Renaixença

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