Parador de Turisme de Vic-Sau

The Parador de Turisme de Vic-Sau is a hotel establishment in Les Masies de Roda, in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, Spain. It stands at the foot of the Casserres peninsula, facing the Sau reservoir on its eastern slope, near the old Bac de Sau farmhouse and just beyond the Coll de Terrades. It is one of the properties in the Paradores de Turismo de España network, the Spanish state-owned chain of luxury and heritage hotels, and is currently managed by Paradores de Turismo de España, S.A. The hotel opened to the public on 25 May 1972, although it was not officially inaugurated until 17 July of the same year. It was built to the plans of the architect José Osuna, who drew inspiration from the Masia de les Ferreres in Sant Bartomeu del Grau, an 18th-century farmhouse built by the Moretó family. The building, which has since been completely renovated, reproduces the form of a typical Catalan manor house (masia). Stylistically and architecturally, a distinction is made between the main façade, which echoes the distinctive lines of Catalan-Aragonese stately architecture, and the rear face, characterised by the forms typical of the Catalan masia. Notable features include large windows with semicircular arches, wrought-iron balcony grilles, and galleries and arcades of solid stone. The Parador became famous as the meeting place of the group of Catalan parliamentarians, deputies and senators known as the Comissió dels Vint (Commission of the Twenty), who drafted the preliminary bill of the Statute of Catalonia between 12 and 15 September 1978. For this reason the resulting text is also known as the Estatut de Sau. At the entrance to the Parador stands the monument to the Estatut de Sau, a work by the sculptor Josep Ricart i Maymir. The monument was inaugurated on 3 October 1982 by the then President of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol i Soley, the mayor of Les Masies de Roda, and most of the parliamentarians who took part in drafting the Statute, beginning with the president of the Comissió dels Vint, Josep Andreu i Abelló. As part of the Paradores network, the Vic-Sau property combines hospitality with heritage and landscape: it serves as a base for visitors to the Sau reservoir and the surrounding Osona countryside, and it carries a distinctive political-historical significance in modern Catalonia because of its association with the drafting of the 1978 Statute.

The Parador de Turisme de Vic-Sau is a hotel establishment in Les Masies de Roda, in the Osona comarca of Catalonia. It is situated at the foot of the Casserres peninsula, facing the Sau reservoir on its eastern slope, near the old Bac de Sau farmhouse and just after the Coll de Terrades. The Parador opened to the public on 25 May 1972, although it was not officially inaugurated until 17 July of that same year. It was built according to the plans of the architect José Osuna, who was inspired by the Masia de les Ferreres in Sant Bartomeu del Grau, built during the 18th century by the Moretó family. The building, which has since been completely renovated, reproduces a typical Catalan stately masia. In stylistic and architectural terms, a distinction must be made between the main façade, which reproduces the distinctive lines of Catalan-Aragonese stately architecture, and the rear face, characterised by the forms typical of the Catalan masia. Notable features include the large windows with semicircular arches, the wrought-iron grilles on the balconies, and the galleries and arcades of solid stone. Today the Parador is managed by the company Paradores de Turismo de España, S.A. The Parador became famous for being the meeting place of the group of Catalan parliamentarians, deputies and senators known as the Comissió dels Vint (Commission of the Twenty), who drafted the preliminary bill of the Statute of Catalonia between 12 and 15 September 1978. For this reason the resulting text is also known as the Estatut de Sau. At the entrance to the Parador stands the monument to the Estatut de Sau, a work by the prestigious sculptor Josep Ricart i Maymir. The monument was inaugurated on 3 October 1982 by the then President of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol i Soley, the mayor of Les Masies de Roda, and most of the parliamentarians who took part in the drafting of the Statute, beginning with the president of the Comissió dels Vint, Josep Andreu i Abelló.

• 1982

  The monument to the Estatut de Sau at the entrance to the Parador was inaugurated on 3 October 1982.

• 1978

  Between 12 and 15 September 1978, the Comissió dels Vint met at the Parador and drafted the preliminary bill of the Statute of Catalonia, known as the Estatut de Sau.

• 1972

  The Parador opened to the public on 25 May 1972.

• 1972

  The Parador was officially inaugurated on 17 July 1972.

A state-run heritage Parador hotel in the Osona countryside, combining traditional Catalan masia architecture with a notable role in modern Catalan political history.

• Hotel accommodation

• Restaurant dining

• Event and meeting facilities

1. 1Parador de Turisme de Vic-Sauwikidata.org
2. 2Parador de Turisme de Vic-Sauca.wikipedia.org
3. 3Official websiteparador.es