De Salses a Guardamar i de Fraga a l’Alguer: les comarques de parla catalana una a una. 40/88: la Llitera (la Franja de Ponent).
Llitera is a very rural shire, where most villages have a few hundred inhabitants. It’s located at the border with Aragon. Its cultural capital city is Tamarit de Llitera.
A popular element in the festivities of Llitera is the “totxets” dance (ball dels totxets), a traditional dance where the dancers use wooden sticks. It’s said that this was first danced in the year 1150 in town of Camporrells in the wedding celebrations for Ramon Berenguer IV Count of Barcelona and Peronella, the heiress to Aragon.
Photos from Breit, Santialpino, Diego Dielso, los caminos de santiago, Guadalupe Cervilla, somos Litera, Ajuntament Tamarit de Llitera, EscapadaRural.
