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The landscape of the Sau swamp is so fantastic that it already begins to resemble the Garden of Eden, the earthly paradise created by God to be inhabited by Adam and Eve.
“Eden” is a Hebrew word of Sumerian origin, edin, meaning “plain,” the “flat place beyond the cultivated land.”
And the Sau reservoir, with the drought, has become precisely a green plain surrounded by imposing cliffs, increasingly full of vegetation, which attracts cattle to feast on grass, as we see in this photographic report in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia.
With the latest rains, this new Eden has exploded and is also being desired by mushroom pickers. You can even find ous de reig at prices, which can be eaten both fried and raw, cut into thin slices and marinated in olive oil. Its sweet flavor makes it a mushroom with excellent taste.
The Romanesque church of Sant Romà now seems to emerge from the grass instead of being submerged in water, despite the fact that the reservoir is gaining in volume as the rains continue to reproduce and the River Ter continues to rise.
At the moment, the Sau reservoir is already at 24% of its capacity, still far from desirable, but much better than just a month ago, when it was below 10%.
But, if a few weeks ago the news that attracted all eyes was its arid and dry landscape, now, it is its landscaped appearance that is coloring the landscape in this final stretch of a spring that is already leading us by the hand towards summer.
