Visita guiada temàtica: "Una història de la llengua"

Thematic guided tour through the rooms of the permanent exhibition of the Museu d'Història de Catalunya, tracing the history of the Catalan language from its Latin origins to the challenges it faces today.

The visit starts from questions about how a language is born and how it changes over the centuries, and proposes following that process from Latin to the present day. The route runs through the rooms of the museum's permanent exhibition, where the influences that shaped Catalan are identified, along with the path by which it became the language of government and culture during the Middle Ages.

The itinerary then follows the moments of flourishing, persecution and recovery that have marked its historical trajectory. It also pauses at some outstanding names in Catalan literature, to show the role of the language in collective memory and in the cultural identity of Catalonia. The visit is conducted in Catalan.

It is designed to show that every word has a story behind it, and that the story of a language is also that of the people who spoke it, wrote it and kept it alive over the centuries.