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Dòrria

Toses, Ripollès, Girona

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Dòrria

Monument · Toses, Ripollès, Girona

Dòrria is a population centre in the municipality of Toses, in the Ripollès, situated at 1,550 metres altitude above the Puigcerdà road, on the southern slope of the sierra de Gorrablanca, overlooking the valley of the Rigart; it is one of the highest villages in Catalonia and the highest one still inhabited today. Documented as Duaria in the year 839 and as Doriga in 903, its origin may be Ibero-Basque according to Joan Coromines, although other authors link it to the Basque iturria, 'the spring', owing to the abundance of water in the area. It was formerly a livestock-farming settlement, heavily depopulated and revitalised in recent years by the building of second homes, organised around the parish church of Sant Víctor, consecrated in 903 by bishop Nantigís of La Seu d'Urgell and much altered in the 17th and 18th centuries, which preserves Romanesque paintings discovered during a restoration carried out from 1997 to 1999. The complex is declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection).

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