Is this the most Catalan love story in the world?

Lo Pau de Ponts warns: his love story seems like "an example of Catalanism and Pujolism," but it's 100% real. He met his last partner last year at a sardana gathering in Collbató, at the foot of Montserrat. The sardana was playing. Maria of the braids with music by Josep Saderra i Puigferrer and lyrics by Ramon Ribera i Llobet, premiered for the first time during the San Martiriano Festival in 1949. "We had to dance side by side and I said to her: 'Watch out, my hands sweat a lot.' She looked at me and replied: 'suadores, it means you're hot.'" Pau de Ponts was so captivated by that answer that he thought: "This is the right one."

On their first date, she ordered a mint poniol and he ordered "a Cacaolat, of course." On the day of the Virgin of Montserrat, they both went up to the monastery to greet the Moreneta. Their main hobbies were "dancing sardanas, going on excursions, and going to mass." "Basically, a life of Convergència i Unió," he says smiling. "We resembled traits of the Pastorets. I suppose that sharing the same hobbies also means sharing the same way of living and seeing the world, life, and the country," reflects the musician, who admits that he is very embarrassed to talk about love in public.

He explains that he tends to notice those people who at first glance seem "simple, without great pretensions." "I like good people," he says. When he falls in love, he says, he likes to be "attentive and passionate" and believes that the ingredients for a happy love are, above all, respect and humor. Although he is now single, he remains friends with his ex-partner, with whom "they ended well."

He assures that he hasn't suffered many heartbreaks and that he really enjoys the single life. "If I find someone and fall in love, perfect! But I'm not one to actively seek out a partner. I'm fine on my own," he says. To define what love means to him—and to take a break from all the Catalan culture—Lo Pau de Ponts says goodbye by singing a Julio Iglesias song: "Love isn't just words you randomly throw around in a moment without thinking. It's other things you feel without speaking, when you smile and hug.".