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In The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia we can see how the Ter goes down as it passes through Torelló, with a little more water for hope. It all starts with a puddle in the street and 14 liters of rain falling.
While the surrounding fields turn yellow from rapeseed crops, the nearby Sau marsh continues its sad agony. The drought has wreaked havoc on this reservoir that drinks from the Ter.
From the bowels of the Sau reservoir, we can appreciate how painful it looks if we look at how the water level has decreased, although the landscape is still attractive.
Now, the swamp looks more like a river than a reservoir. This is the current drama of this beautiful place in Vilanova de Sau, in the heart of Les Guilleries.
The drought exposes remains of the old town and sedimentation. It is as if he had turned the Sau reservoir into an archaeological site. And it is that the low level of the swamp has exposed more and more vestiges of the town before submerged under the waters.
It is no longer just that the church of Sant Romà de Sau, from the 11th century, can be seen, but other remains of the old town have remained on the surface as testimony to a past that was submerged in the swamp.
The Sau reservoir, located in the municipality of Vilanova de Sau, is at the foot of the Guilleries massif. It is part of a system of three swamps, together with those of Susqueda and Pasteral, which unites the counties of Osona and La Selva.
