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When King Louis V refused to come to their aid against Moorish raiders, the counts of Barcelona declared their independence in 988, a date celebrated as Catalonia’s birth as a nation-state.
The jagged ridges of Montserrat rise out of the rather featureless Llobregat plain 62 kilometers (38 miles) northwest of Barcelona, in the very heart of Catalonia.
During the 16th century, a Golden Age for Spain, the political influence of Catalonia and Barcelona declined even further.
Catalonia celebrates this defeat as its national holiday, a symbol of the spirit of nationalist resistance.
Begun in 1329 at the height of Catalonia’s expansion as a Mediterranean power, Santa María del Mar is the greatest example of pure Catalan Gothic, with unadorned exterior walls, a flat roof, sober façade flanked by two three-tiered octagonal bell towers, and a large rose window over the portal.