Summer
Summer is the time of year during which fruit ripens - I'm sure you can think of lots of fruit you like and you can eat in summer!
In nature we also find a lot of wild fruit, like blackberries for example.
Summer is the time of year during which fruit ripens - I'm sure you can think of lots of fruit you like and you can eat in summer!
In nature we also find a lot of wild fruit, like blackberries for example.
The permanent exhibition at the Prison-Museum of Sort takes as its title El Camí de la Llibertat or The Road to Freedom. During the Second World War thousands of people, many of them Jewish, made the hazardous crossing of the Pyrenees in flight from Nazi barbarism. The mountain passes were silent witnesses to the many hardships these people endured, and this museum explains some of the challenges they had to face.
This museum aims to explain and commemorate the Spanish Civil War as it affected the Pallars. It shows how the front moved through these valleys, and the bunkers and other places that were fortified as the battles waxed and waned. It tells the story too of how the defeated Republican soldiers passed through these valleys into exile along with the civilians who also fled by the mountains passes towards France, in a terrible drama that we must hope will never be repeated.
Here you will see the remains of an old sanctuary and hospital, or lodging place, which in times long gone by welcomed foot travellers and horse riders making the often arduous journey between the Pallars and the Alt Urgell. It is accessible in winter with snowshoes or by Nordic skiing.
Here you will see the remains of an old sanctuary and hospital, or lodging place, which in times long gone by welcomed foot travellers and horse riders making the often arduous journey between the Pallars and the Alt Urgell. It is accessible in winter with snowshoes or by Nordic skiing.
The site of the hermitage church offers a natural viewing point from which can be seen the valleys of Farrera, Cardós and the Coma de Burg.
The site of the hermitage church offers a natural viewing point from which can be seen the valleys of Farrera, Cardós and the Coma de Burg.
The hidden valley of Baiasca harbours intriguing villages and buildings of great beauty, such as this Romanesque hermitage church, from which there are views of the woods and fields that once sustained the many people who lived in Arestui and Baiasca, of whom few remain.
Starting out from Rubió, the highest village in Catalonia, a short walk will take you to this viewing point, from which you will have a broad panorama of the valley of Siarb.
This viewing point and the three routes which meet there can be reached by the signposted walking trail which takes 55 minutes (going and coming back), starting from the manned refuge of the Pleta del Prat, which is accessible all year round by a tarmacadamed road.