Sant Julià del Llor i Bonmatí

Sant Julià del Llor i Bonmatí is now the youngest municipality in the Selva region, since it was established as such in 1983, after separating from Amer.

The municipal area, of 9.73 km2 , extends along the left bank of the Ter River, bordering to the north and east with the municipalities of Amer, Sant Martí de Llémena and Sant Gregori, and is made up of two population centers: Sant Julià del Llor, to the southwest, and Bonmatí, to the east, and a good number of scattered farmhouses.

Historical summary of the municipality

In the current territory of the municipality, Iberian records have been found in some hills in the valley of the current Ter river and there is also evidence that the Romans took advantage of the plants near the Ter river. More recently, around the year 884 with the expansion of Christianity, the monastery of Sant Gregori founded some hermitages, such as that of Sant Julià del Llor.

In 1734 , lead mining began in Sant Julià, iron was scarce, since some time before it had already been extracted to be used for workshops where iron tools (fargas) were fixed and made. It also began to be extracted in Anglès and Osor.

The “Joaquim Estrany i Fills” cotton industry was established in 1898 in the Bonmatí neighborhood and employed about 400 people. Three years later, the second warehouse was rented to H. Vicente Casacuberta, who would also dedicate himself to the production of cotton. But starting in 1912, the Casacuberta company began to control the two textile warehouses.

In 1903, in the third nave. Salvador Torras Domènech manufactured paper and employed a hundred people.

During the civil war, industrial warehouses are converted into military production factories. During the withdrawal of the Republicans (1939), Líster dynamites the colony's bridge. The company Fábricas L. Matas y Pons SA buys the warehouses of the M. Bonmatí colony and returns the warehouses to resume textile production.

The inhabitants of Sant Julià del Llor and Bonmatí are dissatisfied with the administration of the municipality and with the desire for self-government. On February 22, 1983, the Generalitat of Catalonia authorized the constitution of the independent municipality.

Places of interest

• More Bonmatí
• Bonmatí Colony
• Chapel of the Immaculate Conception
• Romanesque Bridge of Sant Julià del Llor
• The Cavorca II
• Church of Saint Augustine
• Chapel of Saint Peter the Martyr
• Aulina