Prats de Lluçanès

MY TOWN

Our Town!

Prats de Lluçanès is a municipality in the comarca of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

It is situated in the west of the comarca, on a plain between the Lluçanès and Merlès rivers.

Presentation!

State: SPAIN Community: Catalonia Province: Barcelona Region: OSONA Language : Spanish and Catalan

Shield and flag SHIELD OF Prats de Lluçanès: The arms of Prats de Lluçanès have traditionally

shown Lluçà Castle. The Four Roses are an allusion to the name of Prats , meaning " meadows " in Catalan.

FLAG OF Prats de Lluçanès: oblong flag of proportions two of stop by three of length, light blue, with yellow castle, closed red. The four white roses on every corner.

Weather There frost about 50 days a year and often the minimum temperatures are

below freezing. The average annual temperature is around 11 ° C.

In winter with very low temperatures and summer months the thermometer can reach 30-35 ° C

Relieve

The Lluçanès is a place of tranquility, between forests of red pine and white pine, oaks , and fields of cultivated land where rainfed cereal and fodder that make colors are the first pleasure of the senses prevails .

Our school!

Our school FEDAC-PRATS previously called "Presentation of the Virgin" belongs to the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation.

The school opened on 1 April of the same year.

From 2010 we joined the FEDAC Foundation (Educational Foundation Anunciata Dominican Father Coll)

Interesting places!

The font, called them three sources, was built in the year 1746, plus source was also used to water the animals of the field.

Les 3 fonts – Three sources

El Sarafeig - The public laundry

The public laundry was built in 1911, near the stream and Merdinyol Three Fountains, to enable a more suitable for washing clothes, because until then it was the same stream that runs along the washroom, but a little higher.

The present building of the sixteenth century, Romanesque tradition; has a rectangular home with cruise and vault, plastered. To the west, there is a door lintel and window shaped oculus. Inside it has two side chapels to worship Saint John the Baptist and St. Anthony of Padua, and an image of Mary, said before today chapel of women and chapel of the Good Luck.

In 1996 it was restored throughout its interior.

Capella de la Bona Sort - Chapel of the Good Luck.

Ca l'Enric, probably built in the seventeenth century, and therefore one of the few houses that were preserved in the town after it was burned by the troops of Philip in 1714.

Ca l’Enric

It is a baroque building, structured around a large main hall, two sides and a chapel dedicated to the Blessed attached to the presbytery.

Sant Vicens

Built in 1881 and expanded in 1958, it is one of the most visited of all pradencs monuments. From your balcony 741 meters you can see one of the most beautiful views of the region's Lluçanès.

Sanctuary of Lourdes