Cataluña

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Spanish name (Catalan Catalunya) for Catalonia; see there.

The autonomous region (Cataluña, Catalunya) with its capital Barcelona is located in the north-east of Spain on the north-western edge of the Mediterranean. It covers 32,091 km² and is divided into the four provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. To the north, separated by the Pyrenees, Catalonia borders France and the dwarf state of Andorra, to the west Aragon and to the south-west Valenciana. The Balearic Islands, 200 kilometres off the coast, with the main island of Majorca, have much in common in terms of history and viticulture. Catalonia is officially bilingual; Catalan is also spoken in French Roussillon and on the Balearic Islands.

History

The region has had an extremely chequered history. The Greeks arrived in the 6th century BC, followed by the Carthaginians and finally the Romans in 200 BC. The Roman Caesars already drank the wines from the DO area of Alella. Barcelona was already an important trading port in Antike...

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