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In these photographic perspectives captured for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos from Torelló and Manlleu, in the Osona region, you can see how the Pyrenees still remains white, resisting the thaw.
The snow level is around 1700/2000 meters in the Pyrenees, and the frosts, although they are receding, are still expected to be more intense in the Pyrenees.
The Pyrenees or the Pyrenees is the large mountain system located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, which acts as a natural border between Andorra, Spain and France.
It extends in an east-west direction for approximately 491 km, from Cap de Creus in the Mediterranean Sea to its junction with the Cantabrian mountain range, where the Pamplona fault is its conventional geological limit. In its central part it has a width of about 150 km.
Looking at these images of the snowy Pyrenees at the beginning of the month of May, it seems incredible that we have had so many months of drought in Catalonia.
In this other series of photographs we see the snowy Puigsacalm. With its 1515 meters of altitude, it is the highest mountain in the Serra Transversal. It belongs to the Vall d’en Bas, located at the head of the Fluvià river, surrounded by the Serra del Corb, the Serra de Sant Miquel, the Serra de Llancers and the Puigsacalm itself.
The Cordillera Transversal is framed by the Ter River, the Vall de Vianya and the Fluvià River. It would link the Pre-Pyrenees with the Catalan Coastal Range.
In the photographs we see the Puig-agut sanctuary in Manlleu in the foreground. It was the first temple of its kind in Spain to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart. 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.
