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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can contemplate the interior and exterior of the beautiful Romanesque church of Sant Martí del Puig, on top of an isolated hill between Bagà and the small town of Gisclareny.
As indicated on the information sign next to the church, it is a small restored Romanesque hermitage, documented since the 10th century and, although it was an independent parish, from the 15th century onwards it appears as a suffragary of Gisclareny.
As seen in the images, it is a building with a single nave covered with a barrel vault and crowned with an apse to the east with a window. To the west stands a bell tower that embraces the entire width of the wall with two openings.
The church has undergone many modifications throughout history and two side chapels added in the 18th century stand out. In the center of the nave there are stairs that go down to the crypt, probably a funerary pit from the post-Romanesque period.
Sant Martí del Puig belongs to the municipality of Gisclareny and is located in the Bastareny valley, on a small hill to the right of the track that goes from Bagà to Coll de la Bena.
The state of the interior, despite the fact that the church was the subject of several restoration campaigns, is abandoned, since it remains open for hikers and walkers seeking refuge.
