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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see the movement of the stars at night in the meander of the monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres, with the Ter river and now slightly recovered Sau reservoir.
This meander is located in the municipality of Les Masies de Roda, in the Osona region. It is a place of great beauty, especially when the reservoir is at a good water level.
Due to the movement of the stars, it is intuited that the polar star is in the upper left part of the image and in the opposite pole it is located under the monastery, in the lower right part.
By convention, the term pole star refers to the star closest to the north pole. Currently, the pole star in the northern hemisphere is located at the tip of the tail of the Little Dipper.
Regarding Sant Pere de Casserres, an 11th-century Romanesque monastery of the Benedictine order that has an origin closely linked to women, it is clear that, in the year 1006, the Viscountess Ermetruit de Osona-Cardona, together with her daughter-in-law Engúncia, raised money for the foundation of the monastery that they wanted to convert into the family monastery.
Finally, it was Engúncia de Osona-Cardona who was able to see the consecration of the abbey in 1053, although a Benedictine community had already been installed a few years earlier. It was the burial place of this lineage and other noble families of the region, main benefactors of the community.
