Cova del Bolet

Known since time immemorial by the people of the region and about which many legends were told. Mentioned by Font i Sagué in his Catàleg (1897), it gives brief references from other informants. Despite having intended to visit it at the end of his campaign in the Priorat, Muntanyes de Prades and Alt Penedès (summer of 1899), the tiredness of those days made him postpone the visit for later, but he never came to visit it. The first speleological exploration was carried out by M. Faura i Sans with some friends from the Mas Guinoles on 6 August 1907 (it was his second experience underground). His visit was relatively superficial, calculating some 60 metres of length and publishing a first very schematic sketch. He also made some first test digs in the entrance hall, without obtaining any result. Many years later it began to be visited by speleologists and was also the object of different archaeological campaigns that gave good results, finding remains from the Neolithic and Eneolithic. In 1934 it is visited by Francesc Español in his biospeleological research and, with the same purpose, A. Lagar visits it in 1950. In February 1973, Lagar with members of the SIRE – UEC carry out a detailed exploration and, among other results, they produce a new topography more complete than that of Faura. But now (October 2022), after more than 50 years, we have rediscovered in the archive of the ERE – CEC a very accurate topography that we calculate was made towards the end of the 1960's. It is not until 1993 that members of the GE Pedraforca (Barcelona) carry out a series of explorations throughout the Mediona area and produce what until now had been the clearest and most complete topography of the cavity.

Coleoptera

Troglocharinus españoli Zar. (F. Español, 1934)