Prats de Lluçanès

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Municipality of Prats de Lluçanès
Prats de Lluçanès - View from the Sant Sebastià church
Prats de Lluçanès - View from the Sant Sebastià church
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Coat of arms of Prats de Lluçanès
Prats de Lluçanès (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Catalonia
Province : Barcelona
Comarca : Osona
Coordinates 42 ° 10 ′  N , 2 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′  N , 2 ° 2 ′  E
Height : 707  msnm
Area : 13.8 km²
Residents : 2,569 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 186.16 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 08513
Municipality number  ( INE ): 08171
Nearest airport : BCN
administration
Website : www.pratsdellucanes.cat
Location of the municipality
Localització de Prats de Lluçanès respecte d'Osona.svg

Prats de Lluçanès [ səβəˈðeʎ ] ( Spanish Prats de Llusanés ) is a Catalan municipality in the province of Barcelona in northeastern Spain . It is in the comarca of Osona .

history

The village, first mentioned in a document in 905, lies on a plateau between two rivers. First the church of Sant Vicenç was built, in the middle of a few scattered farms. In 1063 at the latest, Sant Vicenç received the status of a parish church, which it lost again in 1435 after the plague and a significant decline in population. Then she was subordinate to Santa Eulàlia de Pardines for 352 years as a suffragan community. In the 16th century the church was completely rebuilt, still in Romanesque style. Since 1555 it has been called Capella de la Mare de Déu de la Bona Sort , consisting of a main nave and two smaller side chapels. The altars are dedicated to John the Baptist , Sant Andreu de Padua and the Virgin Mary .

No urban nucleus had formed until well into the 15th century, at that time Prats de Lluçanès was still a scattered settlement . The regional rulers of the area were alternately the lords of Torelló and Castellar de n'Hug . The city was actually founded in the 17th century. The population of the entire region grew rapidly. Not only was the old quarter of the Sagrera, around the Capella, densely populated, the city also expanded to the north. The current parish church of St. Vincent (església parroquial de Sant Vicenç) was built between 1627 and 1649 in the Baroque style, not far from the old, much smaller church that remained. In 1681 King Charles II awarded Prats de Lluçanès the title '' 'Loyal Villa' ' .

In the last phase of the War of the Spanish Succession, 1714, the city was burned down twice by the troops of the Bourbon Philip V , on February 6th and July 1st.

Demographic development

Attractions

  • Museu Municipal Miquel Soldevila, the municipal museum, named after the Catalan painter Miquel Soldevila (1886–1956)
  • Sant Andreu de Llanars (Romanesque church)
  • Santuario de la Virgen de Lourdes (Church on a hill, dedicated to St. Mary of Lourdes, built in the 1880s)
  • Ermita de Sant Sebastià
  • El roc foradat (Rock of the witch Napa (real name Maria Pujol), the last witch in Catalonia to be executed)
  • La cadira d'en Galceran (strategic lookout point from the early 19th century, named after the military leader Josep Galceran i Escrigas (1794–1836))
  • Castillo de Quer (castle added to the Spanish cultural heritage in 1988)
  • Malla Tower
  • Cal Casals factory

The priest and poet Isidre Castells i Casadesús (1889–1936) was buried in the Prats cemetery.

The intangible cultural heritage of the place includes:

  • the annual folk festival (in January) in the name of Sant Vicenç,
  • Trencadansa, a 19th century dance and
  • the Christmas carol fum, fum, fum by Joaquim Pecanins

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
  2. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya: ESGLÉSIA DE LA MARE DE DÉU DE LA BONA SORT , accessed on July 15, 2020
  3. ↑ Capella de la Mare de Déu de la Bona Sort , accessed on July 15, 2020
  4. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya: ESGLÉSIA PARROQUIAL DE SANT VICENÇ , accessed on July 15, 2020
  5. ↑ AADD. Museus i Centers de Patrimoni Cultural a Catalunya. Barcelona: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010, p. 96, ISBN 84-393-5437-1
  6. ↑ Ajuntament de Prats de Lluçanès: Festa Major de Sant Vicenç 2020 , accessed on June 15, 2020
  7. ^ El-9-TV: Prats balla la Trencadansa , accessed on June 15, 2020
  8. ↑ Ajuntament de Prats de Lluçanè: Plafó fum fum fum , accessed on July 16, 2020