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3. Gallifa Castle – Gallifa loop from Caldes de Montbui

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Micky Carbonell

October 12, 2021

Sant Sadurní de Gallifa or de la Roca is a Romanesque hermitage in the municipality of Gallifa, in Vallès Occidental. It is at the top of La Mola, at an altitude of 942.3 meters. It is northeast of the town of Gallifa, at the southern end of the Serrat Punxegut. It gives its name to the Cingles de Sant Sadurní, which surround almost all of La Mola, Turó de la Pinassa and Morral del Puig. It is on the grounds of the La Roca farmhouse, which is why it is also known as Sant Sadurní de la Roca. It is a building that forms part of the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

There is evidence of the location since 939 when Ató sold to the Levite Guadamir a farm that shared the domus (Vulgar Latin term to refer to a house or building) of Sant Sadurní. In a bull of Pope Benedict VII from the year 978 in which the limits of the Bishopric of Vic are defined, the mountain of Sant Sadurní is shown. In a document from the year 1063, it is recorded that a certain Bonfill gave the church two mancusos (a medieval gold coin weighing four grams). From the Mangush-engraving Arabic, this allows us to assume that important works must have been done there.

In 1316 it was a priory of the Portella monastery and, while it depended on it, there was a small community and, always, at least one priest. In the 17th century the building was in a very bad state and the bishop forbade, in 1604, mass to be celebrated there.

(Source: ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Sadurn%C3%AD_de_Gallifa)

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