Legends

Castle Montsoriu was like few places in our country, generating a source of legends. Just get closer to his haughty and walk in the ruins of places to imagine episodes of a magnificent past, with knights and ladies, nobles and peasants, stories of love and war.

Romanticism Montsoriu has found the ideal setting for stories where witches and enchanted move freely, and its walls and rooms allow us to dream about hidden tunnels, fantastic beasts and undiscovered treasures.

Any legends Montsoriu loses force if explained outside their natural environment. Montsoriu with its spectacular makes credible the most unlikely of stories. Seeing the fine high walls and loopholes, we can hear the sound of the army laying siege to the Moorish castle. On foggy days, when it filters through the beautiful windows, it's easy to imagine the emergence of na Guilleuma. When we contemplate the majestic tower backwards while his wife claimed the vassal to the lord. Being at the foot of the tower looks as if Heures hear the horn of the Lady Red ...

Montsoriu becomes the limit of human dimensions, attainable at the same time majestic, solitary while nearby, unknown and forgotten ... This is what our ancestors, a horse of freedom and oppression, Christianity and paganism, religion and magic ... have seen Montsoriu. And it is this confluence of many worlds and against which they were born a series of myths, tales and legends that transmitted orally for centuries have survived until today.

Captions Montsoriu there are several issues: the origin of the castle, about wars, about witches and enchanted about hidden treasures ... There are romantic, others speak of tradition ... From all this we have chosen some of the most significant and have been grouped by topic.
 
 
The origin of the castle

They say that one day a general named Maus, defending the land against outsiders, was shot and fled to the woods. In the flight missed the assistant, but the place to see a bonfire Montsoriu it leads and to rediscover its general. Maus Then he ordered a castle built on this point.
 
The name of General Maus currently remains in the name of a street in the town Arbúcies, which is documented in the eighteenth century.
 
The Arabs

Once the king corn Montsoriu besieging the castle, thinking that the castle lord and his servants would surrender in the presence of his army. So spend a day with two fifteen and one month, until one day the lord of the castle Montsoriu invited him to lunch at the top of the castle. Among the dishes that were served at the banquet of fresh fish the creek. The fish was caught at the castle and climbed through an underground tunnel. The leader in corn to see prodigy desisted from the attack and returned to their country.
 
Long ago, the Moors, who had become masters of Montsoriu castle, demanding a yearly payment to the town Arbúcies. This consisted in delivering the most beautiful maiden of all the people. One year he played the Pepa, delicate and thin girl. When the Moorish king saw so much beauty was speechless and wanted to perpetuate forever. The girl, knowing this, he burst into tears sobbing throughout a song that said:

Why I cry, says his gallant-Pepa.
"I cry for my parents because when
I know in Pepa and instead seek
the world, the world will find it.

The Moorish king, despite the cries of the girl he make his whim, embalms the girl and made her sit on a laundry mud, full of money in a mine near Hostalets open secret.
 
Witches

In the castle there lived a witch Montsoriu na Guilleuma saying that all the nights out followed by a large gathering of servants, all dressed in white. Turn the castle ruins in long procession, sowing Maluro and ominous, and crops were lost all the farmers around. One day the priest of Breda was sprayed with Asperger's and they all fled. On a boat ended up in Morou peak and another at the bottom of the gorge Black Gualba, where he still makes his own.
 
Romantic

At about midnight the head off the top of the tower of the Lady Ivy Red Castle Montsoriu, despentinada wearing on his right hand and left a lantern burning, a hunting horn. Ago, three blasts of the horn. Replied another twist of the neck band of Castro, and appeared shortly after the gentleman dressed in black with a horse of fire. Up in the tower, mount the horse's rump Lady Red Castle and disappear into the darkness of night.
 
Some authors relate the legend of the Lady Red with the fact of the assault weapon of Philip the Bold, when the castle was a refuge for the viscountess Cabrera, named Marquise, and her children and her husband The Count of Council. The viscountess awaited return to the castle of Count Empúries, who had gone to war against the French to defend their land Empordà.
 

 
Hidden Riches

In one of the caves Montsoriu three live snakes, which have a diamond in the mouth, only when they cease to be watered at any source. What then could steal them and the rich would be happy for a lifetime.
Inside the cave, the three serpents kept three full washerwoman currency delighted. The encateri says the spell can be undone by going the night of St. John the point of the twelve sucat and bringing bread to feed snakes with milk and holy water.
 
It is said that a woman of a very poor place went to the castle to find the witch. The witch felt compassion for women, and there gave him the same beans, the woman filled the sacks of beans and get home the contents of the bags had become gold and silver.
 
They arrived in Breda two foreigners looking for a few brave accompanying Montsoriu the castle with the promise of a part of the wealth that is. When they reached the place indicated by the spell. Companions, frightened by the noise of arms and trumpets and the voice and appearance of old characters and animals that appeared to spell the evil foreigners, fled terrified. After a while, saw the castle down the sacks full of strangers, which took from two gold coins with which to pay the small service of two villagers.
 
Each year, the day of St. John, when the first bell Breda plays batallada midnight, opening a door of the castle that communicates with a chamber full of wheat and bran. What do you want se'nl'amo must go tonight, walking backwards with his hands occupied with a candle lit and the other with a skull. Should take the grain with their teeth, put it inside a bag and go quickly because when just the sound of the twelfth chime door shut again. If you get out of it, can not look at the bag until you have passed the creek. Doing so should the grain into gold. If, however, curiosity has the curious will only sand. And if by bad luck could not get out, will have to wait next year when he returns to play the first night batallada the bell tower of Saint John of Breda.
 
The noises of the forest

A hunter he heard Mass at the foot of the chapel of Santa Fe del Montseny, surrounded by his hunting dogs. God saw the point of passing up the hare, and he, quick as lightning, and leaving aside the solemn moment of consecration, the hare hunter in forest. As punishment for this irreverence, including hunting abide by these forests. The locals say that in days laying in the woods feel barking mysterious castle Montsoriu.
 
Tradition and history

A boy, Montsoriu vassal lord, he married one of the most beautiful girls in the area. To meet the old tribute of vassals, held the wedding, the groom presented the bride to the lord. At dawn, the groom made through the castle to retrieve his wife. The guards of the castle received the boy with bad terms, said that Mr. had not been removed and there again the next day. With bad reasons made him wait three days. The day was four, the young, on fire with anger, went to the castle that the necessary provisions. When the bridge fell, the same gentleman presented to the portal and his wife gave him with mocking words and escarnidores. The young man drew the dagger and pierced the heart of Mr. Montsoriu without their servants so they could avoid. While most of the castle reigned confusion, the couple fled down the mountain. In the village everyone was waiting ready to go to the streets to defend the right of young marriage. And the legend says that the movement of people born remences of war, in which vassals rose against the abusive power of the nobles and gentlemen.