Solduga
Solduga
The village of Solduga is located in the southeast of the municipality of Baix Pallars, at 1,245 metres above sea level, on the southern slope of the Cuberes range, above the Barranc de l’Infern. It lies at the foot of a cliff where small walled rock shelters can be seen. It enjoys spectacular views over Boumort, the Hortoneda area and Conca de Dalt, and has become an excellent place for hiking and mountain biking.
The first historical records of Solduga date from the mid-13th century, when farmsteads, lands and dues were donated to the monastery of Gerri. However, until the 14th century, jurisdiction over this place must have belonged to the counts of Pallars because at the end of that century, in an attempt at rapprochement between the Pallars comital house and the monastery of Gerri, Count Hug Roger II and his son sold the jurisdiction and other rights over the places of Solduga and l’Espluga de Cuberes to the abbey.
Solduga, together with l’Espluga de Cuberes, had its own municipality until the mid-19th century, when both were incorporated into the municipality of Baén. It remained inhabited until the 1960s, and today only one habitable house remains.
The most outstanding building is the Romanesque church of Sant Martí, dating from the 11th century. It is a rock church that uses the cliff face as its north wall, standing on a small ledge about 6 metres above the base of the cliff. It has a narrow, irregular rectangular floor plan adapted to the terrain, and is finished with a semicircular apse featuring a double-splayed window. Half of the nave still preserves its barrel-vaulted roof, somewhat distorted by the characteristics of the ground. The door opens at the foot of the nave, the only possible access.