RUPIT

Rupit is a medieval village that offers the visitor a unique blend of rustic beauty, with steep streets and old wooden-balconied houses, the hanging bridge and other nooks and crannies full of old world charm. Rupit is the ideal place both for enjoying a relaxing break and for discovering the magic of the surrounding countryside.

Visitors to Rupit cannot fail to be struck by the beauty of the village. Catalan poet Josep M. de Segarra described Rupit
as “a small dot on the map, hidden in the heart of the Collsacabra beech woods, with its shaky rooftops, fragile wooden balconies, steep streets and sleepy houses, all of which may well have disappeared twenty years hence. Some dwellings have gothic windows, but most date from the seventeenth century, the age of baroque saints, sorrowful Madonnas, love songs, L’hereu Riera and the famous bandits called Serrallonga and Perot el Lladre. Seventeenth-century Catalonia was
a heroic, sentimental age when our legends were forged and our best-loved folksongs were composed. Rupit is a humble hidden nook of seventeenth-century Catalonia, with silent peasants in traditional caps and wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls”.