Catalan symbols

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Their flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through pinks, reds, oranges and yellows. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and Northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and

Futbol Club Barcelona, commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça, is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.

National anthem of Catalonia

Spartium junceum, known as Spanish broom, rush broom, or '''weaver's broom, it is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and the sole species in the genus Spartium'. It is closely related to the other brooms (in the genera Cytisus and Genista'').

monastery in Prades mountains, Catalonia. Spain

red cross on a white background

Salses-le-Château (; ; ) or just Salses is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is located north of the city of Perpignan. It is traditionally considered as the northernmost point of the Catalan Countries (the lands in which Catalan language is spoken).

The Estelada (; pl. Estelades; full name Senyera estelada, , from estel, "star") is a flag flown by Catalan independence supporters to express their support for an independent Catalonia or independent Països Catalans (Catalan Countries, the Catalan-speaking territory, which includes Valencia and the Balearic Islands). The design of the Estelada comprises the red-and-yellow bars of the Senyera, with the addition of a five-pointed star in a triangle at the hoist.

count of Barcelona and other Catalan counties (died 897)

The Canigó ( , ; ; ) is a mountain located in the Pyrenees of southern France.

The Senyera is a vexillological symbol often called "the four bars", much older than the Crown of Aragon.

thumb|Catalan men wearing barretines

14th century mercenary company

mythical creature featuring in European folklore

thumb|Grilled botifarra vermella thumb|White botifarra thumb|Black botifarra thumb|Barranquilla butifarras, Butifarra Soledeñas|butifarras soledeñas Botifarra (; ; ) is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine.

marian advocation venerated in the monastery of Montserrat

Spanish breed of donkey

The ' (; also written before spelling standardisation), or Catalan Renaissance', was a Romantic revivalist movement in Catalan language and culture through the mid 19th century, akin to the Galician or the Occitan movements. The movement began in the 1830s and lasted until the 1880s, when it branched out into other cultural movements. Even though it primarily followed a romantic impulse, it incorporated stylistic and philosophical elements of other 19th century movements such as Naturalism or Symbolism. The name does not indicate a particular style, but rather the cultural circumstances in whi

governmental institution of Barcelona

Catalan holiday. variant of St. George's Day

thumb|300px|Video of correfoc in Girona thumb|250px|Correfoc in Valencia, Spain|Valencia

dead pine tree in the countryside in Catalonia

heraldic symbol, primarily represented in the coats of arms of certain important towns of the former Crown of Aragon

Laws of the Principality of Catalonia until 1716

thumb|Patufet's monument in Josep Maria Folch i Torres|Folch i Torres's square of [[Granollers, Catalonia. Work of Efraïm Rodríguez]] thumb|Cover of the first issue of En Patufet magazine Patufet (, also known as Garbancito in Spanish) is the main character of one of the most famous folktales of Catalan tradition.

name given to a popular Catalan legend

customs that became the basis for Catalan constitutions

cultural emblems of Catalonia

'''''' (; from Proto-Germanic ) is a form of ancestral Catalan wisdom or sensibleness. It involves well-pondered perception of situations, level-headedness, awareness, integrity, and right action: "a kind of refined good sense and self-realisation."