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The Sau reservoir, in the Osona region, has become two sides of the same coin. On the one hand, the drought has brought to light the heritage of the past, returning the remains of the town of Sant Romà to the surface; but, on the other hand, it certifies climate change and has drawn a landscape that, with different eyes, looks desolate and sad.
On the one hand, there is expectation to see how the different elements of the old town are discovered: the Romanesque church, the cemetery, the houses, the mill and, now, the great attraction is the Gothic bridge, which is already appearing.
But, on the other hand, there is the dry landscape, of land where there used to be water, which recalls the problem of the persistent absence of rain in Catalonia, with all its consequences.
“While in some areas of Spain winter is being generous with its rains, in Catalonia we continue to suffer from a drought that does not seem to have an end,” explains Justi Peñas in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos by sharing a photograph that “shows the state of the Sau reservoir, a sad landscape”.
For his part, Josep Soldevila details that “today in Sau the Sant Romà bridge is already 1 meter above the water and, below it, only 5 meters remain, so we will have a very complicated time if the rains do not arrive.”
