DISSERTATION ON THE GIRONA FAMILY OF CATALONIA BY LLUISA PLA

Lluïsa Pla i Toldrà has just presented her doctoral dissertation on one of the most influential business family of Catalonia during the 19th century, the Gironas, a family which had a diversified portfolio of investments among which outstandingly shares of the first industrial bank of the first industrial region of Spain: the Banco de Barcelona. The title is "Els Girona: la formació de la gran burgesia catalana del segle XIX(1748-1905)". The advisor has been the prestigious historian Jordi Nadal i Oller. The thesis was presented at the Department of History and Economic Institutions of the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, January 2011.