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Every February 21, on the eve of feast of the Chair of St. Peter, people light huge bonfires called biikebrennen.
Les precipitacions entre el 17 i 18 d’octubre del 1940 foren tan intenses, que en algun punt del territori se superaren els 1.000 mm.
Rainfall between October 17 and 18, 1940, was so intense that it exceeded three feet in some parts of the region.
Antognioni Brunhoso vive en el interior de una antigua fábrica textil a las afueras de Sant Esteve d’en Bas.
Antognioni Brunhoso lives inside an old textile factory on the outskirts of St. Esteve in the Vall d’en Bas, Catalonia.
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