Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain after seven years of self-imposed exile, defying a pending arrest warrant and igniting a police manhunt. "They were thinking they ...

Barcelona is one of the best-known cities in the world, yet visitors expecting to practice their Spanish can often be surprised when they hear Catalan spoken in the streets. The language has had a ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and ...

Decision by Junts to pull out leaves government in minority hands of Catalan Republican Left Tensions between Catalonia’s two main pro-independence parties boiled over on Friday night when the ...

MADRID — It took a global pandemic to push Catalan independence to the sidelines, but now the dominant issue in national politics for the past decade is back. On Wednesday, negotiations between Madrid ...

Top chefs in this year’s World Region of Gastronomy are looking back as they shift from avant-garde cuisine to something more homespun They revolutionised cooking worldwide with radical techniques and ...

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VIC, A PROSPEROUS town of 43,000 people about 90 minutes north of Barcelona, is sometimes called “the capital of Catalan Catalonia”. Almost every building in its medieval town square has a banner ...