The St Guilhem of Combret Hermitage is a small rural romanesque chapel located on the southern flank of the Canigou massif, in the French department of Pyrenees-Orientales, and the Languedoc-Roussillon region.
According to legend, the chapel was built by a hermit named Guillem, who settled there in the early Middle Ages after defeating evil spirits that had haunted him.
Although the chapel has not been home to any hermits since 1840, it still becomes a place of meditation twice a year, during traditional Catalan religious festivities known as aplecs, celebrating St. Guillem and St. Mary Magdalene, to whom the hermitage was originally dedicated.
Located in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales, the massif separates the natural and historical areas of Vallespir to the south, and Conflent to the north.
[1] The chapel is situated on the southern flank of the massif, at 1330 m above sea level on a hillock overlooking fifty meters of river bed Coumelade.