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The landscapes have their own personality in Osona, like these backlights in the Plana de Vic captured for The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia pedaling on a gray day with beautiful fogs, beautiful clouds and some rays of sun.
La Plana de Vic is an elongated depression in a north-south direction that constitutes the central nucleus of the Osona region. The city of Vic, located in its center, is the most important town in this area of Catalonia.
The River Ter and its tributaries, with their erosive action, much deeper in the eastern part than in the western part, caused the Plana de Vic.
This depression has a total surface of 600 km2. It is completely surrounded by mountains, those of Ripollès and Garrotxa in the north; the Guilleries to the east; Montseny to the southeast; the Moianès and the Lluçanès towards the west. Therefore, it is closed by a ring of saws.
La Plana de Vic is a part of the valley of the Ter river at its exit from the Pyrenees, which moves from north to south for a stretch and turns east at Manlleu to head to Roda de Ter and cross the massif of the Guilleries, where the Sau reservoir is located.
Being a depression surrounded by mountains of more than a thousand meters in altitude, it usually suffers from frequent fog, especially in the low areas (Vic, Roda de Ter, Manlleu) and severe frosts when there is an invasion of arctic air masses or Siberians followed by a calm meteorological situation.
