Natural and architectonic patrimony, people and economy from Fonollosa municipality. SPIN COLOR – The PIG project

1. Índex
1. Traditional music from Fals
2. Google map
3. Tourist Routes
4. Landscape
5. Fauna and flora
6. Patrimony
7. Towers / Churches
8. Alive nativity
9. Rural houses
10.Celebrations /fairs
11. Economy
12. GDER
13.Vocabulary

2. Location: El Bages county
Google map
Surface: 52 square kilometers
Population: About 1.700 inhabitants
Inner structure: Four villages, Camps, Canet de Fals, Fals, and Fonollosa sharing a
common Town Hall based in Fonollosa.
Economy: Mainly agricultural (1345ha) (cereals, olive trees, almond trees and vineyards)
and cattle-raising (sheep flocks and poultry). Forestal area of 1575ha (pine trees,
evergreen oaks and oak trees).
Health services: One Basic health center per village all them depending on the one at St.
Joan de Vilatorrada.
Education: A Kindergarden and a second one project to start its construction this same
year. A Primary School with a quality mark awarded by the Education Department of
Generalitat de Catalunya. Music, theatre, plastic arts and dance are specially considered.
Transport: A taxi service company located in the same village. A bus service getting to
St. Joan and Manresa all days of week. A special school bus service getting to Fonollosa
(Kindergarden and Primary School) and another one to St. Joan de Vilatorrada
(Secondary School).

3. Turistic routes

4. Landscape
shepherd barracks
La Gabriela
Jaumandreu

5. Flora and fauna
Protected birds nest around
Montagu's Harrier (Esparver cendrós/Circus pygargus), Eagles:
Àliga calçada (Hieraaetus pennatus), Àliga daurada o reial (Aquila
crysaetos) and the Peregrine Falcon (Falcó pelegrí /Falco
peregrinus).
You can frequently observe other protected birds as Goshawk
(Astor/Accipiter gentilis), Sparrowhawk ( Esparver /Accipiter
nisus), Owl (Mussol banyut/Asio otus), Common owl (Athene
noctua), Common Buzzard (Aligot comú/Buteo buteo), Falcons
Common Kestrel (Xoriguer comú /Falco tinnunculus), Common Barn
Owl (Òliba/ Tyto alba), Eurasian Eagle Owl (Duc /Bubo bubo),
Common Cuckoo (Cucut/Cuculus canorus), Eurasian Golden Oriole
(Oriol/ Oriolus oriolus), Little Tit (Mallerenga petita/Parus ater),
Coal Tit (Mallerenga carbonera /Parus major), Hoopoe
(Puput/Upupa epops), Tòrtora (turtle dove/Streptopelia turtur)
Also you can find some migratory birds: White stork(Cigonya
blanca/Ciconia ciconia), Grey heron (Bernat pescaire /Ardea
cinerea), Garceta (Martinet blanc /Egretta garcetta)
Flora: fennel, thyme (farigola / tomillo), rosemary (romaní/
romero)

6. Patrimony
Tombs,
Term crosses
and
hemidolmen

7. Term marks
Betwen thistle and sunbeam,
Betwen Cardona and Rajadell

8. Religion
Castle / Fals Towers /
Sant Vicenç Church
Sant Joan de Jaumandreu
Santa Maria del Grau s.XI-XII

9. Alive
nativity

10. Houses

11. Fairs and festivities

12. Horizontal directional and vertical drilling,
georadar, Neodren, Desalination, Refrigeration
Fish-farms, Water intake in general
Economy
Idaeus Nisus Cedrus
Wild mushroms(níscalo, babosa,
boletus, chantarela), appetiser,
snails (coocked and pâté) , and
Other products elaborated
pre-coocked frozen food market
by rural houses such as
(pig trotters, wild mushrom caneloni)
marmalade, quince jelly,
vegetables and fruits,
almonds, olives or oil.

13. GDER
www.aeroport.pagina.de

14. Townhalls from Bages county that joined the
Motion
motion against the implanting of an airport in
the term of Fonollosa

15. VOCABULARY
Alzines: evergreen oaks
Aplec: jamboree
Aviram: poultry
Barraques de pastor: shepherd barracks
Card: thistle
Cigonya: White stork
Codonyat: quince jelly
Creus de terme: term crosses
Embotits: sausages
Enòleg: wine expert
Esparver: Sparrowhawk (gavilán)
Fites de terme: term marks
Fonoll: fennel
Pins: pine trees
Raig de sol: sunbeam
Roures: oak trees
Tast i degustació: tasting and sampling
Tombes: tombs
turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
Tòrtora: