Encara [English translation]

We come from the North,

We come from the South,

From deep inland,

From overseas...

You, soils that have been threaded on

And, over the course of the centuries,

You haven't found any rest.

Yet!

We must find the oracle

Of our history

So we can know what we are...

Yet!

Torn lands,

You who have seen the borders

Set within your own bodies.

Yet!

Listen to the voices

Of all those who believe

That it's the time to sing!

We come from the North,

We come from the South,

From deep inland,

From overseas...

You, soils that have been threaded on

And lost in Almansa 1

Your right to be who you are.

Yet!

If we believe that we are,

In spite of all the nights

That have driven us apart

Yet!

Wounded language,

Faithful witness

Of what we still are,

Yet!

Listen to the voices

Of all those who believe

That it's the time to sing!

We come from the North,

We come from the South,

From deep inland,

From overseas...

You, soils that have been threaded on

And have wept alongside your children

For the right to exist

Yet!

Because today is the time

To be able to fight

For what we want to be

Yet!

Torn lands,

You who welcome the day

With the same words

Yet!

Listen to the voices

Of all those who believe

That it's the time to sing!

We come from the North,

We come from the South,

From deep inland,

From overseas...

Torn lands,

You who have seen the borders

Set within your own bodies.

Yet!

You, soils that have been threaded on

And lost in Almansa

Your right to be who you are.

Yet!

Wounded language,

Faithful witness

Of what we still are,

Yet!

Because today is the time

To be able to fight

For what we want to be!

We come from the North,

We come from the South,

From deep inland,

From overseas...

1. This relates to the Battle Of Almansa (25/04/1707), the most decisive event in the Spanish War of Succession (1701-1714) - when the Second Great Alliance of Austria, Savoy, the Netherlands, England, Portugal and pro-Habsburg provinces in Spain, which supported the Habsburg and British claims to the Spanish throne, was brutally crushed by the Bourbon-supporting forces. This eventually led to the elimination of the political, economic and linguistic freedoms that the ancient territories of the Crown of Aragon had enjoyed under the Habsburg Dynasty, with the centralizing Decrees of Nueva Planta, issued by the victorious Philip V - thus, heralding a period of extreme economic crisis and overall decline in Valencia (which suffered particularly during the war - one of its main political and economic centres, Xàtiva, was burned three successive times by Philip V), Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and to a lesser extent, Aragon.