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The valley’s Some of the very first monasteries settled in the small churches are beautiful examples of the rural and + Capdella Hydroelectric Museum + Vall Fosca cable car Pallars Jussà region and actively participated in traditional Romanesque art of Pallars, preserved in an + Aigüestortes National Park + Trekking routes GR11.20 the transformations that took place during the unrivalled setting. + Canyoning and MTB Romanesque period. Nowadays, evidence of these Ancestral charm economic and spiritual hubs is scarce. THE POWER OF THE MONASTERIES Sant Pere de les Maleses Vall Fosca is a high mountain region whose identity is closely linked to its geographical setting. As + Collegats & l’Argenteria + Rafter’s Museum in Pobla de Sant Pere de les Maleses, dating from the 9th century, was the heir to a traditional livestock economy, the Segur + Climbing and canyoning + The Salt Flats of Gerri de built next to a cave in the very heart of the Collegats gorge. landscape still preserves the traces of its ancestral la Sal + Boumort The monastery occupied a strategic location, next to the past. Cabins, stone walls and old bridle paths road that had connected the Pallars Jussà and Sobirà since accompany the visitor at all times. It is a nerve ancient times. It has deteriorated considerably and today centre for sustainable tourism and offers traces of the complex only retains part of the chancel. From the 11th rural and traditional Romanesque art. century onwards it was linked to the monastery of Gerri de la Sal and, as early as the 17th century, the opening of the Small Romanesque treasures Collegats path relegated it to a secondary position. Sant Vicenç de Capdella and Sant Martí de la Torre Under a conglomerate roof de Capdella are two jewels of Romanesque art in the valley. The Church of Sant Vicenç boasts a The Collegats rocky substrate is formed by a powerful mass Romanesque style of very high quality. Its interior of alluvial conglomerates deposited in the Oligocene, which housed the monumental wooden carving of a intersperse sandstone and silt at their base. The erosion of crucified Christ, currently on display at the MNAC. these finer materials favours the formation of caves, which have been used ancestrally by man as shelter or dwellings. In Sant Pere de les Maleses, geology seemed to want to give shelter to the small spiritual community that chose this place to settle as early as the ninth century. As legend has it... La Cova de la Serp, on the footpath to the Sant Pere ravine, was inhabited by a serpent that devoured men and beasts that passed by. A monk, tired of Church of Sant Vicenç de Capdella losing the donkeys that carried the food to the In the heart of the valley stands Sant Martí de la Torre monastery, prepared a deadly trap for him, loading a de Capdella, which dates back to the 10th century. A donkey with bread stuffed with knives. From then on small apse chapel of great aesthetic beauty has been the carcass of the beast can be seen on the roof of preserved, attached to the remains of what might be the cave (legend collected by Pep Coll). a bell tower. As you continue through the villages of the valley, you will discover other small treasures such as Santa Llúcia de Paüls or Sant Cristau d’Oveix. The Serpent Cave Monastery of Gerri de la Sal Church of Sant Martí de la Torre de Capdella The monastery of Santa Maria de Gerri de la Sal is an exceptional monastic ensemble on the threshold of the two regions of Where are the castles? Pallars. Founded in the 9th century, the salt flats endowed it Records show that between the 11th and 13th centuries, with great economic and lordly power. Despite subsequent Vall Fosca was well fortified, and they mention an transformations, its church is one of the best examples of 12th important group of castles of which, curiously, nothing century Pallars Romanesque architecture, not surprisingly it was can be found. The castles of Mont-ros and Estavill, from considered the most important community of the period. the 11th century, are a few examples. Monastery of Gerri de la Sal: (+34) 677 701 820 Santa María de Covet de María Santa Sant Gervàs castle Gervàs Sant Monumental set of Mur of set Monumental essence a journey to our to journey a Basin on the Iberian Peninsula” (since 1998) (since Peninsula” Iberian the on Basin Romanesque, and make the most of your trip.