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Traditional dances
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Traditional dances

Stick Dance

June 29 is the Festa Major de Sant Pere, which is held in Malpàs, where they perform the Stick Dance. It is the only town in Alta Ribagorça that preserves this typical and deep-rooted tradition, led only by men.

Ball Pla, dance of Sant Isidre and La Pila

Taüll celebrates the feast in honour of Saint Isidore, its patron saint, on the third Sunday of July. The Pla dance is danced together with the Dance of Sant Isidre. Next, the pile is made, a human tower made only by men and characterized by making a kind of human tower, with the particularity that whoever crowns the tower does so with their feet up.

Ball Tatero

Every year on August 15, Vilaller’s Festa Major, the “Tatero” Dance is danced made up of four married and single couples with typical clothing who dance in the four corners of the square.

Dance Pla de Durro

It is danced once a year, during the girls’ party of Durro (September), with the participation of two single butlers and two married butlers.

Information

  • General information:

    They are dances that perpetuate the tradition of centuries ago: Malpàs stick dance; ball Pla, from Sant Isidre and La Pila de Taüll; dance Tatero de Vilaller and dance Pla de Durro. They are held in the towns of Malpàs, Taüll, Vilaller and Durro.