A CATALAN village has been branded because the ‘most lovely city on the earth’ in accordance with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
The 2 villages of Rupit and Pruit- an hour’s drive from Barcelona- have been united beneath the official identify of Rupit i Pruit in 1977.
The municipality has lower than 300 inhabitants, however it nonetheless preserves a thousand-year-old historical past.
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It boasts many well-preserved buildings courting again to the seventeenth century and is surrounded by pure magnificence, positioned within the coronary heart of the Collsacabra House of Pure Curiosity.
Away from the village itself, there are lots of lush forests, caves, prehistoric tombs, waterfalls, and cliffs to take pleasure in.
This space spreads out throughout the Montdois Plain, to the left of the Ter Valley, which is known for Aiats Plain and its surrounding sheer cliffs.
The Rupit or Sallent River is a tributary of the Ter and offers the city with water, whereas the Torrent del Gravet additionally ends right here.
Rupit i Pruit’s financial system is dependent upon tourism and it has loads of lodging and outlets.
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Farming is essential to the city, notably pigs and cows, whereas agriculture is especially restricted to the small-scale farming of cereals, fodder and potatoes.
The city initially grew up across the fortress, which was constructed in 1000 and changed one which initially stood in Sant Joan de Fabregues.
The paved streets and stone homes take you again in time and it boasts a picket suspension bridge which may solely assist 10 individuals at a time.