Places of interest

Sant Hilari has it all: streets and squares with history, stately buildings of the old summer resorts, emblematic springs, listed buildings, landscapes with breathtaking views and interpretative centres where you can find the essence of the town which flows at the pace of the water.

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Heritage

The town hall

The town hall

It is one of the most patrimonial and emblematic building in town. It was built in 1786 as the town hospital. Subsequently, the half-buried plant was a school and the ground floor was the teachers’ home.
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Former spa of Font Picant

Former spa of Font Picant

The former spa of Font Picant is situated about 4km from the centre of the town, on the Osor road. It was one of the most famous spas in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, as it was known for its mineral-medicinal waters. Over the time, it became a summer resort and a meeting point for the Catalan bourgeoisie.
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Font Vella spa

Font Vella spa

This majestic building was built in 1908. It was named as Villa Josefina since it was a nun house for a long time. Today, the building is a hotel-spa.
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Can Rovira

Can Rovira

This building was constructed during the 15th century by the Gurb family. It is an old stately house belonging to the richest family in the town. In 1995, the building became municipal property. It was later opened as a tourist office and as an exhibition hall.
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Can Rovira Chapel

Can Rovira Chapel

Inside the old stately house of Can Rovira, the current tourism office, we can find a chapel dated back to the 19th century.
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Anton Busquets i Punset’s birthplace

Anton Busquets i Punset’s birthplace

Anton Busquets i Punset was a Catalan writer and poet. He was born in a house on Carrer Vic, in Sant Hilari. From an early age he differed from the boys of his generation because he had different concerns.
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Despatx de l’aigua

Despatx de l’aigua

This nineteenth-century building was designed by Josep Maria Pericas and built in 1923. In the past, it became an essential meeting point for holiday makers, since they went there to have social life while drinking water from the Font Picant (a spring).
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The church

The church

The church is located in the middle of the town and it is dedicated to Sant Hilari de Poitiers, the son of a Roman aristocratic family brought up in paganism. The building is made up of a wide variety of styles, mainly Romanesque and Gothic. This diversity is due to the continuous reforms and extensions which have been made during the 12th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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Ermita de Santa Margarida de Vallors

Ermita de Santa Margarida de Vallors

The hermitage of Santa Margarida de Vallors is one of the most beautiful places in the eastern part of the municipality of Sant Hilari Sacalm. The trail to get there is a good option if you want to enjoy the forests in the zone and connect with the nature.
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La Pedra Llarga

La Pedra Llarga

La Pedra Llarga is a megalithic menhir-shaped monument. Although its chronology is uncertain, it is believed to date from the transition period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, around 2500 – 1800 BC. ral group which entered through the north of the peninsula in 2000 B.C.
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Jaumet’s statue

Jaumet’s statue

Jaume Traveries i Riera, known as Jaumet del Flabiol, was the first water distributor of Font Vella. He was dumb and short, and really cherished by the townspeople. He delivered the water to the summer residents with some earthenware jug with spout and handle. He is still a well-remembered figure thanks to some typical desserts known as “Jaumets”.
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La Cooperativa

La Cooperativa

This building was constructed in 1920 as the headquarters of roders, a trade consisting of woodwork in which wooden containers or barrels were made through chestnut wood. Nowadays, it is occupied by Museu Guilleries, where, among others, there is an exhibition dedicated to this old trade.
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Plaça Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer

Plaça Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer

The Plaça Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, known as Plaça Porxada, during the best summer times had three hotels (Oriental, España and Suizo) and the iconic Water Office. Nowadays, it is a nice square with an area covered by a porch, right in the town centre.
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Plaça Doctor Gravalosa

Plaça Doctor Gravalosa

This square, known as “La Placeta” is one of the most emblematic spaces in our town. The square is named after Doctor Gravalosa, a doctor from the town who, in 1779, introduced the medicinal properties of the water of Font Picant.
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Ermita del Nen Jesús de Praga

Ermita del Nen Jesús de Praga

The hermitage of Nen Jesús de Praga (Infant Jesus of Prague) is located on a small hill known as “La Roca d’en Pla”, from where you can see beautiful views. It belongs to the parish of Sant Mateu de Joanet, Arbúcies, today under pastoral and administrative care of the parish of Sant Hilari Sacalm.
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Ermita de la Mare de Déu del Pedró

