The town of Prats de Mollo (66 Pyrenees Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon), 40 miles southwest of Perpignan, celebrates the Day of the Bear (Fete de l’Ours) on 14 February 2010.
OK – they are not real bears (although Bears have been reintroduced in some parts of the Pyrenees) but young men blacked up and wearing sheepskins as the “bears” which are then chased through the town by “hunters” – culminating in music and dancing in the town centre.
For more info see www.pratsdemollolapreste.com
