De Salses a Guardamar i de Fraga a l’Alguer: les comarques de parla catalana una a una. 11/88: el Pallars Jussà (High Pyrenees, Catalonia).
Pallars Jussà is a shire in the Pyrenee mountains of Catalonia, around the course of the Noguera Pallaresa river. Its capital city is Tremp.
Like around some other rivers of the Catalan Countries, raiers used to make their simple boats made of birch tree, and in summer they sailed down the Noguera Pallaresa to sell the wood they collected in the Pyrenee mountains. This economic activity is no longer practised, but some people still learn to be raiers and every year there is a festivity that commemorates this old job where people make the rais (boats) and sail in the traditional way to la Pobla de Segur. That weekend there are also many concerts of traditional and modern music and fairs of typical food from the Pallars.
Like this whole area, there are many Medieval churches and villages, and the mountains are beautiful.
Photos from pallarsjussa.net, elsraiers.cat, vallfosca.net, wikimedia, fallairespobla, pnaiguestortes, and bcncatfilmcommision.com.
