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In La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos we can see this double comparative image of the Ter meander, in the Sau reservoir (Osona). I took one snapshot, with water, on 6-6-2021 and the other, dry, two years later, today, October 23, 2023.
What a change, too, with the landscape of this beautiful green place and today without water, dry and with an earthy sky, in a painful Sau swamp. It is less than 16.9% of its capacity.
The meander is a curve described by the course of a river, whose sinuosity is pronounced, as can be seen in the images. They form more easily in rivers on alluvial plains with very low slopes.
Next to the Sau reservoir we find the Ter meander viewpoint, from which you can see Sant Pere de Casserres, an 11th century Romanesque monastery of the Benedictine order and which has an origin closely linked to women.
It is known that in the year 1006, Viscountess Ermetruit de Osona-Cardona, together with her daughter-in-law Engúncia, raised money for the foundation of the monastery that they wanted to convert into the family monastery.
