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I share in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos these photographs taken in the morning from Sant Julià d’Altura, church in Sabadell, focusing on the top of La Mola, in Sant Llorenç del Munt.
La Mola, at 1104 meters high, is the highest point of the massif of the Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac Natural Park. At the summit of La Mola is where the 11th century Romanesque monastery of Sant Llorenç de Munt is located, which was abandoned at the beginning of the 17th century and looted by Napoleon’s army in 1809.
Sant Julià d’Altura is a church that was initially a rural parish of Terrassa (until 1800) and, later, of Sant Pere de Terrassa. In 1904 it was included in the term of Sabadell and today it is part of the neighborhood of Ca n’Oriac.
In this area there was also the castle of Ribatallada, property of the Montcada family (1136-1310) and the Clasquerí family later, and also several farmhouses, such as the fortified one of Castellarnau.
The church is located in a beautiful rural landscape, as seen in the photographs, near the Ribatallada torrent and next to the Can Deu forest.
We find a picnic area at the entrance to the Can Deu forest and which is part of the Sabadell Agrarian Park. It is a space surrounded by nature, with several paths to follow and with the old parish church of Sant Julià d’Altura as a reference.
