Sant Martí d'Envalls

At the entrance of the glacial valley of Angoustrine, a hospital (a monastic living space) welcomed merchants, pilgrims and other travellers who went along this important
passageway, widely used by the migratory herds to go to the pastures (pasquers) of Carlit. Numerous wills and donations financed important buildings, of which only the church remains.
This place of worship follows the canons of Romanesque art in Cerdanya, with its steeple bell tower, a single nave, a semi-circular apse, double-splayed windows and door facing the south. Local traditions in the surroundings evoke the presence of encantades, beings comparable to fairies, in rocky shelters. They could be testimony to pre-Christian beliefs, which would explain why the Church wanted to exorcise a pagan site by establishing a monastic presence.