{"id":67933,"date":"2012-07-24T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silene.idilicstudio.com\/?p=67933"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T07:31:29","slug":"the-canigo-french-grand-site-and-the-sacred-mountain-of-the-catalans-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/news\/the-canigo-french-grand-site-and-the-sacred-mountain-of-the-catalans-july-2012","title":{"rendered":"The Canig\u00f3, French Grand Site and the sacred mountain of the Catalans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy has recently declared the Canig\u00f3 massif as a <em>grand site <\/em>and officially changed its name from the French \u2018Canigou\u2019 to \u2018Canig\u00f3\u2019, as in Catalan. The Ministry acknowledges the name \u2018Canig\u00f3\u2019 and justifies the change by recognizing the mountain as the sacred mountain of the Catalan country.<\/p>\n<p>This characteristic, which dates back to prehistoric times, was celebrated by, among others, the Catalan poet Jacint Verdaguer in his great poem <em>Canig\u00f3<\/em>, and explains why on the summit of the mountain (2,784 m) every year a fire is lit from which all other fires in Catalonia are lit during the celebrations of Saint John\u2019s Night (24th of June).<\/p>\n<p>The declaration of <em>grand site <\/em>for the Canig\u00f3 massif acknowledges the exceptional values it harbours, its excellent state of conservation and the importance of the conservation, management and local development project being carried out in the area. In addition, it also represents a reward for the respectful visitor model regarding the conservation of the protected area.<\/p>\n<p>This declaration will strengthen the protection of this unique Pyrenean protected site, over 23,000 ha, via the joint promotion with other <em>grands sites<\/em>. Currently, the Canig\u00f3 is the only mountain in the Pyrenees to be declared \u2018Grand Site\u2019, as the Cirque de Gavarnie, which had also received this distinction in the past, lost it.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr\/Le-massif-du-Canigo-devient-Grand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/stmartinducanigou.org\/index_UK.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbey of St. Martin of Canigou<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-67933\" data-postid=\"67933\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-67933 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy has recently declared the Canig\u00f3 massif as a grand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":77825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[345,313],"class_list":["post-67933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-protected-areas","tag-sacred-sites","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89177,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67933\/revisions\/89177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}