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Festa Major Sant Julia de Loria in Sant Julia de Loria
Sant Julià de Lòria's Festa Major runs five days around the last weekend of July, centred on the Marratxa, a traditional dance performed on the Monday in which six women representing Andorra's six historic parishes dance around two men to evoke the 1278 founding treaty, alongside La Passa and the Cerdà dance, live music and children's activities.
Six women representing Andorra's six historic parishes dance around two men, one single, one married, in a stately performance called the Marratxa, staged each year on the Monday of Sant Julià de Lòria's Festa Major to evoke the 1278 pareatges treaty between the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix that founded the co-principality.