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The Natural Parks Network Ensuring the territorial and environmental balance of the 100 municipalities within its geographical scope. Provincial Council’s Natural Parks Network consists of 12 protected natural areas of significant scenic, ecological and cultural value. It is comprised of 102,587 ha, spread out across 100 municipalities. These municipalities represent 22% of Barcelona province’s territory and are home to 70% of the population of . The planning and management of the natural and agricultural areas is conducted through special plans drawn up with the participation of all the parties involved.

The Network protects the natural, agricultural, © Xevi Vilarregut forestry, cultural and scenic values of each park. oun cil C It works towards achieving a balance between l The kingdom of limestone rock in cia

the preservation of the parks and the economic Pr ov The parks of El and Olèrdola fascinate visitors with development of the area. their unique and exotic landscapes, rich in karstic shapes. Barce lona /

It also promotes environmental education and the n The arid landscapes of El Garraf and Olèrdola are public use of natural and cultural heritage. nz ó characterised by their low reliefs, rounded peaks and deep Re la valleys of steep slopes. © Iñ ak i This paper comes from environmentally responsible sources The parks of El Garraf and Olèrdola, so close to © Pep Herrero (Taller de Cultura) / Barcelona Provincial Council English each other, comprise the south-west buttress of the Catalan coastal mountain range. Spread across the districts of El , L’Alt Penedès and El Garraf, together they comprise 12,984 hectares (of parcdelgarraf parcs.diba.cat/web/garraf parcs.diba.cat/web/olerdola parcgarraf parcolerdola Network app which El Garraf represents 12,376 and Olèrdola 608). Limestone rock covers almost the whole of the two parks. In El Garraf Park we find a large number of Karstic formations such as caves, sinkholes and Press and Communications Office. DL B 11123-2020 Press and Communications Office. limestone pavement. Limestone is also seen in the vineyard buildings and the old farmhouses. Olèrdola mountain represents a natural watchtower crowned by the monumental complex, fruit of passing Iberians, Romans and Medieval peoples.

Gerència de Serveis d’Espais Naturals Comte d’, 187. 08036 Barcelona Tel. 934 022 428 [email protected] · parcs.diba.cat Life on the rocks in the land Get the most out of your visit without water It’s easy to do, whether it's an impromptu stroll or an activity-packed stay. El Garraf and Olèrdola are home to dwarf palm trees, Mediterranean tortoises and the Bonelli's eagle. The two parks offer a network of facilities and programmes for you to get to know the place better and enjoy everything Harsh environmental conditions (strong sun exposure, lack of on offer. water, sparse vegetation and abrupt relief) have determined both the landscape and the flora and fauna in the two parks. The parks of El Garraf and Olèrdola offer various strategically located centres, information points and documentation centres, In the parks you will find, amongst other things, the green as well as several signposted routes focused on plant life, the snake, the horseshoe whip snake, the black wheatear, the senses and art. Some of these are adapted for the disabled. black-eared wheatear, the blue rock thrush, the beech You can also enjoy guided routes and walks and the services marten and the badger. There is also cave-dwelling fauna offered at various educational and cultural installations such as the lesser horseshoe bat, and the Mediterranean such as El Garraf Park Astronomical Observatory; Vallgrassa. tortoise has recently been introduced. We cannot forget Experimental Arts Centre, and the Can Grau school of nature. the Bonelli's eagle, whose nesting we can follow thanks Vilarregut Vilaregut In addition you will also find informative booklets, temporary to a camera installed in one of its nests.

