l'Esquirol
l'Esquirol is best known in Catalonia for its setting on the Collsacabra plateau. The municipality in Osona includes Cantonigròs, a small upland settlement surrounded by pasture, cultivated fields and mixed woodland. This is gently folded limestone country, where open ground gives way to wooded ridges and the deeply cut valley of the Ter lies nearby. Collsacabra marks a transition between the inland plain around Vic and Catalonia's eastern uplands, with farmsteads and rural tracks integral to the landscape. Cantonigròs is also associated with the International Music Festival of Cantonigròs, founded in 1983 and long recognised for choral music. The area suits walkers drawn to the quieter, agricultural side of inland Catalonia.
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L'Esquirol occupies a highland setting on the Collsacabra plateau in Catalonia's Osona comarca. The municipality reaches toward the Ter River, impounded to the south in the Sau Reservoir, while woodland, pasture and scattered hamlets shape the surrounding countryside. The town was officially known as Santa Maria de Corcó until 2014; its current name preserves the nickname linked to a historic roadside inn on the old route between Vic and Olot. Cantonigròs and the Romanesque church of Sant Martí Sescorts add further reference points to this rural Catalan municipality. Find related webcams across Osona and the Collsacabra plateau to build a fuller picture of this corner of Catalonia.
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