Culture and tales
Anglès is undoubtedly a land of culture and tales.
The oral tradition, with more glorifying eagerness than historical rigor, tells us that at the end of the 8th century, the Emperor Charlemagne was in our country in the middle of the war with the Saracens and, here, that when reaching the summit of the mountain of Puig de Frou, in front of the great beauty that was on his feet he exclaimed: "What a beautiful valley, it seems the Valley of the Angels". From this feat, the text sculpted in stone on the facade of Can Camps, on Carrer d'Avall (former governor's house) resonates. The fact is, however, that in 778 only part of the army of Carlemany passed through our lands in the direction of those of the Ebro; the rest is only to blow up the collective imagination.
However, with a little more historical rigor, Joan Coromines cites the origin of our population in his great work Onomasticon Cataloniae: "(...) Vallis Anglensis (...) In a word there have always been two more or less important peoples In this valley, with two churches, and it seems, even, four. It was, then, well the VALLEY OF ECLESIIS, the Valley of the Churches (...) ".
It will take almost a century to find us with the current derivation as Anglès. This is what Villanueva points out to his work on the churches of Catalonia, when he mentions a document from 949 that states: "valle que dicitur Anglès".