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Colored sky, lenticular clouds. This is the landscape that was drawn yesterday at sunset around the Puig-agut de Manlleu sanctuary, in the Osona region, as we can see in these images in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos.
The red sky is due to the candilazo or arrebol. As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is of soft tones between red and orange.
Lenticular clouds are called that because they are shaped like a lentil, as their name indicates, or there are also those who see them as a saucer or converging lens.
They are stationary and form mainly at high altitudes in mountainous areas and isolated from other clouds. Among mountaineers these clouds are considered a harbinger of a storm.
The Puig-agut sanctuary is also the protagonist of this report. It was the first temple of its kind in Spain to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
Its construction was promoted at the end of the 19th century by Ramón Madirolas y Codina, an innovative farmer who promoted it from the Faro de Puig-agut magazine.
The direction of the work was carried out by the architect August Font y Carreras, who used a neo-Gothic style with some Romanesque and even neoclassical facets, inspired by the French basilica of Tarbes.
