#la garrotxa

The volcanoes of La Garrotxa (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia) from above.

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.

Taking a bath in La Garrotxa, in the mountains of the Comarques Gironines, Catalonia.

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).

Catalan legends and mythology 8/?