The sea-faring peoples of the western Mediterranean repeatedly visited the Catalan coastline from the beginning of the first millenium BC. From the sixth century BC, there was an increase in the amount of contact. These visitors came from the Greek poleis (city-states) and Phoenician cities for trade purposes.

This contact stimulated the economic and technological development of the indigenous race. Material and cultural exchanges contributed to the shaping of Iberian culture.

For these colonising peoples, our land was the far West, practically the edge of their world.