The town is located in the southern-most point of the Berguedā region, at the headwaters of the stream, Riera dHortons near the limits of the Bages region, and borders Puig-Reig to the east, Navās to the south, Cardona and Montmajor to the west and Montclar and Casserres to the north. Serrateix has an area of 66.8 square kilometres, and its high plane sits in the centre of the municipality, amid the flatlands of Navel, Sant Joan de Montdarn and Viver below.
Emerging atop a hill, we also have Montbordó (786 m.) and the many streams that feed into the Cardener and Llobregat rivers. As for the overall landscape, typical here are pine forests in the areas untouched by the 1994 fires, and oak and holm oak forests in the areas that were burnt down. In the middle are dry fields, which surround the country houses that the dot area. The local economy relies primarily on the cultivation of grains, and particularly on modern pork and bovine stockbreeding. Serrateix also has a campground and a boarding house.
Emerging atop a hill, we also have Montbordó (786 m.) and the many streams that feed into the Cardener and Llobregat rivers. As for the overall landscape, typical here are pine forests in the areas untouched by the 1994 fires, and oak and holm oak forests in the areas that were burnt down. In the middle are dry fields, which surround the country houses that the dot area. The local economy relies primarily on the cultivation of grains, and particularly on modern pork and bovine stockbreeding. Serrateix also has a campground and a boarding house.
The Monastery of Serrateix features a pre-Romanesque church (10th century), its great Romanesque church (11th-12the centuries) with a Lombard-style apse, Gothic chapels and bell tower and a neoclassical cloister (18th century). Abbatial coats of arms, tombs and the urns of the Sants Mārtirs (Martyr Saints) complete this rich heritage. Still standing at the head of Sant Pere de Serrateix are valuable Pre-Romanesque remains that date back to the 9th century, including horseshoe arches and rectangular apses. The rest of the structure is Romanesque and dates from the 11th century.
The Castellot de Viver is an immense rock, bearing the holes from wooden Carolingian fortifications and tombs that were excavated in the rock. The church of Sant Miquel de Viver was built in the 12th and 17th centuries, and that of Sant Joan de Mondarn goes back to the 11th and 18th centuries.
The Castellot de Viver is an immense rock, bearing the holes from wooden Carolingian fortifications and tombs that were excavated in the rock. The church of Sant Miquel de Viver was built in the 12th and 17th centuries, and that of Sant Joan de Mondarn goes back to the 11th and 18th centuries.