Fia-faia: a unique celebration of the winter solstice
Fia-faia is the celebration that opens the Christmas festivities in the Bergadan villages of Bagà and Sant Julià de Cerdanyola. Although nowadays –and since quite ancient times– it’s fully assimilated in the Christian Christmas, its origin goes back far before the Christianisation of these lands; it’s a pagan winter solstice ritual, a prayer to the sun […]