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Olot
Olot (; ) is the capital city of the comarca of Garrotxa, in the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The city is known for its natural landscape, including four volcanoes scattered around the city center. The municipality is part of the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park. Olot is also well known for its cultural activity, with historical art movements like Olot school or factories of religious imagery, which contributed to the location in the city of the main Design and Arts & Crafts school of the province of Girona, the Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny d'Olot.
Montsacopa volcano
mountain in Spain
Fageda d'en Jordà
Beech forest in Girona, Spain
Olot school
Catalan painting movement
1428 Catalonia earthquake
XV century earthquake
Tossol
thumb|One of the tossols we can visit in the Fageda d'en Jordà, Garrotxa.
Tossol is a Catalan word (hillock) used to refer to protuberances that form in lava flows and that when the lava cools become small hills. In the Jordà beech forest (in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, in Catalonia, Spain) there are more than 50 tossols (spatter cones) formed by the interaction between lava flows and pre-existing wetlands that, when covered by lava at more than 1000 °C, boiled with large bubbles that raised and deformed the flow forming the tossols. These in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone are fo
Olot Saints Museum
museum locateid in Olot (Girona)
Museu de la Garrotxa
Museum in Olot, Spain