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Hello my name is Albertina, I’m a sloth and I passed some months living
in Austria, Portugal, Finland and Netherland. In this occasion I am going
to explain the last month that I stayed in Catalonia.
I’ve been living in Sant Fruitós de Bages with some teenagers of the
high school IES Gerbert d’Aurillac. During that days in the village I
went it’s festivity. The first day, there was a concert in the night where
the catalan group Oques Grasses played. There were a lot of people and
we danced a lot. In the second day we made a “calçotada” that consist in
eating “calçots” that are a type of onions and the sauce named
“romesco”. It’s delicious!
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In the night we went to see fireworks in the football pitch of the village!
In the village there were “els castellers” that are a human construction.
The most important cities in Catalonia have a group of “castellers” and
during the year they train and compete against the others to make the
best human tower.
We also danced “sardanes” that it’s a traditional dance in Catalonia
accompanied with a “cobla” an instrumental orchestra formed by 11
players with the following instruments:
One flabiol, a type of fipple flute played with the left hand while
a tamborí, a small drum attached to the left arm of the player, is
played with the other hand.
Four Catalan shawms – double-reed woodwinds
o Two tibles – a tible is like an oboe, but with a louder sound