Birth and rebirth of a nation
Portbou and Montserrat : sea and mountain
Mediterranean, the centre of the earth : Tarragona
Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees
Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens
The poet-priest and the indiano : Verdaguer and Antonio López
The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell
Geniuses
Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus
The birth of modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo Picasso
The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí
Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró
I come from a silence : Catalan music
Tourism and war
The sweaty groin : Barcelona's Raval
The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona
Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret
Plain and river : Lleida and the Ebro
The anarchist dream : George Orwell and revolution
The landscape in the pot : food, drink and identity
Cradle and refuge : FC Barcelona.