VIDEO ENGLISHVIDEO FRANÇAISVIDEO CASTELLANO
The dolmen of pedra gentil is a 328m of altitude, cresting a hill located in kilometer 4,1 of the forest track that runs from the C-61 in the sanctuary of the corridor. It is a megalithic building of 7 slabs nailed vertically on top of which is the stone deck. This structure has never been excavated or documented scientifically which leaves some uncertainties about its origin, form, and original location.
Proof of this ignorance is that no one knows exactly when it was built. According to archaeologist Richard Pascual, about the year 3000 before Christ in the East of the Mediterranean was developed a civilization that in Catalonia did not arrive until 2000 or 1500 before Christ.
Nor is it known what was the original appearance of this structure, Since it was restored in 1855 Thanks to Mr. Joseph Pradell – the owner of the farm where it was or is located the dolmen. This restoration, made with the media and the vast knowledge of that time, was, However, the first of its kind carried out in Catalan. Until that time there is no record of a similar performance nor any scientific documentation posted on the megalithic monuments in our country.
Little we know also of those first inhabitants of Vallgorguina that built, but everything seems to indicate that the·human group already had an awareness of belonging to a social group, which would have led to the practice of burial place·groups. The dolmens, in the end, funerary structures are that originally were covered with an artificial mound of sand that covered the funeral Chamber – what today would be inside the table – where rested the remains of his ancestors in the middle of funerary trousseau.
Much more is now known about the dolmens, especially thanks to some that have been unable to discover intact, with mound included, but during much of the 19TH century it was believed that these megalithic monuments were designed by the Celts, that should be built as a sacrificial tables. The Fables said that the roof of the Tomb had reguerons where escolaria is the blood of the victims slaughtered in druídics rituals… This hypothesis began a few years, but in the case of Durham has resulted in not a few legends of all kinds, usually linked to witchcraft and black magic, without any scientific foundation and history have given the dolmen a certain mysterious Halo.
