La Llacuna

Municipality in Catalonia, Spain
Coat of arms of La Llacuna
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41°28′27″N 1°32′3″E / 41.47417°N 1.53417°E / 41.47417; 1.53417Country SpainCommunity CataloniaProvince BarcelonaComarcaAnoiaGovernment
 • MayorJosep Parera Tort (2015)[1]Area • Total52.2 km2 (20.2 sq mi)Population
 (2018)[3]
 • Total863 • Density17/km2 (43/sq mi)Websitewww.lallacuna.cat

La Llacuna 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.[4]

Food

A local specialty is carquinyolis, a type of cookie.

References

  1. ^ "Ajuntament de la Llacuna". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  2. ^ "El municipi en xifres: La Llacuna". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  3. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  4. ^ "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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