Power point presentation of Olot city. It aims to be a short tourist guide through a route shown on a map, following the most interesting spots in the city and providing a brief explanation of each of them.

3. THE OLD CITY AND ITS
ENVIRONMENT
Olot is the capital of Garrotxa region in the province of Girona,
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Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on a plain of the high basin of Fluvià
river, which crosses the city from one side to the other. The city is
situated in the Olot Volcanic Field (an area with many inactive
volcanoes), lying within the protected area of the Natural Park of the
Volcanic Area of the Garrotxa. The urban area includes three volcanic
craters: Montolivet, Montsacopa and Garrinada. The Natural Park
covers an area of 119 Km² and it includes the famous beech forest of
La Fageda d'en Jordà.

6. n Theatre (with more than a hundred years) and the bullring ( it’s one of the oldest in the country) There a

7. It’s called Reading and represents education. It consists of two boys and a girl w

8. The church (1750-1763) in the
very centre of the city is a wide
building of neoclassical style with
baroquefront and stairs. Inside
there is a baroque altarpiece(17th
C.), by Pau Costa, and a huge
canvas by El Greco, Cristo con
la cruz a cuestas -Christ with the
Cross, (1605).
The profile of the church and its
bell are emblematic elements of
Olot.

9. ts in the city centre, where most commercial activity is developed. We can find c
e's church.

10. ple made bigger copies of it until the sculpture became a representative image of Olot. It Is one o

11. othic and late Renaissance style. It is formed by eight side chapels with shields. Carmelite clo

12. e public on 30th May 1943 as a municipal Olot Park. Currently, New Park, has about four hectares, and is h

13. sitors can witness in situ the details of this production. This activity has over a hundred years of

14. Wonderful spots, declared
Artistic Natural Park in 1945.
One of the most peaceful
places. The Moixina’s fountain
is Romanesque and it’s made of
volcanic stones with a shield and
a lot of water streams,
surrounded by a big group of
oaks. A delightful landscape of
swamps and wet vegetation
which has inspired thousands of
artists.

15. October 1936, the most horrible event of the Civil War in Olot. The cross was made in the scene of the eve
It’s called the Triaibecause in the past, during the month of May, young people
from all the region came to Olot to look for a boyfriend-girlfriend, so the name
of Triai, means “promise”. A party started and a lot of young people started a
relation which was the cause of a lot of marriages.

16. 11. FAGEDA D’EN JORDÀ
Fageda d’en Jordá, of mysterious
appearance, is an exceptional
beechwood because it grows at an
elevation of just 500m and is
located above the lava flow of the
Croscat Volcano. The relief of the
land is characteristically waving,
with short elevations (hillocks).
Nowadays it is one of the twenty-
five natural reserves of the Natural
Park of the Volcanic Area of La
Garrotxa. Building and hunting is
banned. La Fageda is a kind of
caducifolic forest, and it presents a
different look according to the
season.

17. ll (Barcelona 1860-1911). He was a journalist and poems writer. His death in 1911 set the end of a literature

18. nd. Its eruption opened a wide circular crater, with 350 m of diameter, 70 m deep and 80 m hig

19. 7000 years ago, and the second one was 11500 years ago. It is an strombolian volcano
ey joined making a cone 160m high. The crater with a horseshoe shape is 600m long and 350m

20. foot, but it is worth climbing for the 360º view. In the crater, the church of Sant Francesc was bu

21. r Fluvià, with a row of centenary plane trees on both sides. At one end there is Saint Roc bridge, Saint Ro
c chapel, built in 1594.

22. egend says that she was found by an ox, and Tura’s intervention. The first building was from the
centuries it was restored and widened. Then, in 1936 the church was burnt, the bell tower destr
sent it is restored.