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Berguedà’s bucolicism is reflected in this snapshot in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos with the flock grazing around the church of Santa Maria de Avià.
This Romanesque temple was built in the middle of the 12th century. It has a single nave with a semicircular apse. Inside there is a copy of the altar front from the first half of the 13th century, the original of which is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
In Avià nature opens up to us wide open. We can find, for example, the Salt del Molí d’en Bellús waterfall, as well as the Graugés ponds, a system of artificial ponds created at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1900 and 1909, through the construction of embankments and connected by ditches and water pumps.
The town of Avià was formed around another church, the parish of Sant Martí. This church, which was initially located in the current Calle Portal, was built by order of Count Guifré el Pilós at the end of the 9th century, and consecrated in 907.
Currently, Avià also includes the population centers of Cal Rosal, Graugés, Obiols and La Plana.
