La Vanguardia

La Vanguardia ('The avant-garde ') is a Catalan daily newspaper based in Barcelona. It is published by Grupo Godó. The paid circulation in 2006 amounted to an average of 202 161 copies, making it the best-selling newspaper in Catalonia. The newspaper is printed in the Berliner format. Editor in chief José Antich. She is politically close to the Christian Democrat - regionalist party Convergència i Unio.

History

The newspaper was first published on 1 February 1881. At its inception it was intended as a means of communication of the Liberal Party, to control the City Council. By 1887, they remained connected with the party. From 1 January 1888 the first day of the World Exhibition in Barcelona, she appeared as an independent daily newspaper with two issues in the morning and afternoon.

During the Spanish Civil War, the newspaper was in his own words the most important organ of the Generalitat or (after the transfer of the government to Barcelona ) and the Republican government. During this time, wrote, among other things Antonio Machado, Bosch i Gimpera, Ehrenburg, Malraux, Max Aub and Ramón J. Sender for La Vanguardia.

During the Franco dictatorship La Vanguardia became the most widely read newspaper in Spain before the conservative- monarchist ABC. Politically, it adapted itself to the ideological guidelines of the regime and temporarily changed its name to La Vanguardia Española (, The Spanish avant-garde '). They represented, however, primarily liberal positions and therefore defended the economic opening to the outside. From the early seventies, she campaigned for political reform, but not for a radical regime change. During the transition, the newspaper put the additional name again and most notably supported the decentralization of Spain and the moderate Catalan nationalism. Since then, they lost against the newly established Madrid daily newspaper El País and El Mundo and ABC compared to readership, but remained as the most widely read newspaper in Catalonia.

In April 2004, the old office at Carrer Pelai was around 100 years 28 abandoned and moved into a new editorial building in Avinguda Diagonal.

La Vanguardia appears in Spanish and since March 1, 2011, in Catalan. One of the columnists of the newspaper heard Quim Monzo et al. The purchase price in Spain is 1.20 € (2011), in Germany 2.10 €.

In the journal Archives of La Vanguardia all issues can be viewed and searched for free since 1881.

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