Word: rambla
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BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than...
...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled on his heel and fell, seriously wounded, among the flower pots and twittering bird cages of the market...
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