HUMAN NATURE

While places such as the Pyrenee, the costa Brava or Barcelona can steal the limelight when attrating touris to Catalonia, the inland country of Osona offers visitors beutiful surraudings in harmony with human history and habitation. The beauty abd diversity of the landscape, the importance of the area's historical past,evident through remains from periods such as the Iberian, Romanesque, Baroque and Art Nouveau the evidence of a thriving economy from farming to industry the traditions, fairs and markets, which have became cultural landmarks, a cuisine rich in produce and dishes, and the activity of the local people, from poets to philosophers or from bandits to industrialists.