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Spectacular afternoon of lenticular altocumulus clouds in the Osona region, with images in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos captured from various points, such as Manlleu and Basora.
In the surroundings of Manlleu we see how the sky of lenticular clouds looks, as if it had been painted with a brush, over the Puig-agut sanctuary.
The Puig-agut sanctuary was the first temple of its kind in Spain to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart. Its construction was promoted at the end of the 19th century by Ramón Madirolas y Codina, an innovative farmer who promoted it from the Faro de Puig-agut magazine.
The direction of the work was carried out by the architect August Font y Carreras, who used a neo-Gothic style with some Romanesque and even neoclassical facets, inspired by the French basilica of Tarbes.
Lenticular clouds are called that because they are shaped like a lentil, as their name indicates, or there are also those who see them as a saucer or converging lens.
They are stationary and form mainly at high altitudes in mountainous areas and isolated from other clouds. Among mountaineers these clouds are considered a harbinger of a storm.
This other series of photographs of the wind clouds have been captured from the small nucleus of peasant houses of Mir, which is south of Santa Maria de Besora.
