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GR 92 (23): Vilanova i la Geltrú - l'Arboç (25/09/2006)

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After returning briefly to the sea, the GR 92 is diverted back into the interior, so to avoid the north of the Costa Daurada, Build to capacity. At this stage amounts to the Serra of Bonaire, southern end of the Garraf, to enter later in the Penedès plain, in the province of Tarragona.

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Track on map "Parc del Foix i Parc d'Olèrdola" of Ed Piolet Click above for larger view

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Exit the capital of Garraf near the Hospital de Sant Antoni Abat, following the Pastera torrent. After 1.5 km. deviates to the right variant GR 92-4, to Sant Pere de Ribes, La Plana Novella and the Coll de Querol .
The first section is almost flat, between fields and some houses outskirts of Vilanova. A short stretch of pine landscape is expected to come ...


Across the highway C-31, begins the Mediterranean forest, the trail gradually climbs (not long ago, was cemented when I went out there was dirt) and passes by an old shepherd's hut


More After Safont, leaving the track for a trail to the right, which can go undetected, and that is still a few feet of the Pastera Torrent to depart soon after and up a Repechón left. View the gully of the Pastera, where we climbed


stands just behind Mas de l'Artís originally century XVI but rather reformed. Here it goes to the previous track, which continues to the right ...


... now in the middle of vineyards, leaving the right a diversion to urbanization Palmeres them in Canyelles


then allowed a new track the left and a few meters, after a double bend, the GR is separated by a ravine, the bottom Teixidor. Despite the lush vegetation surrounding it, I do not think a lot of water down here, even in the worst seasons


Tracing the ravine came to another crossroads: on the right is reached Turo de les Tres partions, with a small antenna in the center, and farther, and Sant Miquel d'Canyelles Olèrdola, for variant GR 92-3


The Path of the Mediterranean is on the left, leaving the foothills of the Garraf and entering the Parc del Foix . The Penedès plain lies between the ruins of the farmhouse of the Upper House and the Montmell Serra, behind, the background also appear Prades mountains


Montmell The Talaia , ceiling county of Alt Penedès, where a couple of years later he organized a Forero KDD Mendiak Catalans, with their corresponding calçotada


seems which have also been fires here ...


The GR does not reach the Upper House, it is a few meters. From here you can also access the GR 92-3


A little later, near the Florit Pujol, opens a wide panorama about depression and the Cordillera del Penedès Prelitoral: Queralt saws, the Montmell and Prades ...

... and on the coast of Tarragona and the Costa Daurada ... even tuning a bit to the left on the horizon for the first time I got to see my goal: the silhouette of Montsià, about 120 kms. southeast, behind is Ulldecona, the end of GR 92 in Catalonia


Meanwhile, I keep falling more or less for a hull, where there are more farms in ruins: Cal Balaguer, with Torrelletes people behind and the Serra de Prades (I assume) to the bottom


Torrelletes closer, passing around the GR 92-3


In the end, the small low buoyancy (the Serra Bad) ...


... and after getting to the bottom of the ravine and crossing a vineyard ...


... we appear a few meters above the Foix Pant


few meters before entering Castellet, start-o GR variant terminals 92-3, going into Torrelletes, Olèrdola, l'Arboç. Puig de la Mola and Begues until the Clota Coll. From here you guess is the end of today's stage


But first, a short walk through the village of Castellet brief also


suppose it must be this which gives its name to the people, the Castell de Castellet , already cited in the s. X, and now home to a foundation


worth stopping here for a while, walk its few short streets and take a view on the Pantano del Foix

Castellet have to leave by road to Torrelletes, leaving first Arboç l'diversion. Village view from below

a few meters, he passed the Moli Vell, a track deviates to the left you will cross the Foix ...


... and where, within minutes, you see a poster that makes me very special. Even knowing that all boundaries are administrative boundaries and separations totally artificial, I am thrilled to move from the province of Barcelona to Tarragona, the last thing left to cross, almost 5 years and 400 kms. after starting the GR 92



And even when against any border, the truth is that across the landscape changes ... Foix


The Garraf Massif is behind us and for the next miles, the plain and the vineyard will be predominant. Thus, after crossing the roundabout at the N-340, old Roman Via Augusta, you reach l'Arboç


This town named bush (strawberry in Catalan) is best known for hosting a replica of the Giralda in Seville, the Patio de los Leones and the Hall of the Ambassadors of the Alhambra in Granada . They say, 100 years ago, an Indian who returned to his hometown he loved a Seville, brought it here and longing for their land, he built a palace that would reproduce the beauty of the architecture of Al-Andalus
Meanwhile, today I saw in the distance the goal I had set ... Montsià the other side of the GR 92 enters another province. I have already much less

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