Tavertet

Tavertet
Municipality
Tavertet with the rising over the town and the Pre-Pyrenees in the far distance
Coat of arms
Tavertet Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: 41°59′51″N 2°25′11″E / 41.99750°N 2.41972°E / 41.99750; 2.41972Coordinates: 41°59′51″N 2°25′11″E / 41.99750°N 2.41972°E / 41.99750; 2.41972
Country	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Osona
Government
• Mayor	Lurdes Rovira Plarromaní (2015)[1]
Area [2]
• Total	32.5 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Elevation	869 m (2,851 ft)
Population  (2018)[3]
• Total	111
• Density	3.4/km2 (8.8/sq mi)
Website	tavertet.cat

Tavertet is a small town located above some cliffs, 900m above sea level, in the area known as , north of the Guilleries, in the comarca of Osona in Catalonia.

Below the cliffs is Pantà de Sau, a reservoir that dammed the waters of the river Ter in the 1960s. Tavertet is nowadays a tourist-oriented town with many holiday homes, where Raimon Panikkar lived. Tavertet is linked by road BV5207 to the town of L'Esquirol, also known as Santa Maria de Corcó. There is also a minor road north of the village above the cliffs through a beech forest linking the town to Rupit.

Molí-bernat waterfall near Tavertet

References[]

External links[]

• Government data pages (in Catalan)
• Link with the web page: Associació Amics de Tavertet (in Catalan)

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