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All sections of the pro-independence demonstration for the Diada, the Catalan national day, on Barcelona's Diagonal avenue this Tuesday are now full. The Catalan National Assembly (ANC), the organisers, announced on Twitter that more than 460,000 people have signed up, 10,000 more than last year.

They've also confirmed they've hired more than 1,500 coaches to bring people from around Catalonia to Barcelona and sold more than 275,000 t-shirts.

 

Row zero

The ANC has also opened a "row zero" for all those who cannot attend the demonstration in person, despite wanting to.

Giant resounding wave

This year's demonstration plans to create a giant resounding wave to run along the avenue. At 5:14pm, demonstrators will fall into silence and lower their placards and flags. The starting shot for the wave will then be given, starting at section 37, at carrer Castillejos, to the northeast of the city centre, and will run along to Palau Reial, to the west, in the city's Zona Universitària (University Quarter), near Barça's Camp Nou stadium.

As it progresses, demonstrators will lift their flags and banners again and start shouting. The idea is to symbolise society's call to realise the mandate from the 1st October referendum.

The Diada commemorates the fall of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. That happened on 11th September 1714, hence the choice of 5:14pm, or 17:14 in the 24-hour clock.

#JoAnirealaDiagonal 

With less than 24 hours to go, the hashtag #JoAnirealaDiagonal (I'm going to Diagonal) has taken off on Twitter. The journalist Pilar Rahola, for example, says that she is going "after the repression, the attack democracy, prison and exile".