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In The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia we can contemplate the effects of the freezing fog in the Solsonès region in this series of images captured in Pinós.
The small town of Pinós, where we find a sanctuary, is considered the geographical center of Catalonia. Here, in winter, the cencellada is noticeable, a phenomenon that consists of the formation of ice on a solid surface due to the freezing of water droplets from a fog bank.
The sanctuary of Pinós, at 904 meters above sea level, has its origins in a chapel built by the Templars in 1312, which soon passed into the hands of the Hospitallers. Popular devotion became very relevant from the year 1507, when Bernat Casas de Matamargó declared that, upon arriving at the chapel on the way to Biosca, the Virgin had appeared to him.
As can be seen in the images, in winter, this area of Catalonia is covered in a cold beauty thanks to the white cencellada, with which feathers and needles of soft white ice are formed on a solid surface, caused by the freezing of a fog bank at subzero temperatures.
The physical properties of white snow are very similar to those of wet snow, so its appearance is similar to that of snowfall, as we see in the videos and photographs.
Pinós extends across four slopes in the Solsonès. At the top of a viewpoint we find a compass rose sculpted in stone, at 930.6 meters above sea level. From this point you can see a magnificent panoramic view that reaches the Pyrenees, Collsacabra and Montseny.
