Selected images from around 30 hours filming over major Catalan sites. Catalonia is one of Spain's wealthiest and most productive regions and has a distinct history dating back almost 1,000 years. Before the Spanish Civil War it enjoyed broad autonomy but that was suppressed under decades of Gen Francisco Franco's dictatorship from 1939-75. When Franco died, Catalan nationalism was revived and eventually the north-eastern region was granted autonomy again, under the 1978 constitution.
A 2006 statute granted even greater powers, boosting Catalonia's financial clout and describing it as a nation, but Spain's Constitutional Court reversed much of this in 2010, to the anger of the regional authorities.