Montbolo (; ) is a commune in the

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ; ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a departments of France, department of the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spain, Spanish ...

department in southern

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Geography

Localization

Montbolo is located in the

canton of Le Canigou The canton of Le Canigou is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda. ...

and in the

arrondissement of Céret The arrondissement of Céret is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department ( Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 64 communes. Its population is 134,629 (2021), and its area is . Composition The commune ...

Geology

Montbolo once had

gypsum Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate Hydrate, dihydrate, with the chemical formula . It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, drywall and blackboard or sidewalk ...

mines, used for making plaster, and also

lutite Lutite is old terminology, which is not widely used, by Earth scientists in field descriptions for fine-grained, sedimentary rocks, which are composed of silt-size sediment, clay-size sediment, or a mixture of both. When mixed with water lutites o ...

and dolomite. A landslide in a gypsum stone-pit in Montbolo occurred on 20 March 1886 and killed three workers.

Population

Sites of interest

The Saint-Andrew church of Montbolo was first built in the 12th century and then modified in the 13th, 14th and 17th centuries. At the end of the 19th century, works started for a full repair of the church, but the new roof was entirely destroyed following a storm in January 1900. Other repairs have been made more recently, such as the rebuild of the portal, which destroyed some of the older elements. Montbolo has two dolmens: the Caixa de Rotllan, on the city limit with

Arles-sur-Tech Arles-sur-Tech (, literally ''Arles on Tech''; ; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ; ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a departments of France, department of the Regions of France, region of Occita ...

and the dolmen de Formentera. File:Montbolo Eglise Exterieur.jpg, Saint-Andrew church File:Caixa de Rottlan 3.JPG, Caixa de Rotllan

Culture

;Poetry * ''Confidences d'un moutard parisien'' (1912) is a poem by the writer Marc Anfossi which mentions Montbolo,

Palalda Palalda (; ) is a former commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, now part of Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda. Geography Palalda is located above the river Tech, to the northeast of Amélie-les-Bains and to the east of Montbolo. History The first mentio ...

and Montalba-d'Amélie.

References

Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub