Spain’s Costa Brava is a prominent destination in Spain, for its wonderful beaches and stunning coastline, and visitors to the area should spend some time away from the sand and sangria and add a small distance walk inland to their itinerary, to a park La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone amazing natural.
The park is located an hour’s drive from the Bay of Roses, north of Girona, and contains 40 volcanic cones, including one that houses a mysterious lone church.
The church in the crater of the volcano
The church in the middle of the crater
The newspaper revealed that the small church dates back to the twelfth century and is located inside the crater of the volcano of Santa Margarida, and not much is known about the unusual religious dwelling, but we know that it was destroyed by the Catalan earthquake in 1428 and rebuilt in the nineteenth century..
An estimated 11,000 years have passed since the now-extinct volcano erupted, andThe height of Santa Margarida is 766 meters, it is densely forested, and the church is located at an altitude of 682 meters above ground level, in a crater in the crater of the volcano.
The church from the inside
the church
the park
Holiday lovers can park their cars in the parking lot next to the volcano and climb up a steep path leading to the crater, and walk in the volcano. The Mas El Croce Trail, guides hikers around a different part of the volcano, where they will see volcanic rock that has accumulated after the eruptions..
The church is rarely open to the public, but if visitors take a peek inside, they will find rows of chairs and a small altar..
church shape
crater
a church
After hiking to the mysterious building in the crater, a traveler wrote: “We had a picnic there and rested under the trees, it is a place we wish we could visit every day, there is a nice little chapel in the middle of the crater, which, as something of a Man-made, give a sense of an ephemeral presence among all this wonderful glory of Mother Nature.”