Village
Camós is a farming municipality in the south of the comarca of the Pla de l'Estany, in the province of Girona, near Bañolas, made up of the settlements of San Vicente de Camós, the municipal seat, and Santa María de Camós, with 701 inhabitants. Its history centres on the building and upkeep of the two parish churches, that of Sant Vicenç, documented as early as 1019, and that of Santa Maria, as well as on the cult of Santa Magdalena de Noves. At the end of the 17th century it suffered the plundering of the war with France, which even burned part of the village, and during the Civil War much of its young population emigrated to Banyoles in search of industrial work. Within its territory lies the Roman villa of Vilauba, as well as the Font del Salt Dalmau and the hermitage of Santa Magdalena.
Monument
Can Basses is a farmhouse of irregular plan, built in different stages from the 14th to the 18th century, added to a former square keep. Initially of two wings, the extensions gave it three, and the complex came to be fortified around a small courtyard. The tower preserves a machicolation supported by a vault, an extension of a lateral bay, and a mullioned window with a slender-shafted column and a capital with vegetal decoration. On the rear façade a porch opens with two large round arches, above which rises a series of openings for a granary. The building displays fine ashlar at the door and window frames and at the corners. It is declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) (BCIN 601-MH).
Monument
La Sala de Camós is a manor house adjoining the old church of Sant Vicenç de Camós, the term's earliest parish church, and it is declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). It was the residence of the knights called Camós, documented in the comarca since 1162; a branch of the family, with rights in Tordera, Palafolls and Pineda, is documented until 1450, when Brígida de Camós married Joan Berenguer de Cartellà. The building, dating from the late 13th century or already the 14th, follows the model of the civil manor house with a large multipurpose hall on the ground and upper floor, covered by a double round arcade repeated on the upper floor with pointed arches, and a tower at the south corner with twin windows and a defensive opening topped with a machicolation. Today it operates as a rural hotel.
Curiosity
The Roman villa of Vilauba, in Camós (Pla de l'Estany, Girona), lies about three kilometres south of Lake Banyoles. It is a site occupied between the 2nd–1st centuries BC and the 7th century AD, in three phases: the high imperial phase (1st–3rd centuries), the best documented, with a porticoed central courtyard, a residential area to the north and an agricultural one to the south; the late imperial phase (4th–5th centuries), with large wine and oil presses, before a decline in the 5th century; and the Visigothic phase (6th–7th centuries), of reduced occupation but with a residential area larger than expected. It preserves mosaics and structures, bronze figurines from a domestic altar, dining rooms with wall paintings, baths and presses, over more than 2,000 square metres on display. Declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) in 2021, it can be visited today with explanatory panels.
Nature
The Salt Dalmau is a natural waterfall in the municipal district of Camós (Pla de l'Estany), with a pool of blue- and green-toned waters, situated beside the font de Salt Dalmau spring, on the path that leads from the village centre of Camós to the hamlet of Cruanyes. Just before reaching the spring, one crosses a single semicircular-arched stone bridge, built in 1880 on the initiative of mayor Vicenç de Besalú to provide a new route between Camós and Banyoles, which until then required fording the river beside the hamlet of Can Prat de la Mitjavila.
Monument
A church situated in the municipal district of Camós, in the Pla de l'Estany, on a small rise between the rivers Matamors and Revardit, with good views over Bañolas and the plain. It is one of the two religious centres around which the municipality developed, together with the parish of San Vicente de Camós, to which it was a suffragan until becoming independent. Of Romanesque origin, it is first documented in 1359. From 1658 it was popularly known as the chapel of Santa Teresa, after the altar consecrated to that saint. It underwent alterations in the 16th century and was rebuilt in 1906, giving rise to the popular Baroque ensemble preserved today, although the south wall, with a splayed window, still belongs to the original Romanesque fabric.
Monument
Sant Vicenç de Camós, the parish church of Camós, is documented in 1019, in a donation of lands by the Jew Ramon Bonhom to the cathedral of Girona, and in 1058 it was restored by countess Ermessenda to bishop Berenguer Guifré, under the name 'Sancti Vicentii de Camonos'; in 1156 it was returned to bishop Berenguer de Llers. Of Romanesque origin, it was enlarged around the 16th century, altering the original structure, including the vault and the apse, now semi-octagonal; on the façade, above the door and the rose window, traces remain of a walled-up arch that may correspond to the church mentioned in the late 11th century. It underwent renovations in the 15th century, following the earthquakes of 1427 and 1428, and again in the 17th and 19th centuries; it was sacked by French troops in 1809 and its images were burned during the Civil War.