Caragols a la llauna (or cargols a la llauna, in certain dialects, or "cargolada" in Northern Catalonia) is a delicacy of Catalan cuisine. It is a simple plate for land snails cooked on a grill, or in a llauna (tin pan) in an oven. [1] They are served with aioli or vinagrette. [2] The dish is particularly favored in Terres de Lleida, where it has been promoted since 1980 by the Aplec del Caragol de Lleida, and in the Pyrenees. The same term is also used for a similar dish in Andorra. [3]
Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia. It is the capital and largest town in the comarca of Segrià, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It had 140,797 inhabitants as of 2022.
Andorra la Vella is the capital of the Principality of Andorra. It is located high in the east Pyrenees, between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parish that surrounds the capital.
Andorra is a landlocked country in Europe, which lies between France and Spain, whose transport infrastructure is primarily road provision.
The Segre is a river tributary to the Ebro with a basin comprising territories across three states: France, Andorra and Spain.
Catalan cuisine is the cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Northern Catalonia and Andorra, the second of which has a similar cuisine to that of the neighbouring Alt Urgell and Cerdanya comarques and which is often referred to as "Catalan mountain cuisine". It is considered a part of western Mediterranean cuisine.
The Province of Lleida is one of the four provinces of Catalonia. It lies in north-eastern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia, and is bordered by the provinces of Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Zaragoza and Huesca and the country of France and the principality of Andorra. It is often popularly referred to as Ponent.
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany, GCIH is an Andorran lawyer and politician, who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 2009 to 2011. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party (PS) in June 2000, in which he held the position of first secretary between 2000 and 2004. He was the leader of the opposition at the General Council between 2005 and 2009.
Ramón Malla i Call was Bishop of Lleida. From 1969 until 1971 he was Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Urgell during a sede vacante and therefore acting Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra. He was born in La Seu d'Urgell, Catalonia. He was ordained as priest on 16 December 1948, in Salamanca. On 24 July 1968 he was consecrated bishop of Lleida. On 19 December 1999 he became Emeritus Bishop.
Carme Pinós is a Spanish architect.
The Xarxa Vives d'Universitats, formerly known as Institut Joan Lluís Vives, is the network of Catalan language universities. XVU was founded in 1994 and it is headquartered in the Valencian Community, in the city of Castelló de la Plana. On May 21, 2008, it was integrated into the Ramon Llull Institute.
Montferrer i Castellbò is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
Jordi Escura Aixas is an Andorran former footballer. He played for 13 years with the Andorra national football team from 1998 to 2011, during which time he made 65 appearances without scoring. Escura worked as a physiotherapist with UE Lleida from 2005 to 2011 and then with RCD Espanyol for two seasons.
Jordi Ausàs i Coll is a Spanish politician from Catalonia, Mayor of La Seu d'Urgell from 2003 to 2008 and Minister of Governance and Public Administration of Catalonia in the José Montilla government (2008–2010). He is a member of Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC).
The cocaCoc or Fogassa is a pastry typically made and consumed in Catalonia, the Aragonese Strip, most of Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra and in French Catalonia.
Lleida–Alguaire Airport is an airport located in Alguaire, Catalonia, Spain; about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the centre of Lleida and about 150 km (93 mi) from the centre of Barcelona.
Pyrénées-Orientales, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It borders the departments of Ariège to the northwest and Aude to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the east and the Spanish province of Girona to the south and the country of Andorra to the west. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish exclave of Llívia, and thus has two distinct borders with Spain. In 2019, it had a population of 479,979. Some parts of the Pyrénées-Orientales are part of the Iberian Peninsula. It is named after the Pyrenees mountain range. In the context of catalan nationalism, it is also known as Northern Catalonia, based on the historical name of this region.
The first Paréage of Andorra was a feudal charter signed in Lleida on 8 September 1278. It codified a lay and ecclesiastical agreement between the Count of Foix, Roger-Bernard III, and the Bishop of Urgell, Pere d'Urtx, establishing their joint sovereignty over the territory of Andorra. The paréage established the system of condominium in Andorra, placing it under suzerainty of both lords. This system was later ratified in 1993 by the signing of the Constitution of Andorra.
Bondia is a newspaper published in Catalan. It is published in two editions:
Francisco "Paco" Martínez Bonachera, is a Spanish football coach.
Àngel Ros i Domingo is a Spanish politician and statesman. He was Mayor of Lleida from 2004 to 2018. He is the president of Socialists' Party of Catalonia since 25 July 2014 until 2019, and Ambassador of Spain to Andorra since 3 August 2018.
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