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The Coming of the Republic [room 12]

1923 – 1936

Francesc Macià in the balcony of the City Hall, on december the 19th, 1931. Photograph by Josep Maria Sagrera.

Girona experienced at first hand the political events of Catalonia and Spain as a whole, and with particular intensity the rise of Catalanism, the social conflicts and, above all, the coming of the Second Republic.