L’Estany is one of the 10 municipalities that make up the county of El Moianès. The others are Calders, Castellcir, Castellterçol, Collsuspina, Granera, Moià, Monistrol de Calders, Sant Quirze Safaja and Santa Maria d’Oló. All of these municipalities are participating in the Moianès Ecomuseum project, whose aim is to foment the county’s existing pre-industrial heritage and use it as a tool for regional promotion.
The range of features of the physical and human landscape of pre-industrial society that constitute the Moianès Ecomuseum can be grouped into five main thematic areas that help us to understand local ways of life, ways of working, ways of producing food, ways of making use of available natural resources and the ways in which people communicated and interacted with each other until well into the twentieth century.
Let yourself to be captivated by the landscapes, the history, the pre-industrial heritage, the gastronomy and the serenity of El Moianès. You will delight in the myriad of things to do in the villages throughout the four corners of the county. Enjoy El Moianès!
Ways of life
The farmhouses, the village houses, the workers' houses, and the auxiliary constructions provide us with a wide range of constructions of different shapes and types that correspond to the various uses and distributions of the inhabited spaces.
Mas Grau
Carrer dels Monjos
Carrer dels Monjos 1950
Carrer dels Caputxins
Mas Esplugues. Castellcir
Village street. Granera
Village. Sant Quirze Safaja
Village. Santa Maria d’Oló
Working patterns
The transformation of the rural landscape was initially linked to crop growing. From the eighteenth century onwards the complementary process of industrialisation began with the establishment of various factories.
Era d’en Troà. 1920
Dry stone wall
Frares' mill. 1946
Fàbrica de dalt. 1910
Wool washer. Castellterçol
Vine barrack. Monistrol de Calders
Vine barrack. Calders
Industrial colony Jorba. Calders
Ways of nourishment
The pre-industrial gastronomic model was based on quite a large number of ingredients of vegetable and animal origin, some of which were transformed (in mills, ovens, distilleries, etc.) using a variety of different methods of preparation, conservation and commercialisation.
Field at la Carrera
Field at la Crosa
Herd of goats
Herd of cows
Brotons mill. Castellcir
Brotons mill. Castellcir. Aprox. 1980
Forn del Mas Esplugues. Castellcir
Jars. Castellterçol
Ways of making use of natural resources
Nature offers an enormous variety of resources: from the woods (plants, fruit, resin, firewood, coal, etc.), from the land (crops, brick-kilns), from stone (quarries for building material and calcium, chalk and glass kilns, etc.)and from the water (canals, wells, ice wells,etc.)
Font d’Auró
Font de la Sala
Font Grossa
Font dels Bous
Ginebreda's pit. Castellterçol
Lime kilns. Calders
Font de les Tàpies. Calders
Vinyota's pit. Castellterçol
Ways of communicating and forming social relationships
The networks of roads, the means of communication and exchanging information, social relations (uses and customs), religious beliefs and the different types of recreational activities and leisure areas have also all contributed to modelling the landscape.
Cattle Track
Trail to Vic
Fira de l’Estany
Motorway to Moià
Trail. Moià
Hostal de Can Xarina. Collsuspina
Pont de les Graus. Moià
Pont d’Esplugues. Castellcir