Presentation



The Catalonia-America Foundation San Jeronimo of Murtra, has like purpose of investigating and of promoting the approach between the American cultures Catalan and, presenting them the public in general.

It goes deep in the characteristics of the Catalan culture that influenced, of a peculiar way, in the multiple relations with the American countries. Of equal way, it less investigates and it spreads a studied slope: impronta American in the Catalan culture that has taken shape in literature, music, the architecture, the gastronomy...

Yet this, wants to favor a americanismo that is a platform of encounter between these cultures, in the middle of a multicultural society more and more, multiethnic and interconnected.

In order to fulfill its objectives, the Foundation presents/displays diverse scopes of relation and interchange, in rooms of the old Monastery of San Jeronimo of the Murtra, Badalona (Spain) Was in this monastery where the encounter between Kings Catolicos and Cristóbal took place Columbus, before initiating his second it travels to American earth (April of 1493)

In these rooms, denominated Ramon Pané, exhibitions are organized, to char them, courses, concerts... The Foundation also welcomes those initiatives that are in syntony with their purpose.

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Fundació Catalunya-Amèrica. Sant Jeroni de la Murtra
Apartat de Correus 82. 08917
Badalona (Barcelona) España
Tel
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Monestir: (34) 93 395 19 11

fundacio@catalunya-america.org