빌라노바 델 발레스 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

About 300 meters before reaching the hermitage along the track from Òrrius, on the left, dry stone walls are preserved, the remains of a shelter used by Republican militiamen during the Civil War. It's not signposted, but it's visible if you get off your bike and explore a bit. The surroundings are very peaceful and steeped in history: the hermitage was also used as a temporary shelter.

Don't miss the crosses carved into the rock. A widely accepted theory is that this is an ancient passageway, possibly used as a necropolis or ritual area. The crosses could represent burials, pilgrimages, or religious ceremonies. Perhaps they were carved in memory of the dead or those who passed through.

This cave, inhabited in prehistoric times, contains remains that demonstrate its use in the Neolithic or Bronze Age, such as stone tools, pottery fragments, and evidence of fire. Its strategic location, hidden but with good visibility of the surroundings, made it ideal as a refuge or stopover. Today, for cyclists like us, it's an excellent shelter in case of rain or to enjoy breakfast in the shade, thanks to its peaceful and protected location.

A very interesting megalithic area, both for its history and for the countless tracks, trails, and trials, each more fun than the last.

The "Pedra de Les Orenetes" (Swallows' Stone) is made up of a large granite block about 8 m long, 3 m wide and 3 m high, which has been heavily eroded. The basal part shows several cavities, one of which is a medium-sized shelter, which is the main area of the paintings. From this concavity, through which the block can be crossed from below, other concavities and eroded points with pictographic representations continue to the right. These correspond to curved, serpentine strokes, points, female figures, cruciform figures, bars, finger marks, anthropomorphic forms, quadrupeds, branch-shaped figures and human representations, as well as remains of pigment that are difficult to interpret. the schematic-semi-schematic to the stylized and naturalistic), chromatic (reddish, reddish-brown, reddish-orange and yellowish-orange) and techniques (fingering, simple stroke and flat ink) as well as a diverse degree of erosion that seems to indicate a process with superimpositions and diverse phases, some of which seem to be related to those of the Cogul shelter.

It is a megalithic monument that has been classified as a cist and, at other times, as a corridor dolmen. It is at an elevation of 370 meters and the construction measures about 2.25 meters in length and 1.55 meters in width, and occupies an area of 3 square meters. The chamber is polygonal and the entrance faces southwest. The dolmen was discovered in 1929 and excavated for the first time by Josep Colominas the following year. Later, in the 1950s, Josep Estrada carried out new archaeological excavations there, in which he found some ceramic fragments. This same researcher chiseled and straightened some of the slabs of the monument, and moved them from their original place.

Granitic stone block with a bowl-shaped hollow at the top circular and shallow.

very pretty