My friend Alícia told me one day that she would have liked to have a village to spend the summer in. It is a very different concept to have a village than to have a second home on the beach or anywhere else. In the village you have roots, connections, you surely have relatives there or with a bit of luck your grandparents still live there. Nothing happens in the village, there isn't much and for not having, perhaps there isn't even a beach. There life stops, the days pass slowly and lazily and the day's work is just waiting for it to be less hot to go out and play in the street.

When the High Mountain Law was passed, Catalonia was not part of the European Union. At that time (in 1983), the law was passed with the intention of addressing problems such as the lack of hospitals, schools, and libraries in high mountain villages, as well as the infrastructure and communication deficit. Now, more than 40 years later, the Catalan government believes that the priorities of these territories have changed and, therefore, the law needs updating.