and the only one of the Catalan kings not to have been plundered.

The Nueva Planta Decree , published in Catalonia on January 16, 1716 , allowed Philip V to configure a political regime that excluded the representation of Catalan society, strengthened the pre-eminence of military authorities over civilian ones and imposed political uniformities similar to the Kingdom of Castile and the administrative centralization in it.

With the promulgation of this decree, the territory of the Catalan Principality was planted under the "right of conquest" once the capital, Barcelona, ​​capitulated on 11 September 1714.

The working girl is a work that has become emblematic within the artistic movement of nineteenth-century social realism .

The painting features a girl working on a loom and has become a highly descriptive image of the harshness of female child labor in the textile industry. At the end of the 19th century, Catalonia entered the steam era of the industrial revolution earlier than in several areas of the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to the economic boost it had experienced in the 18th century.

This poster is part of a series of posters made by the Noucentista graphic designer Josep Obiols i Palau , well known in his day.

His work became very popular and he was considered a committed artist in the society of his time.

This poster deals with a long process that began in Catalonia in the second half of the 19th century with the Catalan Renaixença (Catalan Renaissance) and the incipient political Catalan, which was then continued by the Noucentisme in the 20th century . From another gang, the political Catalan, he supported the political singularity of Catalonia.

The poster announces a feminist party to commemorate the second anniversary of the Catalan Days of the Lady that has the Teatre Grec in Barcelona.

If you indicate that a daycare service will be provided for children. The design includes a central design by Núria Pompeia, who in this case draws a girl carrying a spyglass that she uses as a microphone to sing and protest. This poster is part of a series of posters with political and social protest themes from the 70s and 80s.

This engraving represents an episode in the history of Catalonia at the beginning of the 18th century.

Specifically, the arrival of Queen Elizabeth Christina of Brunsvic-Wolfenbüttel, wife of Charles III .

This arrival of the future queen and empress on Mataró beach became an important act of celebration and devotion to the Austrian cause and an event of particular importance.

The manifesto represents the 9 members of the government of President Francesc Macià in the years 1931-33.

On a background the " Senyera " (name by which the Catalan flag is called) and a map of Catalonia in the lower half and in the upper half the sky and the sun with the name of freedom and golden rays.

Images of the members appear: Francesc Macià, Ventura Gassol, Joan Comorera, Pere Mestres, Pérez Farràs, Martí Barrera, Martí Esteva, Lluhí i Vallescà and centrally located Lluís Companys.

Announcement of the annual concert for the academic year 1930-1931 .

This association was a musical society founded in 1926 on the initiative of Pau Casals , together with the leaders of the Ateneu Politècnic de Barcelona , ​​whose goal was to bring cultured music closer to the resourceless working classes .

Catalonia , during industrialization, was also a center of workers' organizations that watched over and tried to defend the working conditions of workers.

The " pany de miquelet ", key to the rake in Spanish or Micheletta in Italian, is a term to indicate a distinctive Catalan form of the flint key mechanism , originally as a method of igniting steel against stone, which predominated in in the Mediterranean and in Spanish America, from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century.

Medal manufactured for the creation of the Tribunal de Cassació de Catalunya .

This court was a judicial body of the Generalitat de Catalunya established by the Statute of Núria of 1932.

This court had ultimate jurisdiction in civil and administrative law as regards autonomous legislation, as well as full jurisdiction in Catalan civil law. The vehicular language of the Court was Catalan. It had no jurisdiction in criminal matters because the Generalitat de Catalunya did not have its own jurisdiction in the matter.

The "Catalonia to Catalan Volunteers" Medal is a medal of honor awarded by the Committee of Brotherhood with Catalan Volunteers to veterans of the First World War, officially fought by about a thousand Catalan volunteers from the Principality.

Altarpiece from the chapel of San Sebastián and San Eloy in the church of San Esteban de Granollers .

Made by the Officina dei Vergo , the altarpiece belongs to the medieval Gothic and was acquired in 1917 . The first names of Catalan art appear with Gothic art, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century : the painters Jaume Huguet, Lluís Dalmau and sculptors such as Jaume Cascalls and Pere Sanglada . The artistic transcendence passes to liturgical furnishings, with particular attention to the altarpiece, sculpture, parchment and decorative pieces.

The Catalan paper money (1936-1939) was born due to the adverse economic circumstances that arose during the Civil War , both for the hoarding of silver by private individuals and the republican government, and for the withdrawal of small coins. to bake use this material in the war industry.

To try to solve this problem, in September 1936 the Catalan government promoted an initiative to start issuing its own paper money, of ten, five and two and a half pesetas, which did not prosper due to the opposition of the central government, and did it does not even solve the problem of small change.

Having said this, the government of the Generalitat, through the modification of the Catalan municipal law of 9 October 1936, has conferred on the municipalities the power to issue small-value fiduciary money and compulsory legal tender, limited to the municipal term of origin. This paper money was gradually canceled when the Catalan municipalities were occupied by the Francoist army.

The portrait of Enric Prat de la Riba is a sculpture created by Ismael Smith , a sculptor of great personality and closely linked to the aspirations of the founding phase of the modern political Catalan .

Enric Prat de la Riba was a key lawyer, journalist and politician in the Catalan Renaissance in the late 19th century .

Prat de la Riba is also known for being the first president of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya between 1914 and 1917. This institution of self-government gave the impetus necessary for the modernization of the country with the construction of new communication routes, the creation of health infrastructures. and promote educational and cultural improvements that have helped to combat illiteracy and revitalize the Catalan language and culture.

This group of machines was put into operation on January 27, 1914 at the Cabdellà power plant, the first large power plant in Catalonia, and remained in operation until 1995, when it was replaced by a static excitation system.

In Catalonia , these types of turbines are currently a symbol of the strong industrialization that the entire Catalan territory had during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.