Alta Ribagorça*!

2008-12-10T02:03:00.000-08:00

Hello to everybody!
This is the same group of the pageweb of sweden!
the components of the informaticalpigs' team are :

Anna Blanca Torres!
Guillem Burballa!
Andrea Rosario !
Ramon Garcia Seuma!
Judit Mateus!

The finality of this blog is to inform people about ALTA RIBAGORÇA!! Look at it and enjoy yourself!

GEOGRAFY

Alta Ribagorça is one of the comarques of Catalonia. Its capital is Pont de Suert.
Municipalities of Alta Ribagorça:
El Pont de Suert
La Vall de Boí
Vilaller

Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Capital:Pont de Suert

http://www.ribagorca.com

Province:Lleida

Largest city:Pont de Suert

Demonyim:Ribagorçan

Population:4.431(2006) inhabitants

Area:426.8 km²

Population density:9.31 people/km²

Look where it is located:

http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Alt+Ribagor%C3%A7a&sll=40.396764,-3.713379&sspn=12.610155,19.6875&ie=UTF8&ll=42.407235,0.75325&spn=0.047785,0.076904&z=14 sspn=12.610155,19.6875&ie=UTF8&ll=42.407235,0.75325&spn=0.047785,0.076904&z=14

The lake of sant Maurici! In winter!

FOOD

The Alta Ribagorça gastronomy used to have a hight mountain cooking base on the natural resources, following the most ancient recipes.
Every year, during all october weekends,restaurateurs organize the gastronomic conferences of mushrooms in the Alta Ribagorça. In these conferences there is the best tradicional cooking of Ribagorça. Diferent spices of mushrooms full elaborated are the main part of the menu. A menu able to satisfy the more select tastes.
An other main local gastronomy peculiarity is the very ancient tradition of gastronomic guilds. The Sant Sebastià guild, that was created in Pont de Suert in 1503, is the most ancient and popular.

This is one of the recipe of the gastronomy of Catalonia:

With spring arriving in Catalonia and the beans with them one of the most representative dishes of the cuisine: the beans to the Catalan.

Beans to the Catalan

Ingredients for 4 people

-1 kg. soft shelled beans

-1 onion

-4 young garlic

-200 gr. of bacon

-200 gr. of black sausage

-200 gr. of white sausage (optional)

-1 branch of fresh mint

-1 stick of cinnamon

-oil

-salt

-pepper

-dry anise

Elaboration

In a pot or pan high mud Fry the bacon cut into pieces with a little oil He joined the onion and minced garlic Add beans and herbs, season, cover and let cook over low heat. After a few minutes, add the sausages not cut. Let it cook slowly until the beans are tender. Draws the sausages, cut in thick slices and put back into the pot Turn off the heat and add a dash of anise, re-cover the pot just before serving.

ADVENTURE SPORTS

Go to this page web to see a lot of phoros an read an information of adventur sports!

http://www10.gencat.net/pls/turistex/p02.comarques?dm=04&cmrc=05&tpsBarra=G

The most important adventure sport in Alta RIbagorça is skiing! A lot of people practise it going to the ski grounds and enjoy quite a lot.

Another sport in Alta Ribagorça is piraguism in lake of sant Maurici! Another sport is climbing in the Pyrenees! There are other sports that you can consult here :

TOURISM!

The Water Route is 26 km long, an average of 1.5 m wide, and entails a change in altitude of some 650 m. This is a route that runs along different sections of old and traditional pathways and cattle tracks. It runs near to the main rivers of the comarca, linking the tail of the Escales reservoir and the monastery of Lavaix, in El Pont de Suert, with the spa of Caldes de Boí.

The vall d’Adons (Adons valley) is a beautiful high plateau and is located in the southernmost part of the municipal area of El Pont de Suert (Pyrenees – Alta Ribagorça - Spain). The village of Adons, is the most important settlement in this small comarca (local district), which also contains the settlements of Abella and La Beguda. The Camí del Portús (Path to El Portús) begins at Adons, where the first of the long winding routes leads visitors through a land that is relatively poor in vegetation on account of the altitude, the karstic scenery and the lack of crop lands.