Balma de l'Espluga

A rock shelter worked in the Serra de l'Obac, with opus spicatum walls and remains of an old farmhouse, known since time immemorial.

Mura • Bages 7m

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Balma de l'Espluga

A rock shelter worked in the Serra de l'Obac, with opus spicatum walls and remains of an old farmhouse, known since time immemorial.

Mura · Bages

Sviluppo: 7 m

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A rock shelter worked in the Serra de l'Obac, with opus spicatum walls and remains of an old farmhouse, known since time immemorial.

Caratteristiche

Tipo: Grotta
Comune: Mura
Regione: Bages
Unità: Obac, Serra de l'
Sviluppo: 7 metri
Profondità: 0 metri
Unità principale: Serralada Prelitoral
Litologia: Conglomerato
Aggiornato su EspeleoÍndex: 13 settembre 2022

Località

From the Alzina del Sal·lari, we will climb up to the coll de Tres Creus and here we will take the path that will lead us to the font de la Pola, we will continue to the Castellots de Tanca and when we reach the coll de Tanca we will take the track that leads us to the turó de l'Espluga, very visible from here. Just below opens the balma de l'Espluga.

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Balma de l' Espluga
Quota: 682 m
41.654275, 1.952356
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 412768 4611922
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Descrizione

Morfologia

It is a rock shelter worked in ancient times that still preserves walls in opus spicatum, remains of an old farmhouse that was later renovated to keep horses. The rock shelter has a length of 22 m by 7 m deep and a maximum height of 7 m.

About 20 m to the E there is another worked rock shelter, of smaller dimensions and that forms part of the complex (Balma de Llevant) that would have served as an enclosure for the animals.

Storia

Known since time immemorial.

The historian of Sant Llorenç, Antoni Ferrando, refers to a document from the year 1336 that speaks of the balma de l'Espluga, as a dependency at that time of the mas de La Mata. Probably its origins are even older given its small sample of opus spicatum.

But its historical value did not prompt any rehabilitation action, as Antoni Ferrando demanded, but, on the contrary, the original ruins were allowed to be damaged in order to make the stables for two perxerons and mules.

It is not known when its abandonment as a farmhouse occurred, but later it had been temporarily occupied by the peasants who took care of their fields, by the managers of the nearby pitch oven or by the hikers who went through those parts. But at the beginning of the 1980's there was a great renovation of the walls to house the animals during about two years that the massive felling of trees lasted before the estate was bought by the Diputació de Barcelona.