Coastal massif north of Barcelona, monastery, beach village

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grade	moderate
base camp	Barcelona
location tags	Barcelonès, Maresme, Want to advertise your casa rural or hotel on this page? Talk to us now.
walking distance	15 km / 9.32 miles
walking time, excluding breaks	4 hr
total return travel time from base camp to walk	0.45 hr
total time from "hello" to "goodbye"	5.85 hr
fiestas and markets in places we go through - combine a walk and some partying or shopping!	between Christmas and Three Kings (winter fiesta mayor) first Sunday in second fortnight of May (fair country/artesans' market) June 13 (feast of St Anthony) first weekend in September (summer fiesta mayor) mid-September (fiesta mayor) Note that there are also events in most places on January 6 (Three Kings), Carnival, Easter, April 23 (St George), June 23 (St John), and September 11 (Catalan regional/national day)

the walk

Walk in natural park along the granite etc Serralada de Marina coastal range just north of Barcelona. Sporadically improved early C20th town centre. Gipsies and wild people (seasonal). Mental hospital, ruined chapels, C14th-16th monastery (1/2/3/4/5/6 visits bookable). Classic Mediterranean flora: lots of pine (umbrella,stone), chunks of Quercus ilex, standard array of flowers, cacti. (Optional: hidden spring with mutton-mad pussy (blog); scrabble up hill to escape hippies.) Historically interesting triangulation point. Excellent views over Sant
Adrià (1/2/3;blog),Montcada cement factory & Collserola, Barcelona/Montjuic, Montseny. C18th-19th hamlet with good cemetery (1/2/3)and farms. Optional drinks in (and stroll around) rather nice village centre;optional museum visit (ask!). Modernist villas supersede farms and make way in turn for spraycan 70s. Ruined fort (blame the French and the railway company). Bars/beach/chimney.

Sources included the ICC 1:50K map and Nuet i Badia, Rutes a Peu. Facilities at beginning and end. Two springs on the way.

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