page_title: Free Catalan Territory
section_title: Municipalities declared Free Catalan Territory
hierarchical_section_title: Free Catalan Territory / Municipalities declared Free Catalan Territory
caption_attribution_description: Català: Municipis declarats Territori Català Lliure en el moment de carregar la imatge, a partir del Mapa Municipal de Catalunya allotjat a Wikimedia Commons
context_page_description: The Free Catalan Territory are those declared municipalities or regions of Catalonia that had approved a motion in a plenary session by the councillors of the town or the region council, as they represent the municipality's local authority. Such motions declare that Spanish laws and regulations are considered provisional, waiting for the Government and Parliament of Catalonia to enact new Catalan laws after having assumed national sovereignty, and therefore turning Catalonia into an independent state.
  Free Catalan Territory was the expression chosen by the councillors of Sant Pere de Torelló in order to define the status quo of the municipality on September 3, 2012, and was also the first town in Catalonia to give itself this name. From its new condition, the council of Sant Pere de Torelló announced that the October 12, holiday becomes an ordinary weekday, directly conflicting the Spanish legislation.
  Since then, more municipalities joined this initiative and approved similar declarations to Sant Pere de Torelló's.
context_section_description: Since September 3, 2012, 197 Catalan municipalities and five Comarcal councils have declared themselves Free Catalan Territory, representing approximately 20.2% of whole Catalonia's lands.
caption: Map of Catalan municipalities (dark blue) and comarques (light blue) that have so far declared themselves Free Catalan Territory.
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