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LLanars
Following up the
course of the Ter River, at only 2 km from Camprodon, stands Llanars.
Saint Esteve Church built in the 12th century this
Romanesque church has an only nave covered with a sharp pointed barrel vault
and an apse not centred to the axis. The bell tower is squared with pyramidal
roofing.
In its interior there
is a painting on wood at the frontal side of the altar, the only one in the
country kept in the same place where it was created.
It stands out the wall
painting rarely found in Romanesque altarpieces shows the pantocrator circled
by the mystical theology and the symbols of the evangelists and on its sides
there are episodes about Sant Esteve.
Also noticeable are
both the portal and the ironwork of the front door.
Molló
8 km away Camprodon,
Molló communicates Camprodon valley with France through the old passage of Coll
d’Ares, from where a beautiful panoramic of Catalunya and also the France can
be seen.
In 1659 Tractat dels
pirineus agreement established the borders between France and Spain in Coll
d’ares and in the municipality of Molló this borderline is 12 km wide, from
Montfalgars to Costabona peaks.
During the Spanish
Civil War the defeated republican army and also thousands of exiles fled to
France through the borderline of Coll d’Ares.
Nowadays a path
between molló and prats de Molló, named Camí de la Retirada, remembers this
days.
The road to France
became international in 1963 and in 1992 the customs were removed according the
Schengen Pact.
Attached to the
village of Molló there are several vicinities, among them Fabert and
Espinavell.
Santa Cecilia
Church dating
back from the 12th century, the church is a single nave building
covered with a single barrel vault arch. The four storey bell tower is
artistically similar and remembers Sant Cristòfol de Beget. It is also
remarkable the entrance door in one side. In 1428 a big earthquake provoked
serious damages in the church that had to be restored, and during the Spanish
Civil War was plundered and burnt.