Sant Feliu Sasserra is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the extreme north-east of the

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of Bages, in

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. It is also within the natural comarca of Lluçanès. The municipality's name has its origins in several features of the town. It is named ''Sant Feliu'' after a primitive church erected atop a rock named the ''roca d'en Feliu'', or "Felix's Rock". The main road through the municipality, which connected Prats de Lluçanès with

Artés Artés is a Spanish town in the province of Barcelona, Bages comarca (county), in Catalonia. Location The town of Artés is located at the center of Catalonia, at the eastern edge of the plain zone of Bages -commonly known as Pla de Bages. ...

in Bages, followed the area's hilly natural contours along a ridge, hence ''Sasserra''. The municipality surrounds an exclave of

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. Although the municipality lies within the natural region of Lluçanès, it voted in 2015 not to join a proposed new comarca of that name, but the plan was put on hold due to insufficient support.

Sites of interest

Façana de l'església de Sant Feliu Sasserra

* The ''Casa del Consell'', in the Gothic style, former seat of the ''sotsvegueria'' of Lluçanès. * The Church of Sant Feliu, in the Gothic style, with a Romanesque vestibule.

Demography

References

External links

Town website

Government data pages
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