Sau Reservoir
Sau Reservoir is a reservoir located on the Ter river, near Vilanova de Sau, Catalonia, Spain. The dam was completed in 1962, creating a reservoir with a storage capacity of 151.3 hm³ that covered the former town of Sant Romà de Sau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir
- Also known as: “Panta de Sau”, “Pantà de Sau”, and “Sau reservoir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old church of Sant Romà de Sau and Turó del Castell.
Old church of Sant Romà de Sau
Ruins
Photo: Josep Bracons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The old church of Sant Romà de Sau is an 11th-century Lombard Romanesque parish church of the abandoned old village of Sant Romà de Sau in the municipality of Vilanova de Sau, Osona county, in the mountain region of the Guilleries, Catalonia, Spain.
Turó del Castell
Peak
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Turó del Castell is a mountain of the Guilleries Massif, Catalonia, Spain. It has an elevation of 851.1 metres above sea level. The Susqueda reservoir lies off the southern slopes of the mountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sant Romà de Sau and Tavertet.
Tavertet
Village
Photo: Jvilardell, Public domain.
Tavertet is a small town located above some cliffs, 900m above sea level, in the area known as Collsacabra, north of the Guilleries, in the comarca of Osona in Catalonia. Tavertet is situated 3½ km northeast of Sau Reservoir.
Tavèrnoles
Village
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Tavèrnoles is a municipality in the comarca of Osona in Catalonia, Spain. An altar frontal from Tavèrnoles is conserved at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona. Tavèrnoles is situated 5 km southwest of Sau Reservoir.
Sau Reservoir
- Category: body of water
- Location: Vilanova de Sau, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Sau Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sauko urtegia”
- Catalan: “embassament de Sau”
- Catalan: “Embassament de Sau”
- Catalan: “Pantà de Sau”
- Cebuano: “Pantà de Sau”
- Dutch: “Pantà de Sau”
- French: “Lac-réservoir de Sau”
- Galician: “Encoro de Sau”
- German: “Pantà de Sau”
- German: “Pantano de Sau”
- Slovenian: “Pantà de Sau”
- Spanish: “embalse de Sau”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Sau”
- Spanish: “pantano de Sau”
- Spanish: “Pantano de Sau”
- Swedish: “Pantà de Sau”
Localities in the Area
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