Even so, frustrated with the limited autonomy achieved by the Commonwealth, Catalanism turned to the left, and led inter alia to the founding in 1922 of the first relevant organised Catalan independence party Estat Català by Francesc Macià.

The long road to reform

The development of a sense of Catalonia as a separate identity or personality began in the 1840s and 1850s consistent with the romantic movement

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