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Moments, moments… A small rainbow appears when the rain ends, in the landscape surrounding the Puig-agut de Manlleu sanctuary, in the Osona region, images that we can relive in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos .
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that consists of the appearance in the sky of one arc (or, in this case, two) of multicolored light.
We see it after the rain, when everything has been renewed, the earth has been bathed in the expected water in times of drought, and it transmits to us that calm that invites contemplation, reflection. And the Puig-agut sanctuary is the ideal setting for this.
The rainbow is caused by the decomposition of sunlight into the visible spectrum, which occurs by refraction, when the sun’s rays pass through small droplets of water contained in the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Puig-agut sanctuary 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.
