The Memory of the Catalalans

Communities, nations, are not eternal and immutable. In the middle of the 21st century, at a time of great social, cultural and ideological transformations, it is appropriate to explain what the cohesive elements of the Catalan collective identity are and how they have been built over time, that is, the references that make up the national memory of Catalonia.

Directed by Borja de Riquer, The Memory of the Catalans selects and explains more than a hundred elements that have become fundamental references for a large part of contemporary society. It includes formal symbols and traditions, myths, legends or festivals and rituals. It also includes places of memory, characters, the most emblematic institutions, key events and dates, as well as the landscapes that define the Catalans and the various narratives or historical, literary and artistic representations that form part of our collective consciousness. In short, everything that makes up the material and intangible heritage of the Catalans.

In short, an ambitious and exhaustive work of history that collects, with an open and plural conception, the legacies of the past that have most marked us as a society, the elements that define the collective imagination of Catalans.

Catalonia's national memory. How did we become who we are?