Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

February 1912, "Centre Excursionista de Catalunya" (Catalonia Treking Club) Sky races.

Olot, North of Catalonia. 1958: Catholic Schools Centennial.

When the dictator Franco still strongly prohibited free expression of catalan language, a group of Esperanto in 1954 published some cinderellas but using Esperanto and Catalan.

Very interesting, Melic. The first cinderella, looks very much to me an schematic view of Catalonia; while the second one is a profile of the city of Barcelona, with Collcerola Hills on the left and the sea on the right.
And, there are also the names of the designer and the printer. Very courageous people, as these were repression times...

Today I like to put this cinderella that is very close to me. It was edited by a haberdashery shop in Barcelona at the street Princesa nº6. The Advertising Documentation Centre (Centre de Documentacio Publicitària) attributes to ASP as authorship of the drawing and and the characteristic style of the time I do think that my father (ASP) was the author.

Today's Saint George's Day. So, I'm showing a 1993 cinderella from the "Amics de Sant Jordi" (Friends o St George, in Catalan). The design was from Josep Maria Subirachs (Barcelona, 1927-2014) known mainly for being the sculptor of the modern Sagrada Familia Bassilica.

As today the Roman Catholic Church celebrates Our Lady of Montserrat, Saint of Catalonia, I'm showing a block of this little (11x23 mm) cinderella.





"La Moreneta" (The Little Brunette) is the name that we Catalans give familiarly to our saint, as She's black.

Barcelona, April 25/26th 1970. F-2 races at the Montjuïc urban circuit.

Reus, Oct/Nov 1954 Tarragona province trade fair.

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (close to Barcelona), 1936-38. Town Health Assistance for the war.

Two young people associations: Catalan Scouts and "Palestra" a Catalan Patriotic Youth association.

Today I would like to give an homage to the catalans volontiers in the first world war

Yes, indeed. Some thousand Catalan young people enlisted into the French "Legion Étrangere" with the hope that a victory of democracies would bring freedom to Catalonia. They fought in the Somme (100 years today!), in Verdun and in many other battles. Most gave their life for their ideals.
They got the acknowledge of the allies, but not the freedom of our country. Today, we still remember them, and our fight goes on. To their everlasting memory.

Would be possible to have the translation of the text of the first stamp posted by melic? (For the second I would translate: Honour to the Catalans that with abnegation give their blood in defense of the freedom of the peoples).
Thank you
Michele

Well done Frnazjosef! You did very well. Actually, Italian and Catalan are sister languages, as ours is the evolution of the Latin spoken by the Romans that came to Catalonia (then, known as "Tarraconense") by 220 BC and stayed here up t 476 AD.

As for the text of the first cincerella, is the second part of the third verse of Catalan national anthem, "Els Segadors" ("The Harvesters"), and it can be translated as:

"As we make golden ears
to fall down to the earth
when the need arise,
we mow (or cut) chains"

Its an old battle song, coming from the 1640-1652 Catalan Independence War against the Castilians (also known as Spanish). It has been considered our national anthem since the XIX century.