GÓSOL

Gósol

Unofficial web site.

Performed by Genís, neighbouring and resident in the village of Gósol

-The village of Gósol is located at the northwest of the region of Berguedà in Catalonia(Spain), (The Pyrenees in Lleida province).

Gósol belongs to natural park: Cadí-Moixeró.

-We arrive to Gósol by the road B-400 that leaves "El Collet" at kilometre 112,9 of road local from Abrera to Bellver de Cerdanya(Llobregat axis: old C-1411 and at the moment C-16/E-9).

-Exist a road asphalted recently in the section comprised betwen Tuixén and Gósol (C-563).

-We arrive to Gósol too, coming from: St Llorenç de Morunys(by La Coma and La Pedra), by El Port del Compte(coming from Solsona) and coming from La Seu d'Urgell. By these three routes we pass unavoidably by the villages of Tuixén and Josa del Cadí.

GASTRONOMY
-Chamois
-Peas blacks
-Corn squared
-Potatoes maskeds
-Garlic mayonnaise typical of pig-killing
-Calf with mushroom
-Wild boar

OTHERS INFORMATIONS

-Day 15th of August, Gósol celebrates the local festivities. There is a dance typical: El ball de les cosses.

-Day 20th of July is the patron saint of Gósol: Saint Margaret.

-The festivity of to reap(generally, the second saturday of August) is a tribute to works of ancestors of the village. People in the celebration uses the equipments useds at that time(at the beginning of the 20th century).

-Legend says that night of Saint Silvester(31th of desember), witches are meeted in the massif of Pedraforca.

-Day 31 of October is the fair of Everything Saints (there is sale and exposure of livestock).

-In Pentecost people of Gósol sings Caramellas (popular songs).
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Major Square

typical dance: "El ball de les cosses"

district named "La Guardia"

district named: "l'obac"

mushroom of Gósol: "Rovellons"

Mountain of Pedraforca from "Les Abeurades"

"The woman of the breads". This is a picture of the various that Pablo Ruíz Picasso painted in Gósol during spring-summer of 1906. The year 2006 celebrated the centenary of his stay in Gósol.

Gosol's emblematic cultural symbol is the Picasso Museum, which owes its existence to the visit of the great painter Pablo Ruíz Picasso to the village in the spring of the year 1906 and which lasted until the first half of August. The artist installed himself at the only inn which then existed, Cal Tampanada, at that time the property of Josep Fontdevila. In Gósol, Picasso underwent a transformation and during this period changed his palette, his sketching style and his rhythm of composition. His models were Fernande Olivier (his partner at the time), the village, the people of the area, the cows and the horses.