[en] Studies of different kinds of dynamics for constituent quarks have revealed that a relativistic quark model relying on a linear confinement and a hyperfine interaction deriving from Goldstone-boson exchange provides a promising framework for describing low-energy hadron phenomena. Here we discuss the performance of a first version of such a constituent quark model in light and strange baryon spectroscopy as well as for electromagnetic and axial nucleon form factors. The covariant results obtained with the Goldstone-boson-exchange constituent quark model in point-form relativistic quantum mechanics are found to be in remarkably good agreement with phenomenology for all observables calculated so far. In all respects, relativistic effects play a decisive role