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Fageda d'en Jorda (Jorda's Beech) and Volcanos Route
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It is a mixed cooperative of sociolaboral integration of disabled people. Besides of having a dairy farm with 400 cows, it also has
a breeding ground of native plants that helps on the reforestation.
When we leave the beech, which we will take about 30 minutes in crossing it, we will arrive to a road, and we will follow it by right
hand towards to Saintt Miquel de Sacot and the Volcano of Santa Margarida.
On this section of the route the way joins with the GR-2 route.
Until now the footpath is quite level, but after leaving the factory, the way gets narrows and begins a slight ascent towards
Can Batlle and Saint Miquel de Sacot.
The church of Saint Miquel de Sacot is of neoclassic style with a plant of Romanesque style of XI century. It was reconstructed
and extended in century XVIII.
From here we go to a flat area called Sacot and by the Collet de Bassols we will
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be at the southwestern flank of the Volcano of Santa Margarida. We will leave back the GR-2 route that goes towards Santa Pau
and will continue until the volcano.
This is a mixed volcano, which had strombolian and freatomagma eruptive phases.
The lasts ones are explosive, and openend up a wide circular crater on exploding. With the exception of the crater, that today is a
meadow, the rest
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of the volcano is covered of forests of oaks on the suny side and mixed decidous trees on the shady side.
In the middle of the crater there is a hermitage that gives name to the volcano. According to it seems, in the antiquity existed in
the zone the belief that the demon lived within volcanos and raising a temple in its inner was considered a manner of exorcism.
We will follow the route by the footpath we will find at the edge of the crater, the way will begin to slope down until we arrive to
Santa Margarida Area, with the only fountain of all the way.
Here ours route connects with the Itinerary 4(Can Xel-Saint Pau), crosses the road
GI-524 and concurs with Itinerary 15 (Gredales of the Croscat) until
the deviation of Can Passavent, where is another point of information of the park, located
at the foot of the Volcano of the Croscat.
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