Top 14 Natural Monuments around Sant Joan De Vilatorrada

Space to relax and look towards Montserrat

Collbaix is a 543 meter peak, located in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada. It is the highest in the district of Manresa, to the west of Pla de Bages, which has an excellent observation point. It is listed as a large park by the Planning Plan of Manresa. The mountain is located between the streams of Rajadell and Fonollosa. The south side belongs to Manresa, the east to Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, where the town's expansion area is located. Rajadell has the area of Punta Sabata and Fonollosa with most of the summit, the west and the obac slope. Collbaix originated from the erosion of the surrounding land. A resistant layer of conglomerates protects the flat top from erosion, forming a plateau. The summit is made up of large blocks of stone separated from each other. At the top we can find a geodesic vertex (reference 280109001) A metal table with an engraved map of the region. This peak is included in the list of the 100 peaks of the FEEC.

At this point in its course, the river Llobregat crosses the large cracks that it has opened in the strata of nodular limestone, so that when the course of the river is low, it can be crossed by jumping from rock to rock. The name comes from the fact that a "bigaire" (a rafter, who transported logs of wood joined together to form a boat) died at this point.

Mountain of saline and other waste created between 1945 and 1977. The La Botjosa salt dump measures 775 meters long by an average width of 150 meters, occupies 13.5 Ha and its content is estimated at around 4 million tons of salty waste. Since the start of the new Cogulló dump in 1977, the potash mining of Sallent and Balsareny stopped dumping saline waste in La Botjosa. Since then, a considerable portion of the saline residues dumped in the La Botjosa dump has disappeared by dissolution in rainwater and air humidity, as evidenced by the geomorphologies in lapiaz on the slopes and dame coiffée where an object acting as an umbrella has protected the salt below

There are no more picnic tables

This park is a large reservoir with a nice trail around it for walking and biking. There is parking and a picnic area. It is a good place to relax or start or end an adventure.

This oak is large and spectacular. It is officially protected. It has some picnic tables around it and is the perfect place for a good rest.

The Parque de l’Agulla is a natural space located on the outskirts of Manresa, near the municipalities of Sant Fruitós de Bages and Santpedor. The park was born with the construction of the lake of l’Agulla between 1966 and 1974. The lake has a surface area of about 64,000 m2 and a capacity close to 200,000 m3. Its main source of water is the Sèquia de Manresa canal, of medieval origin.