Festivities and traditions
Get to know all the culture, festivals and traditions around Senet Rural.
Faults
Nevertheless, Alta Ribagorça is the region with the most Falles villages in the Catalan territory. The "Baixada de Falles" has been a deeply rooted tradition in the villages of Alta Ribagorça since ancient times. The falles are resinous trunks about two meters long, which are prepared a few days before so that they are ready on the day of the "baixada" also known as descent. The falles descent start from a high place in the mountain, visible from the village, where a pine tree called "far" has been planted, which is where the falles are lit before starting the descent.
Barruera's fair
Find a unique craft and food fair in which there is also the exhibition and sale of livestock.
Place : Barruera, in Passeig de Sant Feliu and old quarter
Dates: Last Sunday of September. September 26, 2021
Girella Fair
Fair of exhibition of crafts and ancestral traditions of the region. There is also a girella tasting in the Plaça del Mercadal.
Place: El Pont de Suert, Plaça del Mercadal, C/ Camp de la Vila and old quarter
Dates : End of October (depending on the year)
Tots Sants Fair
Old traditional fair in which the exhibition of animals and the contest of the Bruna cow of the Pyrenees are held. Place: Vilaller, Firal de Massaneres and surroundings Dates: 2 of november
Ball Pla, Ball de Sant Isidre and La Pila
Taüll celebrates the festival in honour of San Isidro, its patron saint, on the third Sunday in July. The Ball Pla is danced together with the Ball de Sant Isidre. This is followed by the pila, a human tower in which only men take part and which is characterised by a kind of human tower, with the particularity that the person who crowns the tower does so upside down.
Location: Taüll
Dates: third Sunday in July
Ball Tatero
Every year, on 15th August, the Festa Major de Vilaller, the "Tatero" is danced, a dance made up of four married and single couples in typical local costumes.
Location: Vilaller
Dates: 15 August
