Ebrencs=Habitants de la region de l'Ebre au sud de la Catalogne.
À la petite ville d'Amalfi, au sud de l'Itale, pres de Naples, il y a un affiche fait avec des faiances où on peut y lire en italien "Le jour que les amalfiatains iront au ciel pour eux, ce jour là, sera un jour comme tous les autres".
Effectivement, la cote amalfitaine est un petit coin de paradis, avec ses villages mediterraneens qui regardent le "Mare Nostrum" avec des citroniers et des chataigniers qui entourent la ville.
Laissez-moi vous dire une chose, il n'y a que les amalfitains qui beneficient de ce privilège au sud de l'Europe.
Chez nous, au sud de la Catalogne, nous disposons de grandes montaignes avec des fontaines et des chevres sauvages, un grand espace humede avec plein d'oiseaux, les bouches de l'Ebre, des petits villages calmes qui se reflexent dans ses eaux comme Miravet, des orangiers et des aumondiers partout, des villages maritimes comme l'Ampolla ou l'Ametlla de Mar ou les pecheurs s'occupent de ses affaires de la même manière que ses ancetres l'ont fait il y a plus de 1000 ans. Et si tout ça ne suffit pas, on dispose aussi d'une region interieure qui a charmé des artistes de taille mondiale comme Pablo Picasso au même temps qu'on produit un vin rouge fort et de caractère aussi que notre celebre vin doux, la "mistela".
La seule difference avec Amalfi?? Les americains n'y ont pas débarqué aux années 50....
Parce que, croyez-moi, nous nous avons vraiment gagné le droit de vivre au ciel, suffit de lire les declarations de certains politiques de Barcelone qui affirment avoir negocié amener l'eau du Roine au Barcelone.....pour que après les dirigeants politiques français viennent affirmer le contraire....
diumenge, 17 / febrer / 2008
Kosovo joins the club of european free nations. My views.
Since I was born, in 1979, the following new states have appeared in the map of Europe.
From Czecoslovaquia:
Czech republic
Slovakia
From the USSR:
Estonia
Letonia
Lituania
Belarus
Ukrania
Moldova
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Armenia
From Yugoslavia:
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia
Macedonia
Montenegro
and finally today Kosovo has split from the last remain of the "Great Serbia"
Only one country has decided to join another country, the RDA joined the RFA creating what today we know as "Germany".
No one of this 19 nations is located in western Europe, no one of them was already included into the European Union at the time of his birth.
So as there's no model for us Catalonia will have to continue to walk in its own way, very few catalans could understand our parliament takes a similar decission without a referendum or without assuring to keep our current level of prosperity, in any case the independence would have to lead to better (and inmediatal) economocial prosperity, not less.
What cannot be understood is the reasons for which the main political parties in Spain do not want to recognize the independence of Kosovo. Do they fear to loose support as the elections approach? Why do the UK would support the cause and not Spain?
From Czecoslovaquia:
Czech republic
Slovakia
From the USSR:
Estonia
Letonia
Lituania
Belarus
Ukrania
Moldova
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Armenia
From Yugoslavia:
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia
Macedonia
Montenegro
and finally today Kosovo has split from the last remain of the "Great Serbia"
Only one country has decided to join another country, the RDA joined the RFA creating what today we know as "Germany".
No one of this 19 nations is located in western Europe, no one of them was already included into the European Union at the time of his birth.
So as there's no model for us Catalonia will have to continue to walk in its own way, very few catalans could understand our parliament takes a similar decission without a referendum or without assuring to keep our current level of prosperity, in any case the independence would have to lead to better (and inmediatal) economocial prosperity, not less.
What cannot be understood is the reasons for which the main political parties in Spain do not want to recognize the independence of Kosovo. Do they fear to loose support as the elections approach? Why do the UK would support the cause and not Spain?
dissabte, 2 / febrer / 2008
James I the conqueror, the only king catalans love
800 years ago, the 31st of january 1207 the future king James I of Catalonia and Aragon was born in Montpellier, today France.
His importance in Catalan history is very high as he was the king that, once an adult, conquered the kingdom of Valencia and the island of Mallorca to the moors, spreading christendom, catalan law system and, the most important, the catalan language, in today's "Països catalans" (Catalan countries).
What he did cannot be denied, even by valencian and balearic unionist forces (in favour of keeping valencian and balearic affairs and dialect away from Barcelona's and Catalonia's decissions).
Today some acts are being carried out in symbolical places related to him, like Valencia, Mallorca, Perpinyà and even his birthplace, Montpellier.
He is buried currently in Poblet Monastery, near Tarragona, with the other kings of the catalan-aragonese dinasty that came after him.
No other king is remembered by the catalans who love their country so emotively as he is. The years that came after his death were the greatest in catalan history with the expansion to the east carrying the catalan flag up to the walls of Constantinople (Today's Istanbul in Turkey).
When king Martí l'humà died with no heir in 1410 the catalan court started to hispanize and catalan relationship with monarchy started to deteriorate up until our days with the Borbon dinasty.
His importance in Catalan history is very high as he was the king that, once an adult, conquered the kingdom of Valencia and the island of Mallorca to the moors, spreading christendom, catalan law system and, the most important, the catalan language, in today's "Països catalans" (Catalan countries).
What he did cannot be denied, even by valencian and balearic unionist forces (in favour of keeping valencian and balearic affairs and dialect away from Barcelona's and Catalonia's decissions).
Today some acts are being carried out in symbolical places related to him, like Valencia, Mallorca, Perpinyà and even his birthplace, Montpellier.
He is buried currently in Poblet Monastery, near Tarragona, with the other kings of the catalan-aragonese dinasty that came after him.
No other king is remembered by the catalans who love their country so emotively as he is. The years that came after his death were the greatest in catalan history with the expansion to the east carrying the catalan flag up to the walls of Constantinople (Today's Istanbul in Turkey).
When king Martí l'humà died with no heir in 1410 the catalan court started to hispanize and catalan relationship with monarchy started to deteriorate up until our days with the Borbon dinasty.
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