The Albera Natural Site of National Interest is a Spanish natural monument located in the northeast of the province of Girona, in the Serra de l’Albera, and includes part of the municipalities of La Jonquera, Espolla and Rabós.
The Serra de l’Albera is the name given to the eastern section of the Pyrenees, from the port of Pertús to the Mediterranean Sea. It separates the plains of Alt Empordà and Rosselló, and forms the current Franco-Spanish border line. It is 25 kilometers long and its main peaks are Puig Neulós (1257 m), Puig dels Pradets (1167 m), Puig dels Quatre Termes (1156 m) and Pic de Sallfor (992 m).[1]
It is made up of two well-differentiated sectors: the western one, of Requesens-Baussitges and the eastern one of Sant Quiric de Colera-Balmeta, separated by the Coll de Banyuls area. The Sant Quiric de Colera-Balmeta sector is structured around the Monastery of Sant Quiric de Colera, a symbolic element of Catalan Romanesque art. It constitutes an ecological and landscape unit of high quality where the transition between species typical of the Pyrenees and those typically Mediterranean can be observed, in an area dominated by the metamorphic rocks of the Pyrenees (slate and schist).
