Besalú lime kiln

In 1956, Joan Oliveras had a kiln built for large-scale lime production. It was a large industrial kiln, with the interior covered in stone from the quarries of Alcañís, in Aragon.

 It was not the first kiln that Lime Joan, as he was known, had built. He had constructed more than twenty kilns distributed throughout Beuda, Sales de Llierca and Sant Ferriol, and he well knew the importance of placing them near the raw material and of having a good team of workers, in charge of feeding and controlling the calcination process.

Thus, Joan sent the stone from the Castellot de Beuda quarry and the Llers quarries to be burnt in this kiln, and had many good workers, such as Jaume Serra, known as Met Sisrals, from the town of Argelaguer.

The kiln remained in operation for ten years, until industrial changes in the sector made it unfeasible.