Ripoll

Ripoll is the capital of the comarca of Ripolles, within the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located on confluence of the Ter River and its tributary Freser, next to the Pyrenees near the French border. The populace become 11,057 in 2009. The first lines of human beings inhabiting the vicinity date from the Bronze Age and may be visible in form of dolmens along with the ones observed in El Sot de Dones Mortes or in Pardinella.

This vicinity was later utilized by peoples from the Atlantic culture to keep bronze weapons and as a passway from the Catalan Central Depression to the Pyrenees. The area additionally has tombs from the overdue Roman profession age and a few belonging to the Visigoths. It has a famous Benedictine monastery built within the Romanesque fashion, Santa Maria de Ripoll, founded by using the remember Wilfred the Hairy in 879.

The be counted used it as a centre to repopulate the place after conquering it. In the High Middle Ages, its fortress, the Castle of Saguardia, placed inside the county of Les Llosses changed into dominated through the Saguàrdia circle of relatives, of which Ponç de los angeles Guardia changed into a well-known troubadour. An abundance of coal and iron ore, coupled with the adequate water supply of the rivers Ter and Freser, recommended a metallic-working enterprise inside the early Middle.