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In Manlleu, in the surroundings of the Puig-agut sanctuary, you can already admire the first blooming rapeseed of spring, as seen in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
The yellow color of the rapeseed fields stands out in some images that take us to this bucolic and very calm landscape of Osona.
Rapeseed can be profitable and Osona is precisely the Catalan region with the largest areas of this crop that is used to produce fodder and biodiesel.
Today, in addition, the mechanization of work in the field has made the process of harvesting rapeseed faster and more productive.
The Puig-agut sanctuary, also the protagonist of this report, 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 magazine Faro de Puig-agut.
The construction was directed 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.
