This map, published by Vicenç Turell i Isbert in 1936, shows the proposed division of Catalonia into vegueries and comarques.
After the end of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship and the arrival of the Second Republic in Spain, a new territorial administration was proposed in Catalonia in 1931 with the aim of recovering the historical veguerías. This plan did not come to fruition, so it was revised and a second plan came into being in 1936.
As the map shows, this plan erased the previous territorial division, established by Javier de Burgos in 1833, and established 9 veguerías, which in turn were divided into a total of 38 comarcas. The vegueries sought to establish an intermediate area between the municipalities and the Generalitat that would facilitate the planning of public services. For this reason, each vegueria was associated with a capital that had a certain weight in the region:
- Veguería I: Girona.
- Veguería II: Barcelona.
- Veguería III: Tarragona.
- Farm IV: Reus.
- Veguería V: Tortosa.
- Veguería VI: Vic.
- VII: Manresa.
- Vegueria VIII: Lleida.
- Vegueria IX: La Seu d'Urgell and Tremp.
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the vegueries failed to consolidate and, after Franco's victory, the division was abolished and the division of Catalonia into four provinces was re-established. Since 2004, there have been several proposals to return to the vegueria system in Catalonia, but as the provincial boundaries fall under the competence of the Spanish state, they could not be implemented.
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