Meet the Estartit

Located in the Santa Caterina valley, in the middle of the Montgrí massif, it was founded in 1392 by three Benedictine friars from the Montserrat monastery. Although the current hermitage does not look much like the original one, as it has undergone several renovations, its outbuildings can be visited. On the ground floor is the chapel, on the upper floor, the rooms occupied by the hermit’s family, and in the basement the old outbuildings are preserved. In the courtyard there is a well, where the children were said to come from. In this place, a gathering is held every year in honor of the saint, to whom the salvation of the town of Torroella is attributed in the year of plague and famine, and whose feast is on November 25, according to the tradition started in 17th century