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In this series of photographs in La Vanguardia Readers' Photos we can see the Fageda d'en Jordà in autumn with the treetops illuminated by daylight.
La Fageda d’en Jordà is located in the La Garrotxa region, about 5.5 km from Olot. It occupies part of the municipalities of Santa Pau, Olot and Les Preses and is part of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park. The beech forest is surrounded by several of the 21 volcanoes in the area.
La Fageda d'en Jordà is a nature reserve that includes a beech forest with unique characteristics in Spain, since it grows on a relatively flat terrain, formed by a cooled lava flow from the Croscat volcano, at an altitude that is not common in the Iberian Peninsula for this type of tree, between 550 and 650 meters.
It has an area of about 4.8 km2 and is full of lava prominences that can reach more than 20 meters in height, with the local name of tossols.
The poet Joan Maragall wrote a well-known poem in honor of this beech forest. At the main entrance to the beech forest, at km 4 of the road from Olot to Santa Pau, where the Can Serra car park is located, there is a monolith in his honor.
