De la Joncosa del Montmell a Selma

 The route crosses the mountains of Montmell bordering the Alt Camp and Baix Penedès and separated by the beautiful valley of San Marcos. There are technical sections of trail are very technical, but avoidable. The beginning of the route is the Joncosa of Montmell. To access it from Vendrell take the road C-51 towards Rodonyà, turn right to the TP-2402 to La Bisbal del Penedès and continuing northwest to TV 2401. There is access to the C-51 from A-2, exit 11, and from the N-340 by Vendrell. The Km 0 is the square of the village, from where the low road to Masllorenç. Beyond 250 meters left the road and take the trail that goes right into the church and the New Valley San Marcos, leaving a detour to the right and follow to the picnic area. You pass the church and off Nova (3.34 km) that leads to San Miguel, a Romanesque chapel perched on the right and on top of the range. Further up, you cross the hill of Saint Peter or Montmell (3.68 km, 649 m) and low following the curves of the track. At 4.64 miles leave a deviation to the right (586 m) to Magi Vidal and can be used again later. Further down, at 5.75 miles, turn right. It appears in the TV-2443 (7.33 km) and follows clockwise until torrent borrows (7.66 km, 498 m), where we take the track which runs along the right of borrows the neck and leads to Selma. At 9.35 km left two turnoffs to the right and, later, some on the left side. Following the main track to get off of borrows (10.08 km) and continue right. Reach the 11.25 km (625 m), turn left for a rise, it stops all the turnoffs to the right (11.65 km) will pass the ruins of the farmhouse Portella in a turning turn right (12.46 km) and reached 12.80 km in Selma. The village is abandoned, is located at the foot of the hill de les forques (800 m) on top of which there are the ruins of a castle. It is the ring of the hill in the opposite direction to clockwise and returns to the junction of the coll of Selma (14.34 km). It returns the neck (15.56 km, 625 m), crossing and take a track that gently downhill towards the north-east, separates the growing forest. At 17.12 km along the track turns sharply to the right and returns to the south southwest. Can you pass Vinyals and later can Sola, who is left to the right. At 19.70 miles you pass the pond next to the source of the Forest (inside, right). 600 m below will appear in the TV-2443 (20.34 km, 572 m) and turn right up. A little further left the farms and get to the coll (21.29 km, 627 m) with a path to the left that leads to the Romanesque chapel of San Marco. It follows the road descended and, after 1800 m at 21.48 km, take the track Can Magi Vidal left. It passed the house and climb leaving off to the left and right until it joins the trail leg (23.39 km, 586 m) below the coll de sant Pere. It goes the way of undoing the way until, after the Nova Church, the first bend, you can get a download alternative for outstanding firewalls that lead directly above the Joncosa. Tram very technical. At km 26.26 on the TV is out of the 2401 Joncosa La Bisbal del Penedès and turn right onto the first population, which returns to 26.93 km. Landmarks Castle Selma Puig de les forques Abandoned town of Selma Coll Selma Mas Campanera Can Magi Vidal Valle de San Marcos Counties: Alt Camp | Baix Penedès Distance: 26.93 miles Climb Slope: 780.0 m Descent Altitude: 780.0 m Signage: Partly Duration3 h Topics: Sport | Nature | Culture     Criteria of usage of these routes   See restaurants here See hotels here Source: Government of Catalonia. Directorate General of Tourism / Data Update: 22/02/2007

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