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La Vanguardia is the highest-circulation daily newspaper based in Barcelona and Catalonia, trailing only the three main Madrid dailies among general-interest circulation in Spain. Its circulation is slightly higher than its main Catalan competition, El Periódico de Catalunya.[1]
[edit] History
La Vanguardia's newspaper history began on February 1, 1881, when two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as a Diario de los Políticos de avisos y notícias (Political Newspaper of Announcements and News), intended as a means of communication for a faction of the Liberal Party that wanted to gain control over the Barcelona city council.
On December 31, 1887, the paper published its last edition as a party organ and on the next day, January 1, 1888, the first day of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona, it presented a new, politically independent format with a morning and an afternoon edition.
[edit] Traits
Although the newspaper's articles are only in Castilian Spanish, letters submitted in Catalan are left untranslated and run next to the Spanish ones. Another unusual trait for a Spanish-language newspaper is its practice of always referring to Catalonia as Catalunya (the Catalan name) rather than the Spanish Cataluña; the name of Catalan institutions are also left untranslated (such as Govern instead of the Spanish Gobierno for the regional Government or conseller instead of consejero for its councilors). Interviews made in Catalan are frequently left untranslated, too.
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