Balma de Sant Bartomeu de Fraguerau

The rock shelter measures 91 metres in length and on the S side is the built part, which constitutes the most interesting part and is where we find the rooms. Some steps are still standing, the fireplace, the ceiling is full of soot, which evidences a long stay; on this side a door gives onto the exterior, at the rear part of the construction. Further on we find a small chamber of 3.2 by 3 metres with two small windows; on the walls one can see the sockets of the beams that must have supported the floor of an upper storey now disappeared.

The main built part is formed by a room 24 metres long by about 4.5 wide where no remains of partitions are observed, there is only a small window at one end and at the other is the access door to the enclosure, which measures 3.7 metres in width.

On the exterior side one observes how in the construction of the wall there are parts built of stone and parts of rammed earth.

The cavity ends in a chaos of fallen blocks with an exit to the exterior through the upper part.

A few metres further on we find a part of the cavern called balma de les Bassetes, where the font dels Cossis is located and where dripstones are present; the water is collected in one natural cossi and two artificial ones. This corner is protected by a stone wall.

Beside the chapel, which constitutes a beautiful example of Romanesque architecture, there is a large cavity, already used during prehistoric periods; here resided a hermit monk to whom the construction of the chapel is attributed.