Oct 10, 2021
Photo by carlosgirona1 on instagram, taken in La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia).
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Photo by carlosgirona1 on instagram, taken in La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia).
La Vall d’en Bas
The volcanoes of La Garrotxa (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia) from above.
Photo by Vol de coloms: vols en globus per la Garrotxa.
De Salses a Guardamar i de Fraga a l’Alguer: les comarques de parla catalana una a una. 14/88: la Garrotxa (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia).
The name “Garrotxa” comes from the ancient Iberian language and it’s believed to mean “rough land” or “broken land”, as a reference to its mountains, and most importantly, its volcanoes. The Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa (Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park) has about 40 well-conserved craters of dormant volcanoes. When it comes to nature, it’s also worth mentioning the Fageda d’en Jordà, a forest of European beech trees that grew on the dry lava of the Croscat volcano.
The Garrotxa shire has a spectacularly high biodiversity. For comparison, Garrotxa alone has more biodiversity than the whole United Kingdom (x), even though the UK has an area of 242,495 km2 (93,628 sq mi) and Garrotxa only 735 km² (even less than half the surface of London alone).
Garrotxa is also known for its beautiful Medieval villages, such as Besalú, Santa Pau, Castellfollit de la Roca, and Sant Joan de les Fonts among others. Its capital city is Olot.
Photos from jose_soria_mendieta_, joaquimbatistasimo, albarosan2105, soc_ecoturista, turismegarrotxa.
Taking a bath in La Garrotxa, in the mountains of the Comarques Gironines, Catalonia.
Photo by Furgo y Porteo (instagram)
The King of Spain is finally in the sewers?
On October 3rd 2017, just two days after Catalonia’s independence referendum and the violent attacks by the Spanish military police to the voters that sent over a thousand people to the hospital, the king of Spain Felipe VI gave a very insulting speech on the national TV defending police brutality on Catalan citizens
On October 3rd 2018, one year later, in the city of Olot (in la Garrotxa, Catalonia) the association Assemblea d’Artistes de la Garrotxa placed speakers in the sewers around the city and played the king’s speech, as well as other speeches by Mariano Rajoy and other right-wing Catalanophobic politicians, from the sewers. Where they belong.
As my friends from @useless-unitedstatesfacts and useless-brazilfacts said, he’s the reverse Pennywise, such a reverse Pennywise that not only do you not enter the sewers, you secede from the country entirely. (Or at least you try to).
Video credits to Catalunya Free TV
Castellfollit de la Roca
Catalan legends and mythology 8/?
El Pare de la Neu (“the Father of Snow”) is the one who makes it snow. In the Garrotxa area, it is said that every February he throws a huge party where he invites a lot of mythological creatures from both sides of the Pyrenees, and they dance and eat a banquet that consists mainly of geese. During the previous months, his servants take out the feathers of the many geese they will eat, and when these feathers fall to the floor they become the snow.