The best MTB trails around Sant Joan De Vilatorrada

Few places explain so well nature's ability to recover. Where there was once a clay pit and a landfill, today a wetland stretches out, which has become one of the most biodiverse areas in central Catalonia and an important refuge for fauna.

The Sundays of my childhood condensed into one point.

A good place to stop and make a vignette

Nature, wetlands, a small oasis in the middle of the Bages plain

Space to relax and look towards Montserrat

climb to the observatory from Camps, spectacular

On January 22, 1939, Franco's troops occupied the summit of Cal Xamal, where General García Valiño installed the major plain, and deployed to the upper part of Pla de Fals. Some rudimentary coats that the soldiers made to spend the night can still be found. On the morning of the 23rd, the soldiers began to advance through the Plan, surrounding the group of houses in the Raval d'Oliveres. A republican machine gun, installed at the top of La Torra (see photo above), fired, while another fired from the corner of the boulder. Artillery responded and destroyed part of the construction. The machine gunners withdrew in the direction of Manresa. On the other side of Pla de Fals, on an elevated point in Les Costetes, another machine gun was placed there, which killed a non-commissioned officer of the nationals. In retaliation, the machine gun soldiers were shot. The next day, the owner of Grauet found the bodies of seven soldiers, and a patrol hung them all together. Because the grave was shallow, animals and rains soon uncovered some of the remains, and even today scattered bones of the soldiers are found. Since then, the place has been known as the "Plan of the Dead".

The Sagimona Tower, also known as "La Torra", is a square-plan farmhouse, covered on four sides and with ridges parallel to the facades. Although it is probably a work of the 17th century, much reformed in the 18th century, it was built next to an old medieval tower of the 11th century. This tower was probably a keep of the neighboring castle of Fals, built to control access through the corner of Pla de Fals and to protect the path from Fals to Rajadell. The tower is cylindrical, with an external diameter of 5.85m and a height of 14.25 metres. Surely, the people of Torreda should acquire rights over the land that surrounded it until it became a prosperous farm, which made the construction of the farmhouse possible. A set of 10 tubs are located on the west side of the building.