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The city - like the rest of the region of Catalonia - is officially bilingual, with Catalan and Spanish both widely spoken. This has been the case since the democratic transition following the Franco dictatorship. However, this has not taken the heat out of language as a political issue, especially now that a centralist Spanish government is facing off against a Catalan government calling for an independence referendum.
