Behind the Pont Alt is the road from La Selva del Camp to Vilaplana, you can park and follow the Camí del Rec route from the picnic area to La Selva (long route) or Vilaplana (short route). The other option is to do the entire route from Selva del Camp.

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Francesc Garcia - MONTFRANC

April 12, 2024

The so-called Pont Alt is the most visible work of the Rec that leads the water to the town of Selva del Camp. It is a slender stone construction bound with mortar with a carpanel arch, which was built to pass the water from one side to the other while saving the bed of the stream. It measures 12.70 m high and 57 m long.

Traditionally known as the bridge of the Moors. We cannot specify the date of its construction, but we can affirm its existence in the 13th century, since it is cited in a document from the year 1209 as a pont superior (pont major). On one of the walls is a plaque commemorating its restoration in 1567.
In front of the Resclosa (then it was not yet built), there was a mill, where the water that came out, after having done the service, could not return to the town irrigation system and was lost in the Riera. It is for this reason that the millers, helped by the jurors of the town, built the bridge, a little below the mill, where even today we can see the foundations of the living rock on each side.

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Location: La Selva Del Camp, Baix Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

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