{"id":33,"date":"2006-03-27T21:46:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/followthebaldie.com\/walks\/hard\/castle-hillsides-montserrat-views-cava\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T21:11:31","slug":"castle-hillsides-montserrat-views-cava","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/spanish-walking-tours\/barcelona-walking-tours\/barcelona-country-walks\/castle-hillsides-montserrat-views-cava\/","title":{"rendered":"Town with castle along hillsides (Montserrat views) to cava capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/gelida\/funicular.jpg';\">Funicular(1924)<\/a>. Town, named by Arabs, alleged by some to be connected with that well-known Catalan, Columbus. Blessed by the modernisme of early C20th urbanites then cursed by their politics. Baronial C16th fortified town house, <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/gelida\/castell.jpg';\">C10th-18thcastle &amp; church<\/a>. Wonderful damp natural <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/gelida\/forest.jpg';\">forests<\/a>. Farms (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/gelida\/rossell.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/gelida\/house_plants.jpg';\">2<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/farm_1.jpg';\">3<\/a>).    <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/limestone_mixed_veg.jpg';\">Limestone    hills<\/a>, lime kilns (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/lime_kiln_1.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/lime_kiln_2.jpg';\">2<\/a>),    quarries, <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/creueta.jpg';\">caves<\/a>.    Stupendous views over the Penedes plain (aka the pre-litoral depression)    and of the Montserrat (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/montserrat.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/montserrat_1.jpg';\">2<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/montserrat_2.jpg';\">3<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/pinus_nigra_montserrat.jpg';\">4<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/montserrat_3.jpg';\">5<\/a>)    and <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/sant_llorenc.jpg';\">Sant    Lloren&ccedil; del Munt<\/a> ranges. Pylons and power (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/pylon_path.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/powerline.jpg';\">2<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/pylon_heather_tree_quercus.jpg';\">3<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/serres_d_ordal\/sky_powerlines.jpg';\">4<\/a>).    Castle (mentioned in context of C10th Moorish battles) and chapel (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/subirats\/sant_pere.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/subirats\/maria.jpg';\">2<\/a>)    with <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/subirats\/cementery.jpg';\">unusual    cemetery<\/a> and <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/subirats\/cross.jpg';\">cross<\/a>    dug into rocky outcrop. Steepish and brambly descent (views back to route&#8217;s    start (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/subirats\/looking_back_to_gelida.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/torre_ramona\/fields.jpg';\">2<\/a>) to cava village (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/torre_ramona\/view.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/torre_ramona\/patriarch.jpg';\">2<\/a>)    with C10th church and C16th renaissance-gothic tower (<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/torre_ramona\/torre_01.jpg';\">1<\/a>\/<a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/img\/walks\/alt-penedes\/torre_ramona\/torre_02.jpg';\">2<\/a>).    Small portion of marshy gorge with (2003-4) bridge for AVE high speed train from Madrid to Barcelona. Optional look at <a href=\"#pic\" onClick=\"document.main_photo.src='\/blog\/archives\/cavas\/cavas_freixenet.jpg';\">cava facilities<\/a> in Sant Sadurn&iacute;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funicular(1924). Town, named by Arabs, alleged by some to be connected with that well-known Catalan, Columbus. Blessed by the modernisme of early C20th urbanites then cursed by their politics. Baronial C16th fortified town house, C10th-18thcastle &amp; church. Wonderful damp natural forests. Farms (1\/2\/3). Limestone hills, lime kilns (1\/2), quarries, caves. Stupendous views over the Penedes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}