5 Sights in Santa Pau, Spain (with Map and Images)

Santa Margarida de Sacot is a Romanesque hermitage in the municipality of Santa Pau, in the Catalan region of La Garrotxa. It is a monument inventoried in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

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Colltort Castle is a castle located between Sant Feliu de Pallerols and Santa Pau (Garrotxa). It is located in the lower area of a ridge between the Corb mountain range and the Finestres mountain range, a short distance from the Colltort pass. The remains of the seat on the volcano of Font-pobra remain. There are vestiges of walls of a rectangular tower and a disappeared enclosure. It is a work declared a cultural asset of national interest.

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The Mare de Déu dels Arcs or Santa Maria dels Arcs is a church in Santa Pau (Garrotxa) included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. The Sanctuary of Els Arcs is the guesthouse for pilgrims built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is accessed by a staircase also from the Baroque period. It is a twelfth-century Romanesque church with a single vault with eighteenth-century reforms. Initially it was the parish church of Santa Pau, until the temple was built in the center of the town, near the castle.

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The Santa Margarida Volcano is an extinct volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. The volcano has a perimeter of 2 kilometers and a height of 682 meters and is part of the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park. The hermitage of Santa Margarida, after which the volcano was named, is inside the crater of the volcano. The building was destroyed in 1428 during the 1428 Catalonia earthquake and rebuilt in 1865.

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The menhir of Pedra del Diable or Pedra Grossa is located in the municipality of Santa Pau in the middle of the cultivated field called Pedra Dreta, owned by the Can Formiga farmhouse, on the left hand side of the road from Santa Pau to Olot (GI-524), PK 11 approximately. It is a monument that appears in the inventory of the cultural heritage of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It was described for the first time by Joaquim Vayreda i Vila in 1872. It has been dated to the fourth and third millennia BC in the Middle Neolithic or Chalcolithic period. It is a basaltic monolith of anthropomorphic type, friar type and trapezoidal section. It measures 2.80 m high by 0.80 m wide at the widest part and approximately 0.30 m thick at the bottom. At the upper end, it is only 0.20 m thick.

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