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La Baells has more water than three months ago, to the point that a new garden was created around the monastery of Sant Salvador de la Vedella. It has gone from being surrounded by an arid landscape of drought to being drawn with a green Eden, as can be seen in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia.
Sant Salvador de la Vedella is a Romanesque monastery located near the village of Cercs, in Berguedà. It was founded in 830 by the monks of San Saturnino de Tavernoles.
It is the only building left standing of the old town of Sant Salvador de la Vedella, flooded by the waters of the Baells swamp.
It is a complex that includes the church, the rectory and remains of the old priory, which emerges on a rock that juts out of the water when the swamp is full, which is not the case these days.
In 1970, the old town still had 1,865 inhabitants and most moved to the newly created town, Sant Jordi de Cercs. The reservoir is from the Llobregat river basin.
