Notes from the stay of Vidal de La Blache in Catalonia (1906)

Abstract

In April 1906 the geographer Paul Vidal de La Blache took a journey through Spain. Along the way, he took notes and drew diagrams of the sites he visited. Here are presented the notes he took during his brief stay in Catalonia, mainly Barcelona (with Collserola mountains) and Montserrat. They are a good example of the Vidal’s fieldwork methodology.

Keywords: Vidal de La Blache, Travel notebook, Catalonia.