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I have captured for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos these images of the fantastic sea of ??low clouds seen from the balcony of the Queralt sanctuary.
The sanctuary is located on the eastern slope of the Castellberguedà hill, top of the Sierra de Queralt, at an altitude of 1200 meters.
The place where it stands today corresponds, it seems, to the space that would have been occupied by the castle of the troubadour Guillem de Berguedà. And the primitive sanctuary was built in 1386 by the Berguedà merchant Francesc Garreta.
The current church is a building built in the 18th century, in the Renaissance style, and is made up of a central nave with two lateral ones.
The Queralt complex is made up of the sanctuary where the image of the Virgin of Queralt is venerated and an annex building that once housed the Hospedería, where today the restaurant and the funicular station are located.
The church of La Cueva is also considered part of the sanctuary, where, according to legend, a shepherd from Vilaformiu found the image of the Virgin in the 14th century.
