マラの洞窟・トップ8

Time waits for no one, and it's currently inaccessible for security reasons 😞

The arrival is via a trail, so if you're riding gravel it's a bit uncomfortable.

place that is part of the Serrallonga Bandits route

beautiful

Castell de Popa, spectacular.

Sant Llorenç Castle is a castle in the municipality of Sant Julià de Vilatorta (Osona) declared a cultural asset of national interest. There are remains of fortifications at the monastery and the base of a square tower at the top of the mountain. It was a termed castle, then a monastery. Documented in 884. At the beginning of the 11th century it was supplanted by the Castle of Meda and soon became the residence of Augustinian canons.

Throughout history the castle was confiscated from the Centelles and became a royal residence during the Catalan Civil War during the period 1462-1472. It was also a gathering point for troops on more than one occasion during the Uprising of Catalonia (1640-1659) and later, in the War of the Spanish Succession (1705) it was the area from which the Vincentian migueletes supporting Archduke Charles blocked the Filipista troops of Viceroy Velasco. During the Spanish War of Independence, French troops, in 1809, occupied the town of Centellas and the castle. During the Carlist wars, the parties turned it into one of the dens from which they attacked neighboring towns.

The owners have always been from the Centelles family, originating from a farmhouse in the area that was ennobled and became feudatories of the counts of Barcelona. It is the family name that the towns closest to the castle will adopt: San Martín de Centellas y Centellas. Later it was important as a stately place, from which an extensive barony was controlled that brought together the current municipalities of Centellas, San Martín de Centellas, Tona and Seva, and that reached the Vallés Oriental, controlling the entrance to the Congost valley and the plain. from Vic.