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3 unusual facts about Berga


La Guita Xica

It is a protective dragon that defends the people of Catalonia and the Eucharist's festivals of Patum de Berga.

Soldiers and Slaves

Cohen details how the prisoners, many of whom were accused by their Nazi captors of being Jewish, were mixed in with victims of the Holocaust and sent to a concentration camp in Berga.

Stalag IX-B

The camp was also the site of the segregation and removal of Jewish-American troops who, once identified, were transferred to the labor camp at Berga.


County of Manresa

The Valle de Lord was attached to the County of Urgell and the pagus of Berga (Berguedà) to the County of Cerdanya, but the region of the Ripollès, the Lluçanès, the Plana de Vic, and the Guilleries were structured around the city of Ausa, a region which in ancient times had been ethnically distinct, inhabited by the Ausetani.

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve has an area of 30,034 hectares and lies in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz on the territory of the towns of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga, Südharz and Wallhausen.

White-winged Flufftail

The three Ethiopian sites are the Suluta Valley wetlands, the Berga wetlands and the Wersebi wetlands near Addis Ababa.

Wifred II

Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya (c. 970 – 1050), Count of Cerdanya (988–1035; as Wifred II) and Count of Berga (1003–1035; as Wifred I)

William I, Count of Cerdanya

William I Raymond (Guillermo Ramón or Guillem Ramon) (1068–1095) was the count of Cerdanya and Berga from the year of his birth till that of his death, giving up Berga a year earlier to his son William-Jordan.

Willy Hack

In November, 1944 Hack left Dora and was made commandant of the Berga labor camp near Greiz.


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