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Fórnols or Fórnols de Cadí, is a village in the municipality of La Vansa i Fórnols (Alt Urgell), located at 1,285 m above sea level on the right slope of the Vansa (or also Lavansa) valley. The houses have gabled roofs, wooden balconies on the facade and arched exits at the back. They are grouped around the parish church of Sant Climent. This church, rebuilt in modern times (it still preserves one of the Romanesque walls), has a tower bell tower on one corner of the facade; this has a voussoir portal and a porthole above it. A modern copy of a Romanesque image and a fragment of a Gothic altarpiece dedicated to Saint Clement are preserved. In the village there is the Baroque chapel of Roser, and not far away, remains of the old castle of Fórnols. The main festival is celebrated on the third Sunday of November for Sant Climent and in July the festival of Sant Jaume. The place was under the lordship of the chapter of La Seu d'Urgell. It was an independent municipality until 1973. The old term also included the towns of Adraén and Cornellana and the hermitage of Sant Salvador d'Adraén.
Fórnols de Cadí or Fórnols is a hamlet located in the municipality of La Vansa i Fórnols, in Province of Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 19.
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Prat de Cadí, an ancient lake of glacial origin filled with sediments, now converted into a majestic meadow at the foot of the north face of the Cadí mountain range. Access by the Estana - Prat de Cadí - Canal del Cristall route: The total length of the route is 12 km, with an elevation gain of 1,100 m, and the journey requires approximately 5 hours for the ascent and descent. The excursion begins in Martinet, an area where the granite base of the axial Pyrenees is visible, and continues upwards along the road to Estana. Along this path, the route traverses the entire sequence of pre-Hercynian Devonian rocks, which have been displaced southward during the movement of the Cadí mantle. Travelers must pass through the village of Estana and park their vehicle at the Pallers pass parking area, situated at the edge of the natural park. By car, part of the significant elevation difference between the Cerdanya plain and the Cadí ridge is already overcome; this topographical transition mainly results from the subsidence of Cerdanya roughly 10 million years ago during the Miocene, which was shaped by a complex fault system.
Places of interest: Fonts del Llobregat. These are underground water springs, fed by snow and rain water. Church of Santa Maria de Castellar de n'Hug. It is a Romanesque church that preserves the characteristic bell tower, a four-storey tower with semi-circular arch windows and a 12th-century door with Romanesque fittings. It was transformed in the neoclassical era. Church of Sant Vicenç de Rus. It is an 11th-century Romanesque building, consecrated in 1106. It consists of a single nave, barrel vault and semicircular apse that shows Lombard arches on the outside. Completely renovated, it displays paintings from the 12th and 14th centuries. Asland Cement Factory, located in Clot del Moro, a municipal district of Castellar de n'Hug. It was a modernist factory promoted in 1901 by Eusebi Güell and Bacigalupi. It was the first industrial cement factory in Catalonia, and remained operational until 1975. In 1992, it was converted into the Asland Cement Museum, which is attached to the Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia. In 2005 it was declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. The Shepherd's House, also known as the Shepherd's Museum, with the history of this sector.