Catalan traditions

Aspect of Catalan culture

thumb|Caramellaires with the traditional red barretina thumb|Caramelles in Agramunt thumb|The Caramelles, painting by Ramon Casas Caramelles are popular songs typical of Catalonia and Andorra, sung at Easter to celebrate the good new of the resurrection of Jesus, but also have a profane character. The singers (called caramellaires) are groups of singers who go out to sing in houses and farmhouses on Holy Saturday evening or Easter and Easter Monday mornings. They can be accompanied by various instruments. In the past, they collected eggs or money that people gave them with which they did a col

traditional manner in which to tell time in Catalan