© Xevi © Xevi displays and permanent exhibitions about the Bonelli's eagle. The dense scrubland with its kermes oak, mastic trees, Located at La Pleta. El Garraf Park Office is an unmissable stop. Mauritania grass and dwarf palm trees ('s only The parks also organise workshops and family activities native palm tree), characterise the vegetation in the parks, Signs of the times The environment and life to introduce caving and environmental education, fun and which is shaped by the summer droughts and the low The Olèrdola monumental complex represents the most A landscape of modest farmhouses, vineyards, cereal crops cultural programmes such as Viu el parc (Live the park) and water retention of the limestone ground. important human milestone in the area. and goat herds. Poesia als parcs. Lletres i paisatges (Poetry in the parks. Words The two parks cover prehistoric graves, medieval castles and Over the years, El Garraf and Olèrdola have been used by and countrysides) and the school programme Coneguem els © Iñaki Relanzón / Barcelona Provincial Council forts and modernist buildings paid for by people who had made humans in a variety of ways. nostres parcs (Discover our parks); a whole range of options to their fortunes in the West Indies. discover and enjoy nature, always respectfully. The flocks of goats and the vines (almost destroyed by a A Borderland, the remains of the castles of Eramprunyà and plague of lice in 1879-1880) were, in the past, the economic represent the period of wars against the Saracens, staple of the villagers. Here and there visitors can find the © Iñaki Relanzón / Barcelona Provincial Council even if the architecture of the modest farmhouse connected ruins of farmhouses and corrals, the remains of this agricultural to the vineyards (Can Marcer, Mas Quadrell or Can Grau) or to activity. goat herding (Mas Maiol, El Carxol o Vallgrassa) is the most In the following decades however, these were gradually representative of El Garraf. Other characteristic elements are the replaced by companies dedicated to recreation, nature (Can numerous walls of dry rock, the plots and the vineyard shacks. Grau) or art and culture (Vallgrassa). Gastronomy (with the Four buildings stand out in this architectural heritage: the Güell recent recovery, for example, of El Garraf cabbage) and wine cellar and the Pleta cistern, Modernist works by Francesc making are major economic forces. Around the protected area Berenguer; the hospital of , a very well you will find a large number of wine cellars, producers and preserved example of hospital architecture, and the complex of restaurants that are part of the programme Parc a taula (From the Plana Novella palace in the middle of El Garraf. park to table). Settled in Iberian, Roman and Medieval times, Olèrdola, the town The forest, meanwhile, covers a large part of the Olerdola centre and its surroundings have been inhabited from the Bronze Park's uneven mountainsides, but is not used productively. age until they were definitively abandoned between the XIIIth and Likewise, you can also find small family farms dedicated to XIVth centuries. winemaking and growing fruit trees. 1 Masia 5 Avenc de 7 Hermitage 9 Puig de La Pleta l’Esquerrà de la Trinitat la Mola Current head office for the parks and information and At 336 metres it is the deepest cave Iconic monument and a great coastal At the top of this natural outlook is a triangulation services centre. in El Garraf Park. lookout point. station. © Fundesplai © XPN © Fundesplai © Francesc Boil NOTES: Built in 1894 as a hunting lodge for the Güell family, NOTES: The history of caving in Catalonia begins in El Garraf. NOTES: This pretty seaside chapel is first mentioned in 1375, NOTES: It's 534 metres takes visitors through a truly Starting point for a botanical it was the work of the Modernist arquitect The caves that characterise In 1908, the priest caver Marià Faura made noteworthy The chapel, in a typical when it was home to hermits. The saying goes that it The route is almost entirely Meditteranean landscape of dwarf palms, kermes oak, route adapted for the disabled, F. Berenguer, a disciple of Gaudí. Later converted El Garraf countryside are explorations, such as the L’Esquerrà cave, in which he whitewash style, has a was built because a cross was discovered there with along the GR5 and the Mastic trees, grasses, evergreen oaks, pines, thyme, it also houses an audiovisual a top habitat for bats, modernist building next to th starting point is the Olesa display about El Garraf Park into a farmhouse, it has a water cistern crowned by insects and spiders. was accompanied by the country's first female caver, it. It opens on the fourth the image of the Trinity. In the 18 centuries, the roof hospital square. rosemary, etc. Before or after reaching the summit, and a permanent exhibition an original conical tower. In 1994, the Barcelona Providència Mitjans, from Olesa de Bonesvalls. Sunday of each month. collapsed and the hermitage was rebuilt and extended. don't forget to visit the old Medieval hospital of Olesa on the Bonelli's eagle. Provincial Council bought and renovated it. de Bonesvalls.

