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November 18, 2003

 

Photo: Catalan Flag

Catalan Flag, Barcelona, Spain, 1998

Photograph by David Alan Harvey

"Eager to wrest more power from archrival Madrid, [Barcelona] citizens parade the once outlawed Catalan flag."

—From "Barcelona: Star of the New Europe," December 1998, National Geographic magazine

 

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