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Coinciding with the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the start of the Catalan exile, the Lletra portal has started up this project that lets users trace the routes taken by the exiles and add all sorts of information and documentation. They can territorialise the routes taken by thousands of Catalans around the world following the Civil War. Biographies, literary texts, videos and other resources show the lives of these figures in the countries that took them in, such as Mexico or Argentina.

One of the main aspects of the tool is its encouragement of collaboration and participation, which allows it to grow, not only in terms of the information on literary writers, but also in terms of the other Catalans who were forced into exile. Any user can provide information they deem interesting to help build the project. This information is supervised by those responsible for the site to ensure veracity and rigor.

Given the principally literary nature of the site, it can be browsed by the personal biographies of writers or by the places linked to the literary works created away from Catalonia. For example, users can follow the routes into exile taken by writers such as Joan Oliver (Pere Quart), Pere Calders, Josep Carner, Agustí Bartra or Anna Murià through France, Argentina and Chile with explanatory texts and videos; or see the locations of the dozen literary and cultural journals that were published in Catalan in Mexico City.