Vilaplan lies at the foot of the Prades mountains, watched over by the uninhabited hamlet of La Mussara. The two villages, their imposing cliffs and their valleys offer very beautiful spots, hidden corners that were also a refuge for guerrilla fighters. One of them, the Carlist leader Cercós, died in the cave known as “L’Hospital dels Carlins” (the Carlists’ Hospital) and was buried in secret in La Mussara cemetery. Legend says that the hatred he aroused among his Liberal enemies led a group to go to the cemetery and, when they could not manage to find his grave, symbolically shoot one of the coffins, where an old lady called Boronada was buried.