
Balma de la Font Tosca
South-facing rock shelter, formerly used as a vegetable garden, in Santa Maria de Besora, with a retaining wall and a spring that pools. The nearby Font Tosca gives the shelter its name.
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Balma de la Font Tosca
South-facing rock shelter, formerly used as a vegetable garden, in Santa Maria de Besora, with a retaining wall and a spring that pools. The nearby Font Tosca gives the shelter its name.
Santa Maria de Besora · Osona
Sviluppo: 9 m
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South-facing rock shelter, formerly used as a vegetable garden, in Santa Maria de Besora, with a retaining wall and a spring that pools. The nearby Font Tosca gives the shelter its name.
Topografia
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Immagine © del suo autore.
Foto
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Immagine © del suo autore.
Descrizione
Morfologia
South-facing rock shelter with a width of 37 m and a maximum depth of 9 m. The floor is very flat thanks to the construction of a retaining wall with thick stones in order to maximise the usable surface. The wall occupies almost the entire width of the shelter and tends to close off at both ends.
Idrologia
From the back of the shelter springs a spring whose water soon pools, but which in other times would have irrigated the garden. The font Tosca: A few metres beyond the eastern end of the shelter, a torrent plunges down the cliff where it is located, forming a beautiful waterfall covered in travertine. At its lower part, from the travertine itself, springs a relatively abundant spring, the font Tosca, which gives the shelter its name.
Storia
Like its neighbouring and better-known Balmes dels Ferrers, this shelter was used by humans in not very distant times, but unlike them it was not to build a dwelling, but to have the garden. At least this is what follows from the retaining wall made with thick stones in order to achieve an important flat cultivation surface. If to this we add the existence of a spring inside the shelter itself that provides water for the garden, as well as the south orientation of the shelter which means the sun reaches far inside, we find ourselves in a very suitable spot for the inhabitants of the Balmes dels Ferrers to be able to grow their vegetables.
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Bibliografia
- Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat extretes del web: geb.cat (del Grup d'Espeleologia de Badalona). Apunt del 22-2-2021. Dades: Ferran Cardona (ECMB), Josep Cuenca i Xavier Samarra (GEB).
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Fonte: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modificato. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/




