Campelles is located in the southeastern area of the Valle de Ribes. It extends from the Sierra de Montgrony (the Covile, Coll Pan, Cross Up, The Wart) to the Col de Prat de Jou. The village is located in the extensive landings of the Sierra de la Laguna.
The population lives off farming and forest exploitation. It has a 1000H. uncultivated land, covered with oaks, pines, firs and pastures mostly communal property, despite its rural location, the village has been open to tourism.
The site documented the 918, over the centuries XI and XII is quoted under the name Campelles. The church of San Martin was given in the eleventh century by Count Wilfred of Cerdanya to his son William. Earl says Wilfred testament that no one can build any castle without the consent of the counts of Cerdanya. In the seventeenth century, along with Bruguera, was a real mayor of the sub-vegueria de Ribes.
From the village is displayed, the entire head of strawberries, tops Vall de Nuria Puig and the Balandrau Cerveris, the Sierra and the Sierra Cavallera Conivella the Taga (2039m) and the San Amanco (1845m), perched on the people Bruguera, a breathtaking view of Ripollès, the valleys have been excavated Freser and Ter rivers and Osona and on a clear day much of the Plain of Vic and the massif of Montseny.
PLACES OF INTEREST
Montagut SPA: Located on Rd. de Ribes, dating from the mid nineteenth century spa substituent in another building located a few kilometers in the direction of Ripoll. Formerly the Spa had been a center of high society summer.
St. Martin Church, located in the center of town, the Romanesque church was demolished by a French invasion and rebuilt and expanded substantially in the late eighteenth century.
RIBES CAVES
CHAPEL OF NOSTRASENYORA DELR EMEI
Campelles
127 habitants
32,43Km2 de superfície
1303m d'altitud
Nuclis agregats:
· El Baell
Ajuntament de Campelles
Pl.ajuntament, s/n
Telf: 972 72 72 73
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