5. Anoia's Relief
The relief of the
county is distributed
between
mountainous areas,
plains and a basin.
6. Anoia's Relief: Mountains
El Bruc is in a
mountainous area.
In this town there
is one of the most
important
mountains of
Catalonia,
Montserrat.
7. Anoia's Relief: Plains
One of the plains of
Anoia County is
situated around
Calaf.
Windmills in Calaf’s plain
8. Anoia's Relief: Òdena Basin
In the center of
Anoia County there
is a basin. Its
name is Òdena
Basin.
Igualada belongs
to this Basin.
Òdena Basin
9. Anoia's Relief: Anoia River
Anoia River crosses
the county through
the middle.
Anoia River crossing Vilanova del Camí
10. Anoia’s Geology: Rocks
Conglomerate:
We can find it in
Bellprat.
Gypsum: It's a white rock
and it has a massive rock
aspect. We can find it in
Òdena.
Clay: It's red to brown
and we can find it in
Igualada or Jorba.
12. Anoia's: Climate
The southeast is the part of the county that receives the most
precipitation.
The west is the part of the county that receives the least
precipitation and it is the part with the lowest temperatures.
The center is the part with the highest temperature.
15. Anoia’s towns: Population
More than 30,000 inhabitants.
More than 10,000 inhabitants.
More than 5,000 inhabitants.
More than 1,000 inhabitants.
Less than 1,000 inhabitants.
16. Economy: Paper Sector
One of the most important The majority of paper
economic sector in Anoia factories are in Capellades,
County is paper production. Carme and La Pobla de
Claramunt, near Anoia river.
17. Economy: Paper Mill
This paper mill is in In a paper mill the
Capellades, next to production of the paper was
the Anoia river. very slow and a little bit
Nowadays it’s a complicated.
museum.
19. Manresana Tower (Prats de Rei)
One of The Succession War
battles took place in Els Prats
de Rei in 1711.
The battle was between
Catalans-Austrians and
French-Castilians.
The battle was part of the
war to decide who would be
the next king of Spain.
The Manresana tower was
used in this battle.
20. Popular Army Training Base
The base was created in the
spring of 1938 towards the
end of the Spanish Civil War.
It was located in Pujalt.
The Republican Army created
the training camp.
Young men were recruited to
fight with the Republican
Army.
22. Geocaching
It is a high-tech game
played around the world by
adventure seekers with
GPS devices.
You have to find containers
(caches) with the
coordinates in the web. In
these caches there is a
notebook and some
objects. If you want to take
one of them you have to
leave another object.
Popular Army Training Base cache
23. L’Abric Romaní Shelter
The Neanderthals appeared 230,000
years ago and they became extinct
28,000 years ago.
In Spain there are some Neanderthal
archeological sites. One of the most
important is “L’Abric Romaní” in
Capellades.
L’Abric Romaní
24. L’Abric Romaní Shelter (II)
Neanderthals controlled a lot of activities:
They painted the walls of the caves.
They made knives and other utensils. They ate a lot of vegetables
and a little bit of protein.
They were very intelligent and they used the fire.
26. Anoia legends:
The Drummer of the Bruc
In the 19th century there was a war in Spain called The
Napoleonic War.
In 1808 the Napoleonic Army was ready to attack the village of El
Bruc.
The villagers did all they could do to fight against the French.
27. Anoia legends:
The Drummer of the Bruc (II)
One boy was playing the drum at
the top of the mountain.
He multiplied the sound of the
drum and the French army
thought there were thousands of
soldiers.
They turned back because they
thought it was a better army than
theirs.
29. Christmas Festivities
The three The Living Nativity
Wise Men
The Little The Christmas Log
Shepherds
30. Igualada’s traditional festivity
La Mostra:
It is a theatre fair for children and
teenagers which is well known over
the country.
It’s celebrated in Igualada in April.
31. Claramunt Castle
Claramunt castle is
located at the top of
Claramunt mountain.
32. Alta Anoia Chickpeas
Ingredients: Preparation:
- 300 g. of chickpeas. ●
Boil the spinachs with a
- Desalted cod (4 little amount of water
pieces).
- 1 kg. of spinachs. and salt.
- ½ red pepper. ●
In a saucepan, fry some
- 2 garlics.
- 2 tomatoes. garlics, peppers and
- Oil. tomatoes.
- Salt. ●
Add the chickpeas and
- Water.
- Broth. cod.
●
Shake the pan and add
some broth to cook the
chickpeas.
●
Let it boil and at the
last moment add the
spinachs.
33. Conclusion:
Summarize the presentation
We have worked so much with this
presentation… Although it doesn’t seem it, we
have spent a lot of time working on it.
We have also learned and
discovered some facts about our county.
34. Conclusion:
Summarize the course
Judith Heins came to Spain in order to
help us with our English.
We have done a lot of activities about
Anoia County. Every week we worked on
differents topics, including history, culture,
etc.
35. Discuss what you learned
In general, we have learned a lot about all
the themes we have worked on.
We already knew something about some
themes, but others (as the typical recipe
or the population of the county) were
unknown for us.
36. What was the most interesting and
surprising?
In our opinion the most interesting
information was about the popular army
base, because we didn’t know anything
about it.
The most surprising for us was knowing
about the production of paper in a paper
mill.
37. How will you use this information in the
future?
Maybe we won’t use never this
information, but we think that it is
important to know about your county, its
traditions, its geography, its history, etc.
38. Bibliography
Physical Map of Catalonia
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/
Anoia Relief
http://www.directe.cat
http://www.enciclopedia.cat/fitxa_v2.jsp?NDCHEC=0046851
Manresana Tower
http://catpatrimoni.com
Popular Army Training Base
http://www.thenakedscientists.com
