The Eye

Every capital city in the world suffers from the same syndrome: the copycat franchised shops that take over high streets. McDonalds, Zara, Starbucks, H&M, they are the same wherever you go and you cannot...

Once upon a time, there was something called a “Cold War” with two main contenders, the US and the USSR. Instead of fighting a traditional war, they had fun threatening each other with nuclear weapons...

Christmas is gone, but 2014's Catalan poopers are here to stay. In this picture, clay caganers are displayed at the Santa Llucia Christmas market in central Barcelona. Tourists are always shocked, but...

This is Josefa Batalla, she is from Sabadell and she is 90 years old. One of the first to show up at the polling station on November 9, Josefa was thrilled at the opportunity —at last— of giving her...

Once a year, thousands of Catalans join forces in Tarragona to celebrate one of the most beautiful of national traditions: human castles, or castells. A UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,...

A few years ago, when the Spanish constitutional court ruled against the new Catalan statute of autonomy that had been approved by referendum, a milion people walked down Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia...

The Catalan National Assembly (Assemblea Nacional Catalana or ANC), a grass-roots, pro-independence civil organisation, and Òmnium Cultural, a non-profit association promoting Catalan language and culture,...