La Llacuna
La Llacuna (Catalan pronunciation: [lə ʎəˈkunə]) is a municipality of 884 inhabitants (2003), located in the comarca of Anoia, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It is a tourist town; nearby destinations include Igualada, the Vilafranca del Penedès wine route, and the Monastery of Montserrat.
Geography
The town's altitude is 615 m, and the municipality has a surface area of 52,49 km².
Annual events
Annual events include the Potada, whose date varies, but is usually in April; Aplec del Castell on the last Sunday of May; Fira de Sant Andreu on the first Sunday of December, and the pessebre vivent (living crib), a full-scale, live tableau of scenes from Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, on the second or third Sunday in December.
Food
A local specialty is carquinyolis, a type of cookie.
References
- ^ "Ajuntament de la Llacuna". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "El municipi en xifres: La Llacuna". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ "Pessebre Vivent la Llacuna" (in Catalan).
External links
La Llacuna travel guide from Wikivoyage- Llacuna Website Archived 2007-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Government data pages (in Catalan)
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