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During the first fortnight of October, and coinciding with the arrival of autumn, various festive days on animals and trade are held in the main Aranese towns, which show one of the activities of the Val d’Aran, livestock, the main sector until several decades ago.

Livestock fairs commemorate the descent of cattle from the mountains to be confined to the stables. This event, which today attracts hundreds of professionals, curious people and tourists, began more than a hundred years ago to show the autochthonous cattle used by farmers in the Aranese fields. Today it has a more commercial and festive air with the parallel organization of artisan markets and traditional popular events, in addition to the livestock exhibition.

LES, 6 OCTOBER
The Les Agricultural and Livestock Fair is one of the main events held in the village, along with the Spring Fair in May and the Purísima Fair in December. In addition to a craft market, a mountain breakfast is offered in the morning.

SALARDÚ, OCTOBER 7
The origins of the Salardú Cattle Fair go back to the time when the village farmers sold the animals that had just come down from the mountains. Nowadays, in addition to the sale and exhibition of horses, sheep, cattle and goats, it has the participation of traders of all kinds of products. In the morning there will also be a popular breakfast offered by the Ajuntament del Naut Aran.

VIELHA, 8 OCTOBER
Traditionally, the Vielha Cattle Fair put an end to the fairs, since a few years ago the Bossòst Fair. It celebrates the XXII Concors de Bestiar, a popular breakfast, craft market, and various activities.

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“Perseguits e Savuats. No volien que existíssim” is an exhibition about the Jews who walked across the Pyrenees of Lleida, leaving behind their lives, their families and friends and their country in order to live in peace. The exhibition, which you can visit in Santa Maria de Mijaran until 4 November, also talks about the anonymous and disinterested people who lived in the Pyrenees and who supported them.

This travelling exhibition, which has travelled to Toulouse and Sort, is divided into five parts dedicated to the solidarity of anonymous Lleidans, to the triggers that triggered the alarms among the Jewish people, to the methods of repression and to the historical contexts of the Pyrenees and Spain.

Consult here the schedules of the exhibition.

The “Perseguidos y Salvados” (Persecuted and Saved) project is an initiative of the Lleida Provincial Council, which, through the Ilerdencs Institute of Studies, the Tourist Board and the collaboration of town councils, regional councils and the Conselh Generau d’Aran, has as its main objective to recover the memory of the passage through the Lleida Pyrenees of thousands of Jews who fled the Holocaust during the Second World War.

This initiative has also made it possible to recover and signpost the escape routes of Jewish refugees through the Pyrenees of Lleida during the Second World War. There are four signposted routes that run through Val d’Aran and Alta Ribagorça, Pallars Sobirà, Alt Urgell and Cerdanya.

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The Jornades micològiques de la Val d’Aran, organised by the Conselh Generau d’Aran, in collaboration with Val d’Aran Tourism and the Societat Catalana de Micologia, are now in their 12th year. During the event, which will take place from 13 to 16 September, different outings are held in the countryside to learn about the biodiversity of mushrooms and visit the territory and places where most of these mushrooms are concentrated. The aim of the conference is to show the great wealth of mycological species of the Aran.

REGULATED COLLECTION
Since 2014 the Conselh Generau d’Aran, regulates the collection of mushrooms in the forests of the Aran Valley through an ordinance that allows residents, owners of second homes and visitors who spend the night in tourist establishments in the Aran Valley, can collect mushrooms in the forests at no cost. To this end, the Conselh Generau issues checkbooks to town halls and hotel accommodation.

Consult the programme of the XII Jornades micològiques:

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The hiking and mountain biking microsites on the website www.visitvaldaran.com have been improved since September in the thematic sections of the maps, which allow easier identification of the routes, as they are classified by difficulty with their geographical location.

Through the Instamaps platform, in each of the activities (BTT and Hiking) we find a map of the Val d’Aran where the proposed routes and itineraries are identified. Clicking on a route opens a window where we find its main characteristics: name, difficulty, distance, image and link to the description of the route. The main actions we can do in each map are:

• Select/deselect layers
• Maximize the pop-up window.
• Measure distances on the map
• Change the background base (relief map, topographic map, image, satellite,…)
• Select a route and go to the link to download its description and generate its topographic profile.

The Instamaps tool allows you to make quick updates so that, progressively, we incorporate new information about routes, as well as new tools in the different thematic maps.

MTB CENTER MAP (ARAN TOTAL BIKE)

It also includes the updated routes of the MTB Centre (34) with its departure points (12), the Enduro de Enduromies routes (3) and the Baricauba DH routes (2).

HIKING MAP

It includes signposted routes (24) organized by difficulty, ascents to the most representative tucs (6) and location of mountain refuges and tourist offices.

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