Joc de Rupit_ENG

Discover Rupit

Do you know Rupit!

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Follow Rupes

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Take a photo!

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Would you like to go there after visiting the town?

From there you can see L’Agullola, and the legend says… What does the legend say? If you want to find out how the story ends, you’ll have to go!

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Take a photo of the old and new part of town.

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The ruins of the Castle of Rupit

Did you know that...

The origin of this town can be traced back to year 1000, when Rupit Castle was built as a replacement for Fàbregues Castle. The houses in the town were progressively built around the Castle.

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Take a new photo, of Santa Magdalena, from where you are!

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Did you know that...

The oldest piece of news of the existence of Santa Magdalena dates back to 1660. Its interior is reminiscent of Romanesque chapels despite it being built in the 18^th century.

You can go walking, along a path that leaves the street of the Church, just before entering the Plaza Mayor.

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Take a picture of the supposed dinosaur footprints!

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Right opposite the entrance of the old graveyard there are some tracks that are believed to belong to a dinosaur. Do you see them? Take a photo!

Today, we know that these are fossil footprints of the first inhabitant of Rupit i Pruit. It is an invertebrate that goes by the name of Asterosoma and that lived about 40 million years ago in Fossar Street.

Did you know that...

In this street there used to be the old graveyard, after which the street was named. Since November 1^st 1952, the graveyard is in the outskirts of the town.

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Oh, and once up, take a really cool photo!

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Look for the Town Hall and take a photo of the shield that you will see.

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Take a new photo!

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Did you know that...

A good example of the importance of Rupit during the 16^th and 17^th centuries is the fact that it had a notary’s office. A place of legal advice for the villagers. La regentó durante casi 500 años la familia Soler y la primera noticia que encontramos data del año 1308. During almost 500 years it was run by the Soler family, with the first attested record dating back to 1308. We can see the main door with a lintel, crowned with a baroque coat of arms with a sun –the symbol of the Soler household– and the date, 1608.

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Did you know that...

The patron saint of Rupit’s parish church is Saint Michael the Archangel and for this reason the town’s Festival is on Saint Michael’s day, on September 29^th.

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Apothecary

Priest

Shopkeeper

Did you know that...

In former days the apothecary was the pharmacist. The job of the apothecary consisted in regulating the preparation and sale of drugs, syrups, medicinal waters, ointments, cataplasms, herbs, etc.

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A- He was the man who worked with wool to make clothes.

B- He was the man who worked with iron.

C- He was the man who worked at a market buying and selling goods to make money.

...The Smithy dates back to 1711, when a secondborn son of the Rovira farmhouse at Pruit settled as a blacksmith, a family business that continued until 1973.

Did you know that...

There were blacksmiths specialised in different tools? Blacksmiths specialized in making horseshoes were known as farriers; to horseshoe, one had to first pull out the old horseshoe, file the hooves of the horse and then forge the new horseshoe in the exact size and make the nails to hold it. There were also artistic blacksmiths who made doors, fences, iron balconies, etc.

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C- pines and various roses from Rupit.

B- palms.

A- avellanos, alder, elderberry and walnut.

Did you know that...

This bridge was built in 1945 by the craftsmen from Rupit Francesc and Pere Rovira (blacksmiths), Salvi Vila (bricklayer) and Joaquim Marsal (cartwright) with the aim of crossing the deep stream that meanders around Rupit. Over the years, the bridge has become a great attraction of the town.

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Views from the viewpoint of El Soler to Rupit and L'Agullola.