Culture
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Laciana Valley has a great cultural wealth at all levels. Part of this wellness comes from the creation of the Public Teaching School of Sierra y Pambley, founded in 1887. Thanks to this institution, the illiteracy rate in Laciana was of 0%, while it was higher in the rest of Spain.
Besides this culture, traditions are very important in the Valley, and they have influenced life and tradition, even nowadays.
Language:
In this area people speak and spoke a variety of Asturleonés
named Patsuezu. Even though today it is mostly spoken in family environment, there are numerous associations that study this language and try to recover and maintain it. Currently, there are several writers, musicians, theater groups, and folkloric groups, who use the language in their work. Some notorious writers are Emilce Núñez, Severiano Álvarez, Guadalupe Lorenzana and Roberto González-Quevedo. People in the area usually speak Spanish but adding some Patsuezu words to it. There’s even a saying, which goes: Quien nun diga tseite, tsume, tsino, tsana, nun ía del Vatse de Tsaciana
(If you can’t say milk, fire, linen, wool, you’re not from Laciana Valley). This language changes the traditional ll
from asturleonés to ts, which is pronounced as the English ch
(i.e in chart). That is why you can found also this Valley named as Tsaciana.
Folklore:
There are several dancing groups in the area. These groups try to recover the traditional dances, called garrucha
and jota montañesa. They also try to recover the traditional wedding and popular songs. People in these groups use the regional clothing, handmade with brown cloth. Apart from the traditional folklore, there are in the zone several folk groups that mix the language and the traditional folklore with modern instruments and rhythms. Both, modern and traditional groups use the typical instruments from the area, which are square tambourines, berimbao (a type of wind instrument),diatonic button accordion and castanets.
The first multilanguaje page about our valley