 Makumi emakore akatevera akaona kusimuka kwezvematongerwe enyika kweCatalanism ichiripo nanhasi: mazwi ekutanga echizvarwa chemazuva ano cheCatalan anogona kuonekwa muna Valentí Almirall, republican federalist yakakosha. Almirall, pasinei nokuva republican kuruboshwe, akaedza kubatanidza Catalan kuruboshwe uye kurudyi, asi haana kubudirira nokuti paiva nokusiyana kwakanyanya pakati pemhepo mbiri. Akasimudzira First Catalanist Congress, yakaitwa muna 1880, umo mapoka akasiyana eCatalanist akabatana: federal republicanism uye iyo isiri yezvematongerwo enyika, iyo yekunyora, kubva kumagazini ye La Renaixença, asi mafambiro ekuruboshwe eAlmirall akakonzera kuti boka reRenaixença risiye Congress uye rikatyora chibvumirano. Zvisinei, Congress yakatora zvibvumirano zvitatu zvinokosha: kusika sangano rinobatanidza Catalanism Centre Català, Catalan Center, kutanga kwebasa rokugadzira Academy of the Catalan Language, uye kunyora gwaro rokudzivirira kweCatalan semutauro wepamutemo. Dambudziko reCentre Català rakaratidzwa nemhaka yekusiyana kwemaonero pamusoro peBarcelona Universal Exposition ya1888. Nzvimbo dzakapesana dzakatungamirira kukuparara kweboka racho, uye kuruboshwe kwechiCatalan kwakaramba kwakaderera zvikuru kwemakumi emakore. 