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Fantastic spring days at Lake Puigcerdà , without drought, with the peaks of the Pyrenees still with some snow as a backdrop and with the fauna and flora in full burst of life, as can be seen in the Readers’ Photos of The vanguard.
This artificial pond, located in the northwestern part of this town in Baixa Cerdanya, invites you to walk along its irregular hexagon shape, with its cobbled base, its greenery and its exuberant vegetation.
Spring is an ideal season to admire the beauty of the various birds, such as pigeons, ducks, swans and a great diversity of fish.
The first news of the existence of this lake date from the 13th century, specifically on December 2, 1260, as Mosen Jaume Martà y Sanjaume describes it in his book Puigcerdà Dietary.
In this diary appears a document where the owner of the properties of San Miguel de Cuixà in Cerdanya cedes to Arnald de Prat a piece of land next to the pond.
Citing the same source, in the work Historia de Puigcerdà and by the archaeological surveys carried out in 1991 by Oriol Mercadal and Jordi Campillo, archaeological remains of a human settlement dating from the 11th century were found (stone wall, rustic pavement, ceramic remains , a mule horseshoe), which could have lasted until the 13th century.
Therefore, it could be said that the construction of the pond was carried out between the years 1200 and 1260. And we can still enjoy it today.
