La república imaginada

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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Un recorrido fotográfico por espectaculares escenarios de la Roma barroca. Realidad y leyenda de una de las sociedades secretas más fascinante de todos los tiempos, los Illuminati.

«Cada día quería morir… y cada día luchaba por sobrevivir» Shlomo Venezia, superviviente de Auschwitz El campo de concentración de Auschwitz es el sinónimo del mal absoluto que el nazismo preconizó. Los judíos y gitanos sirvieron como cobayas para la experimentación diabólica de los nazis, gaseando a más de un millón de personas y matando de hambre, frío, agotamiento o, simplemente, de soledad y desesperanza. Sin embargo, muchos presos resistieron a la total deshumanización del campo esforzándose por mantener la dignidad. Cuidar la higiene, escribir o dibujar eran actos que...