Ermita de la Mare de Déu del Pedró

The hermitage of Marian devotion dedicated to Virgin Mary is located 8 km from the town. It is easy to get there by a turnoff towards El Sobirà and Osor, by a road from Sant Hilari to Santa Coloma de Farners.
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General Moragues’ monument

General Moragues’ monument

This square is dedicated to Josep Moragues i Mas, a historical figure born in 1669 in Mas Moragues, in Sant Hilari Sacalm. He was a military man who fought for the Austrian side in the War of the Spanish Succession. In the square, there is a monument dedicated to him by Domènec Fita.
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Interpretation centres and museums

Museu Guilleries

Museu Guilleries

Go into Museu Guilleries and get to know the wide variety of the fauna and flora in the area through the different ecosystems. It is a museum of the zone and the natural heritage in which you will be able to know about the roders, one of the oldest trade in our town.
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Centre AQUA

Centre AQUA

Get excited and arouse curiosity towards Les Guilleries and our main source of development: mineral water. It allows you to interact with this source of life and to live through an intense and dynamic experience in an interpretative centre which is adapted to all audiences.
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Centre Artesà de la Torneria (Turnery artisan centre)

Centre Artesà de la Torneria (Turnery artisan centre)

Go back in the past and travel to the 15th century through an exhibition which helps you understand the evolution of this craft trade throughout history. Through demonstrations, you can witness that, with constancy, dedication and the work of artisan masters, a tree trunk can be turned into a gift piece.
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Monuments of artistic and craft interest

Can Rovira mural

Can Rovira mural

This mural represents the popular legend called Les estovalles de Can Rovira (Can Rovira tablecloth), which explains how the Rovira family managed to live in abundance over several generations. It also reflects some of the most characteristic features of the town. It was painted by two local artists, Josep Nogué and Ester Polo, alongside with Bet, an artist from Arbúcies.
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Mural in Hostal Fugarolas

Mural in Hostal Fugarolas

This mural is located in front of Hostal Fugarolas hostel, next to Fonda Rita. It is dedicated to the maids who worked there in the 1940s.
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BestiArt mural

BestiArt mural

This mural was done by the local association know as Excèntrica. There is a sample of the principal vegetation and wildlife of les Guilleries.
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The Murals in Can Culí

The Murals in Can Culí

The murals in Can Culí are works by Josep Nogué, a local artist. You can see some elements from the town in his murals.
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Wooden fox slide

Wooden fox slide

Monumental wooden slide in the shape of a fox that was made by local turnery artisans on the occasion of the Fira de Fusta (Wood Fair) of 2005.
Monument of blood solidarity

Monument of blood solidarity

A tribute to blood donors, especially the ones from Sant Hilari Sacalm. The monument was designed by D. S. León and it was inaugurated on the 7th October 2017, on the occasion of the Blood Donation Marathon.
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Monument of homage to Sardana

Monument of homage to Sardana

This monument is a tribute of Sant Hilari Sacalm to our traditional dance, called Sardana. It was designed by Iolanda Triadó and inaugurated on 17th August 2002.
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Monument of the Wooden Top

Monument of the Wooden Top

It is a huge spinning top of wood of about 5 metres high made by the turnery artisans in our town on the occasion of the Wood Fair in 2007.
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Viewpoints

Mirador del Pla del Campaner

Mirador del Pla del Campaner

The viewpoint called Mirador del Pla del Campaner is situated near the centre of the village. This point allows to see the bell tower of the church and the houses around it.
Mirador de La Miranda

Mirador de La Miranda

This viewpoint is known for its magnificent views of the natural park El Montseny. It is a place where you can breathe the nature and tranquillity in its essence. It is very visited by the tourists as well as the townspeople.
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Mirador de les Guilleries

Mirador de les Guilleries

This viewpoint is located in the residential area called Cal Sastre and its location allows the visitors to have a panoramic view of our town with the massif El Montseny and Les Guilleries in the background. The walk to the top of the viewpoint is about 250 metres.