Sant Feliu Sasserra is a municipality in the extreme north-east of the comarca of Bages, in Catalonia. It is also within the natural comarca of Lluçanès.
Sant Feliu Sasserra | |
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Coordinates: 41°56′47″N 02°01′23″E / 41.94639°N 2.02306°E | |
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Province | Barcelona |
Comarca | Bages |
Government | |
• Mayor | Joan Ramon Soler Obradors (2015)[1] (ERC) |
Area | |
• Total | 22.4 km2 (8.6 sq mi) |
Elevation | 617 m (2,024 ft) |
Population (2018)[3] | |
• Total | 600 |
• Density | 27/km2 (69/sq mi) |
Demonym(s) | Santfeliuenc, santfeliuenca, feliuenc, feliuenca |
Website | www |
The municipality's name has its origins in several features of the town. It is named Sant Feliu after a primitive church erected atop a rock named the roca d'en Feliu, or "Felix's Rock". The main road through the municipality, which connected Prats de Lluçanès with Artés in Bages, followed the area's hilly natural contours along a ridge, hence Sasserra.
The municipality surrounds an exclave of Oristà.
Although the municipality lies within the natural region of Lluçanès, it voted in 2015 not to join a proposed new comarca of that name, but the plan was put on hold due to insufficient support.[4] In 2023 it briefly became incorporated into the new Lluçanès comarca,[5][6] before the municipality voted to return back to Bages.[7]
Sites of interest
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- The Casa del Consell, in the Gothic style, former seat of the sotsvegueria of Lluçanès.
- The Church of Sant Feliu, in the Gothic style, with a Romanesque vestibule.
Demography
1900 | 1930 | 1950 | 1970 | 1986 | 2009 |
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559 | 691 | 672 | 591 | 641 |
References
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External links
Media related to Sant Feliu Sasserra at Wikimedia Commons
- Town website (in Catalan)
- Government data pages (in Catalan)