History
Guixers Township joined mid-nineteenth century to Corria (The Corriu) and Montcamp and Sisquer, who had own city council.
The neighboring town of San Lorenzo de Morunys had numerous manufacturers of woolen cloth, so “as suggested by some historian” a party close to the hermitage of Sant Serni del Grau, in the current term of Guixers, was named of Vilamantells.
The municipal coat of arms was approved in September 1992. It is described thus: “tiling Shield: vert, 6 argento rocks into mountain inns 1.2.3 By Corona stamps one mural of town.”.
Places of interest …
Fenarals Font, Font del Teixo, Les Planes, Rasa Coll de Jou, Font de la Santa Creu d’Ollers, Torrent del Grau, Pont Cabradis, etc.
Romanesque hermitage of Sant Serni del Grau (XI-XII century), Romanesque church of Santa Creu d’Ollers (XI-XII century), castle ruins Sisquer (1270)
Geography
The municipality of Guixers includes entities Castelltort population, La Corriu, Montcalb, Sisquer, Valls and Vilamantells. All these entities are sparsely populated (farmhouses) that derived from the old parish division. Perhaps this is why the official name of the original township was Guixers and aggregates. The organization of population that names the municipality, Guixers, is located 844 m.
The administrative center of the municipality is in the state of Nova Casa de la Vall, several kilometers Guixers.
In 2008, 72 of the 140 inhabitants of the municipality lived in the state of Vilamantells, towards which it has extended a neighborhood of San Lorenzo de Morunys.
Personalities …
Bellot of Vilamantells licensed Magi, writer. Author of True death ratio of Catholica Majesty King Philip our Lord, Third of this name, which is in the sky divided into three romances (Barcelona: Esteuan libero [sic], 1621).
How to get?
Barcelona
Direction Via Laietana and Passeig de Colom to Passeig de Josep Carner. 2h 20 min estimated departure from Barcelona
Take A-2 to B-111. Take exit 570 from A-2. 33 min (50.8 km)
Follow BP-1101. 16 min (14.6 km)
Continue on C-462 to your destination. 39 min (30.6 km)
Río Cardener