Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Another "The Call", this, however, I found online.
This organization have not found anywhere anymore. Hope you like it. I take this opportunity to congratulate Cursus for this thread and the work done to keep it.

The translator has made me a trick and what I meant was not "The Call" but the name by which the organization known "La Crida." I apologize for this mistake!

Thank you very much, Melic, for your nice words; but I don't deserve them. I'm just a Catalan, trying to make people know about our little country.

Barcelona, May-June, 1923, International Fourniture Exhibition. From a poster by Ricard Canals (Barcelona, 1876-1931). Unperforated pair.

Barcelona, 1937. "Federación Anarquista Ibérica, FAI" (Iberian Anarchist Federation). Libertary Atheneum of Barcelona's 5th District. One of the most depressed areas of our city, then and (still) nowadays; so, a very anarchist neighbourhood.
A not-so-common cinderella. I was very glad of finding it, today, on an open air market.

A view of Palamós (Northern coast of Catalonia), ca. 1950.

Cinderella with the flag and map of the Catalan Speaking Countries, circulated on September 1978, with meter of the 1978 Barcelona "Barnafil" Stamp Fair.

On April 14th, 1931, from the balcony of the Palau de la Generalitat (Catalan Government Palace).




The Catalan Republic, was proclaimed by Francesc Macià, that was to be its first president.







Cinderellas issued on the decade of 1980 by the Barcelona Philathely and Numismatic Traders' Guild.

Reus, 1967-69. Easter Week (or "Holy Week" as we call it).

Being today Saint George's Day, I'm showing a cinderella with the image of the Saint, issued around 1920, demanding an upgrade of the (Spanish) Constitution.

As today we celebrate Our Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron, day. I'm showing three cinderellas from the first third of the XXth century, showing views of the monastery and its sorroundings.









The fact that cinderellas are written in Spanish, French and English, and not in Catalan (the country's language) give us the clue that they were issued between 1923 and 1930, during General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. As the first thing that a Spanish dictator does, is to ban Catalan language.

Cinderella, issued in Olot (North of Catalonia) to honour their fellow citizen, Montserrat Tresserras for crossing the English Channel on August 27th, 1958.

El Vendrell, decade of 1950, raising funds for church restauration.

At the turn of the XX century, the Catalan bussinessman Eusebi Güell decided to build a "Garden city" on one of the hills backing Barcelona. So, he asked "his home-architect" Antoni Gaudí to start working on the project; which he did with his usual mastery.
At the end, the plan was a fiasco, and they sold just a plot of land. So the garden city project was abandoned and Barcelona City Council bought the land around 1920 to set a city park. It was "Park Güell"; for many years (up to 1995) a lonely place, and today a booming tourist atraction.
Views of Park Güell taken from the 1933 "Album Catalunya". Today, trees are much taller and sites more crowded.

Montjuïc, Catalan for "Mountain of Jews", goes into the Mediterranean Sea, on the SW border of Barcelona. For centuries an Spanish Occupation Army outpost and fields (the last wheat crop is said tio be harvested on 1915!), from 1915 we began to transform it into a park to hold the 1929 International Exhibition. In 1992, as well, it was the main venue site for the Barcelona Olympic Games. Nowadays, it's a very popular recreation site, with museums, gardens and sporting fields.
But in 1933, when the Album Catalunya was printed, this was still very far ahead...

El Vendrell, December, 29th, 1976. A big (72x71 mm) cinderella, issued to commemorate Pau Casals birth centennary. Portrait of the musician, and on the background a human tower, typical of his hometown.




A number of human towers have been raised today on different cities of the world (from Berlin to Santiago de Chile), to divulge Catalan nation claim to hold a self-determination referendum: "Human Towers for Democracy".