disseminated through Catalan towns and villages. Between 1840 and 1860 the sardana was established as "dance of the Catalans". Its influence was extended throughout the 20th century thanks to the dance group "Obra de Ballet Popular", which organised aplecs and other sardana events in communities where it was previously unknown. In 1924, during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the sheriff of Barcelona censored the sardana "La Santa Espina". This fact increased the identification of the sardana with catalanism. The creation of associations and cobles grew dramatically thanks to the continuous attacking by the establishment and lerrouxism. Sardana was temporally prohibited in the 1940s in Francoist Spain because it was considered to foment false feelings of pride and superiority among the Catalans. The prohibition was made on certain locales in and around Barcelona. Nevertheless, sardana was considered relatively innocuous in Spain and this allowed to use sardana as a peaceful protest against the more effective and oppressive campaign to eliminate the public use of the Catalan language. Even more, pro-Franco Catalans continued to dance sardana throughout the Franco period. Since the 1960, "Obra de Ballet Popular" travels from one city to another with the Flama de la Sardana (Eternal light of the Sardana). Each city is named "Heir to the Sardana" for the year in which it conserves the Eternal Light. In the year 2010, the Government of Catalonia added the sardana to the Catàleg del Patrimoni Festiu de Catalunya (Catalonia's festivities heritage catalogue) and declared it a festivity of national interest. In 2015 the Spanish parliament approved unanimously an initiative of People's Party of Spain to urge the Spanish Government to promote sardana for inclusion in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The same vote was done in 2002 in Spain's senate and was rejected due to the negative vote of People's Party of Spain. Sardana band Music for the sardana is played by a cobla, a band consisting of 10 wind instruments, double bass and a tamborí (little drum) played by 11 musicians. The cobla has five woodwind instruments: the flabiol which is a small fipple flute, and the tenora and tible (two of each) which belong to the oboe family. These and the tamborí are typical Catalan instruments. The brass instruments are: two trumpets, two fiscorns, and a trombone (usually a valve trombone). The double bass was traditionally a three-stringed one, but now the part is usually