Cova del Bon Pastor

All the small caves in the tosques of Sant Miquel del Fai have been known since the mid-19th century and were the subject of writings and poems typical of the period, especially by Víctor Balaguer.

Despite this, the first mention of this cavity in particular is provided by Faura i Sans who, accompanied by Daví i Piñol, visited it on 5 July 1910, calling it Cova del Bon Pastor or Cova de Sant Martí.

Years later, we do not know whether in the decade of the 1930s or 1940s, it was visited by N. Llopis Lladó, who made a schematic survey that remained unpublished until the publication of volume 6 of the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (1980).

In 1986 it was visited by colleagues Jordi Lloret and Montse Ubach, who made a much more accurate survey and prepared a brief article that was published three years later.

It should be recorded that we have preferred to catalogue it with the oldest name of which we have record: Cova del Bon Pastor and to leave as synonyms that of Cova de Sant Martí (as Faura says) and the name by which the cave has been known for some years (les Tosques) within the toponymy of the Espai Natural de Sant Miquel del Fai.