- La Vanguardia is also the name of the newspaper of the Socialist Party of Argentina.
La Vanguardia (Catalan: [ɫə βəŋˈɡwarðiə]; Spanish: [la βaŋˈɡwarðja], Spanish for The Vanguard)[2] is Catalonia's leading daily newspaper as well as the fourth best-selling in Spain. It has its headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia's largest city.
La Vanguardia, despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia only, trails only the three main Madrid dailies among general-interest circulation in Spain: El Pais, El Mundo and ABC. The other three have local editions elsewhere in Spain, unlike La Vanguardia. La Vanguardia is the only Catalan newspaper that has survived all the Spanish regime changes, from the restoration of Alfonso XII to the 21st century.
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La Vanguardia's newspaper history began on 1 February 1881, when two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as a Diario de los políticos de avisos y notícias (Political Newspaper of Announcements and News), intended as a means of communication for a faction of the Liberal Party that wanted to gain control over the Barcelona city council.
On 31 December 1887, the paper published its last edition as a party organ, and the next day, 1 January 1888, the first day of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona, it presented a new, politically independent format with morning and afternoon editions.
It is one of the oldest papers in Spain.
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Front page of the pre-launch issue of
La Vanguardia in Catalan
The newspaper has two parallel editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, another one in Catalan.[3] However, before the birth of the Catalan edition, letters to the editor submitted in Catalan were always left untranslated.
Its spin leans to the centre of politics and moderate in its opinions. It promotes moderate Catalanist stances and is considered close to the pro-business policies represented by Convergence and Union.
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