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TOLORIU, A ON LES BRUIXES HI FAN EL NIU
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It is a cave located above the mountains overlooking Ansovell. If you want to visit it you should bring appropriate clothes and a good helmet. Leave the village by a forest path that goes to the Font del Bonabre, keep walking on this path through the forest up to the Plana de la Mata. Then turn right to follow a short and steep path that leads to another small plain. From there, follow your intuition to find the hole (sometimes there are milestones that lead you there), located between the Roc curve and the Coll de Se (Se Pass) 1400 meters high. With the help of a guide or an expert you can go into it for more than 200 meters.
It is a cave full of mystery and legend. It is said that once the people from Toloriu wanted to know how long the cave was. They left a dog and a cat at its entrance. The dog came out from a hole near the old Hostal Nou, down the road, near Martinet. The cat came out near Els Banys de Sant Vicenç.
It is reported that there was laundry drying on the sun by the entrance but when people got closer the clothes had disappeared. Women nobody knew were also seen near the entrance, they were called les encantades (the charmed women) but nobody could find them, not even when the inhabitants of Toloriu took refuge in the cave to protect themselves from the civil war 1936-1939.  

CAVE OF THE CHARMED - COVA DE LES ENCANTADES
Escut de Toloriu