Folklore

FEBRUARY

 Carnival Festival

Oliana: it begins with dances and fancy dress parades, the traditional mass Carnival lunch and the burial of King Carnestoltes on Ash Wednesday.
Peramola: on Shrove Tuesday, the mass “Ranxo” lunch is held, where Catalan escudella soup is prepared for the villagers.
Ponts: It begins with dances and fancy dress parades, the traditional “Ranxo” festival and the burial of King Carnestoltes on Ash Wednesday
 

 “El Ranxo” at Ponts.  The essence of the festival is the Ranxo, a kind of Catalan escudella soup made in the street as a big meal before we move into Lent. Its ingredients are the things that have been given the day before by each house in the town to the traditional procession round the town, the “lali lali”. About sixty pots are steaming from early in the morning until the time it is distributed between all those attending. Before this, however, the pots are blessed and the authorities receive the taste of honour. It corresponds to the highpoint of the Carnival festivities. At the end of the dance and ended with the parties, the same day, is the reading of the will and the burial of the sardine.
Gualter (Baronia de Rialb): on Shrove Tuesday the "Festa del Ranxo“ is held, when this Catalan escudella soup is prepared for the villagers.

MARCH/APRIL

 Easter Festival

Oliana: “La Passió Viva”, the “Armats d’Oliana” parade and the Good Friday “Banda”.
“La Passió Viva”. Representation of the Passion and Death of Jesus performed by townspeople. We can say, then, that the town of Oliana comes together in friendship and puts everything into the representation of the Passion and Death of Jesus.
Oliana, Nuncarga, Tragó and Peramola: Caramelles, Easter Sunday.

Ponts: the "Armats" parade of the Good Friday procession in silence. And on Easter Sunday, Caramelles.la desfilada dels Armats el Divendres Sant a la Processó del Silenci. 

JULIOL

Oliana: Get-together of accordion players in the 2nd fortnight in July.
 Ponts: “Lo Festeto”. Activities aimed at participants of all ages, a drawing competition for the youngest, a botifarra card game tournament for retired people and a challenge of younger ones. The central event is a fireword display set to music with original choreography, followed by a mass "correfocs". There is then dancing until the early hours.

DECEMBER

Christmas Festivities

Oliana: Traditional Pastorets play.
Peramola: Nativity play through the streets of Peramola.

Ponts: Traditional Boxing Day concert, by the "Coral Pontsicana" choir Pontsicana. In addition, the youngest being mounted on Christmas Park, where fun is guaranteed.