#festes de l'ossa

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Very well explained!

The Bear festivities used to be done in more towns, most of them in the Pyrenee mountains but also some in other parts of Catalonia and at least two places in the Valencian Country. It has survived and is still done only in some of them, as OP says in Northern Catalonia and Andorra.

Map of the Catalan Countries with dots on where they celebrate festivities with a representation of the bear during the Carnival cycle: green it's still done, dark red it's not done anymore.

Representations of the bear in other festivities (Corpus, moixigangues and festa major): blue it's still done, purple it's not done anymore.

Festa de l’Ós i l’Ossa del Alt Vallespir i Andorra | European Traditions 

“On Cadlemas the Bear leaves the den, and if he finds the weather fine he goes back to sleep one more time”

Once the most powerful mammal of continental Europe, the Bear was feared and adores since the Neolithic. In the mountains of the Catalonian Pyrenees and Andorra many bears once roamed. Feared and revered many traditions displayed the awaken of the bear at the start of February around Candlemas. Now five village keep this traditions during a cold winter day someone plays the Bear who kills, kidnaps womena and must be captured: natures awakes, society mocked and Spring is closer than ever. 

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