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Les Masies de Voltregà

Inhabitants: 3.210
Extension: 22,22 km²
Altitude: 533 m
Source INE. Official Census survey in 1.01.2007

Description

Located in the comarca of Osona, it covers an area of 22.2 km². The municipality is made up of different centres - Vinyoles, La Gleva, and other centres of population that are growing in importance - El Despujol, El Poble-Sec, Burrissola, Sant Miquel d’Ordeig and Conanglell. Scattered throughout the area there are also numerous farmhouses.

In terms of important places within the municipality, particularly outstanding are: the Sanctuary at La Gleva, the Chapel of Sant Martí Xic, the ruins of Voltregà Castle, the Romanesque Church of Sant Esteve de Vinyoles... . Around these sites, Les Masies de Voltregà has developed a range of commercial activities such as the production and sale of homemade cured sausages, or a number of restaurants.

Places of interest

Romanesque Church of Vinyoles

Where Mn. Jacint Verdaguer acted as resident curate from 1871 to 1873, contains a series of allegorical dioramas that refer to the life of the poet, and outside which stands the laurel that he himself planted in the rectory garden, cuttings from which are today growing in many of the places he subsequently went to live in.

Sanctuary of Nostra Senyora de la Gleva

Is where many walkers choose to stop when hiking along the long-distance GR-3 footpath. Many other visitors come to the Sanctuary to admire the majestic altarpiece or to see the bedchamber that housed Mn Jacint Verdaguer during his stay at La Gleva between 1893 and 1895.

Chapel of Sant Martí Xic and ruins of Voltregà Castle

These are the oldest and historically most important group of buildings in the whole of the Voltreganès area. From here there are marvellous views of the whole of the Vic Plain.

Copper Museum

Long-distance footpaths GR 210 and PR C 49

Monumental trees