Tú eres la ola, yo la isla desnuda

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

"La capital del país es tan grande que puede albergar infinidad de historias ocultas en cada calle, en cada casa. Por ello, Héctor de Mauleón se ha dado a la tarea de capturar algunas de ellas, las más impactantes y entrañables, a través del poder de la crónica y a lo largo de la historia, en la colección La ciudad oculta. Apoyado en recursos gráficos como fotografías, croquis, anuncios de periódicos e ilustraciones, esta colección invita al lector a que se traslade en el tiempo y el espacio para situarse en cada época y que adopte esas otras calles y edificios como propias....

Revision de los debates ideologicos y politicos que durante los ultimos 180 anos han definido nuestra vision de la historia, de los diversos aportes culturales de diferentes civilizaciones y doctrinas y de la particular conciencia o identidad nacional que de alli se derivan.