R1. CAP A LES PLATGES DE VILADECANS

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Un centenar de metres riera amunt, al vostre costat esquerre, es troba una part de l’antic mur del Rierot (s. XVIII-XIX), construït per evitar les avingudes de les rieres. Durant les obres del Centre...

We are in a delta environment, which has not always looked as it does today. In the Middle Ages, this area was a lagoon landscape with pastureland, dominated by livestock farming, and known as les...

A large archaeological site spanning the municipalities of Viladecans, Gavà and Castelldefels. A few hundred metres from the Camí Ral or carretera de València, the sea reached this area during Iberian...

About one hundred metres further on, to the left, stands Cal Simon. Beside it runs the Marina rainwater drainage channel. The corredores are field drainage channels that collect rainwater and carry it...

Buildings located on your right-hand side, in the area known as els Reguerons. The Granja Escola Hípica Can Feliu was founded in 1998 with the aim of allowing everyone to enjoy the world of horses in...

Along the Camí de les Filipines runs a channel or corredora that forms part of the drainage network carrying water from the fields to rieres or lagoons.

This humid environment favours a strip of...

Here we find a new plantation of trees, often shrub-like, typical of delta environments near dunes and brackish waters.

The tamariu (Tamarix gallica) has small, scale-shaped bluish-grey leaves, white...

Observe these shrubs growing alongside the path, planted separately from one another. 

These are càdecs. In the past, before human pressure on the first coastal line, a transitional plant community...

If you are CYCLING, it is advisable to turn right towards the beach, heading for the Murtra car park, following the direction of vehicle traffic. 

If you are WALKING, you can continue straight ahead...

Alongside the canya americana mentioned earlier, another invasive plant from South America can be seen here, with a strong capacity for colonisation: herba de la pampa or plomalls (Cortaderia selloana...

In the 16th century, the area shifted from a natural landscape to an agricultural one, creating the need to stop sand from the beach advancing inland towards farmland. It was then that pi pinyoner...

Located east of the Murtra breakwater, the platja de la Pineda stretches for just over one kilometre. A large part of this sandy area, including an important zone of regenerated dune vegetation, is...

Les plantes que hi trobem són espècies adaptades a aquestes dures condicions de proximitat al mar: salinitat, moviment de la sorra, forta insolació i sequedat.

Desenvolupen diferents estratègies per...

Heu arribat fins a la platja, prop de l’aparcament. Si de la guingueta mireu un centenar de metres cap a Gavà, veureu enmig de la sorra de la platja un canal d’aigua.

Es tracta de la sortida al mar de...