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la Guixera n a Barcelona B Mas Llorenç o Tres Partions el e Puig de c Cal Muntaner els Sumidors ar C 429 m g Can Pere de la Plana B u Mata-rodona e EL GARRAF PARK La Hispano Igualadina SA. Tel. +34 902 447 726 Castle C 465 m d els Vinyals e s la Fassina la Pleta Puig del FC Corral d’en 277 m Puig Sabataire Cérvol MON-BUS. Tel. +34 938 937 511 Capdet Puig d’en la Casa Vella BY CAR el Montgròs la Coma Carbonell Pla dels Canal Olímpic Vendrell - Barcelona Line, ronda Universitat. Can Planes de Catalunya AP-7 (exits 28, 29 and 30) 358 m Can Ramonet Mas Quadrell Senyals les otigues The Barcelona Provincial Council is working on Puig d’en de Sitges C Stops in Vilanova, Sitges and Mas de l’Artís Pla de Penya Pacurri Can Lluçà a Barcelona C-32 (exits 21 to 48) Can Ramon del Duc Mas Maiol Can Baró 228 m C-31 (exits Gavà to Vilanova i la Geltrú) OLÈRDOLA PARK restoring it. Mas d’en Coloma Sant Pere Pujol R el Castellot a Campdàsens Mas del de ies Gran . de Garraf C-15 (exits Vilanova i la Geltrú to Vilafranca de Montgròs 290 m V Garraf BY CAR a Port Ginesta del Penedès) l l Ca l’Amell de Puig d’en c C AP-7 (exit 30 Santa Margarida i els Monjos) a la Muntanya C r Fita dels Boronet c N-340 (exits from Avinyonet del Penedès to Tres Termes 315 m a Port del Garraf C-15 (exit 11 Castell d'Olèrdola/Sant Miquel C C-15 Vilafranca del Penedès) 275 m Mas Roig la Falconera d’Olèrdola) C-31 BV-2041 (from Gavà to ) R C-32 (exit 21, address C-15 Vilafranca del a Vallcarca BV-2111 (from Sant Pere de Ribes to Olivella) . d Cala Morisca C-246a e C Ermita de la Trinitat Penedès) C-31 Ribe s BV-2411 (from Begues to Avinyó Nou) N-340 (connection with C-15)

Sitges Punta Ferrosa BV-2415 (from Sant Pere Molanta (Olèrdola) a l’Arboç i al i l’Arboç a Parc del del Parc BY TRAIN Vilanova i la Geltr to the BV-2111) Espai Natural dels Centre d’Estudis Renfe. Tel. +34 902 240 202 lls i iralpei del Mar Legend BY TRAIN els Colls R4 Line (Sant Vicenç de - via Desembocadura de la Renfe. Tel. +34 902 240 202 Riera de Ribes Vilafranca del Penedès). Stop in Vilafranca del

