As most of you probably know Catalonians are very patriotic. Or at least many of them are. And a region that has its own language, flag, songs, football teams and more does obviously also has its own National Day.
What is a bit ironic is that they actually are celebrating the day when they got defeated by the Spaniards in some war 1714, but anyway this day was chosen to be the Diada Nacional de Catalunya in 1980.
A Catalonian day might not be what you first have in mind when you think about the date september 11 but indeed, this is the day (apparently president Bush misunderstood the celebrating of the Catalonian people and thought that they went out on the streets to honour the people that died in 9/11 the year after the events in New York)
The main celebrations were held by Arc de Triomf (yes Barcelona also has one, but it is somewhat smaller than its French version) and contained of concerts and performances in this language called Catalan all day long! Young, old, rich and poor, city people and small town girls and boys had gathered together. Many of them wrapped in a Catalonian flag.
Obviously FC Barcelona is a huge part of the Catalonian pride.
Hip Catalans.
Many of the young girls in Barcelona have beautiful long hair!
And many of the boys have this hairstyle! Yeah, in Barcelona it is not unusal seeing people (mostly young men in their early 20is) in these sort of 80es-Eastern European-like hairstyles! Why? Where does this come from?! We are really curious about the whole thing so if you have an idea please let us know!
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