Protected by the Santa Margarida volcano and by the Corb waterfalls, it is a splendid natural area, that has been dominated by beech trees for many centuries. This is a place full of changing colours and chromatic contrasts, of plays on light and shadows. The Fageda d’en Jordà is, without a doubt, the most famous and exceptional forest of the Natural Park of the Volcanic Area of La Garrotxa. It lies on a great lava outflow that was spat out over 17,000 years ago by the Croscat crater. Over time this volcanic liquid has ruffled the land and created great waves of basalt, some of more than twenty metres in height, called "tossols", which form a large sea of stone on which an enormous family of beech trees has grown. Going into the forest is like going into a cave, where the sunlight can hardly break through the intertwined branches, and the sky cannot be seen between the abundance of trunks and treetops loaded with foliage. This charming landscape has inspired painters, artists and poets, such as the Catalan poet Joan Maragall, who described the beech wood in the following way:
"[the walker] He is invaded by a sweet forgetfulness of the world in the silence of this profound place, and he does not think to leave it, or thinks of it but in vain: he is a prisoner of the Fageda d’en Jordà"