Catalan-language
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soap opera. It aired from 2001 to 2002 on
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.
Premise
The fiction follows the lives of three families during the
Francoist dictatorship
Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death i ...
: the Dalmau-Muntaner, representatives of the Catalan
bourgeoisie
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; the Comes, a Catalan artisan family, and the Hernández-Utrera, representatives of the immigrant
working class
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, intermingling the grand narrative of history and the little stories of characters' daily lives.
While largely set in the Francoist dictatorship, the fiction eventually spanned to the marriage of
Cristina de Borbón
Infanta Cristina (Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón y de Grecia, born 13 June 1965) is the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos I and his wife, Queen Sofía. She is sixth in the line of succession to the S ...
and
Iñaki Urdangarín Iñaki is a male given name. It is a neologism created by Sabino Arana meaning ''Ignatius'', to be a Basque language analog to "Ignacio" in Spanish, "Ignace" in French, and "Ignazio" in Italian, and an alternative to the names Eneko (given name), En ...
in 1997.
Production and release
It premiered on 17 January 2001. Consisting of fifty three 50-minute long episodes, the broadcasting run ended on 10 April 2002. It was produced by and TVC.
The series sparked a spin-off, ''