Last February, reader Joan Soldevila Adán explained in FotoDocs about the incredible Roca del Bolet that the residents of Figuerola d’Orcau, in Pallars Jussà, feared that one day this very curious geological formation would collapse. It was not for nothing that it was a tourist attraction and that it was much loved by the inhabitants of this locality in the municipality of Isona and Conca Dellà.
Well, those words have ended up being premonitory and, barely a month later, they have become reality, since, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, as a result of the last spring rains, the mushroom-shaped rock crumbled.
The incident did not cause any injuries, but it has had an emotional impact on everyone who knew this emblem of Mont de Conques. So much so that the City Council is already studying how to keep the memory of the Roca del Bolet alive.
The mayor of the town, Jeannine Abella, has addressed a letter to the residents in which she explains that the fall of the Roca del Bolet has been as a result of erosion. The Geoparc Orígens reference geologist, after being consulted, has advised against its reconstruction, according to the mayor, since he considers that it has collapsed as a result of “a natural process” and that “sooner or later it had to happen.”
In a tweet, Geoparc Orígens acknowledged that it is “sad news to lose a natural and emblematic scene as photographed as this one, but we live on a dynamic planet where nature takes its course.”
As an alternative to a reconstruction, there are options such as recreating it with other collapse-proof materials or leaving an informative record with the display of explanatory panels.
At the moment, there is already talk that, during the next Hiking Festival of the Pyrenees in Conca de Dellà, a tribute could be made to the Roca del Bolet, to which we join in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia reproducing again the photographs of Joan Soldevila Adán and the FotoDocs video dedicated to disseminating this unique rock.