Casa del Mar motorway key point of Line R2 Sud (Sant Vicenç de Calders). a Tarragona a interest C-31 Penedès and connect with the bus line that main road Stops in Gavà - Castelldefels - Platja de Cuelles C-246a park office goes to Olèrdola and Canyelles Ri a u Tortosa, Flix i Lleid Castelldefels - Garraf - Sitges - Vilanova i la a a trails and forest paths d arcelon e de B information BY BUS FC Geltrú F arc grari del TAV-AVE railway line o Platja Llarga railway Autobusos Plana. Tel. +34 938 145 848 ix de Vilanova Baix lobregat arc arc arc del BY BUS © Iñaki Relanzón urban area station Line that joins Vilanova and Vilafranca passing esecadura Espai ar stes del Garra del d’lèrdla Garra oix Mohn SL. Tel. +34 902 023 393 NOTES: del i park boundary petrol station through Canyelles and Olèrdola. Eramprunyà is a typical example of a rock castle. spai atral dels Line 902 (Barcelona-Gavà-Begues-Olesa de Colls i iralpeix ra closed way ar ra bounday o fother Highlights include the well el ar Bonesvalls) Strategically located on an escarpment of red rock, it tes d www.mobilitat.gencat.cat r Cos t protected areas preserved church of Sant spai a ga bre was used as a look-out post and defensive point in the lo peak aix Miquel and the old cemetery el B tes d 0 1000 2000 m with tombs dating back to middle ages. Mentioned as far back as 957, it was at spai ar Cos farmhouse, building th the Xth Century excavated its most splendid in the XIV century under the Marcs. Facilities from the rock. EL GARRAF PARK AND THE OLÈRDOLA Cal Ganxo Environmental Activities Centre PARK OFFICE Camí de Cal Ganxo, s/n (Castelldefels) La Pleta. Road from Rat Penat to Plana Tel. +34 935 146 151 Novella, km 3,5 (Sitges) Centre d’Estudis del Mar (Sea Studies 4 Tel. +34 935 971 819. Email: [email protected] Centre) Palau 6 Castell Vell 8 EL GARRAF PARK Pg. Marítim, 72 (Sitges). Tel. +34 938 945 154 Can Grau School of Nature Masia Can Grau Novella d’Olivella Vallgrassa INFORMATION CENTRES AND POINTS Paved Forrest Road from Olivella to Plana Novella, La Sala d’Olivella Information Centre km 3.5 (Olivella). Tel. +34 937 432 094 Pl. Major, s/n (Olivella). Tel. +34 938 968 465 Farm School Can Pere de la Plana Old period house that is the stuff of legends. Next to it lie the remains of the church of Sant Pere Old wine farmhouse converted into an Experimental Petit Casal de Begues Information Centre Farmhouse Can Pere de la Plana, s/n (Sant Pg. de l’Església, 1 (Begues). Tel. +34 936 392 509 Pere de Ribes). Tel. +34 938 960 827 and (Saint Peter). Arts Centre. Vilanova Information Point and +34 636 501 728 Municipal Tourism Office El Garraf Park Astronomical Observatory Pg. del Carme, s/n. Ribes Roges Park Road from Olivella to Plana Novella, km 3.5 Olesa de Bonesvalls Information Point (Olivella). Tel. +34 937 713 154, +34 651 426 872 Pl. de l’Ajuntament, s/n and +34 685 233 575 Tel. +34 938 984 375 and +34 938 984 103 Parc Arqueològic Mines de Gavà (Mines Castelldefels Information Point Arqueological Park) Pintor Serrasanta, 4. Tel. +34 936 352 727 Jaume I, 7 (Gavà). Tel. +34 932 639 620 Sant Pere de Ribes Information Point Vallgrassa. Experimental Arts Centre Major, 110. Tel. +34 938 962 857 Road from Rat Penat to Plana Novella, Sitges Inform. Point and Tourism Office km 7.5 (Sitges) Tel. +34 935 970 891 and Pl. Eduard Maristany, 2. Tel. +34 938 944 251 +34 938 462 030 ADDITIONAL FACILITIES OLÈRDOLA PARK El Garraf Park Document. Centre. Gavà City History Centre INFORMATION CENTRES AND POINTS Salvador Lluch, 22. Tel. +34 932 639 630 Olèrdola monumental complex information El Garraf Park Documentation Centre. centre Castell d’Olèrdola. Tel. +34 938 901 420

© Xevi Vilarregut © Xevi Vilarregut © XPN Vilanova i la Geltrú Joan Oliva i Milà Library Olèrdola Information Point NOTES: In 1875, Pere Domènech, an american who made a fortune NOTES: This old fortress was built in the year 992 at the top of NOTES: In this restored farmhouse in the heart of El Garraf Pl. de la Vila, 13. Tel. +34 938 932 039 Town Hall. Av. Catalunya, 12. Tel. +34 938 903 502 Included on the in Cuba, bought the former farmhouse and converted it into You can enjoy great views Puig Molí and was part of the defence system during Vallgrassa. The Experimental Park, close to the Plana Novella cultural activities, Document. and Caving Activities Centre Canyelles Information Point Pl. de l'11 de Setembre, s/n. Tel. +34 938 973 011 List of Catalonia's an agricultural housing development. Rebuilt with excessive of , Olèrdola the Reconquista. Route SL-C 100 takes us the to the Arts Centre is a meeting point exhibitions and workshops are held... It also offers an Pl. de l’Ajuntament, s/n (Olesa de Bonesvalls) Architectural Heritage, Castle and Montmell and, on for artists and visitors; an Tel. +34 938 984 375, +34 938 984 008 and in 1996 a Sakya luxury and a strange mix of styles, the exterior resembles clear days, or even castle from the town of Olivella, passing by other open and multidisciplinary artistic route, with more than a dozen works of art +34 938 984 103 Tashi Ling Buddhist a small fort. In 1896, with the owners bankrupted, it was the peaks of the Pyrenees. landmarks such as the laundrette and Muntaner Cave. project. displayed throughout the centre. Community moved in. publicly auctioned. For information on the opening hours and the parks' services and facilities, see: http://parcs.diba.cat/web/garraf and http://parcs.diba.cat/web/olerdola.