The area offers wide possibilities to enjoy leisure and cultural activities in an astonishing environment. A personal Catalan cooking with main ingredients like "blat de moro escairat"-a way of preparing corn, usually eaten in soup-, meat, sausages and mushrooms is offered at the restaurants of the area.

La Patum de Berga During the day of Corpus Christy, Berga holds one of the most important and traditional festivities in Catalonia: La Patum. It is a festival of music, dance, colours and fire that began in the 17th century and has already become a legend and a symbol of Berga and all the area of Berguedà

Skiing and outside sports. Alpine ski and other kinds of ski can be practised at the resort "Rasos de Peguera", 14 Km. far from Berga and 120 Km far from Barcelona. At the Snow Parc of Pedraforca and La Serra de Verd you can find ideal places to make excursions on the snow and practice mountain ski. A quick access to these places is carried out through the tunnels of Cadí..

The area of Berguedà is also suitable to go track walking, climbing, practise parachuting, BTT, cave hunting and some water sports.

Picking up mushrooms, hunting and fishing are activities allowed in the area. People from the area love picking up mushrooms and are great experts on them, as well as on cooking them. Once a year they hold the "Festa dels Bolets", where mushrooms are shown to the public and competitions are made. That is why mushrooms are so very much used in cooking.

Hunting is possible, with licence, at the Reserva Nacional de Caça del Cadí.

Fishing: Trouts are captured in the rivers Bastareny and Llobregat. Other kinds of fish are found at the Pantà de la Baells.

Historic buildings at the Berguedà: Pre-romanesque churches such as "Pedret" and "Sant Esteve de Tubau" take us back to the times of the Count Guifré el Pilós and the knight and poet Guillem del Berguedà. A walk through the small towns of Bagà and Castellà de Nug will make us feel the medieval spirit of Catalonia in the Middle Ages.

The castle of Sant Ferran in Berga stands as a witness of the rough fights carried out in the year 1793 up to 1875. In those times, wars and industry were sharing a difficult balance. In 1790, a carpenter from Berga called Ramon Farguell, created an engine that would bring a revolution to textil industry, the so called Maixerina or Berguedana turned Berga into one of the most important textil centers of the country.

When the first Carline war took place, all the factories were burnt down, since they were considered a symbol of progress, and progress meant danger in those times. A visit to the Museum of the city of Berga (nearby the Town Hall) will introduce you to this world of revolutions and burnt factories.

However, the textile industry was able to survive in the area until very recently, and on the valley of the river Llobregat one can still found the "textile colonies",special places built for the factory workers, who lived and worked there together with their families.The Museum of la Colonia Vidal shows what it was like to work and live in an industrial "colonia" at the beginning of the last century.

Coal mining, found in the high part of El Berguedà, turned these valleys into an important Catalan mining spot. Some of the oldest exploitations can be visited and you can enter a coal galery in a small mining train.

This activity and the industry of cement fabrication have left buildings in the modernist style, like the Fàbrica del Clot del Moro and the garden Jardins Artigues, designed by Antoni Gaudí in La pobla de Lillet. An old small train that will go from Pobla de lillet to Clot del Moro will very soon allow the visit to Jardins Artigues, the Museum of Cement and the Transport museum.