La Capella d'Escaló

A Romanesque chapel in Spain hidden not just by time, but by its past as a prison. But is that the real story?

Deep in the hills of Catalonia, a small Romanesque chapel sits - abandoned and forgotten. Its official name is La Capella d'Escaló, and it belongs to the territory of the old terme of Escaló. But it stands on its own, near the hamlet of the same name, on the old road to Espot. This chapel is a relic, a testament to the past. It’s a Romanesque church, though its walls tell a different story. They are marked by the past as a hidden prison, but the facts suggest otherwise. They bear the mark of a broken history, a site that time has left untouched, uninhabited, isolated. La Capella d'Escaló is but an echo of the old terme of Escaló. The place where the chapel stands was a part of a history that has long since faded. All that’s left is a small building that’s falling into ruin, on its own, near the hamlet of Escaló.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata

Written by Nik Frost

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