Sant Feliu Sasserra | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Province of Barcelona#Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Catalonia |
Coordinates: | 41.9464°N 2.0231°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Barcelona |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Bages |
Leader Party: | ERC |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Joan Ramon Soler Obradors (2015)[1] |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 22.4 |
Elevation M: | 617 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | Santfeliuenc, santfeliuenca, feliuenc, feliuenca |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
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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 in Bages, followed the area's hilly natural contours along a ridge, hence Sasserra.
The municipality surrounds an exclave of Oristà.
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.[3] In 2023 it briefly became incorporated into the new Lluçanès comarca,[4] [5] before the municipality voted to reunite with Bages.[6]
Pop 1900: | 559 |
Pop 1930: | 691 |
Pop 1950: | 672 |
Pop 1970: | 591 |
Pop Latest: | 641 |
Latest Year: | 2009 |