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The fountain Font Vella

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Introduction

This square and the image of the street of the same name, together with the washing machines, "the cage" (la gàbia) to iron cows and oxen when they were used to plow and had to have some good "tires" to drive, they transport us to times not far from ours. Read the panels to facilitate this trip to the past.
Breeders past, fields of cultivation, manual labor, animal help to domesticate nature and take out vital products: food, wood, ...
The torrent of the Font Vella is the one that we will now traverse on one side to Santa Magdalena and we will go down the other.
We see hazel trees next to the water in the shade of majestic aspen or poplars of mountain, and behind the children's play, a pretty carp probably planted.
Have you ever thought about the relationship between the words: laundry and gossip in Catalan? (Safareig i Xafardeig)
The relationship is clear: the laundry areas were gossip areas, diverse comments and scolding, as many of the women of the towns gathered, some of them (especially the younger ones) spent all day until their clothes were dry. (BAYDAL 2006)
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